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The future of portals

By // April 25, 2007, 1:21 AM PST

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  • Tomorrow's target audience

    At the at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, Gartner analyst David Gootzit says its time to upgrade the portal to Web 2.0 and beyond. The key is aggregating the aggregators via mashups and shared APIs across consumer and enterprise portals.

    For more about Gootzit's future of the portal read Larry Dignan's post.

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  • Portal fabric

    What is the portal fabric and how will it work?

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  • MyPortal

    Gootzit believes that personal portals will be the home page for many aggregators.

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  • The portal fabric.

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  • Portal interoperability.

    It's essential for a portal interoperability standard emerge to cover the five keys to portal interoperability.

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  • Aspects

    Gartner predicts that by 2008 companies will be up-to-date with technology but trail in the social aspects.

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  • Blogs and wikis

    It's better to try different means of communications rather than concentrate on one.

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  • Portal pyramid

    The growth of the portal.

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  • The center

    Portals need to showcase technology services.

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  • SOA

    By 2008, Gartner predicts that service oriented architecture will be on the rise.

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  • Multiple portals.

    By 2008, knowledge workers will be accessing more than one type of portal.

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  • mashups

    One of the key issues will be how to deliver value through future portals.

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Tomorrow's target audience

At the at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco, Gartner analyst David Gootzit says its time to upgrade the portal to Web 2.0 and beyond. The key is aggregating the aggregators via mashups and shared APIs across consumer and enterprise portals.

For more about Gootzit's future of the portal read Larry Dignan's post.

Click on any image to expand it.

Credit: Gartner

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