Intranet, Extranet and Internet Web Portal
Portals are a unique way to bring audience to a one-stop online resource center that enables communication, collaboration, interaction and service. Organization's business objective and priority plays an important role in defining which features of the portal should be implemented and when. Most portal solutions involve one or more of the following:
Single Sign-On
To bring various existing services and application under single roof it is important to have a well-defined hassle-free single sign-on service that allows the users to simply login once and access all authorized resources within the portal. Make your portal secure and easy for the users should be regarded as an important priority in all portal projects.
Collaboration, Document Management and Workflow
Almost every initiative and project today involves collaboration across offices and departments, the collaboration and workflow features enable your company to enhance and increase productivity of employees and teams by giving them a platform to easily collaborate on initiatives and projects. Another problem that organizations are facing is the proliferation of documents on user machines, shared drives and clogged email boxes. The document management features enable organization to provide users with document repository, document collaboration, search and other tools to better manage documentation and knowledge across the organization.
Integration of Line of Business (LOB) Applications
Usability and Accessibility are important for business users, if the users have to visit five different places to access various applications and above all these applications 'dont talk to each other' it is a recipie for user frustration and discontent. Integrating your LOB applications into Intranet significantly enhances the adaptability and buy-in from the users. By accessing all of the respective applications assigned to the user through a single portal, the user can perform their function more effectively and gain increased productivity.
Executive Dashboard and Business Intelligence
Gaining business insights and confronting brutal facts are a must for managing and operating a healthy organization. The executive dashboards allow busy senior executives to gain deeper insight of the business at a macro level and allow them to drill down into specific business areas and gain better understanding of the 'stuckpoints' and 'issues'. Business Intelligence and Dashboards have always been important but have gained significant momentum since the financial crisis began.
Content Management and Workflow
Content being shared with your portal audience has to be relevant, fresh and useful or you run into the risk of having a great portal that the audience does not see value in. How can you empower people to manage specific content areas and yet be able to manage the quality and usefulness of the content being posted? Content Management features allow authoring of content, categorization of content, workflow and approval process for the content, and publishing of the content that meets organizational standards.
Search
Enteprise or Portal search is undoubtedly the highest rated feature by the users, ability of the users to find quick and relevant information is of paramount importance when establishing a portal. Search is not simply a technology feature that can be switched on or off, this requires careful planning of content, taxanomy, tagging, authorization and more to give users the experience that they expect.
Web 2.0, Community and Social Networking
Embracing organization culture and allowing the audience to engage, interact and socially interact. The portal is an extension of the groups into an online community where individuals share interests, participate in groups, interact with like-minded individuals and connect with others within the organization. Blogs, Wikis, Groups, Personal Profile and related tools enable and foster online community and enhance communication.
Our expertise and experience in Portal technologies
Microsoft SharePoint: Our experience with Microsoft SharePoint has been since its original beta release of "Tahoe" and we have since then implemented numerous SharePoint solutions.
Ektron: Our Ektron partnership came together in 2007 when certain companies were looking for an alternative to Microsoft SharePoint solution
Drupal: Simple, easy to use and open source based Drupal has been a choice for many organizations that are looking for open source solution.
Site Core: The new content management system that is recently popular is Site Core, this CMS supports Microsoft Platform.