Appendix E
Portal Deployment Worksheets
This appendix provides worksheets to help with the portal deployment process.
This appendix contains the following sections:
•Portal Assessment Worksheets
•Portal Design Task List
Portal Assessment Worksheets
Use these worksheets to learn more about your organization’s business needs and potential areas of concern around deploying portals.
Table E-1 General Questions
1.Identify the business reasons why you want a portal (check and elaborate on all that apply):
• Reducing procurement cost
• Reducing the cost of sharing information with customers, suppliers, or partners
• Eliminating the cost of maintaining many point solutions
• Expanding the reach of the customer base for your services
• Reducing the time to deploy new business services
• Securing the access to your data and services
• Making it easier for your customers to do business with you over the Internet
• Reducing the cost and time for integrating business services with suppliers and partners
• To comply with governmental regulations
• Personalizing the user experience
• Needing to gather business intelligence on the usage of services
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