1. A Web Portal is a specially designed website that often serves as the single point of access for information or brings information from diverse sources, like emails, forums and search engines, together in a uniform way. It can also be considered a library of personalized and categorized content.
2. A web portal helps in search navigation, personalization, notification and information integration, and often provides features like task management, collaboration, and business intelligence and application integration.
3. Web portals are also known simply as portals.
4. The extent to which content is displayed in a “uniform way” may depend on the intended user and the intended purpose, as well as the diversity of the content.
5. Portals can be wide variety i.e. Patient Portals, Government Portals, Intranets / Extranets / Workplace Portals, Knowledge Management Portals, Student Portals, Vendor Portals etc.
