Portal may refer to:

Computing

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• 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 Software, a company based in Cupertino, California
• Portal GT, a shareware MUD client with basic to advanced features

Entertainment

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• Portal (television), 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 (computer game), a 2006 computer game by Valve Software
• Portal (1986 computer game), a 1986 computer game by Activision
• Portal (band), an independent progressive metal musical group
• Portal (fiction), a magical or science-fictional doorway that connects two distant locations

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