BEA WebLogic Portal Federation: Distributed Portal Services Harness Service-Oriented Architecture and Unleash the Power of Portal Infrastructure Across the Enterprise

Over the last decade, with the maturation of portal technology, businesses have consistently experienced the benefits that portal infrastructure technology can provide for improving customer service, IT efficiency, and business agility. The key to these benefits is designs that presume portals are deployed with server-based centralization of all resources within the portal - so that essentially, there is just one place to deploy and one place to maintain. This model has served the industry well, but as portal uses have grown more complex and transitioned from tactical project solutions to enterprise-wide application delivery, a new model is required that provides companies with more flexibility.