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Web Portals are a dynamic and evolutionary platform for economic and social transformation. With their ubiquitous global accessibility, web portals bring people and resources together to create exponential economic value. Portals are a melting pot for building relationships among synergistic groups. Free information exchange and access to resources that they enable has created the dynamic environment that we are all experiencing.
The concept of a portal, traditionally used for consumer portals, is now being applied to business users who are also consumers of information and services. Enterprise Portals deliver information and application services to its various stakeholders. They act as intelligent agents to aggregate, transform and personalize content to empower users to perform their tasks productively with complete view of the contextual information.
Internet technologies are a key enabler for enterprise portals. Evolving from an environment where users worked with silos of information/applications from external/internals, web portal technologies can assemble and present information/services that is more user friendly.
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After all the hype and leading edge products, the market for enterprise portals has begun to mature and benefits well understood. Now businesses are faced with key decisions both in-terms of platform and business functionality that enterprise portals should support. Unlike transaction system, requirements for enterprise portals are not well defined and different players have different view of the priorities.
There is a lot of confusion in the marketplace - available products range from freeware to platforms costing well over half a million, each with its own unique strength and complexity.
Long-term success of implementing enterprise portals initiatives will depend on the selection of the right platform and architecture. The choice of platform and approach is very important to reduce long-tern problems of redevelopment and migration, especially since enterprise portals may be the only user interface used within enterprises.
- Improve productivity and decisions by providing integrated linked access to information and services to all stakeholders
- Reduce training costs by leveraging web-based interfaces
- Lower total cost of IT operations by leveraging thin client nature of web-portals
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- Rapid development methodology to quickly deliver results
- Quality and flexibility of internal/external content and services Integration
- Flexible architecture to accommodate changing needs
- Ease of use, role and user-based personalization
- Selection of platform, architecture and standards
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Our Enterprise Portals services follow our best-practices framework as outlined below. The frame-work addresses key requirements and proposes to build a flexible yet robust architecture to implement enterprise portals.
When embarking on an enterprise portals project, a choice between a vendor supported off-the-shelf product and custom portal development must be made. The choice depends on the objective and long-term view of the portals within the enterprise. While Off-the shelf applications may be very attractive because of out-of the box functionality and rapid implementation schedules, they could be expensive and inflexible to meet changing enterprise needs. On the other hand custom portal development may take a long-time to implement and may be more expensive if the requirements are complex.
- Byzantech Portal Framework
Based on ASP.NET/VB.NET/SQL Server, Byzantech Portal Framework (BPF) is provides a first cut architecture for enterprise portals. BPF incorporates best-practices recommended by Microsoft.Net team and will give a great starting point if you need rapid implementation and high level of customization for your enterprise portals. BPF has been used on a number of enterprise portla development initiatives - both to manage content and to implement database driven services. With this framework, we can rapidly implement portals with 30-90 days depending on the functionality. Complemented by our Rapid Portal Development Methodology, Rich with out-of-the-box components and best practices templates, BPF can help build consensus and quickly engage user community. We even support a complete development environment - so that we could start delivering on day 1.
- End-to-End Portal Implementation
With our expertise across multitude of enterprise portal technologies, we work with our clients through end-to-end implementation of portal based solutions. The engagements could range from single phase 30 day implementation to multi-phase projects of 12 month duration. Supported by our iterative RAD methodology, we can begin deliver value within a short-time.
- Content Development and Maintenance
When deploying enterprise portals, content redevelopment is often a big challenge. Based on our offshore BPO services, we offer an economical support services for developing and maintaining content for your web-portals. We make sure that your portals are up an running and users have access to the content to do their jobs.
- Supplemental Resources
We provide supplemental consulting resources with experts in specific enterprise portals technology
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Our Portal Development Methodology (PDM) supports unique portal development process. The methodology recognizes that portals requirements must be defined collaboratively and features and functionality should be refined as the portal begins to take shape.
Architect and Prototype phase is key to the development process. In this phase, we develop UI framework and templates to support each different kind of interaction that would be required within the portal, including variety of devices and user interfaces. |
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- Client facing team with complete responsibility for delivery
- Team experienced in application integration/extensions and new applications
- Small delivery cycles 30-90 days
- Proprietary JUMPSTART templates for a variety of Web-Enabled Applications to achieve rapid deployment at low-cost
- Development processes for efficient scalability of development teams
- Quality processes to ensure client objectives are met
- Breadth and depth of capabilities across technology and industry domains
- Flexible engagement options
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Ph: 630.652.0450
Fx: 630.652.0960
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Lombard, IL 60148
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