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corporate wave
market overview
Just after discovery of Internet's resources as a sales and marketing channel, at the corporate level the demand for intranet and back office integration started to become a reality. There is a lot of saving achieved by integrating web based services offered at the web and back end systems used with in the corporate. This wave extended in both ends of the supply chain and led into integrated B-to-C projects and pure B-to-B document exchange systems. The solutions evolved slower than the ones in the consumer wave because there was a fragmented back office systems market and there was no integration standard. Therefore custom-made solutions are not reusable. Project based integration promoted a new set of tools called Business Connectors and Integration Toolsets. Still there are very few stable reusable tools available in the market. Those types of projects require special expertise in integration tools.
Enterprise Portal is an enterprise utility providing users with fast, easy, and convenient Web-based access to all of the internal and external applications, information, and services required to get their job done. The Enterprise Portal is not only an excellent tool for employees; it is also an ideal platform to proactively manage relationships. Everything that is needed to collaborate with suppliers, customers, and business partners is easily made accessible to users inside and outside of the company. Just a Web browser is needed. Enterprise Portal empowers users to collaboratively perform effectively in dynamic, fast-paced, market-driven business environments, putting the appropriate applications, services, and information just a mouse click away via an interface that is easy to learn, tailor, and use. Enterprise Portal users reap the immediate following benefits:
• Single point of access via Web browser to applications, information, and services
• Personalized, role-based user interface, customizable to individual needs
• Convenient, seamless integration of different components
• Easy maintenance based on an open and flexible system with no additional client software
• Secure access from anywhere
Single point of access via Web browser Enterprise Portal (EP) offers all users a single point of access to all applications, information and services needed to accomplish their daily tasks. Users enjoy the advantage of having one integrated enterprise portal via a desktop Web browser. At the same time, users can access their company Intranet, self- service applications, and extranets, as well as their front office, back office, and legacy applications. By configuring the EP on all levels only the information, services, and functionality required to complete related tasks are provided. A user may act in several roles and each role enables participation in several business scenarios. Consequently, different services, and information are provided for users within each role and users can be assigned to several roles. Most of the EP vendors deliver predefined user roles that cover a broad range of organizational positions. The roles are the basis for company specific personalization and serve as templates for creating new roles. In addition, users can tailor Enterprise Portal to customize their own work environments, adding links to their own most often used transactions or to important Web sites. Convenient, seamless integration Between Internet, intranet, extranet, legacy, front office, back-office, and personal applications, users can find themselves overwhelmed in the onslaught of information and technology, some of which is related only peripherally to their jobs. As a result, users waste enormous amounts of time reentering passwords, sorting through volumes of irrelevant data and files, and continuously toggling between user interfaces. This lack of integration between Web-based resources and business software application significantly reduces productivity. Enterprise Portal solves this challenge with its Drag and Relate technology across business applications and Web sites. For example, a buyer using Enterprise Portal can drag and relate it to an overdue purchase order to an overnight delivery carrier's icon, resulting in shipment details appearing in the same window. This integration saves the irritating steps such as accessing a Web browser, entering the delivery carriers Web address, logging onto its Web site, and then re-entering the customer order details.
Forecast 2001 and on :Once the power of integration is discovered, the logic expanded to document management, workflow management, Application-to-Application integration. Today common buzzword is Enterprise Information Portal. The challenge for an e-business company is to make every internal service to be accessible and integrated through a web based portal. We believe that most of the corporations in Turkey will focus on Enterprise Portals in 2001. These projects will be ongoing projects for the next five years including many new modules and services to be integrated to these Portals.
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