Productive Collaboration Through Corporate Portal

The objectives for this project are to study the concepts of productive collaboration through corporate portal and to develop a corporate portal that can be implemented easily in any organization. Several problems have been identified during the early research and finally have come up with three main issues occurred in traditional company to be solved by the system, which are time consuming practice, bureaucratic barrier and high operating cost. Manually done job has created these problems. How the system will solve the problems recognized will be explained. This project concerns on developing a corporate portal to enable productive collaboration between personnel working in an organization. System development will consists of five phases namely research and analysis, system requirements identification, functionalities identification, interface designing and coding phase. Result and discussion will show the output of the methodology used in completing the project. Finally, conclusion will summarized all the work been done and some recommendations for future expansion are also included inthe final chapter

A user-oriented model for global enterprise portal design

Enterprise portals collect and synthesise information from various systems to deliver personalised and highly relevant information to users. Enterprise portals' design and applications are widely discussed in the literature; however, the implications of portal design in a global networked environment have barely been explored. This paper aims to highlight the challenges of enterprise portals for international, transnational and multinational businesses, paying special attention to the influence of national culture on enterprise portal design. A user-oriented model for enterprise portal design is put forward emphasising the relevant cultural characteristics of the portal users influencing portal design. The incorporation of these characteristics to the portal design will support both portal contribution and portal benefits, ultimately leading to improved business processe

Assessment of an enterprise employee portal using dashboard monitoring system: a case study

A portal is a browser-based application that provides a web platform for users to improve inter-department collaboration and customer service. Portals are classified either as internal facing portals or external public facing portals. This study addresses the problems facing an internal portal related to its contents, functions and usability and provides a list of essential contents and functions that it should include through integrating theories and industry best practices. The theory framework is based on literature review and the industry best practices are based on the analysis of a number of internal portals of companies used as case studies. These two were compared to develop an information mapping grid to identify gaps between theories and practices. A case company was used to uncover additional insights on employee portal content and functionalities through the analysis of actual and perceived user portal usage. The results were then compared using an information mapping grid to derive a set of content and functionalities to improve usability of an internal employee portal. Results of this study indicate that customization and personalization is an important feature of an employee portal, however, features pertaining to communication and collaboration support, search support, help system and employee self-services appear to be more important in practice. The information mapping grid derived, the data warehouse architecture developed and the Dashboard Monitoring systems created to assess usability of an employee portal are applicable to similar enterprises --Abstract, page iii

Examining Trust in Information Technology Artifacts : The Effects of System Quality and Culture.

The topic of trust in information technology (IT) artifacts has piqued interest among researchers, but studies of this form of trust are not definitive regarding which factors contribute to it the most. Our study empirically tests a model of trust in IT artifacts that increases our understanding in two ways. First, it sets forth two previously unexamined system quality constructs-navigational structure and visual appeal. We found that both of these system quality constructs significantly predict the extent to which users place trust in mobile commerce technologies. Second, our study considers the effect of culture by comparing the trust of French and American potential users in m- commerce technologies. We found that not only does culture directly affect user trust in IT artifacts but it also moderates the extent to which navigational structure affects this form of trust. These findings show that system quality and culture significantly affect trust in the IT artifact and point to rich possibilities for future research in these areas.Commerce mobile; Systems use; System quality; Navigational structure; Mobile commerce; M-commerce portals;

Managing the Evolution of Corporate Portals - A User-Centric Approach

Corporate portals have become an important component in company intranets. This work focuses on the challenges that arise due to constant evolution of such portals. A concept framework is presented to cope with these challenges. As part of this framework the implementation of a recommender system is proposed and specified in detail. The applicability of the concept is demonstrated by a case study

A Model for Integration and Interlinking of Idea Management Systems

This paper introduces the use of Semantic Web technologies for the Idea Management Systems as a gap closer between heterogeneous software and achieving interoperability. We present a model that proposes how and what kind of rich metadata annotations to apply in the domain of Idea Management Systems. In addition, as a part of our model, we present a Generic Idea and Innovation Management Ontology (GI2MO). The described model is backed by a set of use cases followed by evaluations that prove how Semantic Web can work as tool to create new opportunities and leverage the contemporary Idea Management legacy systems into the next level

EzWeb/FAST: Reporting on a Successful Mashup-based Solution for Developing and Deploying Composite Applications in the Upcoming Web of Services

Service oriented architectures (SOAs) based on Web Services have attracted a great interest and IT investments during the last years, principally in the context of business-to-business integration within corporate intranets. However, they are nowadays evolving to break through enterprise boundaries, in a revolutionary attempt to make the approach pervasive, leading to what we call a user-centric SOA, i.e. a SOA conceived as a Web of Services made up of compositional resources that empowers end-users to ubiquitously exploit these resources by collaboratively remixing them. In this paper we explore the architectural basis, technologies, frameworks and tools considered necessary to face this novel vision of SOA. We also present the rationale behind EzWeb/FAST: an undergoing EU funded project whose first outcomes could serve as a preliminary proof of concep

Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library

This report updates and expands on A Survey of Digital Library Aggregation Services, originally commissioned by the DLF as an internal report in summer 2003, and released to the public later that year. It highlights major developments affecting the ecosystem of scholarly communications and digital libraries since the last survey and provides an analysis of OAI implementation demographics, based on a comparative review of repository registries and cross-archive search services. Secondly, it reviews the state-of-practice for a cohort of digital library aggregation services, grouping them in the context of the problem space to which they most closely adhere. Based in part on responses collected in fall 2005 from an online survey distributed to the original core services, the report investigates the purpose, function and challenges of next-generation aggregation services. On a case-by-case basis, the advances in each service are of interest in isolation from each other, but the report also attempts to situate these services in a larger context and to understand how they fit into a multi-dimensional and interdependent ecosystem supporting the worldwide community of scholars. Finally, the report summarizes the contributions of these services thus far and identifies obstacles requiring further attention to realize the goal of an open, distributed digital library system

Evaluating the Web Usability – An Interpretive Study of the Bazar portal in Oslo Public Library, Norway

The vast pool of information and the development of technology have given thousands of choices for users when using Internet for searching purposes. With all available websites and the diverse set of user skills, website usability is the factor that motivates users to choose one site over another. Hence, usability is needs to be in consideration when designing the website. Understood that such studies are critical to the success of website, this research focuses on evaluation of the usability of the Bazar portal (the information portal of Oslo public library) by investigating the usability problems of the portal and draw out a recommendation to support the current construction process of Bazar. These sole objectives of this study are to make Bazar most effective to the users. In order to investigate these problems, a task based survey was conducted with 37 participants comprising 2 groups: students and job seekers with different searching experiences. The research indicates that there are numbers of usability problems in Bazar portal. These problems are identified in portal design, organization system, searching system, labeling system and language support. The findings also indicate out that in evaluation by students and job seeker groups resemble each other. Interestingly, the less experienced group and the more experienced group have different points of view in evaluating portal usability. The findings from this study have practical implications for website designers in their process of designing the new version of Bazar. Furthermore, the results indicate that language is an important factor in multilingual portal; therefore more effort should be devoted to this factor in supporting in reading, understanding and using information.Joint Master Degree in Digital Library Learning (DILL