Internet portals

Users commonly confuse the terms portal and website. Actually, portal is a website with advanced functionalities providing services that make it more similar to an application. For Wikipedia, web portals are sites on the World Wide Web that typically provide personalized capabilities to their visitors. They are designed to use distributed applications, different numbers and types of middleware and hardware to provide services from a number of different sources. In addition, business portals are designed to share collaboration in workplaces. The portals can contain the following mechanisms:

 Search engine/Directory
 Groupware and Collaborative work
 Knowledge Management
 Content Management
 Work Flow
 Business intelligence and Integration of applications
 Integration with the identity management
 Infrastructural functionalities
 eCommerce

P&P uses various Portal Servers in order to create portals fit to you. It exploits many ready to use features and creates portlets for innovating services based on customers’ requirements.