I'm part of a group who has implemented a successful internal web app using SQL, entity framework, asp.net, WCF with REST. We've done pretty well and now we've been ask to use our set of technologies to help out other projects in the company. One of my colleagues is pushing what he calls the portal concept but he is being vague and insists we wait until his presentation of this concept. We may be tackling different projects in disparate parts of the company, so I wonder if a portal is just a common starting point; basically I just don't know and am wondering if anyone does and if you do what the pros and cons might be.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_portal
website with forums, SSO, feed from different sources, entry point to specific areas. i think one of the old and first examples is yahoo.com
maybe your colleague has an architecture & process to make this happen or just some templates