In a world of mergers and acquisitions, Portals enable and accelerate both aggregation and desegregation. They help mitigate the complexities of post-merger integration and provide the means by which global companies share information across disparate business units. Access to e-learning and collaborative forums help support skill set upgrades, certification requirements, project tracking, and performance management. At the enterprise level, Portals enable information and metrics to be accessed and unified across the disparate business units that characterize many energy and utility companies.