August 9, 2002
The Power of Portals
More colleges create Web services that can be customized to help students and professorsSeveral years ago, the State University of New York at Buffalo took stock of its proliferating Web sites and found more than 250,000 pages spread out across 17 different servers. Not surprisingly, students and faculty members were having a hard time finding information they needed, even though they knew it was probably online -- somewhere.
The university's solution was to consolidate
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