Portal

The word portal is an English language word derived from the Latin word porta.

Portal may refer to:

Enterprise portals, a framework for integrating information, applications, and processes across organizational boundaries
Web portal, a kind of Content Management System Web site, password protected to allow Site Administrators to edit text, images and other content as and when necessary. This allows easy updating of the website content without the need to learn programming code.
Portal (computer graphics), an optimization technique in 3D computer graphics
Portal, a television show that ran on G4tv
Portal (interactive novel), an interactive novel by Rob Swigart created for the Amiga and eventually ported to a variety of platforms
Portal (band), an independent progressive metal musical group
Charles Portal, 1st Viscount Portal of Hungerford, British Marshal of the RAF and Chief of the Air Staff in World War II
Portal, Georgia, a small town in the United States
Portal, North Dakota, a small town in the United States
Murdock-Portal Elementary School, a school in San Jose, California
Portal Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
Portal GT, a shareware MUD client with basic to advanced features
Portal (fiction), a magical or science-fictional doorway that connects two distant locations
Thoughtal (collaboration), a variety of portal that can be used to manage Intellectual Architecture using applications such as Wiki's, IM, thought mappers and Blogs etc.