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Unit 14: Web Portal

Bangladesh.gov.bd for Bangladesh. Notes
USA.gov for the United States (in English) & GobiernoUSA.gov (in Spanish).
Disability.gov for citizens with disabilities in the United States.
Directgov for citizens & businesslink.gov.uk for businesses in the United Kingdom.
india.gov.in for India.
Europa (web portal) links to all EU agencies and institutions in addition to press releases
and audiovisual content from press conferences.
Health-EU portal gathers all relevant health topics from across Europe.
National Resource Directory links to resources for United States Service Members, Veter-
ans and their families (NRD.gov).

Corporate Web Portals

Corporate intranets became common during the 1990s. As intranets grew in size and complexity,
webmasters were faced with increasing content and user management challenges. A consolidated
view of company information was judged insufficient; users wanted personalization and
customization. Webmasters, if skilled enough, were able to offer some capabilities, but for the
most part ended up driving users away from using the intranet.
Many companies began to offer tools to help webmasters manage their data, applications and
information more easily, and through personalized views. Portal solutions can also include
workflow management, collaboration between work groups, and policy-managed content
publication.

Did u know? Corporate Web portals allow internal and external access to specific corporate
information using secure authentication or single sign-on.
JSR168 Standards emerged around 2001. Java Specification Request (JSR) 168 standards allow the
interoperability of portlets across different portal platforms. These standards allow portal
developers, administrators and consumers to integrate standards-based portals and portlets across
a variety of vendor solutions.
The concept of content aggregation seems to still gain momentum and portal solution will likely
continue to evolve significantly over the next few years. The Gartner Group predicts generation 8
portals to expand on the Business Mashups concept of delivering a variety of information, tools,
applications and access points through a single mechanism.
With the increase in user generated content, disparate data silos, and file formats, information
architects and taxonomist will be required to allow users the ability to tag (classify) the data. This
will ultimately cause a ripple effect where users will also be generating ad hoc navigation and
information flows.
Corporate Portals also offer customers and employees self-service opportunities.

Stock Portals

Stock Market portals or stock exchange portals are Web-based applications that facilitates the
process of informing the share-holders with substantial online data such as the latest price, ask/
bids, the latest News, reports and announcements. Some stock portals use online gateways through
a central depository system (CDS) for the visitors to buy or sell their shares or manage their
portfolio.

Health and Medical Web Portal
Health and medical portal is the biggest place where display health & medical related information
around the world.
Emedical point Biggest Health and Medical web Portal in Bangladesh.
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