Enterprise portal is a type of new information system that can help companies and their employees to manage, share, and use previously disparate information. There are more than 60 vendors that are offering corporate portal solutions. With so many vendors, selecting the right one can be a difficult task. The primary objective of this research is to identify and evaluate the functions and features in enterprise portal products. In particular, this study develops a simplified model that can be used for identifying and classifying the functions and features in corporate portal software. The results of this study may be useful to information technology managers, educators, and students involved in knowledge management, business intelligence, information systems resources management, and data management. System developers, software engineers, project managers, financial managers, and data architects can use the functions and features identified in this study as benchmarking tools for evaluating portals capabilities.
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