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whitepaper University Web Portals Quality Assurance: User Perspective2008-06-18 IT University of Goteborg
  Looking at IS services is quite vast. Anything that has to do with technology is basically an IS service. Web portals are one of the largest, considering that anyone who uses the internet pretty much uses web portals. Since the explosion of the internet, web portals and their uses have become more advanced and complex. Web portals are a major source of obtaining information over the internet. It is easier and faster than looking up information in a "Real" library. One of the issues with this highly accessible information source is that the content isn't always correct and not always all that easy to use. "Fitness for use" is a highly referred to term explaining the quality of web portals.   
whitepaper E-Service Vehicle Registration Certificate Process Cut From 15 Days to Three Days2008-06-01 Microsoft
  The Dutch government's Department of Road Transport (RDW) aims to bring seamless, electronic services to citizens and businesses, and in 2007 won Computable Magazine's Innovation Award. With the help of Microsoft Services, the RDW built an electronic services framework using Microsoft Commerce Server 2007. Using this, it developed e-services, which citizens and businesses can access through a Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 portal. Available 24 hours a day, the portal includes an online application facility for replacement vehicle registration certificates. In just four months, 45 per cent of applicants have started to use the e-service, which helps ensure new documents are issued to citizens in just three days instead of 15 days.

Tags: Application Development, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Tianjin Electric Power Lowers Maintenance Costs and Improves Data Sharing2008-06-01 Oracle
  Tianjin Electric Power Corporation (TEPCO) wanted to eliminate multiple information silos that prevented a clear view of the enterprise and centralize system management and reduce the number of applications in use. The challenge was to consolidate company information in a single database for easy searching and management and enable employees to access real-time enterprise data at any time from any location, improving business agility. TEPCO selected Oracle Application Server and Oracle Portal over products from IBM and Microsoft to create a unified enterprise information portal and engaged Oracle Certified Partner Beijing Datang Xingzhu Software to design and implement the solution, based on the company's experience in portal development.

Tags: Portals, Application Development		   
whitepaper Hospital Improves Internal Communication and Business Processes with New Intranet2008-06-01 Microsoft
  When it opened in 2002, St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana was the first freestanding hospital in Indianapolis to provide advanced treatment of cardiovascular disease. Until recently, the hospital used an HTML-based intranet to disseminate announcements, links, and other information to its 470 employees and 200 contract workers. Information on that system was difficult to find. With help from Crowe Chizek and Company, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, the hospital deployed Microsoft? Office SharePoint? Server 2007 in November 2007. The new integrated and interactive solution provides easy access to information, enhances productivity, improves communication, and supports increased security for confidential information. In a March 2008 survey, 87% of St. Vincent Heart Center of Indiana team members and contractors who completed the survey responded favorably to the new solution.

Tags: Intranet, Portals, Collaborative Web		   
whitepaper A Semantic Search Engine for Spatial Web Portals2008-05-30 George Mason University
  Spatial Web Portals, such as NASA's Earth Science Gateway (ESG, esg.gsfc.nasa.gov) and ESIP's Earth Information Exchange (EIE, eie.esipfed.org) have improved the sharing, exchanging, and interoperating of Earth science information. Large amount of geospatial metadata, data, and web services have been collected for SWPs to serve different user communities. However, most search engines in SWPs are based on keyword matching, which does not 'Understand' the meaning of user's queries and is not friendly to end users, especially when a user has limited Earth science knowledge. Therefore, it is a challenge to find needed data from a variety of geospatial resources in an intelligent manner. This paper introduces the efforts on integrating semantic search engine to make the search intelligent.

Tags: Search Strategies, Web Services		   
whitepaper Webcast: Leveraging Your Investment in SharePoint2008-05-21 CDC Software
  There is typically a simple problem SharePoint initially solves for most businesses, as a point solution - moving from a flurry of emails and attachments to a basic online document storage location. But what about when you are ready to scale or do more?

This on-demand presentation covers how different areas of the business want to leverage SharePoint, what free tools are available and when companies need to look beyond the free tools to get what they need and move into a true enterprise-level portal. The presenters also provide examples of what these integrated portals look like and how they can deliver needed benefits to teams and the organization.

Tags: Business Management, Groupware - Workflow, Learning Management Systems, Database Applications, Portals, Collaborative Web		   
whitepaper Automotive Giant Boosts Efficiency2008-05-01 Dell
  Magna International is the third-largest automotive supplier in the world. The company needed to streamline its procurement processes and consolidate its server infrastructure to help increase productivity, optimize business processes, and avoid wasted hardware resources and unnecessary energy consumption. Using the Dell Premier Pages service, the company built a customized Web portal with an efficient ordering system and deployed VMware ESX Server virtualization, helping reduce the number of active servers in its Frankfurt office from 70 to 3.

Tags: Web Development and Design, Virtualization		   
whitepaper The Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor Improves Service and Efficiency With a Reliable Database2008-05-01 Oracle
  The Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor wanted to implement an integrated IT infrastructure to more efficiently renew licenses and collect and distribute authors' rights and create a robust, reliable, high-availability database for quick and easy access to up-to-date information. The challenge was to eliminate slow and inefficient manual processes to reduce the time for sending remittances to authors and develop a Web portal with online self-service and consulting facilities for its members. The Sociedad Chilena del Derecho de Autor implemented an integrated IT infrastructure with the help of Oracle Consulting, granting licenses and collecting and distributing authors' rights more efficiently.

Tags: Portals, Database Management		   
whitepaper Manufacturer Improves Content Management, Collaboration, Search - And Customer Satisfaction2008-05-01 Microsoft
  Exterran - a service and equipment provider to the oil and gas industries, formed from the merger of Hanover and Universal - had an enterprise portal, but employees shied away from it because it was difficult and time-consuming to use. This resistance affected global collaboration and was a potential roadblock to the company achieving its growth targets. To boost collaboration, Exterran worked with Infosys Technologies, a Microsoft Global Systems Integration Alliance Partner, to create a more usable portal based on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 and complemented with other Microsoft communications technologies. Employees find the new portal to be faster, easier, and more effective to use. Document uploads are faster, too, saving hours on major projects.

Tags: Portals, Collaboration Tools		   
whitepaper Fujitsu Case Study: UKAEA2008-05-01 Fujitsu
  The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) uses, handles and stores a wide range of radioactive materials as part of its role in restoring the environment of nuclear sites. Users or support staff were often experts of their own systems, but couldn't understand or maintain others in the UK industry, so 'Comparing notes' was proving unnecessarily difficult. UKAEA approached Fujitsu at this time with no major plan, just a problem that needed solving. Fujitsu chose a combination of Microsoft and Oracle systems with web portal technology to make this possible, i.e. to successfully design and implement a package to process, update and report on nuclear and radioactive materials throughout the supply chain.

Tags: Supply Chain Management, Database Management		   


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