Enhancement of Knowledge Sharing via Enterprise Portal in Network-Based Knowledge Society

Our society has become a network-based knowledge society in which data, information, knowledge, human beings and organizations are connected and integrated without restricting to organizational and national borders. The networked knowledge provided by Internet has given tremendous impacts on our society, our everyday and professional life. Prerequisite for the impacts is that information and knowledge integration works satisfactory. On the basis of a discussion of basic concepts such as data, information, knowledge and business processes, the semantic integration and information usefulness are considered as the most crucial factors. An enterprise portal focuses the enterprise and Internet resources most important to users in a singleWeb page, a very easy way to obtain knowledge. Developing an enterprise portal is a way to manage the enterprise knowledge and offer inside and outside users to share their knowledge bases, applications and other enterprise resources one the one hand, and combine all resources to deliver personalized content based on what each user is actually doing. Enterprise portals act as the gateway between the Internet and myriad proprietary networks. Enhancement of knowledge management at the enterprise’s level could contribute to the knowledge sharing in the network-based society. Using knowledge management tools, content and knowledge can be easily published and integrated into a computer network to enable the knowledge to be shared widely.