Enterprise portals bring many benefits to companies but we should take into account that these portals are complex projects, time and cost-consuming. In large scale projects, benefits and costs of implementing and operating a portal should be carefully weighed up and companies should keep a close eye on critical success factors.

1. SUPPORTING LARGE SCALE ENTERPRISE PORTALS
Enterprise portals have the potential to provide companies a flexible infrastructure that integrates
and extends all business applications while offering secure, personalized access to information from
different sources, wherever and whenever it is needed. Large scale enterprise portals enable core
business processes by running employee portals, collaborative portals, ERP portals or knowledge
portals, just to name a few.
Enterprise portals bring many benefits to companies but we should take into account that these
portals are complex projects, time and cost-consuming. In large scale projects, benefits and costs of
implementing and operating a portal should be carefully weighed up and companies should keep a
close eye on critical success factors.
From our experience, these are the most important factors that are critical for a successful
implementation of large scale enterprise portals:
 Key Decision Makers’ Commitment and Support: Decision makers from all departments
and locations must cooperate in order to design and implement an efficient large scale
enterprise portal.
 Project Management: Project management covers the entire life of the project and
should involve planning stages, milestones definitions, resources allocation, clear
business and technical objectives setting, and critical paths. All these aspects should be
mutually agreed and understood by both company representatives and the
implementation team. In order to ensure that the implementation runs according to the
plan, there must be a project manager able to monitor and control the time and costs at
each stage.
 User Acceptance and Training: A successful portal implementation relies on the
acceptance of the end-user. Since large enterprise portals provide a completely new
interface, it is extremely important to train all your employees on how the portal works
and how it can help them do their daily activities. Preparing the employees and creating
an environment for cultural change is a mandatory process for successful
implementation. High user involvement in the early stages of the development of the
project is one way to ensure that users will be aware of the portal’s benefits.
 Team Competencies and Skills: The skills, knowledge, abilities, and experience of the
project manager mixed with the right team members are also an extremely important
factor of a portal implementation project. Your team needs both technologically
competent members and business oriented staff that clearly understands the company’s
objectives.

2. Enterprise portals provide companies and their staff a window to the critical information, processes
and colleagues across the entire organization. These portals should be focused on improved
information access, better communication, improved collaboration and reduced operation costs,
while reducing the complexity of IT operations. Trough our expertise in IBM Websphere Portal, the
IT Green Light team poses the capabilities to provide a composite application or business mash-up
framework and the skills to build flexible, SOA-based solutions, in a perfect scalable environment
required by large size organizations.
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