The business climate is changing at a rapid pace. You’re always on the lookout for ways to maintain your competitive edge. Fast access to vital information is the key, especially as your company grows and supports an ever-increasing number of e-business initiatives around the world. With multiple locations, offices and external suppliers and partners, your need to increase collaboration is also expanding. Your company probably has multiple portals for HR, communications and your supply chain.
To increase productivity, you must bridge the gap between your disparate systems and applications. But you also want to extend the life of your underlying legacy systems while modernizing your enterprise to achieve agility that can reduce cost and enable flexibility.
The answer is to merge your portals into one consolidated enterprise portal. HP Portals and Collaboration Services can consolidate your multiple portals and lower your total cost of ownership. A single point of access will provide your clients, employees and partners secure access to information, applications, processes and communities of interest and:
- Empower your work force by providing better access to information, while increasing their productivity
- Simplify your business processes and operations through enhanced information management and collaboration
- Improve your organizational effectiveness by leveraging social computing technologies
- Provide secure and compliant environments for your trusted information
- Connect your work force, customers, and vendors to improve team collaboration and effectiveness
Market Trends of Portals and Composite Applications
Portals have become the standard for delivering applications, processes and information to end users via the Web; the trend is to consolidate your multiple portals to lower your total cost of ownership. Another trend is the move toward extending self-service for your suppliers, partners and customers across your enterprise.
According to a leading industry analyst, companies should strive for a digital business architecture to support their digital processes, service-oriented architecture (SOA) and business services. Additionally, the requirements driving this will be met with a new generation of composite applications.
SOAs are becoming the standard architectural foundation for most of your mission-critical applications. Using composite applications – solutions that consist of functionality drawn from different sources within a SOA – you can ensure your loosely coupled components interact in standard and transparent ways.
The ROI Potential of HP Portals and Collaboration Services
Cost savings benefits:
- Build applications and services faster
- Consolidate procurement of hardware and software
- Reduce back-office staff and administrative costs
Operational efficiency benefits:
- Communicate via one channel, not multiple Web sites
- Link event-based cross-functional processes
- Increase data accuracy
Revenue generation benefits:
- Provide revenue generation protection and cross-selling opportunities
- Collaborate and learn from collective experience
- Expand market share and move into new markets
User satisfaction benefits:
- Provide a better sense of belonging
- Facilitate MyJob and MyLife
- Gain competitive distinction
The Benefits of a True Digital Business Platform
Letting HP help you solve your complex IT business issues allows you to focus on what you do best, your core competencies, those strengths that have made your business successful. We understand your business needs and requirements, and we offer expertise in implementing and managing Portals and Collaboration Services solutions specific to your requirements.
By taking advantage of HP Portals and Collaboration Services, you can achieve a true digital business platform and reap the following benefits:
- A comprehensive “anytime, anywhere” set of self-service and collaboration tools
- Optimized processes that enhance customer intimacy and increase responsiveness
- Leveraged technologies and best practices that provide effective information management
Choose HP
Having developed and deployed thousands of Web sites for our clients supporting millions of users around the world, HP has the real-life experience and knowledge to ensure your continued success. We look at critical success factors such as usability, flexibility and scalability; program governance; and ROI to make sure your Portals and Collaboration Services solution integrates easily into your enterprise. Our approach will be tailored to meet your unique requirements. As changes in the business and technical landscape occur, we have the experience to rapidly assess the impact of these changes and provide the correct course of action.
Whether it be social computing, virtual services, portals, composite application or collaboration services, HP has a rich portfolio to suit your enterprise needs. With our Designed for Run™ strategy, we have the expertise, tools and processes to plan, build and run solutions to increase your work force productivity, improve your systems reliability and encourage a cost savings culture throughout your organization. Our proven methodologies, technology frameworks and strong alliances, along with a strong reputation behind HP hardware, HP brings innovation that contributes to your continued growth and success.
For more information about what HP Enterprise Services can do for you, submit a business inquiry.