Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Intranet Portals Get Streamlined (24 Oct 2005) Finally, we're seeing a shift in how organizations use portals. Where portals were once pure information aggregators, organizations are increasingly using them as application organizers. Many companies now offer a variety of killer apps and are moving more of them into the ports. This also helps with user acceptance, because a tools-oriented approach to the portal makes it more obviously useful. Article URL: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/portals.html Read 376 more articles from Jakob Nielsen sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Mark Trammell          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy