Different Types of Portals


The portals are classified on the basis of content and intended users as follows:

Different Types of Portals:

The portals are classified on the basis of content and intended users as follows:

• Vertical Portals (Vortals)

These portals focus only on a specific industry, vertical or domain. Vortals or portals just offer tools, information, articles, research and statistics on one specific industry. As the website is now a standardized tool for business, vortals offer the right gateway for businesses to promote their products and services to get exposure within their vertical. Cnet.com which focuses only on computer and related issues, mp3.com only on mp3 audio etc are the best examples of vortals.
 
Vortals mostly provide customized information and services to niche audiences having a special area of interest. There are endless possibilities for establishing vertical portals. The solutions can be divided into 2 groups.
 
1.Corporate Portals:
 
This offers access to chosen information of a specific company
 
2.Commerce Portals:
 
This supports e-commerce i.e.B2B and B2C
 
• Horizontal Portals
 
These portals focus on a wide range of topics and interests. They focus on general public and try to present something for each one. This portal act as an entry point of a web surfer into the internet, offering content on the subject of interest and guides towards a direction to fetch more resources and related information. Yahoo.com, msn.com and Google etc which offers visitors with information on a wide area of subjects and topics. This portal target the whole Internet community.
 
• Intranet Portals (Enterprise Portals)
 
The enterprise portals focus on offering staff members with information which is regularly updated along with system of document management, availability of applications on demand, online training courses and web casts etc.
 
• Knowledge Portals:
 
Knowledge portals provides easy access to information necessary or helpful to them in specific roles. This are not just intranet portals as the former are supposed to offer extra functionality like collaboration services, sophisticated information, discovery services and a knowledge map.
 
• Enterprise Portals
 
An enterprise portal offers access to the right range of information about a particular company. This portals have become the hot favorite technologies of the Internet. They aim at providing a virtual workplace for employees, customers, suppliers etc.