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ALSO CALLED:
Web Search Portals,
Information Services,
Search Portals,
Vertical Industry Portals,
Vortals,
Web Portals,
Internet Portals,
Online Services,
Vertical Portals
DEFINITION: 1) Portal is a term, generally synonymous with gateway, for a World Wide Web site that is or proposes to be a major starting site for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site. There are general portals and specialized or niche portals. Some major general portals include Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, Lycos, CNET, Microsoft Network, and America Online's AOL.com.
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Portals Take on a New Life
sponsored by SAP America, Inc.
WHITE PAPER:
This paper discusses the improved functions of portals, specifically SAP NetWeaver, and how you can make the most of them within the enterprise.
Posted: 21 May 2012 | Published: 21 May 2012
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The future of Government operations: Digital citizen survey
sponsored by ComputerWeekly.com
IT BRIEFING:
This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services.
Posted: 07 May 2012 | Published: 07 May 2012
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Network Address Translation (NAT) and Port Address Translation
sponsored by Global Knowledge
WHITE PAPER:
It’s common today to use private addressing within an Autonomous System (AS), a collection of routers and subnets under a common administrative domain.
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Published: 12 Nov 2010
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PORTALS DEFINITION (continued):
Examples of niche portals include Garden.com (for gardeners), Fool.com (for investors), and SearchNetworking.com (for network administrators). A number of large access providers offer portals to the Web for their own users. Most portals have adopted the Yahoo style of content categories with a text-intensive, faster loading page that visitors will find easy to use and to return to. Companies with portal sites have attracted much stock market investor interest because portals are viewed as able to command large audiences and numbers of advertising viewers.Typical services offered by portal
Portals definition sponsored by SearchCIO-Midmarket.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
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