Portal Design, Development, & Optimization

The Portal Design & Development methodology expedites the assessment of your organization's need for portal technology and the development of a taxonomy and framework to support it. The multi-step process evaluates your organization's knowledge use, focus on process versus content, and existing portal-related activities and attitudes. The methodology is especially useful in organizations that are broadly aware of their need for a corporate portal, but must focus on more pressing priorities and rapidly establish a plan of action and implementation.

The Portal Design & Development methodology was developed specifically to discover an organization's need to establish a single point of access to its knowledge base. Using the methodology, we can identify the type of portal most appropriate to the organization, determine its look and feel, and advise how the taxonomy should be established and maintained.

The Portal Optimization methodology provides a structured framework for analyzing a portal implementation and maximizing its value to the organization. The methodology offers a concise, objective evaluation of portal deployment to date, while identifying opportunities for improvement. Have the portal's functionality, performance, and ROI objectives been met? Has user feedback been solicited and analyzed to improve application services? Are infrastructure services being reused for maximum leverage? The methodology addresses these and many other issues. If your organization has already committed significant resources to building its portal applications, an incremental investment in optimization can maximize ROI, identify points of material leverage, and enable you to extend and expand portal services with clarity and confidence.