Corporate information portal

Today, the situation requires that company management instantly respond to market changes. Information chaos, which often reigns in a number of institutions, means that employees often cannot find necessary data and promptly analyze the current situation despite that various information systems are implemented there. The time spent on search of the information translates into missed profit and financial losses.

The IBS Integration Solutions Department offers the optimum solution for the above problems, a Corporate Information Portal (CIP). CIP is a single access point of access to data and services which may be located both within the corporate network and in the external information environment, and which are accessible to the user in the integrated form and in the appropriate format. This ensures that the full amount of necessary information could be promptly received.

CIP is used in many sectors where arrangement of coordinated work of specialists and organizational divisions is required, in particular: governmental structures, financial institutions, telecom operators, industrial production sector, fuel and energy sector, and other sectors that require efficient work and operations with considerable volume of information. Depending on the scale of the enterprise or institution, CIP ensures:

• Decrease of costs for establishment of the single information medium of the unified company, retaining of manageability
• Integration of information systems of different types at the data presentation level (ERP-systems, CRM-systems, document management, staff management, decision-making support), internal information exchange for geographically distributed corporations
• Extension of business clients and partners working capacity by using electronic trade sites and order and delivery management systems

Thus, the CIP enables efficient solving of the following tasks:

• Shortening of the pay-off period of expensive corporate applications
• Saving enterprise funds by cutting assets ownership costs, extension of software life cycle, decrease of personnel training expenses
• Improvement of corporate image by implementing modern information technologies
• Increase of staff management efficiency

Functional components of the corporate portal:

1. Possible integration at the information flow, data base and application presentation level.
2. A single access interface for resources and applications of the portal.
3. Personalization of the user working environment.
4. Information storage and search system.
5. Centralized administration and delimiting of access rights.
6. Support of joint work with documents.
7. Support of mobile users.

Main principles for development of corporate portal:

1. Functional:

• Consolidation of representation
• Content management
• Joint work
• Business analysis

2. Architectural:

• Versatility: to be used by employees, partners, clients
• Any data formats
• Various access equipment

3. Technological:

• Platform-independent infrastructure
• Centralized access management
• Use of XML for presentation of the content

The table below shows the configurations of software products from various vendors, which are used for development of CIP:

Contacts

IBS Integration Solutions Department

Contact Person: Dmitry Lvov (Dlvov@ibs.ru)

Phone: +7 (095) 967-8080