Patent ID: 7774378

Claim:
A system to provide a hosted intelligence center accessible through web browsers, wherein the system for providing the hosted intelligence center is configured to allow privileged users to set up and configure the hosted intelligence center and wherein the hosted intelligence center is configured to provide portals through which visitors access content within the hosted intelligence center, the system comprising: a content repository configured to store electronic content and metadata in a computer-readable storage medium and to associate the stored electronic content with the metadata and with potential audience types for the stored electronic content; a communication portal developer configured to provide browser accessible interfaces usable by the privileged users to create a plurality of customizable portals and configured to provide templates usable by the privileged users to create the plurality of customizable portals without software code development, wherein the browser accessible interfaces provided by the communication portal developer includes an audience interface, a portal content interface and a user interface, wherein for each portal created by the privileged users, the audience interface is configured to provide a list of potential audience types for the portal and enable selection of an audience type for the portal from the list, the portal content interface is configured to provide a list of electronic content associated with the selected audience for potential publication to the portal and enable selection of electronic content from the list to be published for the selected audience type, wherein the portal content interface is usable by the privileged users to search through the electronic content using metadata, and a user interface is usable to add selected visitors to the portal who are authorized to view the published content, wherein each customizable portal is accessible to the selected visitors, and each customizable portal is configured to enable the selected visitors to view the published electronic data; a content manager configured to provide a browser accessible interface and templates usable by the privileged users to populate the electronic content stored in the content repository, wherein the content manager is configured to publish the selected electronic content for each portal from the content repository to the portal, wherein the browser accessible interface provided by the content manager includes at least one wizard usable by the privileged users to: populate and associate the electronic content stored in the content repository with potential audience types; and manage, based in part on user defined rules, the electronic content within the content repository to maintain up-to-date electronic content; and a real-time or near real-time analytic engine configured to provide a browser accessible interface for the privileged users to analyze use of the published electronic content on the customizable portals and visitor behavior while logged into their customizable portal.