Portal vs Website

Typical Website Attributes

• Public Interface
• Target one user type or audience.
• Support users in specific tasks such as marketing or e-commerce
• Provides targeted content from specfic resources or authors.
• Generally content focused.
• May or may not have authentication.

Typical Portal Attributes:

• Public and private interface such as extranet, intranet etc.
• Common access point for multiple user roles.
• Personalization or Role-specific functionality and content.
• Versatile or Enhanced functionality and flexibility.
• Provide users with access to broad resources.
• Support users in multiple tasks such as discovery, learning, research, purchasing, etc.
• Provides content from diverse distributed resources.
• Generally spans content, collaboration and e-commerce.
• Authentication process to "know" a user