Enterprise Portals and Collaboration

Enterprise Portals and Collaboration provide a framework for integrating information, people, processes, and applications across organizational boundaries leading to improved informational management and more informed responsive business decisions.  Cardinal Solutions’ professionals can help your organization establish an enterprise strategy for organizing corporate assets and an implementation plan to provide a manageable framework to speed your return on investment.

Portal and Collaboration solutions require a shared enterprise vision to consolidate functionality, usage and features across divisions, business lines, and departments.  Cardinal solutions can assist organizations in providing IT governance, structure, and implementation guidance across each business unit and each functional site type:

Business Opportunities Central & Divisional Portal Centralized platform for Intranet Robust Enterprise Search Integration with Group/Project Sites Business process automation Incorporate LOB data Quick migration of content Group & Team Sties Content Targeted to team audience Document collaboration and review Management of lists and libraries Drive innovation and adoption Business process automation Project Sites Content targeted to cross-functional teams Intense collaboration and review In accordance with PMO best practices Secure future corporate assets

 

Cardinal Solutions’ enterprise architects and portal implementation managers can help clients realize value throughout the life-cycle of enterprise portal and collaboration implementation.

Planning

• Development of a shared vision and ROI metrics
• Establishment of IT governance, support, and usage guidance
• Creation capacity planning and platform scalability and value plans

Architecture

• Implementation of physical hardware and portal farm construction
• Establish an organizational information architecture and site topology and hierarchy
• Provide a scalable, maintainable architecture in accordance with capacity plans

Deployment

• Implement custom branding, navigation, and informational discovery across the platform
• Provide site feature releases (Search, BI, BPM, etc.) in accordance with business drivers and goals
• Migrate corporate assets, informational policies, and support content management initiatives.

Support

• Create support and maintenance initiatives including publisher service level agreements
• Provide IT and administrative training and knowledge transfer for those who support the platform
• Assist in end user training, community sites, and self provisioning and usage guidance