Portal Architect's Toolbox (Continued)
Customer Case Studies
The stakes for enterprise portal development are especially high at a time when enterprises have tightened the belt on new projects. But because portals are seen as a way of extending legacy assets and of enabling new business development, portal projects remain as one of the few bright spots in enterprise IT spending. Every company interviewed for this article is reporting significant new customer deployments. The case studies provide a sampling of how customers are putting the software to work in employee, partner, and customer portals.
Toshiba America Strengthens Dealer Loyalty and Maximizes Sales Effectiveness
Source: BEA Systems
Toshiba America Business Solutions' FYI Portal is a business-to-business dealer portal providing access to online procurement, training, technical support, and sales incentive programs. The program lowers channel management costs, empowers dealers and maximizes sales effectiveness. Built with BEA WebLogic Server and WebLogic Portal.
Perficient Brings Peers Together with WebSphere Portal
Source: IBM
Perficient, a e-business solutions provider to Global 3000 and mid-size companies, has built portal solutions for some of the world's largest companies, yet its own operations were hampered by portal technology that did not provide the crucial collaborative resources or scalability the company needed. To implement best practices, the company developed and deployed its new employee portal using IBM WebSphere Portal.
L'Oreal Deploys Out of the Box Portal to Increase Productivity, Collaboration
Source: Microsoft
L'Oreal's 'MasterNet' delivers an international e-business platform that can be used to create Web sites ranging from editorial (content only) to personalized e-commerce. L'Oreal's IT team installed SharePoint Portal Server on two servers: one to run the portal and manage documents, and the other to index intranet sites. Afterward the team simply plugged the product into the intranet, defined the document architecture, and created profiles and users. Approximately one week after receiving SharePoint Portal Server, team members were able to test it on a significant scale and discovered that it addressed 90 percent of the company's information-sharing needs straight out of the box.
Forrester Research Award Recognizes Oracle9i Application Server For Delivering Solid Cost And Performance Results To Emerson Motor Technologies
Source: Oracle
Emerson Motor Technologies applied Oracle9i Application Server Portal to transform its intranet into an enterprise portal and as a result, realized measurable benefits across the company. For example, using Oracle9i Application Server Portal to coordinate employee travel reservations, Emerson Motor Technologies decreased the number of travel agents from 20 to one and attained a 20 percent cost savings over a two-year period.
Workscape, Sun And General Motors Win DCI "Portal Excellence" Award
Source: Sun Microsystems
General Motors' mySocrates employee portal serves more than 190,000 U.S. hourly and salaried employees, including UAW union workers. The solution uses the Sun ONE Portal Server's secure remote access technology, allowing GM employees to securely access their portal with a Web browser from any location.
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