Does your business require you to keep and share larger amounts of information.
A web portal provides your business and your clients with the best possible way of accessing data and communicating back and forth.
Just what is a Portal?
A portal is a website that offers an extensive collection of resources and services such as emails, online shopping, search engines, and more. A portal provides a structure of categorized links to topics such as news, business, finance, travel and personal. Portals generally have three-tier or n-tier architecture which includes client tier, application tier and data tier.
The proper arrangement and management of this can help your business run smoothly. DTG provides you with architecture services for portal design. This will allow you to lay down a foundation for a business driven approach to infrastructure architecture and management of IT related services.
Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications and databases, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether. They primarily focus on community building on the internet.
Corporate portals, personal portals and theme based portals have managed to carve a niche in the market. Domain-specific portals target users for that community. DTG web design is capable of developing a customized Content Management System (CMS) as per your requirement as well.
Enterprise portals will enable your employees and customers to be organized, streamlined and connected. DTG’s Portal Development Services offer portal development starting from requirement definition to deployment and training. We closely work with our clients to identify their business specific objectives, and streamline the project requirements.
When is a portal required?
Nowadays, many organizations are making extensive use of the web to disseminate information and provide services to their users, say their staff members, customers, etc. To cope with the various needs of different users, the numerous types of information and services that can be available to all kinds of users would be grouped together and presented on the web according to the nature of the operational functions. In general, this means that the information and services are grouped based on the division of the service-providing departments, and the users must have some idea about what kind of information or services could be provided by which department in order to gain access to the required information or service without much difficulty. Very often, it is not the case because a user may know quite little about the departments or there could be too many departments and too many kinds of services of which only a small subset would be of relevance or interests to the user. Under such circumstances, a user would face the problem of information overload and find it quite difficult to locate the needed information or service from the many service offerings. As it is the trend that organizations are increasingly making extensive use of web applications for information dissemination and service delivery to the users, the just mentioned difficulty that could be encountered by users due to information overload would become a more severe and obvious problem that needs to be resolved.
To alleviate the problems described, i.e. to improve the user-friendliness and to enable convenient access to the different kinds of information and services mounted on the web by users, it would be desirable to set up a portal for channeling the vast information resource and many services to different users in an efficient and effective manner so that when a user can be identified by the portal, personalized information and services which are relevant or of interests to the user would be presented to him according to his profile.
What to expect of a Portal.
A portal should support the following desirable functions and features:
- Allowing different information- and service-providing departments to set up and update their own information and services tailored specifically for different user groups according to the common user profiles (such as grades, departments associated, etc.) and the specific needs of these user groups at specific times.
- Presenting automatically the information and services that a user would need according to his profile at the appropriate time.
- Allowing a user to select the information and services that are his interests and to customize their presentation.
- Setting up information and services from users’ perspective rather than from the angle of convenience of the services providers.
Portal design and development made easy. Give DTG web services a call to start the thought process.
