Services: Interactive Portals

A Service by Seasia Consulting

Seasia understands that a portal system in a certain user community must serve as a real home for the user and not just a URL that the user occasionally hits to obtain information. The portal must provide the full functionality of applications that are used regularly on the desktop and do so without any performance degradation or loss of functionality; in fact by adding features such as single sign-on and cross application integration. Portals should tremendously raise the productivity and efficiency of users. Having this range of functionality available at the users' fingertips can dramatically enhance their style of work and therefore reflects positively on the business serving that user community.

Seasia has developed a unique methodology in designing portal systems. Our approach results in preserving the operation and integrity of interactive legacy applications, and provides an interactive model for integrating existing applications into the Portal System. This approach allows for the integration and presentation of data from relational systems, legacy mainframes, unstructured data, and external data to provide users with a cohesive view of the data they need and are authorized to see.

Main Features of an Interactive Portal

Corporate portals provide many powerful and useful features to the business, among the most important are:

Single Sign-on

Allowing users and customers to access all applications using a single sign-on with one username and password. The database will contain the proper authentication credentials for each component application. Users will no longer have to remember separate usernames and passwords for various applications.

Personalization

Each portal user can have the ability to personalize the content and layout of the portal interface. Personalization also refers to personalized features and color or theme preferences and links to Web sites. Similar to personal portals, business portals can provide users with the ability to include links to other Web sites as well as the inclusion of third party portals, like weather or news.

Collaboration

One of the most attractive features to all portal users, collaboration could include any or all of the following capabilities:

Seamless Integration & Processing

Without any intervention from users, business portals are capable of performing processes that require cross-application communication and multi-database integration. This feature can eliminate a great deal of manual back office maintenance tasks and provide high value for users and customers.

Document & Content Management

Many portal systems incorporate content and document management, providing a way to manage documents and Web content. It can include versioning, security, metadata searching, and a host of other features.