Related Information

Portal Framework Definition

A framework allows a company to assemble a solid architecture for one or more portals, rather than relying on a single portal vendor. A flexible and scaleable framework allows a company's portals to evolve to incorporate new technology and functionality.

What is LDAP?

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) is a fast-growing technology
for accessing common directory information. LDAP has been embraced and
implemented in most network-oriented middleware.

JSR-168 Portlet Specification

JSR 168 establishes a standard API for creating portlets, the integration component between applications and portals that enables delivery of an application through a portal.

Enterprise Portals

What is a Portal?

In its most powerful form, the enterprise portal is a platform for governments and enterprises with extensive supply chains to integrate mission-critical applications such as Citizen Relationship Management, eProcurement, workflow management, knowledge management, communications and eCommerce. Unifying disparate and diverse applications, users, and information sources in a single environment that is personalized, efficient, and easy to use is complex, but the top-line benefits can be enormous. Baraap understands these complexities as well as strategies to make portal implementations successful.

Our Expertise

Baraap's expertise is in the design and development of the portal infrastructure. We understand concepts such as Single-Sign on& LDAP, Portlets and Personalization. Baraap has hands-on experience implementing portal solutions based on Oracle's 9i & 10g Portal, BEA's Weblogic Portal and Broadvision's Portal products. We leverage our expertise in the Java Platform as the basis for developing applications based on these portal products.

Open Standards

Our portal practice is no different than our EAI practice. We focus on delivering open based solutions that are candidates for being ported to future platforms and products. With this we have identified some up and coming portal related standards including JSR-168 and LDAP (see related information pane).

Portal Types Overview

Portal terminology has become very generic and abused and the word portal means different things to different people. The portal concept and technology is rapidly emerging and changing, making it increasingly important to understand and focus on the various types of portals and their appropriate role and application. The four different types of portals are not mutually exclusive and must be able to be integrated and coexist. Baraap understands that no portal implementation can be a pure result of one of the types described below, but can exist as many types creating a hybrid implementation.

Enterprise Portals (Intranet)

These are portals that are designed for B2E processes, activities and communities to improve the access, processing and sharing of structured and unstructured information within and across the enterprise. EIPs also incorporate roles, processes, workflow, collaboration, content management, data warehousing and marts, enterprise applications and business intelligence.

e-Business Portals (Extranet)

e-Business portals include business to customer (B2C) which extend the enterprise to its customers for the purpose of ordering, billing, customer service, self-service, etc.; and business to business (B2B) which extends the enterprise to its suppliers and partners. B2B portals are transforming the supplier and value chain process and relationships.

Portals for Mobile Users

These are portals that are embedded in web phones, cellular phones, wireless PDAs, pagers, etc. Personal or mobility portals are becoming increasingly popular and important for consumers and employees to obtain product and services information, prices, discounts, availability, order status, payment status, shipping status, scheduling and installation information, etc.

Contact Us

For more information regarding our Enterprise Portal Practice , call us at 312.673.6431 or email us at sales@baraap.com.