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Intranet portal


Overview

An intranet portal site is designed to allow information to be quickly disseminated to employees, to make common internal business processes more efficient and to provide a sense of community within an organization.

The site provides access to:

The intranet portal also has a personalized home page that is dynamically built using has a set of rules that retrieve content based on the current user's role, department, and location. By appropriately tagging the content, and then matching this content with the current user, the content that is displayed can appropriate for the user.

A number of components are used together to make this intranet portal work:

The size of an intranet portal tends to scale with the size of the organization. A large organization has more information to disseminate, more business processes, more communities of employees. This means that the content and the user population tend to grow at the same rate.

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E-business site

Overview

An e-business site is an externally facing site designed to market a company's products and services to consumers and allow them to purchase these items online. The focus of the site is on helping a consumers match their needs to the appropriate product or service and maximizing their purchases.

The site provides:

The home page of the site is used to highlight the latest promotions, and to give a strong sense of the brand of the organization. Throughout the site, collaborative filtering is used to help suggest products and services to consumers based on their purchasing and navigational activity. A discussion system may also be used to allow users to build a community where they can comment on and rate various products and services.

A number of components are used together to build the e-business site:

An e-business site can generate a large amount of traffic with a relatively small amount of content.

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Brochureware site


Overview

A brochureware site is an externally facing site that acts as an organization's presence on the World Wide Web. The overriding focus is on representing the organization's brand to its potential customers.

This type of site is relatively static and does not need the aggregation capabilities of WebSphere Portal and is instead delivered using both the servlet delivery and pre-rendering features of Web Content Manager. The site is also designed to be easily indexed by search engines like Google.

This site would include:

The components in this site are limited with Web Content Manager providing all the presentation, navigation, and content.

A brochureware site can generate a large amount of traffic with a relatively small amount of content.

Related: Road map to building a web content system


E-library site

Overview

An online library site is dedicated to providing access to a large amount of content. The prime example is a news site, where new content is created throughout the day, every day of the week and is published online and then archived as it becomes out of date. Other examples include journals, analyst reports, and software libraries.

Users would typically have to register for these sites, and may then be sent e-mails on a regular basis summarizing the latest content. On a news site the latest news may be free, but users may have to pay for access to archived content. On other types of "library" sites, you may have to pay for access to any of the content.

A number of components are used together to deliver an e-library site:

An e-library site may have a large audience and a large amount of content.

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Partner site

Overview

The audience for a partner site are the partners of an organization. The site provides information and applications that are not applicable to the broader audience of consumers. A partner site would typically require a login but would not use an automated registration system. The business partners would be known to the company and given a login to access the partner site.

A partner site may include the following areas:

A number of components are used together to deliver a partner site:

A partner site is likely to have a limited audience but a large amount of content.

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