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Information Technology and Application

Notes Search Portals

Search portals aggregate results from several search engines into one page.

Tender’s Portals
Tender’s portals stands for a gateway to search/modify/submit/archive data on tenders and
professional processing of continuous online tenders. With a tender portal the complete tendering
process-submitting of proposals, assessment, administration-are done on the web.
Electronic or online tendering is just carrying out the same traditional tendering process in an
electronic form, using the Internet.
Using online tendering, bidders can do any of the following:
Receive notification of the tenders.
Receive tender documents online.
Fill out the forms online.
Submit proposals and documents.
Submit bids online.

Hosted Web Portals

Hosted web portals gained popularity a number of companies began offering them as a hosted
service. The hosted portal market fundamentally changed the composition of portals. In many ways
they served simply as a tool for publishing information instead of the loftier goals of integrating legacy
applications or presenting correlated data from distributed databases. The early hosted portal companies
such as Hyperoffice.com or the now defunct InternetPortal.com focused on collaboration and scheduling
in addition to the distribution of corporate data. As hosted web portals have risen in popularity their
feature set has grown to include hosted databases, document management, email, discussion forums
and more. Hosted portals automatically personalize the content generated from their modules to
provide a personalized experience to their users. In this regard they have remained true to the original
goals of the earlier corporate web portals. Emerging new classes of internet portals called Cloud
Portals are showcasing the power of API (Application Programming Interface) rich software systems
leveraging SOA (service oriented architecture, web services, and custom data exchange) to accommodate
machine to machine interaction creating a more fluid user experience for connecting users spanning
multiple domains during a given “session”.

Domain-specific Portals
A number of portals have come that are specific to the particular domain, offering access to related
companies and services, a prime example of this trend would be the growth in property portals that
give access to services such as estate agents, removal firm, and solicitors who offer guidance. Along
the same lines, industry-specific news and information portals have appeared, such as the clinical
trials specific portal: IFPMA Clinical Trials Portal.

Self Assessment

Fill in the blanks:
1. A .................... is a web site that functions as a point of access to information on the world
wide web.
2. .................... types of portal are present.
3. A .................... portal is a site on the world wide web that typically provides personalized
capabilities to its visitors, providing a pathway to other content.
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