Enterprise Portals promise an integrated view on functions and data in a company. In the process of portal design many different groups are involved, each taking their own point of view. There are two major problems to be solved in this context: Firstly there is a lack of a common model of the portal which servers all groups at the same time and which can be the foundation of a common language between the groups. Secondly the implementation of portals is a time- and cost-consuming matter for many steps must be performed manually. The suggested model, called “Enterprise Portal Maps Model”, uses the metaphor of the public transport to solve the two problems stated above. Portal concepts like pages, functions and links are expressed by means of stations, services and lines. This yields a view of a portal which is common to most people in the sense of public transport and which is powerful enough not only to integrate “legacy”-functionality but also to be implemented in a way that allows automatic generation of the modelled portal even for very different portal systems.
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