Company Wide Portal Offering a Single Source of Information and Reduced Access Times for Critical Information

A company wide initiative to provide a single source of information across the various departments.

The challenge

• Lack of a single source of Information: If a department head needed to look up employee information, there was a separate application than the one that was used to look up customer information (or Order Information). There were too many sources of information - each source providing just one small piece of a larger picture.
• Long wait times to get business critical information: Certain simple information requests (e.g. looking up a customer's order history), would take far too long - and often involved manual steps.

The Solution

Using Websphere Portal 6.0 and Oracle 9i, Anuj helped build a company wide portal that tied the various departments together. The solution included:

• Websphere Portal and J2EE Architecture : Including various portlets for accomplishing individual tasks such as Security, Order Management etc.
• Business Objects Development - Designed and built entire reporting infrastructure around SAP BI tools for Peoplesoft. This included a variety of ad-hoc reports generated from the underlying PeopleSoft data as well as reduced access times for existing business data.

The Result