Our Understanding of Your Goals

In today’s competitive business environment, companies are aligning their business strategies to meet increasing pressures to rapidly address customer demand, new market opportunities and competitive threats. They are aligning IT investments to enable scalable, available on demand services to meet this need. However, not all investments are providing originally expected returns. Additionally, rigid IT infrastructures continue to restrict business responsiveness and agility.
Businesses are deploying a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to simplify and standardize IT infrastructures. As a piece of this, IT is being viewed now as a more strategic component of the overall business strategy. Portals continue to remain at the top of technology spending priorities to enable this environment. However, to make portal investments pay off you need succinct project definition aligned to the needs of both your IT and business stakeholders. The overall desired end result is to deliver an IT infrastructure, powered by a portal that will execute tasks efficiently and quickly while leveraging existing assets within your IT infrastructure.

Our Approach to Meeting Your Goals

IBM WebSphere Portal helps you quickly build scalable portals that simplify and accelerate user access to personalized information, applications, processes and people to maximize organizational productivity and operational efficiency. WebSphere Portal delivers these business benefits while getting you started with SOA goals. SOA implementations leverage open standards to represent IT and Line of Business (LOB) assets as standards-based services independent of the platforms they operate on, and is an architectural style that supports integrating your business as linked, repeatable business tasks, or services. WebSphere Portal helps you create and maintain these services as port lets, which are presented to users as composite applications that are delivered in the context of a given role or task to be executed. The end result is that tasks are executed more efficiently, IT can deploy customized applications quickly and businesses can use existing assets to support changing business requirements.

To deliver a unified user experience, WebSphere Portal brings together a range of leading-edge technologies designed to give you a flexible, open, extensible framework to build successful business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) portals. By providing industry-leading portal solutions for your on demand business, we helps you improve employee productivity, cut costs and strengthen relationships with your customers and trading partners. 

Why WebSphere Consulting?

WebSphere Consulting is helping customers today build their strategic business design and business case for successful portal projects. WebSphere Portal software represents an excellent opportunity for organizations to improve access and reduce the complexity of today’s computing environments—in their own time, at their own pace, and aligned with their short- and long-term business goals. An integrated portal solution can help companies realize the following business benefits:

Cost savings. Build and deploy applications and services faster; consolidate the procurement of hardware and software; and reduce back-office staff and administration costs.
Operational efficiency and productivity. Enable internal employees and external partners to communicate through one channel; link event-based, cross-functional business processes; increase data accuracy; and speed decision making.
Revenue generation. Provide more cross-selling opportunities to employees; leverage the expertise of knowledge experts through enhanced collaboration and learning; and expand market share and move into new markets.
User satisfaction. Increase customer retention through enhanced service capabilities; improve productivity with easier access to information; and gain a competitive advantage through superior customer service.

Accelerated application and content deployment. Enable the quick building of business services; easily modify applications to meet changing requirements; remotely deploy managed applications for users, based upon roles; and facilitate access of business applications whether the user is connected or disconnected—anytime, anywhere.