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The latest "silver bullet" for IT is the Enterprise Portal. It has many names: Enterprise Portal, Enterprise Information Portal, Corporate Portal, Web Portal, and just plain Portal. Whatever it's called, portals promise to provide necessary information from any source to anyone who needs it. This has the potential for significant productivity and competitive gains.

While Enterprise Portals may have this potential, it is not easy to deliver— even with new tools and technologies and single point access to heterogeneous information, in multiple formats, from multiple sources. In order to be truly effective, Enterprise Portals cannot just happen -- they must be "engineered." This strategy briefing provides a simple definition for Enterprise Portals, describes their benefits, and outlines a method and tools for easily and efficiently engineering them.

This strategy briefing and its associated forum postings are designed to help you now in your endeavor to build a more effective Enterprise Architecture more efficiently. Please feel free to learn from other postings and share your experiences through your own postings via the Visible Forum.