Olivitek specialises in enterprise portal design and development for large and SME clients. We have significant experience designing and developing portal solutions in several industry sectors, including telecoms, education and banking.

An enterprise portal is typically used by organisations to aggregate disparate sources of organisational information into one unified access point - the portal. An example of the types of information that might be brought together in a portal - internal web applications, document management tools, e-mail, calendar, search.

Enterprise portals typically support the following key features:

• Single Sign-on (SSO) - even with multiple tools or applications integrated within the portal, each requiring user authentication, the portal user only needs to sign on once to the portal to have authenticated access to all tools.
• Personalization - content is matched to the user. The user's profile will determine what content and what tools are available in their portal 'desktop'. Personalization and customization are similar in that they affect the user's experience of the portal - what they see and what content and tools they can interact with. Unlike customization however, personalization is not a feature that the user can personally control.
• Customization - If this feature is enabled by the portal administrator, the user can modify look and feel of the portal environment (i.e. the 'desktop'). Users can edit authorized content and filter the content and services they wish to see. This portal feature is quite similar to the customization functions available in web portals (e.g. MyYahoo).
• Federation - refers to the integration of content across multiple portals. Typically through technologies such as WSRP.
• Integration - a key feature of a portal, allowing data and functions from multiple sources to be brought together in portal components known as portlets.
• Access Control - the content and tools that a user has access to, and the functions that a user can carry out is controlled by the portal. For example, only users in the payroll department can view all employees payroll data, and only a user with privileged access can change an employee's salary band via tools in the portal. The portal has access to an ACL (Access Control List) that determines the access rights of all portal users.
• Enterprise Search - disparate sources of organisational content (CMS managed, database, internal and external web sites, documents and media) can be searched via a single integrated 'enterprise search' function available within the portal.

Whilst we can provide architecture and design support across a number of portal platforms, we specialise in the following platforms:

• Liferay
• IBM WebSphere Portal
• Oracle WebCenter Suite

 For further advice and consultancy on portal call Peter on 0423 676 142.