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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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Web 2.0 at Work
sponsored by Patriot Technologies, Inc.
ANALYST REPORT: When offered a list of Web 2.0 types of site, only 17% of global IT managers in large companies identified correctly that all of them would come under the banner of Web 2.0. Learn more about Web 2.0 in this report.
Posted: 09 Oct 2009 | Published: 09 Oct 2009


Increasing ROI with Data Services
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: This white paper will address data services implementation and the role of Oracle Data Service Integrator in that process. It will describe the technical benefits of a data services implementation within the context of initiatives to promote business process management (BPM), service-oriented architecture (SOA), portal projects, and BI.
Posted: 09 Sep 2009 | Published: 09 Sep 2009


PortalGuard: Browser-Based Authentication and Password Security for Microsoft SharePoint, IBM WebSphere and WebSphere Portal, and IBM Lotus Domino
sponsored by PistolStar, Inc.
TECHNICAL ARTICLE: PortalGuard is an authentication and password security solution that allows end-users to securely authenticate and self-manage passwords directly from a Web browser, while providing administrators with functionality to meet or exceed their security objectives and achieve compliance with government and industry regulations.
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009


Portal Authentication: A Balancing Act Between Security, Usability & Compliance
sponsored by PistolStar, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses the problems with current authentication systems and the drivers that should be motivating organizations of all sizes to improve their access controls.
Posted: 26 Aug 2009 | Published: 26 Aug 2009


Top Approach To Improve Virtual Service Delivery
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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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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