Gartner has noted since early 1999 the possibility of multiple vertical enterprise portals existing in an enterprise. Many enterprises have multiple packaged applications that will become portalized over time, leading to multiple vertical enterprise portals. Enterprises should embrace vertical enterprise portals since they will provide additional functionality to their respective applications. Emerging Uses of Portals One of the key deliverables of enterprise portals is relevant information. Via personalization, enterprise portals deliver the right information at the right time to the right person.
Monitoring is how most of people receive information.
Notification is primarily via phone calls or pages. Enterprise portals leverage both methods. Notification is delivered proactively, via push capabilities, e-mail, instant messaging, or telephones or pagers. Using rules and filtering, people then designate which information warrants proactive notification. Today's methods of information filtering and notification will undergo massive change with the advent of enterprise portals.