What is Oracle Portal and what is it used for?
Oracle Portal is a browser based, self-service, content publishing and development solution that allows end users and web developers to build data driven web sites. Portal gives content creators the tools needed to publish their own documents on the Web, by directly editing Web site from within their Web browsers. Portal also lets you decentralized content management, while maintaining centralized control of your Internet infrastructure. Oracle originally heavily touted the development capabilities of Portal, but it is cumbersome to develop anything other than the default generated forms and reports in Portal. Other products like Oracle Reports must be used along with Portal to generate much meaningful content. The management capabilities of Portal are strong however and are tied directly to the Oracle database. If you are already an Oracle shop Portal should be considered seriously as a portal framework. Given Oracle’s dominance in the marketplace the product will certainly be very pr
