A Portal to Profits? Columbia SC

Posted by : Kevin Foster

For companies still recovering from information excess and process overload of the past years, enterprise portals offer a gateway to cost savings and efficiency improvement.

Portals often evolve through an enterprise first as an outlet for employees; then as an enhanced application aggregator; next as a content and service integrator; and finally as a collaborative business platform opened to partners and customers.

You could be the catalyst for portal development within your company. As you dive into portal implementation, you will likely evaluate multiple vendors and integrators and determine risks and rewards. But start by navigating the seven C's of the portal launch--simple rules to steer your way to cost savings and efficiencies:

1. Confirm c-suite buy-in.
In the quest to organize information and processes in a personalized platform for all of constituents, you must wear multiple hats. Manage their expectations while maintaining a technical fluency about why the portal is a destination worth building.

Start by reminding executives how visionary they were to invest so much in ERP. Portals bring relevancy to ERP and extend applications across the enterprise. The portal's layer of collaboration leverages ERP to deliver information that will enable users to better solve problems and serve customers.

Many industries have found specific niche benefits in portals that improve business processes. One healthcare client introduce...

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