The potential of portals in modern business is extraordinary! Portals can provide the foundation for customer self service, project collaboration, document management, news distribution and for creating communities of interest in which like-minded people can exchange and share information. Portals also act as a powerful aggregator, bringing together related information from multiple systems onto a common screen or into a common search environment.

Volante knows that creating successful intranets, extranets and internet portals is much more than the technology. It involves understanding your people, your business and your information assets, and designing a solution which embraces all these aspects. It also involves a process of change management, so that your employees obtain maximum advantage from your investment.

Volante also understands that successful portals will evolve and will encompass greater and greater business functionality over time. For this reason the approach must be visionary and strategic. For example, a high functionality portal may all the following elements.

Illustration 1.1:
Volante Portal Diagram