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Enterprise Portal Services :
The biggest opportunity enterprise portal technology provides to businesses is a single point of access (POA) to any electronic information. This enables the following:
Streamlining business processes with the enterprise portal enabling better integration of business information (including information sourced from business partners via collaborative commerce).
Single point of access for external users (i.e. business partners, etc.) streamlining collaborative commerce capabilities and Internet-based electronic data interchange.
Consolidated user identity management (i.e. user information is managed in only one repository for all systems). This can unlock significant savings for larger businesses that maintain multiple user information repositories, especially once external user information is included (i.e. Extranets, B2B, etc.)
Remote access to the portal via the Internet (via mobile office support, during business trips or from home) allows businesses to use the Internet as a cost-effective data network to enable employees to remotely access the company’s business information systems. This will become especially useful once Internet-enabled mobile devices are more broadly adopted (2005 – 2010).
Industry research developed by Ernst & Young / Cap Gemini perceives a portal as one of the critical technology enablers of a company’s web-based business solutions. It distinguishes four elements:
Foundation Services: the core services commonly used to build web applications, including business integration, collaboration, content management, identity management and search. These services vary by customer.
Integration Products: components that integrate content, application services and security from existing systems, such as Groupware, ERP and CRM system.
Portal Platform: the personalization, administrative and knowledge management framework for brining together a broad range of electronic resources in different web experiences.
Composite Applications: web applications hosted with the portal that combine services from different systems, which the portal orchestrates in custom business processes.
FTR has expertise in the following technologies
- BEA Weblogic Enterprise Platform 8.1
- BroadVision One-To-One Portal 7.1
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003
- Oracle Application Sever Portal 10g
- Plumtree Enterprise Web Suite5.0
