How do JISC portals relate to enterprise portals?
Enterprise portals is a name given to portals commonly, though not exclusively, in industry in the US that are often built using commercial portal software. They are usually either a framework for integrating diverse internal and/or external information and transactional resources or a front end to existing applications, and are specifically aimed at adding value to employees’ everyday work. Often, a major feature of these is real-time information display and all offer a personalised view to the information. By virtue of aggregating data and adding value, JISC, and many institutional, portals could be said to be aiming to be educational enterprise portals. The personalisation aspects of enterprise portals and MyNetscape etc, sound useful. A portal can bring together many different types of content from many distributed sources. However, for any one user not all of these may be of interest. Hence, the concept of ‘My Portal’ is one where the user can select which content sources are pres
