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ALSO CALLED: Web Search Portals, Information Services, Search Portals, Vertical Industry Portals, Vortals, Web Portals, Internet Portals, Online Services, and Vertical Portals
DEFINITION: Vortal is also short for voice portal.On the Web, a vertical portal (sometimes called a vortal) is a Web site that provides a gateway or portal to information related to a particular industry such as health care, insurance, automobiles, or food manufacturing. (A vertical industry is one that is focused on a relatively narrow range of goods and services, whereas a horizontal industry is one that aims  … 
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Global bank improves virtual service delivery from hours to minutes
sponsored by Opalis Software, Inc.
CASE STUDY: A financial services provider offering personal, commercial, corporate and institutional services across Canada and the US needed to standardize requests and eliminate manual management. With the Opalis solution, the bank automated five processes - a VM request portal, provisioning, decommissioning, backup, and lease expiry of all virtual machines.
Posted: 01 Jul 2009 | Published: 01 Jul 2009
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TOPICS:  Backups | Portals | Server Management | Server Provisioning | Server Virtualization | VM | VMware | VMware Disaster Recovery | VMware Server
Modern and Flexible Portal Architectures - A Use Case with Audi
sponsored by Kapow Technologies
WEBCAST: Join us for an educational webcast to learn how Audi leveraged existing portals to create new applications and portlets in just five days vs. nine months, allowing business to self-serve in a controlled environment!
Posted: 06 May 2009 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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TOPICS:  Application Development | Application Integration | Application Performance Management | Infrastructure Management | Infrastructure Services | Legacy Applications Software | Portals | SOA
 
PORTALS DEFINITION (continued): …  to produce a wide range of goods and services. Because most industry tends to specialize, most industry tends to be vertical.) A term that might also be used is interest community Web site since any vertical industry brings together people sharing an interest in buying, selling, or exchanging information about that particular industry. Vertical portals are also seen as likely business-to-business communities - for example, small business people with home offices might be attracted to a comprehensive vertical portal that provided ideas and product information related to setting up and maintaining … 
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