Early adopters have proven that portals go way beyond just serving as a "face" for organizations. Now, mainstream organizations are realizing that there are substantial bottom-line benefits of portals. If your portals business case is stalled consider these impacts:
Centralized Integration: Your portal can serve as the hub for multiple information sources, including mission-critical systems like ERP applications and databases, legacy systems you can't replace, the Web and middleware. The result? Lower IT development and maintenance costs.
Increased Productivity: As information warehouses for the enterprise, portals save valuable time for users. Self-service is just one example. You'll also experience better and faster collaboration and workflow as well as one-click access to internal and external searches. Portals become a productivity tool when users can create personal "My Portal" pages to support the way they work every day.
Improved Management Decision Support: Your managers will be more effective with easy access to performance and budget information. You can configure your portal to aggregate, integrate and display data from Business Intelligence tools. With centralized access to critical performance metrics and the most current trend data, executives can make more-timely and better-informed decisions.
Perhaps you've read about some of the complexities early adopters faced with integrating data, processes and the underlying IT infrastructure into their enterprise portals. The results of these Big Bang approaches were similar to those of early ERP projects. New techniques show that an incremental approach better supports process integration and user acceptance. Your portal can - and should - evolve. And, with CherryRoad's expertise, it will.
For example, the Philadelphia Housing Authority (PHA) has an intelligent plan for evolving its enterprise portal. In Phase One, CherryRoad provided a baseline home page that gives employees one-click access to PeopleSoft modules and relevant departmental documents as well as external web links, personal e-mail and calendar functions. Users are already conducting business more efficiently, giving PHA an enterprise-wide boost in productivity and morale. In subsequent phases, we'll expand and enhance the functionality with portal packs, unique departmental portal home pages, and HR self-service.
Your organization can realize the transforming power of an enterprise portal with the new CherryRoadSM Portal QuickWin Package. It's a controlled and phased implementation approach that's scalable, affordable, and quality-driven. Contact us at info@cherryroad.com to learn more about it.