Access to all information in one place
The time required to obtain these information is a parameter that is considered when comparing the available products. The aim of corporate portals is to provide consolidated (gathered from different sources or systems) and personalized (exactly the range each user needs) information regardless of where or who they are currently working for.
For whom are portals intended?
Portals can be used for consolidation of corporate applications to a uniform enterprise environment. This helps minimize the amount of time spent on non-productive activities (such as logging into many different applications) and improve work efficiency by combining data from various information sources. On the other hand, portals often connect the internal and external company environment into one, which helps to make key business processes (ordering, complaints, product and service information, evaluation and statistics) substantially easier.
42%
42% percent of people are forced to make a decision based on incorrect information at least once a week.
What are the situations where portal solutions can prove useful?
- Employees require quick access to consolidated information available in one place. Portals can help you solve this, either used as intranet or as a consolidated application environment (B2E - business to employee).
- Everyone aims for direct communication with key business partners. The trend is to involve the partners into own processes (order creation and its submission into ERP, order monitoring, etc.). For this, portals represent an ideal solution as they create a consolidated application environment that can even reach the business partners (both suppliers and consumers).
- Modern portal technologies can handle the need for information security while offering the comfort of a single-sign-on; they can be visually adjusted to fit the needs of the user (content personalization) and they offer an easy way to connect static (text, information) and dynamic content (reports, application views, processing results, etc.). As a result, portals can speed up and improve the quality of corporate processes.