Portal and Portlet Interview Question:

Do you know the types of portals, Function-based portals and User-based portals?

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Function-based portals

Horizontal Portals:
These are the portals are of type general interest. Yahoo!,Lycos,AOL,Freeserve,Sympatico are examples of horizontal portals.

Vertical Portals
They provide a gateway to the information pertaining to a specific industry such as insurance, banking, finance, automobile, telecom etc.

User-Based Portals

B2B Portals
The enterprises extend to suppliers and partners by using B2B portals.

B2C Portals
The enterprises extend to customers for ordering, billing, services by using B2C portals.

B2E Portals
The enterprise knowledge base integration and related applications into user customizable environment is done with B2E portals. This environment is like one stop shop.
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