"Inside the Enterprise" Portals

Today’s enterprises face a series of complex issues resulting from the volatile nature of their markets as well as the dynamic changes affecting customer bases and workforces. Many industry leaders have recognized the inherent power of a portal as a business solution to get knowledge, services and tools into the hands of employees, managers, communities of practices and executives. By implementing an effective portal solution, these enterprises drive costs out of the business and create standard processes and best practices to help realize their overall business objectives while creating enduring value and competitive advantage when connecting people in their critical relationships in and around the company.

From our perspective, a successful portal that operates "inside the enterprise" will:

• Capitalize and leverage existing investments in BPR or ERP systems
• E-enable critical business processes while leveraging existing enterprise digital assets
• Create a channel of change for business and cultural transformation
• Focus on the factors that affect early and sustainable user adoption
• Synthesize the online channel with offline channels to gain leveraged value and ensure a seamless user experience
• Provide 24/7 access to content repositories and workspaces for both desktop and mobile Knowledge and Information Workers
• Include offerings that enable the design and deployment of mobile solutions
• Identify the people, processes, and technologies that comprise the total "ecosystem" of the e-enabled channel
• Include a focused and integrated Change Management Plan that anticipates the impact to people, their roles, and their work practices.

LDS has industry-proven experience and deep portal best practices in envisioning and designing our clients' portal initiatives to enable a “Workplace of the Future” model. We apply these ideals as we create the effective Portal Strategy and Portal Design that align the portal to an organization's objectives “inside the enterprise” within:

• Enterprise Portals
• Corporate Services and HR Portals
• Line of Business and Functional Workspace Portals
• Marketing and Sales Portals
• Portal Dashboards.