Introduction

Portals are the hottest trend in e-business today, with virtually every company on the web trying to capitalize on this phenomenon. As e-business interface, portals become widely used among enterprises as their gateway to employees, partners and customers.  

Formerly, portal was intended as an organized directory of web pages such as Yahoo, Altavista, Infoseek, and Google. It was a landmark that in July 1996 Yahoo launched a personalized portal service called My Yahoo !, once became most popular pages in the internet. It provides a revolutionary way that after developing their profile and interests, users will see a single page with up to date information channels corresponding to them, without browsing and searching. Yahoo's users skyrocketed to more than 50% for the next three months after it was unveiled. Many other internet portals began to provide their “my” version.

This kind of internet portal have been solving the most basic problems of finding and retrieving information faster with higher relevancy. But it was for personal usage rather than business usage since enterprises need more relevant information from their internal information, employee's collaboration, and access to existing applications. eBdesk Corporate Portal was born to capture these requirements.