A Course on Enterprise Portal Development and Management: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions

Abstract

Enterprise portals present a great opportunity to bridge online applications with the back-end business systems. Although enterprise portals are now widely adopted in the business environment, the literature has been scarce in studies on how an enterprise portal course is better delivered in an information systems curriculum. The goal of this article is to discuss the potential issues and challenges arising from the delivery of such a course, and to propose a comprehensive teaching framework. The framework consists of three teaching modules (i.e., portal basics, portal management, and portal development) to better cover enterprise portals with topics ranging from technical details to business decisions.