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Discuss the functions and features of portals

      

Discuss the functions and features of portals

  

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(1) Content Management and Tailorability which provides users with the ability to adjust and tailor accessed data based on users' specific requirements and preferences, and this function encapsulates Customization/ Personalization/ Profiling/ Content Management/ Taxonomy/ Presentation;
(2) Integration which aims at bringing, harmonizing and synchronizing data existing in different formats in incompatible applications all together, and then presenting it on a unified interface (i.e. the portal);
(3) Security which provide users with a secure access to diverse range of resources, by describing the levels of access each user or groups of users are allowed for each portal application and software function included in the portal;
(4) Searchability which allow users to retrieve required information directly by using search engines, instead of browsing through the different information categories;
(5) Collaboration which provide users with collaborative tools needed to enforce and optimize work and process collaboration inside and outside the organization;
(6) Scalability which describes the capability of the system to cope and perform under an increased or expanding workload; and
(7) Accessibility which describes the ability to access the system from anywhere at anytime.

Titany answered the question on September 23, 2021 at 13:19


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