The Power of Portals
I did a webinar last week on portal technology. A recording can now be found on the Shared Insights/DCI site. (In about 90 days or so that might become invalid, and an SAP link might replace it.) The registration form is the usual name/address aggravation, but nothing in the vein of “To within the nearest 5, how many pairs of SIMMs have you influenced the purchase of in the past 13 years?”
On that webinar, I promised to post a link here to my whitepaper on third-generation analytic business processes. Done. (Scroll down to the bottom of the page.)
The webinar was pretty fast-moving, so I’d encourage you to replay it if you have a bit of time. But if you want to know just the tippy-topmost key points, the list is something like this:
- Portal technology can play a variety of different roles.
- Portals can be like an inhouse Yahoo, for static pages and knowledge management and self-service types of apps.
- Portals can be the best framework for “secondary” or “ad-hoc” operational apps and business processes, as an even lighter-weight technology than composite app development tools.
- Portals are an ideal base technology for dashboards.
- There should be much more BI-based collaboration going on, and portals are the obvious enabling technology for this.
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