ENTERPRISE PORTALS

Enterprise Portals offer role-based access to authorised employees to the different enterprise assets – content, data, and business applications. It is a safe and secure platform for knowledge management, knowledge transfer, and collaboration.

The globally preferred and popular Enterprise Portal software includes Microsoft SharePoint, Sitecore, Drupal, and Liferay.

User Experience Design (UXD) is a specialized discipline that involves designing the layout of an enterprise system to offer the best experience to its users. Enterprise Portals are one category of enterprise systems that are widely accessed by business users within an enterprise domain and outside through a secure enterprise protocol. UXD, as a discipline builds unique, accessible, and practical experiences for users, who interact with the system on a regular basis. It ensures that the layout requires minimum navigation and a lesser number of clicks to reach the specific target destination screen. It also manages the easy and uncluttered placement of elements on each screen. It forms an integral part of the enterprise’s brand and builds positive emotions while interacting with the Enterprise Portal.

Role-Based Access Control or RBAC offers a restricted access as per the role of the user in the enterprise hierarchy. It allows users to access only that content and assets, which they require to perform a specific job.

RBAC is permissions-based and includes several factors, such as job, responsibility, and authorization. It decides whether a user is an administrator, manager, or end-user. It also offers access, such as read-only, create, and modify.

RBAC improves operational efficiency, improves compliance, increases visibility, reduces operational costs, and eliminates data leaks. It forms an integral part of any business system, in general, and Enterprise Portals, in specific.

Design Thinking considers user-level challenges in handling a system, defines user problems, designs innovative solutions to overcome the problems, and conducts user acceptance tests. It forms an integral part of design and development of modern Enterprise Portals.