Building Portals Intranets and Corporate Web Sites Using Microsoft Servers

Not even the implosion of the dot com bubble was enough to derail the proliferation of Internet technology and the move toward “e-business” that has extended to nearly every industry in the developed world. Few organizations are content to tolerate the isolation of applications into separate “silos” of information, or poor interoperability among their software solutions. The portal has been held up as a means to achieve better application integration and provide a consistent user interface both inside and outside the enterprise. Companies and other organizations need to take a broader look at their portal strategy to make the various elements of their architecture work together. This is a pivotal time not only in the emergence of new technology but the convergence of technologies toward open standards and enhanced interoperability. Audience and Goals for this Book The portal market is an amorphous and elusive target, with a small number of universal standards and a large population of vendors attempting to define in ways that are most beneficial for their product sales. The first generation of portal books were devoted to explaining why portals were such a good idea, and how they would benefit their users. The bulk of these were devoted to enterprise portals, and to extolling the virtues of extensible markup language (XML). Others were devoted to explaining how to use a single product with portal in the name, such as Oracle Portal or Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server, but only covered a small portion of the features that an organization might reasonably want to include in a portal. While these works are helpful and necessary, the theoretical portal books don’t go far enough in explaining how to implement their solutions.

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