Portals are powerful tools that allow you to consolidate access to multiple systems and aggregate top-level content into a single, coherent web application.
External Portals
External portals bring users to your site. They allow you to:
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Attract users and customers by providing them with content and tools; which in turn create sales for your company
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Promote social networking that draws more users to your website by combining the knowledge and creativity of advanced users with those looking to learn and socialize
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Know your visitors and personalize content to them; resulting in higher sales and CPM rates
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Create an infrastructure that your internal users can better support and develop
Internal Portals
Internal portals help you build better intranets. They allow you to:
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Access true strategic intelligence by centralizing your organization's many information sources
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Reduce inefficiencies that come about from several people working on the same thing at the same time and not knowing about each other
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Create internal communities that maximize productivity and improve internal communication
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Make it easy for you to authorize anyone to contribute
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Cross inter-office, international and multi-lingual boundaries to more optimally utilize your organization’s intellectual assets
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Centralize company websites into a single searchable portal
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Personalize content and behavior based on geography, interests, and other criteria
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Integrate disparate systems into a single sign-on solution
Oshyn's Portal Implementation Practice consultants have experience with many of the leading portal packages. Our people will help you understand which package best fits your needs and design and implement that solution.
Oshyn is vendor neutral meaning that we choose the vendors based solely on your best interests. We do not revenue-share or profit from selling licenses of any product we recommend.
A portal can also be an important component of your Enterprise Application Integration architecture. Many portal vendors provide pre-built "portlets" to integrate with many of the leading back office packages such as PeopleSoft, Siebel, Oracle Appplications, SeeBeyond and many more, in addition to EDI feeds and many Legacy systems.
A portal can be crucial to organizing your enterprise application landscape and to allowing key groups of users to have views into top-level information from your various systems.
When considering portal vendors, you should evaluate items such as:
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Total Cost of Ownership
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Portal Development Framework
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Enterprise Security Requirements
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Targeted User Communities
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Existing Systems to be Aggregated
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Community Infrastructure
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Content Management Infrastructure
Want to talk to Portal expert about how Oshyn can minimize risk and select the right Portal? Call (888) 483-1770 or email newbusiness@oshyn.com.