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Portals in higher educationProduct Type: Market Research ReportPublished by: Datamonitor Published: July 2005 Product Code: R313-11208 Description IntroductionPortals offer considerable opportunities for higher education to provide better service to stakeholders, manage identity and access concerns more effectively, and leverage intellectual capital, all while increasing productivity. Serious challenges exist, however, that may undermine the ability of some institutions to take full advantage of these opportunities. Scope This brief offers a definition of portals in higher education, and delineates their common functionality explores what is driving and inhibiting the growth of the portals market proposes a framework for evaluating portal solutions, summarizing a sampling of portal vendors and suggesting how portals will continue to evolve Highlights portals offer higher education a key resource to more effectively managing their kingdom. Portals afford considerable business efficiencies and increased levels of service. Consequently, portals will become more deeply integrated into institutions; it will cost more to stop than to continue investing in them. Each institution of higher education has its own culture and its own way of doing things. Consequently, institutions are expected to vary in the degree to which they find different features of a portal solution compelling. Portal vendors have positioned their products in the market, in part, by highlighting specific features. While Datamonitor is optimistic about portals, there are circumstances in which opportunities will be inhibited due to technological challenges, the absence of project champions, and the discomfort with conducting business beyond the usual 9 to 5 workday. institutions need to address them in order to proceed successfully with portal solutions. Reasons to Purchase This brief defines portals and lists and defines the issues and challenges facing portal implementations in higher education This brief provides vendors with detailed information on the factors driving and inhibiting the investment in portals in higher education. Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTSABOUT DATAMONITOR 2 PORTALS ARE THE GATES TO THE ONLINE CAMPUS 5 What is a portal? 5 How is this brief organized? 5 What do portals do? 6 What is influencing the investment in portals? 8 Drivers of portal adoption 8 Inhibitors of portal adoption 10 A DIVIDED AND CROWDED MARKET 12 What are the important features of a portal? 13 How do the vendors stack up? 15 Stand-alone portal solutions 16 Product-suite portal solutions 17 How are vendors and institutions pairing up? 18 The Open Source Question? 18 THE FUTURE DECODED 19 What lies ahead for the portal market? 19 What challenges will arise? 20 Why will institutions continue investing in portals? 21 APPENDIX 22 Definitions 22 Research methodology 22 References 23 Further readings 23 SPP writing team 23 How to contact experts in your industry 24 |
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