Corporate portals facilitate homogeneous access to relevant content and help to standardize user interfaces. Alongside the classical corporate portals, the focus is now on new technologies for the optimization of user interfaces. These technologies are making a significant contribution to an increase in efficiency within corporations.

Corporate portal users include not only internal employees, but suppliers and customers as well. One important factor is the continuity of the front-end processes for a range of different user groups. This ensures that the user has an intuitive and effective user interface made up of integrated applications and across-the-board portal functions such as navigation, search, collaboration etc.

Content management systems can be integrated into a portal and used, for example, for sub-areas of the portal.

In the field of user interfaces, new technologies are becoming established alongside the classical portals. These new technologies, such as collaboration tools (e.g. Microsoft Outlook, interactive forms, widgets), help to make the user interface more user friendly. Access is possible via various different terminal devices (e.g. PC, SmartPhone etc.) in accordance with the requirements of the user.

The overall goals of corporate portals and modern user interfaces are to increase efficiency and to improve effectiveness. This way, users can make faster and better decisions and can complete tasks within business processes more sustainably.

That means that the technologies mentioned above can make a direct contribution to better usage of information within the company, thus making it possible to differentiate them from other technologies in the market place. Classical portals, just like modern user interfaces, represent an important link in the chain of the globally-networked business world. They have to be integrated into both the technical IT set-up and business processes if long-term advantages are to be realized. When carrying out this integration, companies should take into consideration the various different functional components of a portal, as well as setting up appropriate portal governance. The challenge of integrating existing portals with various levels of maturity is one that requires a comprehensive overview of the subject and a continuously-applied methodology.

With our extensive experience, numerous references, and neutral partnerships with leading software producers – ESPRiT is not a reseller for any particular producer – we provide the ideal prerequisites for collaboration with your company.

Our consultants support you with:

• the drawing-up of a portal strategy and a portal roadmap
• the analysis, conceptualization, planning, and implementation of a portal project
• the conceptualization and implementation of efficient user interfaces
• the selection of the portal and technologies
• the set-up of a portal governance structure
• the conceptualization of the portal operations, support processes, and rollout

Not only do our consultants have the expert knowledge for the various technologies, but also the methodological skills necessary to create an extendable portal solution.

Our flexible teams support your portal project from the portal strategy to the conceptualization, on to the implementation and rollout and, finally, to the set-up of portal governance.