Solutions Portal Features
A solution shouldn't just work—it should work for you. iPORTAL sets itself apart with just the right balance of practical functionality, usability, and technical innovation. In addition to ease of use features, the product includes built-in content management, collaboration, social networking.
Role Based Content Delivery
Portals allow multiple user types to access a single URL and access a unique page view depending on the users role, group, organization or personal preferences. Administrator controlled and user customized, iPORTAL provides a central platform for determining enterprise content policy, including who can edit and publish content, files, communities, files and applications.
Single-Click Configuration
A fast, responsive interface makes iPORTAL extremely easy and enjoyable to use for everyone in your organization. Typically time-consuming tasks such as altering a page layout, adding new applications and content, and changing look and feel can all be done in a couple of clicks without ever refreshing the page.
Dynamic Drag & Drop
iPORTAL was the first portal to offer this feature, allowing users to move different elements around in the portal by simply dragging and dropping them into place.
Workflow Framework
iPORTAL allows you to incorporate workflow into any of your own custom portlets by leveraging iPORTAL's workflow APIs. This provides a better end user experience; saves your development team a lot of effort by reusing iPORTAL's workflow administration tools; and provides seamless integration with all supported workflow engines.
User-Driven Workflow & Approval
Not only is there embedded workflow for content, iPORTAL allows users to create their own workflow and define the number of approval paths based on their own unique business requirements and operational needs.
For example, administrators can now implement an approval process for new document uploads before they appear in the Document Library.
Work From Your Desktop
Link to iPORTAL from your desktop. Just drag your files into familiar "WebDAV" desktop folders and they are automatically uploaded to your portal.
Search & Tagging
Tag web content, documents, message board threads and more to dynamically share important or interesting content with other portal users.
Users can then search for relevant information within specific portlets, communities, within the entire portal and even within external integrated applications.
Multi-language Support
International or multi-lingual organizations get out of the box support for 30+ languages. Users can toggle between different language settings with just one click. You can also easily add other languages.
Out-of-the-box Tools
iPORTAL provides more out of the box portlets than any other portal on the market—Choose from over 60 to customize your work environment. Included are iPORTAL CMS and iPORTAL Collaboration offering web publishing, content management, collaboration and social networking.
Secure Single Sign On (SSO)
Aggregate and access your content and applications in one place. iPORTAL can pull all of your different systems together and make them available by logging in just once via the secure SSO.
Custom Fields
Administrators can customize, edit, add, and change user attributes (name, company, date, or any other information that needs to be tracked or logged by your system) directly from iPORTAL, without needing to modify their database.
iPORTAL 6 extends this support to Pages, Web Content, Blogs Entries, Documents and its folders, images and its folders, bookmarks and its folders, forum messages, calendar events and wiki pages.
iPORTAL also offers a framework so that developers can leverage this functionality in their custom portlets to support custom fields for their own entities.
Rules Engine Integration
Advanced personalization via Drools allows for "contextual personalization", the specification of content, functionality, and features based on a user's location, activities, and their other self-defined profile attributes.
Communities & Organizations
iPORTAL users can be intuitively grouped into a hierarchy of "organizations" or cross-organizational "communities," providing flexibility and ease of administration.
Each such group can also be given a separate mini portal with its own set of pages, content management system, shared calendar, and authorizations. A user can belong to multiple groups and easily navigate between them.