While you weren’t looking, portals grew up. No longer just a souped-up webpage with a stock ticker and a link to the employee handbook, the portal is emerging as a key component of the corporate IT infrastructure. New portal software products aren’t designed, as early products were, solely for managing and presenting Web content […] companies are deploying portals to support strategic business initiatives and using them as a tactical tool for managing enterprise applications […] Portals appeal to CIOs because they do a better job than earlier products, including business intelligence software and ERP systems, at delivering custom views of information and applications to end users, says David Gootzit [of Gartner]. Portals are better at that task than they used to be.
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