Portals
TREND
• There has been great interest in the Corporate Portals also called Enterprise Portals or Enterprise Information Portals
There is definitely much happening in this area-mobile included
Corporate Portals
• Digital Consulting Institute (DCI), Imaging and Document Solutions, and Intelligent Enterprise Magazine sponsor the Annual Portal Excellence Awards.
• These awards recognize customer portal solutions that provide significant and measurable business benefits, and that make innovative use of portal technology
• Awards were presented in two categories:Best Internal Corporate Portal and Best e-Business Portal
Internal Corporate Portal
An internal corporate portal supports informed decision making by providing internal business users with a personalized and efficient Web interface to business content managed by intranet Web servers, business intelligence systems, office and document management systems, and front- and back-office applications
E-business Portal
An e-business portal enables an organization to
optimize its business operations and business relationships by allowing external trading partners, key clients, and business users to collaborate
and share business content via a personalized Web interface
What counts?
• Business benefits and ROI• Architectural design• Innovative use of portal technology
WINNERS?
• Best Internal Corporate Portal:
Ford Motor Company (Plumtree Portal)
• Best e-Business Portal:
Herman Miller (TopTier Portal)
Portal software suppliers?
TopTier (acquired recently by SAP)
http://www.toptier.com/index2.htmlhttp://www.toptier.com/index2.html
• PlumtreePlumtree
http://www.plumtree.com/http://www.plumtree.com/
Herman Miller
• Lets visit
http://www.hermanmiller.comhttp://www.hermanmiller.com/
Lab assignment IIIEnterpulse, between other services, creates enterprise portal solutions that
allow an organization to break through the clutter of irrelevant information and focus on what counts for competitive advantage. Please point to
http://www.enterpulse.com/000_index.htmlhttp://www.enterpulse.com/000_index.html
And find these portal solutions. – Headhunter.net - A job postings portal that addresses the needs of both the job
seeker and the employer – BancIntelligence.com - A portal that provides information for more than 10,000
financial institutions – Robinson-Humphrey - A full-scale corporate site for an investment bank to
communicate with its constituencies – Acordia - A full-scale intranet for an insurance company
Perform an analysis of how each of these portal solutions contributes to the creation of competitive advantage.
Example
• Visit
http://www.oracle.com/http://www.oracle.com/
PRODUCERS
• Design, produce, and distribute products and services that meet customer needs
CATEGORIES OF PRODUCERS
Manufacturers
Service providers
Educators
Advisors
Information and News services
Custom suppliers
Portals
Lets Check Blackboard siteExternal Links On Portals and Software Business
Digital Infrastructure Providers
DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROVIDERS
Creators
Producers
Distributors
Users
Note
• The digital infrastructure has become embedded within the very fabric of how the firm creates, produces, distributes products and services
• Increasingly difficult to categorize any firms as pure-play high tech firms
NEW REALITIES
• Any model classification must include both the models used to construct businesses built on technology platform and the models used to construct businesses that deliver the technology infrastructure
• Uniting these two perspectives provides classification of emerging models that can guide both strategy formation and execution
CREATORS
• Web Designers & Creators
• Network Specialists
• Hardware Designers
• System Developers
PRODUCERS
• Manufacturers-Intel, IBM, Cisco, Microsoft
• Services-FedEx-DoubleClick, Agency.com
• Custom Suppliers-Dell, Extraprise, Viant
DISTRIBUTORS
• Focused Distributors-Tech Date, C-Net, NECX, Ingram Micro
• Vertical Portals-Sales.com,
Please check MySAP.com, ORACLE, PeopleSoft, Baan
• Horizontal Portals- AOL, AT&T,
Direct-to-customer
• Lets visit
CRUCIAL.COMCRUCIAL.COM
Infrastructure Portals
• Firms that provide consumers or businesses with access to a wide range of network, computing, and application hosting services
Can be either horizontal or vertical
Differentiation
Ask the following
• Does the firm provide gateway access to a complete set of network, data center, or web hosting services?
• Does the firm provide access to vertical application services?
HORIZONTAL
• PROVISION OF GATEWAY TO WIDE RANGE OF NETWORK (cable, voice, Internet), hosting services, and so on
Examples• ISPs--Roadrunner Cable Services, AOL• Network service providers--AT&T Broadband,
Sprint, • Web hosting Services providers: HostPro
Revenue
• Access and maintenance fee
• subscription services
• transaction fees
• advertising
COSTS
• Data and network center operations
• software development
• maintenance
• marketing
• sales
• administration
VERTICAL
APPLICATION SERVICE PROVIDERS
• Hosts and maintains a software application enabling businesses and individuals to log in and conduct business online
• Examples• Oracle’s Business Online suite
• Sales.com
REVENUE
• Hosting and maintenance fees
• consulting fees
• system integration fees
COSTS
KEY COSTS SIMILARTO THOSE INCURRED BY HORIZONTAL PORTALS
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
TRENDS
• Lets go to nexprise
nexprisenexprise
TRENDS
Check GXS
http://www.geis.com/index.jsp
GE Global Exchange Services
TRENDS
Check
http://www.oracle.com/hosting/index.html
Online ServicesOnline Services
TRENDS
• Check Global Source
http://corporate.globalsources.com/HOME.HTMhttp://corporate.globalsources.com/HOME.HTM
GROOVE
Lets go
www.groove.net
GROOVE NETWORKGROOVE NETWORK