Information management vendors are rushing to re-position themselves and put a portal spin on their products, says ITNET’s Graham Urquhart. The result is confusion, with a range of different definitions and claims clouding the true picture.
A lot of people spend their time in email. This forces them into a reactive position. In some jobs that is quite a workable proposition, but when innovation and creativity are important you need more control.
This is where portals can help. Not only do they present you with tasks and mail which you can easily do, they can also present you with the systems the mail refers to, enabling you to build much tighter links with those systems.
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