Universes Being Invisible on Earth outside the Portals Are Visible in Portals

Mobile Portals

The diffusion of mobile services is one of important technological phenomena of the twenty-first century (Dholakia & Dholakia, 2003). According to the International Telecommunication Union,1 the number of mobile service users had exceeded 1.5 billion individual subscribers by early 2005. This represents around one-quarter of the world’s population. The introduction of .mobi, a new toplevel doma...

Workflows Hosted In Portals

The WHIP (Workflows Hosted In Portals) project is building a set of software plug-ins to enable interactive, user driven, workflow integration, sharing, and collaboration within Web portals. This software architecture enables the dynamic publishing of workflows, facilitating information exchange and scientific collaboration. The WHIP plug-in provides functionality to perform composition, editin...

Biotechnology Portals in Medicine

Portals in the Public Sector

A complete enterprise portal solution should provide all users personalized, convenient, and secure access to everything needed to perform their tasks or job functions. The SAP portal platform provides a single point of access to a variety of information sources in an organization and enables personalization of this content based on the user’s classification. Content is provided in the portal c...

From websites to portals: success factors for business community portals

Many Governments are using funding initiatives to encourage businesses, particularly small businesses to adopt e-commerce technology. One currently popular approach in Australia, has been to fund internet portal developments with a specific community or business focus. The success of such portals however, as with many Web developments has been mixed. This paper reports on the establishment of a...