American Century Investments is a leading investment manager with nearly fifty years of experience helping investors achieve their financial goals. Based in Kansas City, Mo., the company manages approximately $100 billion in assets through separate accounts, commingled trusts, subadvisory accounts and mutual funds. For the past six years, American Century, which employs approximately 1,900 people, has been selected as one of FORTUNE Magazine's 100 Best Companies to Work for.

American Century has deployed the Oracle Portal across several different departments. Account Managers access stock portfolio information and financial data, human resources access HR-specific data, consolidated from existing Peoplesoft applications and company executives have specific role-based portlet views. All employees can access a workplace support area for help tickets, facilities, etc. via the Oracle Portal. There are three main offices tied into the portal (NY, CA, MO) all getting information specific to their locations. Oracle portal allows for a role-based presentation of information, newsfeeds and access to peoplesoft resources including reward statements, benefit packages and name/address information.

Key Challenges

• Multiple intranet sites, wanted to consolidate 38-40 different websites into one centrally managed portal.
• Application Integration, Unified SSO and Data Access.
• Role-based presentation of content

Benifits/Results.

• 38-40 sites have been consolidated successfully; initial ROI goals have been exceed.
• Users can now access information from a single-secure location
• Role-based presentation of content has lead to higher productivity. Less time is spent by users searching for relevant data.