A portal is a website that brings together a variety of resources, either pertaining to the same subject (real estate, job offers, etc.) or with no specific subject, i.e. a general interest portal such as Yahoo!.
Portals provide access to resources that they do not necessarily own: they offer services from other websites, and their own added value stems from the selection and compilation of these tools.
Finally, portals also incorporate a degree of more or less advanced personalisation.
A combination of content and service packaging, links to third party resources, and personalisation: these are the aspects that typically define a portal.
A number of open source tools are available for the creation of this type of project. The top examples include Liferay, eXo Platform and, more recently, Silverpeas.
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