Corporate Central SaaS Portal | Solving the Biggest Issue With Portals

Corporate Central SaaS Portal 5.0

Personalized single point of access to the corporate web

Solving the Biggest Issue with Portals

If your organization is considering a portal solution in an attempt to manage the sprawl of Web-based applications, you may be all too aware that these projects can fail to deliver their anticipated ROI. This occurs because IT executives often overlook the need to integrate existing business applications into the portal and instead concentrate on document management and search.

Document management and search capabilities are easily obtained and should not be the reason for implementing a corporate portal. The Corporate Central SaaS Portal includes document management. We also commonly integrate Corporate Central SaaS Portal with the Google Search Appliance to provide search and find performance that is untouched by any portal product.

Portals that fail to dynamically serve the business needs of workers and partners become tangential business tools rather than powerful workspaces. People need portals filled with live applications, content, services and collaboration tools to achieve business tasks. Almost any business task requires multiple applications and information sharing. If your portal doesn’t provide workers with the ability to build their workspace to achieve these tasks, then it won’t deliver on the ROI benefits of efficiency and productivity that you expected.

Corporate Central SaaS Portal is the industry’s only SaaS Portal with in-place activation for web applications and sites. Other portals merely provide basic summary information and links to the actual web application or site, while Corporate Central SaaS Portal provides access to multiple full featured web applications and sites.

Other SaaS Portals require specialized development of portlets, servlets and the like (the names vary by portal manufacturer), in order to embed any custom functionality into their portals.

This introduces major development which will significantly delay any meaningful use of such portal.
This requires specialized training followed by programming of specialized components that are custom made to fit the portal.
Only a small fraction of the underlying web application or web site is made available to your users through portlets, servers, plug-ins and the like. The user is presented with these channels in a tiny little box which best serves as a reminder or a link to the actual web application.

To demonstrate the sharp contrast between the requirements to develop specialized components for SaaS Portal, we like demonstrating multiple home-grown, 3rd party and public web sites (such as google.com) all embedded in a single Corporate Central SaaS Portal desktop. None of which required any customization to the web application or web site, other than automated centralized logon if necessary.

With the Corporate Central SaaS Portal, the entire user interface of web applications is made available to the users without the need for any specialized programming. This saves you money in development costs and ongoing operational expense to maintain portlets or other plugins.

This makes a huge difference. Please be sure to check with any portal vendor and find out what it would take to integrate your existing and future applications and web sites with their portals.