Authenticated Sites And Custom Web Portal Development

By Author: Rohit Setty
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Salesforce comprises of majorly Self-Service, Customer, and Partner Web Portal Development. Beyond that, Salesforce sells licenses for completely custom portals. And you just dont get portals for your customers and for your partners but also host websites on the system.

Adding more feathers to this is that salesforce also ensures your company's visibility on the internet so that whenever an internet user is searching for some keywords that match your portal, it can be viewed from the search engine.

Sometimes visitors come and join the portal. There shall be a system to authenticate them and this is where the concept of authentication comes as a portal. Making a one-click mouse portal is easy but then there are many portals which require more than just a click and hence custom made portals become a necessity.

There are customer web portals, partner web portals, self-service web portals, publically visible Salesforce.com sites, and an entire range of custom portal solutions only to cater to the lastest demands of the consumer who want their own data based management system.

In general, there are 4 general ...
... categories of Salesforce.com Portals:

Salesforce Partner Portal Developement: The concept is to allow people to progress with you by working and developing their business with you. People sell products and services,maintain and manage their accounts and therefore move with the flow of the organization. The punch is that it gives the users access to multiple accounts and contacts.

The Salesforce.com Partner Portal Development is all about buying lincese and using it accordingly within the salesforce setup.

Salesforce Customer Portal Development: It goes as simple as anything else. A customer gets access to his data and all that is related to him in the account that gets generated by salesforce and it has its own uniqueness in this. So this makes it completely exclusive and different in terms with partner portal.

Authenticated Sites: Salesforce provides this licensing option for the times when you will be displaying data from salesforce in an entirely custom way and only displaying information from accounts, contacts, and custom objects.

Salesforce.com Sites: Salesforce hosts the website and the user gets a license free and uses his/her data for all the necessary work to be done.

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