A Web Portal is a website (a dynamic website / a very large scale enterprise web application ) or online platform that provides a centralized access point to a wide range of information, services, and resources, often tailored to the needs of a specific group of people. It serves as a gateway to various content or tools, offering users a single interface where they can access multiple services. A portal can display contents from multiple sources.
A web portal can be a private web portal or a public web portal. Private web portals acts as centralised and may be single point of any sort of information regarding the company/business. This is accessible only to the official members of the organisation to which this web portal belongs to. These private web portals may have information access control systems that display the contents authorised to any user. Users in general can also register and prioritise and customise to see the contents thats more relevent to them. The other are public web portals whihc are accessible to any person who tries to access it for any of the purpose that the portal delivers to him/her. These public web portals deliver contents which is in the common interest of all the people. Though these web portals do not have any sort of authorised access to their contents (except for rules of the land). Though some of them may allow users to become registered members of the portal where they can customise to see the contents they are more interested in. And may get some more benifits like some promotional schemes and offers by the portal owners or their advertisers. This promotes advertiser's product or services, give the business leads and prospective clients and hence incresase their bsuiness. On the other hand the portal owner in return from the advertisers get money that supports the running and manitenance cost of the portal.
Public or Private portals may also provide interactive features/elements for its users like - such as forums, chatrooms, e-commerce functions, and online collaboration tools.
As mentioned earlier web portals are actually very large enterprise class web applications, every person know some of the portals though they may not be using them or have its acccessibility.
To name few:
- Banking Portals:
Every bank / financial institution has an online interface today offering all its services to clients online in a hassel free manner. These are mix of private and public web portals as some information is available to any person who access any babk portal where as only bank's clients have access to private / priviliged information that they access after authenticating their identity by being registered members of the portal. Some examples are portals for banks like State Bank of India , ICICI Bank , HDFC Bank , Bank of America , Royal Bank of Scotland , HSBC Bank , etc...
- Social Media Platforms:
Social Media Platforms like Meta's Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter), Telegram, Youtube, TikTok, Whatsapp, Snapchat, etc... are all web portals that are famous as social media sites. Most of them are only accessible to users regsitered with those portals. Some examples are portals for banks like Facebook , Instagram , X (formerly Twitter) , Telegram , etc...
- Job Portals:
Talent hunt / recruitment platforms like Naukri, FoundiIt, Shine, etc... are portlas that helps candidates get jobs and at same time help oranisations select and retruit employees for the needs. Example, Naukri , LinkedIn , Foundit , etc...
- Government Portals:
Taking the help of technology the Governments all over the world try provide as much possible services to their citizens through various departmental portals. Like in India we have GST Portal, Income Tax Portal, Aadhaar Portalsm etc... that offer unique servicess to indian citizens witth great ease. National Portal of India
- News Media Portals:
All the news media agancies whether its paper media or TV new channels, all have their Web Portals for delivering their content online 24X7 across the globle (except where & what restricted). Ex., Times of India , WIRE , The Indian Express , The New York Times , The Washington Times , CNBC , Doordarshan , BBC , etc...
- OTT Platforms:
One of the latest in the category, all OTT platforms are actually web portals that deliver their content, mostly entertainment, to public. Netflix , Amazon Prime
- Educational Portals:
There are also many educational platforms that are web portals that deliver study materials to seeking students in offline / online / streaming media form. Big private and public academic institutions do try to have their presence online through web portals delivering vast & comptetive study material to students (mostly by charging some fee) for various comptetive exams and professional courses that is available to then everytime from anywhere. ePathshala , Coursera
So far in the web page we have mentioned and talked about web portals. But in fact portals are not only web based. There are standalone portals that are not at all web based (though they may have some content directly relaying/streaming from the web/internet). These portals are mostly or say almost all private portals that any medium to big organisation try to have to check/manage/control all business operation from a single point of control.
Mavenheads Infotech is a IT services and consulting company in Kanpur a metropolitan city and an industrial town located in Uttar Pradesh, and not far from National Capital New Delhi & UP's industrial hub NOIDA, in India. It has clients and provides services locally, across India and at global level. It's client range includes Government Offices (like MSMEs, EPFO), SMEs/SMBs, large scale corporates, academic institutions, NGOs, financial organisations, exim units (into equestrian products, footwear, garments and accessories) and also individual professionals like CAs, astrologers (like Pt. KA Dubey Padmesh aka Padmeshji), advocates, etc.
Some of the services it offers are listed below:
- Software/Application Development: Developing office automation / business processes digital solutions (online / offline softwares), Mobile Application Development, Meta's (Facebook) Whatsapp Business Solutions. Web Portals.
- Web Development: Website designing, website development, web application development, website re-designing, website maintenance, UI/UX design, etc...
- Online Services: SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), SMO (Social Media Optimisation), SMM (Social Media Marketing), website promotion, online marketing, email marketing, whatsapp marketing, online/dugital Public Relations (PR), display and ppc advertising, etc.
- Data Center Services: Like various types of website/web-application hosting - shared, business, linux, windows, VPS, servers, cloud etc. Professional emails, website and email security services, Domain Name Registration services, etc...
- Creatives & Collateral Jobs: Directly or through its channel partners it also provides online/offline corporate branading and marketign collateral services.
- Consulting & Recruitments: Supplying technical manpower to clients for their basic & specific IT needs and for handling and managing of softwares / web-applications developed through us. This service sometime if possible extends to non-tech jobs too.
All this under one roof for clients' convenience so that they can focus on their core business while we take care of their online presence and assets and business process digitisation.
Contact Mavenheads Infotech for the development of customised, optimised, scalable, robust and reliable Standalone / Web Portals an affordable prices.