Enterprise Information Portals

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Enterprise Information Portals

• Don Downing

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Presentation Outline

• What is an Enterprise Information Portal?
• Features of EIP packages
• Strengths of EIP
• Weaknesses of EIP
• Final Conclusion

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An EIP is

• A software package that allows its users to
• retrieve corporate information
• share a knowledge base
• use services
• communicate easily

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An EIP is

• Brief history of EIP
• emerged from corporate intranet technologies
• An intranet is
• framework is designed comparatively to web
  portals
• A web portal is

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Look of an EIP
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Look of a web portal
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Basic Features of EIPs

• All EIPs on the market offer these features
• content and document management
• collaboration
• search and navigation
• personalization
• entitlement
• integration
• single sign-on

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Strengths of EIPs

• Strengths of EIPs
• centralized system
• increased productivity and ROI
• very secure
• Packaged systems are
• less expensive than customized systems
• tools are tailored to the industry
• easier to maintain
• faster to deploy

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Weaknesses of EIPs

• Generally speaking, most EIPS suffer from
• very costly
• conflicts with existing infrastructures
• setup times are very long
• intimidating user-interface

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Conclusion

• Hard to say if an EIP is right for your business
• These factors apply to its success
• staffs technical abilities
• administrators skills
• funds of the business

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Questions?