Thesis
CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains the background of the study. This serves as an overview to the study, introducing the problems and the proposed system.
Background of the Study
Today the Internet has provided great opportunities for enterprise integration among internal departments, external partners and other service providers. Web services systems have recently found their way into many applications such as e-commerce, corporate portals and e-learning.
According to Craig Nowlin and Gerry Bliss (2000), Portal is a term, generally synonymous with gateway, for a World Wide Web (WWW) site that is or proposes to be a major starting site for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site. Some major general portals include Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, Lycos, CNET, Microsoft Network, and America Online's AOL.com.
A number of large access providers offer portals to the Web for their own users. Companies with portal sites have attracted much stock market investor interest because portals are viewed as able to command large audiences and numbers of advertising viewers.
Typical services offered by portal sites include a facility to search for other sites, news, weather information, e-mail, stock quotes, phone and map information, and sometimes a community forum. Excite is among the first portals to offer users the ability to create a site that is personalized for individual interests.
Aside from business companies, popular universities and campuses here in the Philippines such as University of the East, FEU East Asia College, and Technological Institute of the Philippines are already implementing Academic Portals to provide enhanced services and improved student’s learning experience. They use these portals to extend services to their students such as viewing their grades, subject lectures, class schedules, announcement of events and etc.
In Pangasinan, Pangasinan State University (PSU) Urdaneta Campus is one
INTRODUCTION
This chapter contains the background of the study. This serves as an overview to the study, introducing the problems and the proposed system.
Background of the Study
Today the Internet has provided great opportunities for enterprise integration among internal departments, external partners and other service providers. Web services systems have recently found their way into many applications such as e-commerce, corporate portals and e-learning.
According to Craig Nowlin and Gerry Bliss (2000), Portal is a term, generally synonymous with gateway, for a World Wide Web (WWW) site that is or proposes to be a major starting site for users when they get connected to the Web or that users tend to visit as an anchor site. Some major general portals include Yahoo, Excite, Netscape, Lycos, CNET, Microsoft Network, and America Online's AOL.com.
A number of large access providers offer portals to the Web for their own users. Companies with portal sites have attracted much stock market investor interest because portals are viewed as able to command large audiences and numbers of advertising viewers.
Typical services offered by portal sites include a facility to search for other sites, news, weather information, e-mail, stock quotes, phone and map information, and sometimes a community forum. Excite is among the first portals to offer users the ability to create a site that is personalized for individual interests.
Aside from business companies, popular universities and campuses here in the Philippines such as University of the East, FEU East Asia College, and Technological Institute of the Philippines are already implementing Academic Portals to provide enhanced services and improved student’s learning experience. They use these portals to extend services to their students such as viewing their grades, subject lectures, class schedules, announcement of events and etc.
In Pangasinan, Pangasinan State University (PSU) Urdaneta Campus is one