Enterprise Portal as a product has evolved to a great deal and has rapidly become a de-facto industry standard to cater to vast range of business requirements. Although Portals have become part of our day to day activities, but to your surprise, it is still misunderstood as a simple web application or website. This weblog series starts with explaining the basics of Portal Technology and goes on to cover everything a Portal Development & Infrastructure Support Engineer needs to know. Tutorials and Technical articles will be accompanied wherever needed. In this first weblog of the series, I start with basics of Portal Technology and go on to answer some of the basic questions which most of the beginners have. I have many friends who have been working on SAP Technology for years now but to them Portal actually means web enablement of the underlying SAP R/3 Technology. To a very low extent it is true but definitely there is much more to Portal Technology. Many of us may deny this fact but there still remains a wide range of developer community, who still struggles to appreciate the very existence of Portal Technology. Anyways, let’s see if you can really answer some of the following basic questions yourself: - What are Portals? Or what is an Enterprise Portal? - What are fundamental characteristics of Portal? - How are Portals different from other Websites? - Where are Portals applicable? - When are Portals applicable? - What are different types of Portals? - What are the functional aspects of Portals? - What are the technical aspects of Portals? - How Portal Solution helps to solve Organizational Challenges? - What are Portal common concerns and issues? - Do you need SAP R/3 knowledge to implement a SAP Portal? - What are the right skills sets to join a Portal project? - What are the other players in Portal market space? - What should be the Portal Selection Criteria? - Why SAP Net weaver Portal? ……..list is endless…..some of them straight forward to answer and some can be debated on. If you really have answers to these questions, I am sure you would agree with me that Portal Technology in SAP world has lot more to offer than just being a web interface to the underlying SAP R/3 technology. For those who don’t, watch out for next part of this weblog series to find out the answers 🙂Others in this Series...Portal Demystified - Part 2Portal Demystified - Part 3piyush.kumar7/blog/2006/05/19/portal-demystified-150-part-4-portal-selection-criteria
