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Workshop: Portal implementation 18 Oct 2005
Defining a portal architecture or framework is a good way to see the services that are needed in a portal and how they fit together. This also helps identify what to look for in portal products when you evaluate the solutions that are available in the marketplace.
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Workshop: The perfect portal 1 Mar 2006
In last month’s workshop, we looked at the integration of content management and collaboration tools with the portal. To finish off step seven, I would like to look at one of the most difficult challenges in the portal implementation journey: integrating applications and business processes.
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The portal promise 21 Feb 2005
The benefits of enterprise portals have been well publicised. But looking beyond the market hype, what does the future hold for a technology that often flatters to deceive? By Martin Fustes.

Imagine you run a small high-street retail business. The shop has a large stock. Some time ago that level of stock became too great to keep entirely on the premises so a storage facility was rented a mile or so away in which to store the bulk of it.
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Workshop: Portal implementation 21 Nov 2005
We have now reached the half-way stage of the eight-step approach to deploying an enterprise portal. So far this series has detailed the processes involved in developing the portal business case, understanding user requirements and functionality, defining your architecture, and installing portal products. Having developed your taxonomy and categorisation scheme (as featured in last month’s workshop), you are now ready to progress to steps five and six.
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Law firm drives KM initiative 15 Mar 2005
Blake Cassels & Graydon, an international law firm headquartered in Canada, is set to deploy LawPort from SV Technology as the platform for its planned enterprise portal. Primarily, the system will power the firm’s website, while enhancing its knowledge-management initiative.
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Board's eye view: the challenge of a portal project by Paul Iske 31 Aug 2004
To support their knowledge workers, many organisations have developed or studied the possibilities of implementing an enterprise portal. Furthermore, portal technology, with personalised access to information and web-based tools, is increasingly applied in business-to-consumer and business-to-business commerce. But do these projects always fulfil their promises?
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Last word: The trouble with portal dashboards… 28 Nov 2006
Enterprise portals are supposed to make systems more accessible to real, live humans. But portal technology adopters today face several usability challenges, including complicated dashboard interfaces. By Janus Boye.
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News: SharePoint 2007 brings new capabilities, old limitations 28 Nov 2006
THE LONG waiting game will soon be over for enterprises looking to upgrade their Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server 2003 installations, as the much delayed Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 becomes generally available in November 2006.
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Workshop: The perfect portal implementation part I 14 Sep 2005

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Customising Caunton for the 21st century 2 Nov 2004
Systems integration was something that had never been a top priority for engineering firm Caunton until a pan-industry strategy forum forced them to look at their internal business systems, structure and processes in a new light. Simon Bingham of Caunton Engineering explores the technical and cultural challenges posed by implementing a new integrated system, and tracks the organisation’s progress over the past eight years.
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In brief 15 Jun 2005
Vamosa and IBM announce global partnership, EDM council up and running, e-mail security market forecast, plus all the latest vendor news and product launches...
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Web services 4 Jun 2004

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Workshop: Improving portal usability 25 Jul 2006
The experience of using a portal can be an excruciating one for end-users. By paying attention to usability issues at the start of a project, development teams can ensure that portal investments pay off, says Janus Boye.
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Showcase: Stellent 15 Mar 2005
Stellent is a global provider of content-management-software solutions that drive rapid success for customers by enabling fast implementations and generating quick, broad user adoption.

With Stellent, customers can easily deploy multiple line-of-business applications – such as websites, call centres, dealer extranets, compliance initiatives, accounts payable imaging and claims processing – and also scale the technology to support enterprise-wide content management needs.
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A process-centric portal 15 Mar 2005
Winner of the ‘Best intranet’ category at the 2004 Information Management Awards in London, UK, real-estate giant British Land has successfully re-engineered its business processes into a portal environment

Historically, British Land used paper-based forms to communicate with business partners and track the progress of transactions and operations. However, by 2000 the continued use of paper to control such a key part of the company’s business was presenting a number of challenges.
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