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Chapter 3

Identifying and Evaluating Your Businessand Technical Requirements
The first step in planning your deployment is identifying your Sun Java™ System
Portal Server business and technical requirements.. You need to gather both
business and technical requirements before you can address architecture and
design issues.
This chapter contains the following sections:
•Business Objectives
•Technical Goals
•Mapping Portal Server Features to Your Business Needs
•Understanding User Behaviors and Patterns
Business Objectives
Your business requirements address your organization’s problems and
opportunities, and include such factors as:
•Services
• Service availability
•Future growth
• New technologies
• Capital investment
To be useful in formulating design requirements, the business requirements must
address detailed goals and objectives.