Confirmed Portal Vision and Strategy

 

Description

 

The output is a confirmation of the company’s portal strategy and portal program. This might be required as a preparation for the portal project scoping and to validate the feasibility of customer expectations. It might also be helpful to review SAP’s portal product planning (planned releases/features).

The following list contains some typical issues of a portal program to be reviewed:

 

·         Which portal projects are planned and when?

·         Which kind of portal communities should be addressed (employees, business partners, customers, visitors)?

·         Which business units should be addressed and when?

·         Which existing solutions (intranets, portals, Web servers) should be replaced or consolidated?

·         Are there portal projects for establishing specific business scenarios (for example, establishing a sales platform).

 

The output could also include the following:

 

·         An assessment of the current enterprise systems

·         An assessment of the current enterprise content (what kind of documents, and what is the content management process like?)

·         An assessment for Web content guidelines or corporate identity guidelines in order to make portal content adhere to them

 

Depending on the portal scope, another part of the strategy assessment might be the review of the company’s knowledge management strategy. 

 

Process

 

 

Additional Information

 

A high level portal strategy may already be in place, since it may have been created during the discovery and evaluation phase.