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Business Strategy to Support Your Portal Implementation
The following checklists pose questions that you should be asking before you start to implement your portal: |
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| Business Needs and Application Requirements |
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Do you currently provide online services to customers, partners, or employees? |
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How do you plan on increasing internal productivity and automating processes? |
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How are you currently collaborating across departments and organizational boundaries? |
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Do you believe the Web is (or should be) a key workplace for your employees or partners? |
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Do you provide HR self-service to employees to relieve some administrative burden from HR? |
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Do you provide online training materials, manuals, or schedules to employees? |
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Is secure knowledge or global best practices sharing a key requirement? |
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| Information Technology Strategy |
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Is the Web an important part of your application strategy? |
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How is your company consolidating infrastructure to do more with less? |
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Do you have efficient access to information across the enterprise? |
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Are Single Sign On and security important to you? |
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Do you have a scalable platform for Web application delivery and management? |
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How are you adapting to changing technologies? |
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Do you have both JAVA and .Net Development environments? |
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Do you want/need to create Web-based business applications at a lower cost? |
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Do you need to improve the return on existing legacy systems? |
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Would it be valuable if you could adapt to changing technologies more easily and eliminate forced vendor upgrades or migration? |
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Do you need to customize information delivery for different groups in your organization? |
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Does IT have a common platform for rolling out new applications and, as a result, reducing user training needs? |
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| Collaboration and Document Management |
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Do you plan or need to develop communities or workspaces where people can work together? |
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Do you need to manage tasks, activities, or workflows in your applications? |
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Do your users need to share information or work together on documents? |
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Do you want to provide users with collaboration that integrates into their applications and workspaces, rather than making them use separate tools? |
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| Distributed Web Publishing |
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Do any of your employees need to publish or manage Web content on an intranet, extranet, or Internet site, or a portal? |
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Do you need to make it easier for average users to publish or manage Web content? |
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If publishing and managing Web content were easier, would employees and partners be able to share or distribute information more efficiently? |
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Is secure knowledge or global best practices sharing a key requirement? |
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