Sun Microsystems Portal Server 6 2005Q1, Planning Manual

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Portal Server Capabilities
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Collaborative services allow users to do the following:
• Chat
• Organize meetings
• Share calendaring information
• Define user communities
• Participate in net meetings
• Share information in discussion groups and on white boards
Business Intelligence Portals
Business intelligence portals provide executives, managers, and business analysts
with access to business intelligence for making business decisions. This type of
portal typically indexes business intelligence reports, analyses, and predefined
queries, and are associated with financial management, customer relationship
management, and supply chain performance management. Business intelligence
portals also provide access to business intelligence tools (reporting, OLAP, data
mining), packaged analytic applications, alerting, publishing and subscribing.
Peoplesoft is a typical vendor provider of business intelligence types of portal.
Types of business intelligence portals include:
• Procurement portal
• Self-service portal
• Business portal
• e-Commerce portal
• Sales support
• Customer relationship management, operations, and employee portals
• Consumer portal
Portal Server Capabilities
Sun Java™ System Portal Server 6 2005Q1 software provides the following
capabilities to your organization: