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ALSO CALLED: Web Search Portals, Information Services, Search Portals, Vertical Industry Portals, Vortals, Web Portals, Internet Portals, Online Services, and Vertical Portals
DEFINITION: Vortal is also short for voice portal.

On the Web, a vertical portal (sometimes called a vortal) is a Web site that provides a gateway or portal to information related to a particular industry such as health care, insurance, automobiles, or food manufacturing.  … 
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Five BI Success Factors for the Midsize Organization: Tactical Guidelines for Effective BI Deployment - Featuring Research from Gartner
sponsored by Cognos, an IBM Company
WHITE PAPER: This new issue paper from Cognos, an IBM company, features research from Gartner highlighting the five BI success factors for the midsize organization, including tactical guidelines for effective BI deployment.
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 | Published: 23 Sep 2008
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TOPICS:  Business Intelligence | Data Quality | ERP | Portals | Reporting Software | Security
Maximizing Portal Application Performance
sponsored by ClearApp, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: This white paper highlights advancements in portal technology, exploring their effect on application performance management and their ability to overcome existing management challenges.
Posted: 27 Aug 2007 | Published: 01 Aug 2007
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TOPICS:  Application Deployment | Application Performance Management | Application Performance Management Software | Business Process Automation | Change Management | Composite Applications Software | Portal Applications Software | Portals | Software Quality Assurance | Web Applications Management | Web Services | Web Services Management
 
PORTALS DEFINITION (continued): …  (A vertical industry is one that is focused on a relatively narrow range of goods and services, whereas a horizontal industry is one that aims to produce a wide range of goods and services. Because most industry tends to specialize, most industry tends to be vertical.) A term that might also be used is interest community Web site since any vertical industry brings together people sharing an interest in buying, selling, or exchanging information about that particular industry. Vertical … 
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