Intranet portal
gateway that unifies access to all enterprise information and applications
An intranet portal is the gateway that unifies access to enterprise information and applications on an intranet. It is a tool that helps a company manage its data, applications, and information more easily through personalized views. Some portal solutions are able to integrate legacy applications, objects from other portals, and handle thousands of user requests. In a corporate enterprise environment, it is also known as an enterprise portal.
Background
Intranet and Internet share many elements and use the same technologies, but they fundamentally differ in their purposes. Unlike the Internet, an intranet operates within a private network. Connectivity transpires within the process called address mapping. Here, Intranet addresses are converted to Internet addresses to provide the required transparency and vice versa.
Through an intranet portal, a private network is able to impose its own local rules of behavior because of the installation and maintenance of a mechanism such as a firewall and intranet portal solutions. Web browsers cannot connect to the server behind it and must contact the gateway machine and abide by the restrictions mandated by the gateway.
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