What is Portal Computing?
Sun defines the Portal Computing Model:
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"Portal computing differs from what most people associate with the term
'portal.' Portal computing integrates business processes to connect customers,
partners, suppliers, and employees, and is an evolution from client-server and
Web computing. While client-server computing suffered from the inability to
connect client computers to heterogeneous systems across the enterprise, its successor
-- Web computing -- required special, time-consuming programming to connect Web
servers to each of these heterogeneous systems. Today, portal computing alleviates
many of these problems because it offers a middle-tier application layer that provides
the glue between clients and backend systems across multiple hardware and software platforms."
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Portal Australia advantageously applies the benefits of portal computing to e-Business.
Successful e-Business is more than having online sales, and Internet advertising.
It's about communicating with, and supporting, your customer. More than just prices and
product, the Internet can be cost effectively used to maintain your most valuable relationship.
E-Business demands a high level of integration, but the reality of
computing today is hetrogeneous computing hardware and operating system platforms.
E-customers often want to see several bits of up-to-the-minute information
at the same time, like: product specifications, availability, shipping times, and account status.
Through the application of Java and portal computing, Portal Australia develops and integrates
these services into the enterprise.
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