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ActiveX: Microsoft's strategic object-oriented technology, which applies to COM and object linking and embedding (OLE) technologies.
Adaptive SCM: SCM in real time.
Aggregation: Assimilation of information from various sources per a user's personalization criteria.
Application server: Service-rich (e.g., load-balancing) software platforms for executing contemporary applications written in languages such as Java and C++.
ASP: Microsoft's server-side scripting technology for creating dynamic Web content.
Authentication: Process of identifying and validating a person.
Autonomic computing: Self-managing, self-healing systems epitomized by IBM's Project eLiza technology.
BI portals: In-house portals customized to aid decision making via the provision of access to diverse business information and tools to analyze the information.
BPM: Software systems that enable companies to create, model, map, and manage their business processes.
Breadcrumbs: Navigational trail of the pages traversed within a portal.
CA: A trusted authority that issues digital certificates.
Capacity on demand: Ability to dynamically invoke processor and I/O resources on the fly and on a usage basis to handle peak loads.
Clustering: Combining multiple machines to increase processing power and resilience.
Collaboration: Tools such as e-mail, bulletin boards, and calendering to facilitate fast interpersonal interactions and communications.
Collaborative portal: In-house portals that specialize in offering collaborative capabilities.
Cookie: Widely used mechanism to store specific information about portal or Web site users.
Corporate portal: A secure, Web-based, easy-to-use, focal point of access to a diverse range of potentially personalized corporate information, services, applications, and expertise to both internal and external users.
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