Thinner: Let the Portal Fit the Need
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Thinner:Let the Portal Fit the Need
Susan Miltenberger, [email protected] Simpson, [email protected]
Original Portal Goals
• Make key institutional information availableanytime anywhere
• Bringing systems together
• Centralized communication
• Role based access
• LDAP authentication• Weather and email• Snapshots and other html pagelets• News
Portal History @ MICAPeopleSoft Enterprise Portal
• Cold Fusion self service• Marketplace and the Opening• Pagelet authoring tool
Portal History @ MICAPeopleSoft Enterprise Portal
• Support for Safari browser• Re-branding• Improved self service
Portal History @ MICAPeopleSoft Enterprise Portal
Two Themes
What’s EssentialOwnershipinstitutional or departmental?
Audiencepublic or private?
Communicationcontrolled or collaborative?
Communitypre-fab or organic?
The “MICA Web” is not simply thecollege’s “Web site,” but the full rangeof digital communications vehicles…
• an essential tool for performing the full range ofacademic, administrative, and transactionalactivities of the college
• an environment where members of the MICAcommunity connect with one another and remainconnected with the College
What we didn’t get
• Anywhere/anytime - providedyou know where to go
• The central place might bewww.mica.edu orhome.mica.edu
• Coordinated systems wereother PeopleSoft applications=
Going on a diet
What the portal isn’t…• A place to manage enterprise security• A website• A place to natively manage all of your
systems• A place to check weather and stocks
How we’re moving forward
Nov 2007: Portal 9.0 de-implementation
Jul 2008: www.mica.edu launch
Thinner:
Let NeedsDefine the
Portal