Web Portal Development
Portal is a system that provides versatile functions for the organization to catalogue or organize collections of different and multiple sources of information and service resources for dissemination to many users according to their specific privileges, needs and interest. Hence, the main purpose of setting up a portal is to bring the vast information and service resources available from many sources to many users in an effective manner.
Enspire helps companies of all sizes in designing and developing the portal and underlying infrastructure that will make your customer interactions more effective and, in turn, increase your company’s revenues. Using a website application design with eCommerce development capabilities is key. The successful implementation of a web project no matter the size will require the effective coordination of several departments.
Enspire eBusiness Solutions strongly believes in a holistic approach to web portal design solutions. A business-driven approach is required because different business processes require different information, while systems architecture and technology shall provide for maximum efficiency.
Enspire considers the following aspects when carrying out a web portal project:
- Staff in different departments requires totally different and distinct data, which is about customization. Customization also ensures both that they do not miss anything, and that they are not overwhelmed with irrelevant information.
- Different people with the same role, work differently, which requires personalization.
- Users need direct access to the information required for their daily work while usability must cater to speed and user friendliness.
- For security reasons, users access the data they are entitled to with centralized control mechanism (single sign on, connect once - access everywhere).
- Collection and propagation of data helps in the process of making better-informed management decisions.
- Business applications can interact via the Portal, (e.g. the skill-base information system with the Personnel database) and data can then be passed via the portal using federation.
We develop several Web Portal Design solutions, amongst which:
- Business intelligence portals : corporate portals that enable users to access and produce reports for decision-making using enterprise-wide databases.
- Content portals focus on documents only.
- Knowledge Management portals: focus only on knowledge management (Collaboration and Document Management) with no application integration features.
- Federated portals for corporations requiring a de-centralized network of inter-working portals, i.e. accessing the same content sources and sharing the same levels of security.
- Horizontal enterprise portals provide broad access to many types of repositories and generic application-integration features. Horizontal enterprise portals service the needs of an entire community of users with no business functionality included.
- Vertical enterprise portals focus on a specific application or business function or the collaboration for employees. They are usually associated with packaged applications.
Our solutions include
- Readiness Assessment,
- Business Case Development
- Development using best-of-breed development and testing tools
- Leveraging of existing IT investments
