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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