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Mapping Portal Server Features to Your Business Needs
58 Portal Server 6 2005Q1 • Deployment Planning Guide
Personalization
Personalization is the ability to deliver content based on selective criteria and offer
services to a user.
Table 3-4 shows the personalization features and their benefits.
Aggregation and Integration
One of the most important aspects of a portal is its ability to aggregate and
integrate information, such as applications, services, and content. This
functionality includes the ability to embed non-persistent information, such as
stock quotes, through the portal, and to run applications within, or deliver them
through, a portal.
Subscriptions Enables the user to track new or changed
material in different areas of interest. Discussions, search categories, and free-form
searches (saved searches) can be tracked.
Table 3-4
Personalization Features and Benefits
Feature Description Benefit
Deliver content
based on user’s role Portal Server includes the ability to
automatically choose which applications
users are able to access or to use, based on
their role within the organization. Increases employee productivity, improves
customer relationships, and streamlines
business relationships by providing quick and
personalized access to content and services.
Enable users to
customize content Portal Server enables end users to choose
what content they are interested in seeing.
For example, users of a personal finance
portal choose the stock quotes they would like
to see when viewing their financial portfolio. The information available in a portal is
personalized for each individual. In addition,
users can then customize this information
further to their individual tastes. A portal puts
control of the web experience in the hands of
the people using the web, not the web site
builders.
Aggregate and
personalize content
for multiple users Portal Server enables an enterprise or service
provider to aggregate and deliver
personalized content to multiple communities
of users simultaneously. This enables a company to deploy multiple
portals to multiple audiences from one
product and manage them from a central
management console. Also, new content and
services can be added and delivered on
demand without the need to restart Portal
Server. All of this saves time and money, and
ensures consistency in an IT organization.
Table 3-3
Search Features and Benefits (Continued)
Feature Description Benefit