Proven Portals: Best Practices for Planning, Designing, and Developing Enterprise Portals

Incrementally Implementing and Adapting the Portal

The last step of the process is implementation. After completing the previous three steps you have a firm understanding of your requirements, a solid design for meeting those requirements and fitting the portal into the existing enterprise architecture, and an assessment of the ROI. The implementation phase should be done incrementally with a rollout of features and applications as they become available.

Ideally, the first components should support some level of collaboration since as many as 70% of portal users cite that as the most significant benefit of portals [Palmer 2003]. It should also incorporate basic elements of information architecture, such as subsites, global navigation, and search ...