Knowledge portal is a single point of access for the pooling, interaction, and distribution of organizational knowledge.

Benefits of a Knowledge portal
·  Accelerates learning, less holdup between learning and action, puts downtime to good use
·  Leverages enterprise wide best practice knowledge
·  Provide access to all learning opportunities and advice from one place
·  Single-source of learning for all functions (esp. important for multi-project workers)
·  Integrates disparate functions, dissolves cognitive boundaries between different functions.
·  Moves learning to the learner
·  Resides prominently or the learner's desktop
·  Links learner directly to the business