Enterprise Portal

Business Value of enterprise collaboration and portal : Organizations must continually evaluate and review ways in which to empower their employees and partners by assisting the decision making process when dealing with business issues as and when they occur. The ability for organisations to achieve the appropriate level of empowerment within their business is a critical success factor to ensure they consistently achieve their business objectives.

	Connect unstructured islands of data
	Integrate business practices
	Help and facilitate users to have effective and meaningful collaboration

	CONNECTING ISLANDS OF UNSTRUCTURED DATA Organizations have data stored in multiple locations which are typically difficult to locate and manage. The effect of this challenge is that data is unable to be turned into information which creates business value by empowering employees with the right information at the right time. This can be time-consuming and difficult, and sometimes users abandon the search before they find useful information. To address this issue, organizations are able adopt Microsoft’s Collaboration and Portal capability to ensure that there are no islands of disconnected and or difficult to reach information.
	INTEGRATING BUSINESS PROCESSES Clearly, an organizations ability to be connected and integrated is critical to its ability to respond to the daily business challenges it faces. As such, more and more organizations are looking for ways to integrate their business processes so they can streamline operations and collaborate more effectively with customers and partners. In addition the opportunity is now available for organizations to integrate their business processes by leveraging current investment in existing systems and processes.
	HELPING USERS COLLABORATE Clearly there is a fundamental need for teams to effectively collaborate to achieve their business and personal objectives. As projects and resources extend across functional teams potentially located in various locations and geographies, the complexity grows to ensure that objectives are executed in the appropriate timeframe. To accelerate the effectiveness of the team’s collaboration as well as reduce the risk of employees and partners not being empowered to make informed business decisions, organizations have adopted Microsoft’s Enterprise Collaboration and Portal capabilities to maximize their business and employee performance. Also note that additional benefits of the Microsoft’s Enterprise Collaboration and Portal include: Corporate search portal to ensure access to appropriate information Enterprise application and business processes integration Extranet for partner engagement
	IDEAS EXPERIENCE As a Microsoft Gold Partner in Information Worker Productivity Solutions, IDEAS has considerable experience and training in deploying SharePoint in a variety of environments. Our clients have employed SharePoint as an intranet solution, an extranet solution, and also to deliver information services directly to their customers as an internet application. IDEAS SharePoint Services include: Analysis of your business and how it can benefit from SharePoint Design of SharePoint architecture. Installation of SharePoint system which can be used over LAN, WAN or the internet. Customisation of SharePoint for your business. Development and extension of SharePoint functionality Digital Dashboard development. Development of iFilters and protocol handlers Web Part integration Training for administrators and users

IDEAS has successful delivered SharePoint to Coca-Cola, Australian Government Solicitor, Boral, Nestle, Workcover NSW and the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions.