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Intranet, an intracompany information and communication network, provides unique opportunities in working with personnel. it effective tool formation corporate culture, broadcasting corporate standards, managing information flows and business processes. This article presents the real experience of creating a corporate portal in a large holding company.

Why do we need a corporate portal

The company I came to work for a year ago is a structure that has a branch network in a number of regions of the country, as well as affiliated companies (including those abroad). The organization is young, with a dynamically developing corporate culture, emerging traditions and business processes that need to be systematized.

It is good for firms where the number of employees is small. He moved from office to office, gathered everyone to corporate party, shook hands with everyone and resolved all issues in informal communication. And when you have many more than a hundred employees? That's right, you can't shake hands with everyone... Therefore, one of the priorities in my work was the development of effective intra-corporate communications. Of course, the goals were to make information flows and processes for the development of corporate culture are manageable, broadcast uniform standards and principles of activity, increase the degree of satisfaction of employees with work, develop the principles social partnership between workers and management. And so, as one of the tools for the implementation of these tasks, we decided to use the corporate portal.

According to the plan, the user basis of the portal was to be ... communication, and all other processes could be based on this. You are probably surprised, because usually most companies begin to form a corporate "virtual environment" just with business processes. But if, at the first stage, through the portal, for example, a document flow or a reporting system is introduced, then most employees will consider this a “mandatory requirement” and an “increase in the volume of transactions”. (It is no coincidence that it is so difficult to introduce all kinds of "APCS" - automated personnel management systems.) If you first offer people an analogue of a social network, the use of which is encouraged in every possible way, then the process will go completely differently.

In itself, communication - both business and informal - is extremely important for people. It is in our interests to make this communication structured and protected. After all, if employees make up for the lack of communication by “talking” on business topics on the Odnoklassniki website (and we cannot prohibit them from visiting social networks outside of working hours), then this is a huge risk of leakage of commercial information.

Spend can't save

Convinced of the importance of implementing a corporate portal, before going to the management with proposals for project financing, we decided to analyze the options that the market offers us. It turned out there were three. The first is to invite web developers to create an acceptable shell from scratch; then hire several programmers to create new sections of the portal. The term for developing an internal site in this case is not short. In addition, an increase in the payroll, especially during a crisis, is a dubious undertaking.

The second option is to buy a platform where certain foundations have already been laid for creating a corporate portal. In my practice in one of the organizations, I already had to deal with a similar solution: they installed a platform, the management demanded reporting through this resource, but it was not popular because it was not socially oriented.

Yes, this platform will be functional (for example, in terms of interaction with various office applications), but it will take some work to make it a corporate portal with a "human face". Specialists will be required - "narrow pros", and their day with fire ... They themselves understand this, and the company is forced to overpay them. The cost of implementing such solutions can be about 1.3 million rubles.

The third option is to buy a ready-made portal solution based on a kind of constructor with an intuitive interface that would allow you to manage a corporate portal without special knowledge of programming and html-layout. Install this "constructor" yourself (or with the help of the supplier's technical support), integrate users and gradually fill and upgrade this solution in accordance with your ideas and needs. The cost of such an undertaking costs from 35 thousand rubles. and depends on the number of resource users.

We went exactly this way - we chose a ready-made portal solution developed on the basis of web technologies from a supplier that has proven itself in this area.

Technical essence

I will not "load" my colleagues with terminology and technical details. I can only say that the “web-constructor” we have acquired consists of elements familiar to all Internet users - such as search, tags, blogs, social services, etc. These are simple and familiar tools for almost any person, but no one has ever did not teach how to work with search networks or social networks. So it turned out that these same principles are easily transferred to the corporate environment, helping to work with information - to accumulate it, publish it, search for it, use it.

In general, the technologies used on the Internet are now actively penetrating into the field of personnel management and corporate knowledge management. By the way, in the West this direction even received a separate name - Enterprise 2.0.

Economic justification

1. Saving working time:
   • the cost of searching for the information you need at a particular moment will be reduced;
   • losses of corporate information are minimized;
   • business processes of the company will be significantly accelerated;
   • communication problems between employees will disappear;
   • new staff will adapt faster.
2. Business process optimization:
   • employees will work together on documents using the document management system;
   • the company will seriously save on the speed of operations;
   • horizontal communications between divisions will become much more effective;
   • the need for business trips is minimized with the geographically distributed structure of the company.
3. Quality improvement management decisions :
   • in working groups it will be possible to discuss and adjust joint plans;
   • the results of the work of employees and departments will become transparent;
   • employees will be able to find solutions to typical business problems in the corporate knowledge base.
4. Improving the efficiency of employees:
   • staff will be aware of what is happening in the company and departments;
   • work experience will be accumulated in the corporate knowledge base;
   • knowledge will be reused and transferred within the company;
   • working groups will be able to work together on projects and documents;
   • personnel will be constantly trained and undergo professional retraining.
5. Ensuring control and manageability:
   • the process of work of all departments of the company will become transparent;
   • internal correspondence of employees will be under control;
   • Internet access can be limited;
   • the internal messaging system on the portal will replace ICQ and other Internet pagers;
   • employment and absence of employees can be controlled;
   • feedback from staff will become faster and more effective.
6. Business performance:
   • improve the quality of work and customer service of the company;
   • increase the competitiveness of the company in the market;
   • the image of the company will rise in the eyes of employees, customers, partners and investors.

As allies for the implementation of the corporate portal in the company, we have attracted the developers of the purchased product, as well as their methods for calculating efficiency.

Our colleagues reasoned as follows: a corporate portal is a solution for saving resources, for increasing the productivity of employees. How can savings be measured? In money, of course. Money saved is money earned. If we talk about the work of employees, then money is their time. When people spend less time searching for the information they need to get the job done and more time doing the job itself, the company wins. When each employee saves at least 5 minutes of time per day due to the use of the portal's capabilities ... Calculate for yourself how much 5 minutes of working time costs, depending on the payroll.

Compare how much it will cost to implement a corporate portal with the effect of saving only 5 minutes of working time for all employees per year and you can calculate the profitability of implementing this solution. This, of course, is casuistry, but you need to speak with the management and economists in the language of facts and figures.

At the intersection of professions

As far as it is necessary for personnel officers - initiators of the portal implementation to understand technical matters? I will answer this: it is necessary, at least superficially. This will help to bypass possible obstacles from both your own IT services and providers. We must somehow resist their "shamanism". Imagine: a specialist comes, “beats the tambourine”, pronounces phrases in a language that is incomprehensible to the personnel officer, more reminiscent of spells, and demands decent money for this according to the principle - “it is not clear - it means smart, and therefore expensive.”

No, my dears, everything ingenious is simple. Self-respecting providers are extremely transparent. Moreover, competent developers try to simplify the task for future users as much as possible, and especially professional companies even create a virtual laboratory that allows you to “feel” their product. But we need to understand what to “feel”, right?

Another important point is the update system. If you purchase a product and are told that immediately after integration all fixes and updates will be paid, then it is better to refuse such a product. This will certainly entail additional expenses and dissatisfaction with the management. A reputable provider provides updates free of charge for a certain period - usually one year.

* * * As for the personnel officer, it is better for him to forget about a quiet life (if he had one) for the period of introducing a corporate portal. This process requires patience, interest in innovation, creativity and willingness to work overtime. By the way, in return, you can acquire new useful skills and revive interest in work.

Now let's talk about the "stuffing" of the corporate network.

Good for those companies, the number of employees which is small. He moved from office to office, gathered everyone at a corporate party, shook hands with everyone and resolved all issues in informal communication. And when the number of employees exceeded a hundred? And it's no secret to anyone that, in addition to performing job duties, communication is extremely important for people - both informal and business. This is where the Intranet comes to the rescue.

Sections and functions of the corporate portal can be conditionally combined into the following blocks:

1. Company introduction:
   • general information about the company, its history, tasks, values ​​and corporate culture;
   • official news feeds(orders, instructions, rules);
   • company events calendar;
   • photo and video reports on the company's activities;
   • feed of important industry news;
   • internal vacancies of the company;
   • contacts and details for quick access.
2. Representation of company employees:
   • a single directory of company employees;
   • quick search for information about an employee (alphabetically, by structure, by parameters);
   • customizable employee card (photo, contacts, field of activity);
   • quick contact with an employee (web chat, e-mail);
   • monitoring the presence of an employee on the portal;
   • information about the absence of employees, absence calendar;
   • list of new employees and personnel changes, Honor Board, birthdays;
   • personal account of an employee with advanced features (personal documents, photo and video materials, blog, personal calendar, etc.).
3. Enterprise Information Management:
   • libraries of office documents with collective access and the ability to work through a browser and explorer;
   • working with portal documents using Microsoft Office;
   • document management system of portal materials;
   • version control of portal documents;
   • access control to documents;
   • management of multimedia materials (photo, video).
4. Corporate search:
   • full-text search for all information posted on the portal in Russian and English;
   • tag search and tag cloud;
   • support for Russian and English morphology;
   • instant indexing of updated and new documents;
   • accounting for employee access rights when displaying search results;
   • advanced search query language;
   • federated search: return search results different types per request (news, employees, documents, etc.).
5. Teamwork and social networks:
   • creation of workers or project teams for joint discussion and solution of production and non-production tasks;
   • using the principles of a social network in organizing joint work;
   • flexible configuration of the functionality of groups and access rights to them for different groups of employees;
   • a calendar of events for the group and its members;
   • organization of group meetings;
   • discussion of working issues (forums, web messenger);
   • tasks and instructions to group members, planning, control of execution;
   • task completion reports from group members;
   • document library for the group, version and change control, work with the group document library through Windows Explorer and office applications;
   • group photographs.
6. Business processes:
   • document flow of content on the portal;
   • custom web forms (create electronic requests with the required fields), appointment of employees responsible for processing;
   • automating the processing of applications in the Help Desk system, control over the passage of applications;
   • organization of working (project) groups with the assignment of tasks and control over their implementation;
   • organization of meetings, distribution of invitations and confirmation mechanism, meeting reports;
   • booking meeting rooms (and any other premises).
7. Internal corporate communications:
   • instant messaging within the portal (similar to ICQ);
   • event calendars different levels with the possibility of mutual integration;
   • meetings/alerts;
   • open and closed thematic forums;
   • photo galleries personal and public;
   • surveys and questioning of employees;
   • interactive features: polls, reports, external RSS feeds on the portal;
   • automated system receiving and processing requests with the ability to view the status.
8. Employee training and testing:
   • creation of an unlimited number of training courses;
   • questions at the end of the lesson, a test for self-examination;
   • personnel testing log, taking into account the points scored by the user when passing the test, a list of attempts;
   • automatic determination of results;
   • flexible system of distribution of access rights to training courses.

Naturally, each employee does not need all this at once, so our corporate portal contains a flexible configuration function - each user can create their own individual desktop by simply dragging or hiding information blocks.

If the company has a vertically integrated structure, then on the portal you can create sections for a higher and organizational-subordinate structure and delimit the access of each of the structures to the sections of the portal. You can place the reporting system on the portal, fix the timing and quality of reporting. The personnel officer who submitted such an idea will not be priced.

For normal functioning portal, it is necessary to take measures to ensure the security and protection of access channels to this information resource. If personnel officers do not foresee this, they will have opposition from the security service, and if there is none, then they simply risk harming their company. Therefore, if external providers are involved in the implementation of this project, in order to obtain remote technical support, simultaneously with the signing of the contract, you should sign an agreement or obligation on non-disclosure of personal data and information posted on your portal.

After the approval of this project, the allocation of funds and the acquisition of all the necessary components, we installed this resource on the server, and further work was divided into several stages.

At the first stage, the ready-made structure proposed by the developer was modernized by us using the constructor embedded in the system and filled with content. After that, users of the parent organization were integrated into the portal system.

On the next step the corporate portal worked in a test mode. During the trial operation, the functions of the portal were adapted based on the needs structural divisions companies in optimizing business processes. With the participation of an IT specialist, the portal was supplemented with new features and solutions.

The third stage is connecting remote users from branches. Thus, we wanted to gradually form a holistic perception of ongoing business processes among all employees and increase each employee's sense of belonging to the tasks implemented by the company.

In fact, now a virtual office of the company is being created, where employees can get from anywhere and at any time.

Are you constantly late? We'll show you!

If someone thinks that it is enough to get the equipment, deploy a system of pages, functions and services on it, and everything will turn around, turn around, everyone will become happy owners of a tool from personnel service then he is wrong.

In addition to various technical problems, there may be difficulties associated with changing the internal corporate culture. Like any innovation, the portal requires adapting the perception of employees to use its capabilities at work. Everyone is accustomed to working “as before”, and it will take time for more workers to understand the benefits of the system being implemented.

Since the process of changing the corporate culture is a rather lengthy thing, even now we are trying to use all forms and methods of "embedding" the portal into the life of the company. We avoid “under the hood” methods, but supplement this resource with convenient services and gradually integrate the use of the portal into the rules and regulations. For example, not so long ago we sent a message from the portal to all employees: “Are you constantly late? We will show you!..” Reports recorded a surge in visits. Employees rushed to look - are punitive measures introduced for being late for work? Following the link, they found the news that a new service has been added to the corporate portal - public transport routes, which will show them how to get from point A to point B faster.

We came to the conclusion (as much as it disgusted us) that employees would be more willing to go to the corporate portal to study the menu in the canteen than “the presentation strategic objectives, extrapolated against the background of convergence of economic bases, and cluster-focus analysis of existential symbols modern economy", for example. Employees are people, and people want recognition. Therefore, we organized an opportunity to tell those who wished about our hobbies, gave everyone the opportunity to express “their authoritative opinion” on a number of issues, posted a board of honor with photographs.

Gradually, along with all these external attributes, the portal is filled with components that are much more important for business development. Our partners have already become interested in this solution - they are attracting us to exchange experience in order to implement the same tool.

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A corporate portal is an automated system for managing internal information resources of an organization, as well as for collective work on projects, tasks, documents and communication between employees and company customers.

Corporate portals can be installed both on corporate servers and in the cloud. Since the corporate portal is a single resource for aggregating and working with information, it can safely be called an internal corporate social network with all its inherent set of functions.

Main functions of the corporate portal

Corporate portals have become widespread due to their rich set of functions covering almost all areas necessary for the collaboration of employees of the organization. First of all, it is:

• Internal and external communications

Portals allow you to speed up the process of communication between employees and with customers thanks to the usual messengers and other tools familiar to us from social networks. Such as "live feed", alerts, etc. The ability to create various business chats for business areas or projects speeds up the process of communication and making the right decisions. Many portals allow you to make phone calls to those colleagues who are not online. Also, modern corporate portals allow you to communicate in working groups and with the company's clients about ongoing projects and solve current issues.

• Task and project management

Tasks and projects are an integral part of the workflow of any organization. In corporate portals, as a rule, there is a wide range of convenient tools for working with them. Starting from setting a task, managing calendar deadlines, delegation mechanisms, checklists, ready-made templates ending with various constructors and filters. All this allows you to control the timely completion of tasks and evaluate the work of employees, receiving relevant reports from them.

• Document Collaboration

The functionality of many corporate portals makes it very convenient to work with documents. Create, edit, store, set up access levels for documents, etc. At the same time, very often, to work with a document, you do not need to download it to your computer, but after completion, upload the updated version back. third party online services, such as Google Docs and MS Office allow you to work with documents directly on the portal. The corporate portal allows you to conveniently share documents with colleagues, create external links to documents, both for access by colleagues and clients.

• Planning and accounting of working time

The performance of an organization depends to a large extent on work discipline. With the help of corporate portals, you can keep track of the working time of employees. They will mark the beginning and end of the working day, as well as all kinds of breaks, absences, business trips, etc. All this information will help optimize the time spent on projects and tasks. Many portals contain a good set of meeting tools. Mass mailing invitations, scheduling meetings in calendars, as well as notification of all participants and the results and tasks of the meeting.

• CRM:Clients and sales

Many corporate portals offer functions of CRM systems, which allows you to maintain a database of contacts of customers and partners with whom you cooperate. The ability to record all calls and letters will not allow you to miss the most important points, and the sales funnel will help you track the performance of the sales department.

• HR:Personnel Management

Corporate portals make it easy to present and manage the structure of a company. All necessary information about employees, such as contact numbers, extension numbers, email, and so on, will always be at hand. It is easy to see who is at the workplace, who is absent, who is on a business trip and who temporarily replaces whom, and who has a birthday today.

• Business process automation

Nothing speeds up the work of the company and saves time, as it is done by automated business processes. The corporate portal offers to automate key business processes available in the company. Routine operations such as business trips, vacations, approval and payment of invoices can be performed many times faster.

Who needs a corporate portal and why?

The corporate portal is, first of all, a very convenient tool for companies with a large number of remote employees or a branch structure. Where people are not located within the same office or move around a lot due to the nature of their activities. The corporate portal can serve as a mobile workplace for them. But even for companies with permanent staff and a single location, a corporate portal will be very useful for the following reasons:

1. Saving working time

Find and process the information you need faster. Communicate more effectively with colleagues and speed up the completion of tasks.

1. Improve employee productivity

With the help of the corporate portal, everyone will always be aware of what they need to do and in what time frame. Working groups will make it possible to do this more efficiently, and all the accumulated knowledge will be accumulated and transferred within the company.

1. Optimize business processes

Let your documents and information literally fly around your organization rather than crawling from office to office.

1. Gain control and manageability

You can always be aware of who, where they are, what they are working on and for how long. Feedback with employees will become much faster and more efficient.

1. Improve the quality of management decisions and business efficiency

Reporting on the fact of completing tasks, and analyzing the workload of employees will help you make better decisions. As a result, the quality of the company's work and its competitiveness will increase.

Selection and implementation of a corporate portal

At the moment, there are perhaps three options to choose from:

1. Buying a turnkey solution
2. Corporate portal as a cloud solution
3. Portal development from scratch (custom solution)

Each of the options has its pros and cons, so the final decision depends on the size of the organization, its objectives and implementation goals.

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Purpose and definition of Company Portal

The article "History of Enterprise Portals and Historical Definitions" provides a far from complete list of various definitions of an enterprise portal. But for a systematic presentation of materials on portal topics, it is necessary to adhere to only one definition

As the number of definitions is great, so is the number of known varieties of the corporate portal. We note two well-known types of classification.

1. By function.

• EIP (Enterprise Information Portal) - Corporate informational portal
  Provides personalized access to internal and external information resources of the company.
• EEP - (Enterprise Expertise Portals) , provides a connection to experts (communication between users) based on their knowledge (ability)
• EAP (Enterprise Application Portal) - Corporate Application Portal
  A portal that provides users with various enterprise applications of the company.
• ECP (Enterprise Collaboration Portal) - Corporate Collaboration Portal . A portal that provides information and applications and enables collaboration among a group of employees.
• EKP (Enterprise Knowledge Portal) - Corporate Knowledge Management Portal
  An integrated portal designed to provide teamwork with maximum information support and accumulation of knowledge in the form of corporate information.

The first three types of portals are intended for individual work and provide the user with the information he needs, applications, expert opinions of specialists (whom he can find and to which the user can connect using the portal). Sometimes all of them are united under the general name "Corporate Information Portal".

The second two types of portals are collaboration (business process automation) portals. They allow you to carry out a certain cycle of work in accordance with the algorithm of business processes, automatically transfer intermediate results along the chain to other users, monitor and coordinate the progress of work. At the same time, users have the maximum Information Support, and the company accumulates corporate information turning it into your capital.

2. By appointment.

• B2C (Business-to-Consumer) -Automated systems ecommerce, in which a legal entity (enterprise, organization) acts as a seller, and an individual acts as a buyer.
• B2B (Business-to-Business) - Automated e-commerce systems in which the subjects of the sale and purchase processes are legal entities(enterprises, organizations).
• B2E (Business-to-Employee) - Intra-corporate systems for organizing the work of the company's personnel, individual structures or divisions.

Corporate portals B2C, B2B, B2E include corporate portals EAP, EIP, EKP, however, on the basis of the latter, it is possible to build other very different systems.

Based on the foregoing, the corporate portal is designed to solve the following main tasks:

1. Creation of an information base of the company with a system for classifying and extracting information.
2. Providing a unified (regular browser that does not require any special client software) personalized real-time access to corporate information and applications for company employees, as well as authorized customers, suppliers and partners of the company, regardless of their territorial location.
3. Providing real-time teamwork of company employees, as well as authorized customers, suppliers and partners of the company, regardless of their territorial location.

First point solves the issue of input, storage and retrieval of information. In many companies, the number of cabinets and folders with various information scattered over different departments exceeds the limit when it is generally possible to find the required information (and lying in one of the folders of one of the cabinets in one of the departments) in the allotted time. And even worse, when you can find outdated irrelevant information, accept it as relevant and use it in making decisions.

Second point solves the issue of access to information, access that does not depend on the territory and time of day, but is strictly personalized. Each user can see and receive only the information to which he has been granted access.

Third paragraph solves the tasks of joint work, those tasks that traditional corporate systems cannot solve without the use of Internet technologies, i.e. without using corporate portals. These corporate portals can be used as separate subsystems of corporate systems, as well as independent stand-alone applications.

The only limitation of the corporate portal is the availability of Internet access, but Mobile Internet and satellite Internet, practically remove all territorial restrictions. In addition, the corporate information portal is a cross-platform solution that also does not depend on hardware or applications.

The above definitions and the ensuing problems have practically no boundaries. After all, in principle, on the basis of a unified browser, you can create a corporate information system companies of any size. Moreover, maybe it would have been so if Internet technologies had appeared twenty years earlier.

Based on all known definitions, types of portals and the tasks that are set for them, we will give the following general and brief definition.

The corporate portal is web- a company portal containing corporate information and services, and providing personalized access to them for company employees and other authorized users.

In fact, this definition sets only two mandatory criteria by which an application can be classified as a company portal:

1. Webinterface
2. Personalized access

In all other respects, complete freedom is provided, which explains the numerous types and scales of corporate portals.

In addition to this article, you can look at the topic of the current section:
6 articles in the section "Encyclopedia"
in the "Articles" section.
in the "History" section.
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Many large companies have their own corporate portal. This does not mean the official site created to communicate with customers and partners, but the internal site of the company, intended exclusively for its employees. Is it a luxury or a real necessity?

Let's start with the fact that the corporate portal is not exactly a website, although it looks like one. The functions of the corporate portal are wider than the functions of the average site. Such a portal is a web interface that combines the functions of an information resource, a social network and a repository of documents and other files. Typically, a corporate portal is available only on the organization's internal network (intranet) - a person "from outside" will not enter it.

Why does a company need a corporate portal? First, he provides communication between different departments and divisions of the company reducing the time it takes to transmit important information. This is especially true for banks and other organizations that have many divisions (within the same city or in different cities). Instead of notifying each branch of the innovations, you can post the information on the corporate portal so that everyone receives it on time.

Secondly, the corporate portal ensures effective communication of employees. This is especially important when working on joint projects. As in the previous case, each employee can quickly transfer the required information to the addressee. The staff has easy access to the required data. In addition, integrated into the portal social network makes up for the lack of communication between employees - it’s better to let them communicate on the portal on work issues than sit on Odnoklassniki.

Third, corporate portal facilitates document flow and reporting. Shared file hosting allows you to upload required documents straight to the portal. This facilitates collaborative editing of documents. Besides, backup copy working materials never hurt.

The corporate portal can also be used to train and adapt new staff, strengthen horizontal links between departments, and reduce the need for business trips. The process of working in the organization will become more transparent. This is necessary both for employees (knowledge of the specifics of the company's activities is an important component of motivation), and for the authorities (it is easier to control the process of employees' work).

Of course, corporate portals also have their disadvantages. Development, configuration and support and administration of the portal must be carried out by a qualified specialist who needs to be paid. Add to this the time and money spent on training employees to use the portal.

Also possible leakage of corporate data to competitors in case of a portal hack. Sometimes competitors do not even have to use the services of a hacker - one unscrupulous employee is enough to “leak” inside information to competitors for a fee. So it is very important to ensure the maximum security of the portal - and this is again an expense.

There are several approaches to creating a corporate portal. Can be ordered portal development from scratch then it will best meet your individual requirements. But such development is not cheap, takes a lot of time, plus you will need to pay developers for ongoing support. Can buy a ready platform, which will have to be finalized to suit your needs - but for this, most likely, narrow-profile specialists will be needed.

Therefore, most companies prefer buy turnkey solutions content management system (CMS). Such systems have an intuitive interface, so that after installation and configuration of the system by specialists, almost any employee will be able to administer the corporate portal. He does not need knowledge of programming or HTML-layout. But this does not mean that the portal can be left without technical support - just in this case it will cost you less.

The corporate portal is efficient system intracorporate communication, allowing you to optimize business processes in large companies with many employees, branches and affiliates. But if you have a small company, the entire staff of which fits in two offices, such a portal is unlikely to be useful to you - the game will not be worth the candle.

Corporate Information Portal(Enterprise Information Portal, EIP) - also known as the corporate portal. Information automated system that provides employees with uniform order necessary services. The corporate portal has both limited access for employees and (if the company itself wishes) free access for everyone. In any case, the EIP system provides secure access to a single resource (most often through a web interface), and in general, the corporate portal is a means of aggregating and personalizing information.

The first ever definition of the term speaks unequivocally about the purpose of the first portals: “Enterprise Information Portals (EIP) are applications that allow companies to disclose information stored inside and outside the organization and provide each user with a single point of access to the information intended for him. information needed to make informed management decisions” (Christopher C. Shilakes and Julie Tylman, "Enterprise Information Portals", November 1998).

The portals of the first period were used as a tool for publishing information from management to company employees. They were a site with information about the company, on one of the pages of which a simple internal forum could be organized. On the portal, one could get information about the latest organizational changes in the company, read the news. In addition, the portal served as a simple file storage.

With the development of technology, the functions of portals have expanded. Starting in 2000, company employees began to use the portal to search for the necessary information, to get answers to their questions. Portal technologies have been developed in the direction of structuring and classifying data, increasing the speed and efficiency of searching for the necessary information, as well as providing the necessary format for presenting the results. During this period, corporate portals began to function as knowledge bases in various subject areas related to the company's activities.

Gartner definitions

EIP: Selection and Implementation

Manufacturers of corporate portals and solutions

Manufacturer	Product name	Technology	License	Portal API	Russified
Apache Software Foundation (ASF)	Jetspeed 2.1.3	J2EE	Apache License v2.0	JSR-168	unknown
ATG	ATG Portal	J2EE	a commercial	JSR-168	unknown
backbase	Rich Portal	RIA, J2EE, .NET	a commercial	Web Oriented Architecture	unknown
Broadvision	Broadvision Portal 8.0	J2EE	a commercial	unknown	unknown
eXo Platform SAS	eXo Portal 2.5	J2EE	Affero General Public License	JSR-286	unknown
Fasihi	Fasihi Enterprise Portal 2.0	J2EE	a commercial	JSR-286	unknown
IBM	WebSphere Portal Server 6.1	J2EE	a commercial	JSR-286	Yes