The difficulty is in understanding what exactly they are and how they apply to your business. Those are all different aspects of business portals and can describe varying strategies a company should follow. It got where it is by melding services and content. When it comes to services, you get chat to help you connect with other people and calendars and address books to keep track of your life. The same thinking can be applied to corporate portals.
Companies have tons of information in their intranets and extranets.
And they often have static corporate Web sites. What they often don't have is an active way for employees to use the corporate Web site to do their jobs. Just take a look at the numbers. Some 25 million people in the U.S. use the Web from work, according to researcher Cyber Dialogue. Corporate portals could pack a punch because they can aggregate and personalize data and provide E-commerce tools for individual employees, suppliers, and others.