At most companies, information is scattered over a number of different databases, document types and physical locations. Often, this makes information unavailable to the vast majority of users who need it to do their jobs or transact business efficiently. Portals solve this problem by accessing requested information, bringing it together and making it uniformly accessible.

There are different types of portals, each of which provides a company with specific capabilities and benefits. Business-to-Business Portals streamline business between companies. Customer portals let customers do business with you while hiding your internal processes from them. Enterprise portals make enterprise applications more usable and easily available to employees, suppliers and partners.

Portals allow you to centrally manage your infrastructure, while also allowing distributed design and development of applications. They increase productivity and efficiency, improve communication and collaboration, reduce IT costs and enable better integration of legacy systems.