Three trends of Enterprise Information Portals

Through EIP, employees in various departments of an enterprise can not only obtain business information and knowledge resources, but also use core applications to understand the business progress of the enterprise.

Various departments of an enterprise have been looking for ways to provide unified desktop information to their employees. Through these ways, employees can use a variety of applications to understand the company's business progress, in addition, obtaining resources (including both technical and human resources) is necessary for employees to complete their work. However, five years ago, the current desktop environment was insufficient to support such tasks. Enable employees to obtain enterprise information according to their work needs and require a central desktop computer environment. That is to say, when you are working, if someone sees the Desktop you are working on, can he understand your work? The traditional desktop computer environment does not support such a function. There are still problems in the Integration of Information, enterprise applications, and business processing processes. The emergence of enterprise information portals (EIPs) can meet the needs of enterprises. According to the basic functions, EIP is a personalized Online Information Acquisition Method for Information Retrieval. Through EIP, employees in various departments of the enterprise can not only obtain business information and knowledge resources, you can also use the core applications to understand the enterprise's business progress. Key technologies that enable EIP to provide these features include improved security means (including mature directory/identification services), proliferation of small appliances, and mature and extensive XML applications. With the continuous improvement of the enterprise information portal technology, the way enterprises use their own information portals to achieve their business goals is also maturing and developing. The portal concept originally adopted by employees in Small departments has already penetrated into the minds of almost all employees in the enterprise and has begun to be accepted by partners and suppliers of the enterprise. The Enterprise Information Portal is starting to penetrate into every user's life and provides them with information about the enterprise's department and overall situation. Today, enterprise portals are increasingly being improved and developed to meet the technical and strategic needs of enterprises. In the days to come, how enterprises balance and expand their investments in EIP will largely depend on three emerging trends: in the business processing process, the portal is more closely integrated with other applications. As the core computing platform application and portal application, the portal is used in user interface operations. Integration with applications and business processing processes. Although the portal automatically forms a series of personalized windows to meet the information needs of different employees within the enterprise, it is a major technical improvement, however, this method cannot eliminate the boundaries between windows. Data is integrated only when it is provided to users. The real value of a portal can be achieved only after the boundaries between windows are eliminated. However, the development of the portal is not implemented in a vacuum. Enterprise Application synthesis (EAI) and business processing process synthesis (BPI) the maturity of Software and Services provides the foundation for the next development of portal technology. At the same time, in the future, network services will be transparent from the perspective of application collaboration and business processing. Recently, Delphi's market research on the portal has proved that the trend supports the current view. These trends are combined with the software sold by the seller of the portal platform, integrate applications with portals, and squeeze sellers who only focus their attention on individual applications or portals out of the market competition. Portal as a platform To balance the adjustment of investment in existing system structures and applications while reducing application risks, the portal as a platform will be accepted by people as a new way. The strong strength of platform vendors in the EIA and BPI fields is striking, as is the significant improvement of the Delphi project in the service field. The current portal platform must provide a comprehensive infrastructure that provides all the key features of portal technology: integration, classification, search, publishing and publishing, processing, collaboration, personalization, and presentation. According to Delphi's research, in the next two years, platform portal products (provided by IBM/Lotus, Sun/iPlanet, SAP, Bea, Microsoft, and Sybase) it will become a basic part of the work of the IT department. User Interaction Of course, all of these require significant investment in applications, transactions, collaboration, and directory technologies that will determine the quality of user interaction. Correspondingly, the latest trend in the portal field is to provide highly-customized portal information to specific users, partners, or supplier groups, which will increase the value of the network field. As business portals become new faces of various departments in more and more business interactions, personalization has become the most persistent source of user value. However, the personalization mentioned above is more mature than the personalization provided by the first-generation portal technology. Today, EIP is able to provide relevant data, application software, and business processing interactions, which puts more pressure on users and makes them aware of the competitiveness and work efficiency of various internal departments of the enterprise. This technology will eventually transition the market concept from "brand loyalty" to "Loyal Brand ". More and more portals will be entrusted with the comprehensive responsibilities of "providing wireless support, collaboration, and enterprise development motivation anytime, anywhere and under any circumstances, this kind of directory includes not only text directories, but also graphic directories. The portal will also be used to improve the efficiency of network services. With the increasing demand for comprehensive, scattered, and control of a large amount of internal and external information, the enterprise information portal will become the mainstream of the enterprise platform and the dominant factor for Unified Enterprise.