{"id":21,"date":"2006-04-28T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T19:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=21"},"modified":"2006-04-28T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T19:25:49","slug":"the-benefits-on-a-portalportlet-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/the-benefits-on-a-portalportlet-application\/","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits on a Portal\/Portlet Application"},"content":{"rendered":"

The strength of Formtek<\/a> content repositories centers around\u00a0our management of business and engineering documents.\u00a0 Metadata<\/a>, business rules<\/a>, security, document relationships, workflow and collaboration.\u00a0 All of these are\u00a0important components\u00a0in any of\u00a0Formtek’s business applications.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An interesting and smart technique for creating unique and business-targeted applications is to encapsulate\u00a0and inter-mix these basic Formtek content\u00a0components in a Portal environment.<\/p>\n

Traditionally business applications have existed as stand-alone entities.\u00a0 Then with the introduction of browser-based thin-client applications, the line blurred so that a single tool, the browser, could be used to access company data across many applications.\u00a0 But even though all applications can be accessed by a browser, application interfaces aren’t always consistent,\u00a0and this still forces\u00a0users to learn many different systems.<\/p>\n

Portals<\/a> change that.\u00a0\u00a0Portals\u00a0pull content and information\u00a0 together from many sources, creating consolidated dashboard applications.\u00a0 Users can further refine the relevancy of the Portal application by personalizing the display.\u00a0 The Portal\u00a0provides great efficiency by\u00a0coordinating through\u00a0a single sign-on immediate access to data across all the component portlet<\/a>s from which the data is aggregated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The benefits of using a company portal is that users can\u00a0save time and see in a single snap-shot a composite view of all information\u00a0and data\u00a0inter-relationships.\u00a0 Use of portal applications can make employees\u00a0more productive and can improve customer and partner relationships.<\/p>\n

The component portlets of a portal tend to be very specialized tools that perform well-defined tasks.\u00a0 Examples of content-based portlets include:<\/p>\n