Portals for e-Business

摘要

One profound effect of e-business is its immediate and wholesale destruction of the walls built up over decades between the working parts of the extended enterprise-its customers, its suppliers, its partners, and its people. Potentially the entire set of relationships in vital value chains will be reconfigured by new eBusiness alignments.rnA critical success factor for this e-business transformation becomes the ability of all the constituencies of the extended enterprise to proactively manage the onslaught of information and processes, which is literally exploding on our desktops.rnIf the ability to provide a single point of access to all kinds of information for the e-business desktop is the breakthrough benefit of the corporate portal, the success of the portal implementation will depend fundamentally on the strength of its integration capabilities.rnThe purpose of the e-business portal application is to enable online knowledge work to accelerate to the speed of e-business. In structuring the portal interface around the definitions and the collaborative understandings of communities, and encouraging users to manipulate portal "dashboard" details to meet their unique information use patterns, a portal has to offer out-of-the box tools to create a function-centered, role-based workstation for each individual in the extended enterprise.