Portal Assessment Worksheets
168 Portal Server 6 2005Q1 • Deployment Planning Guide
2. How many portals does your organization already have?
3. What types are they (business-to-employee, business-to-consumer, business-to-business, ISP)?
4. If you have more than one, do you have a need to reduce the number? Integrate? Federate?
5. Do you have departmental portals?
6. What is the extent of your Web presence? How many web sites do you have?
7. List the top ten application services of value to you, that you would like to expose by using Portal Server to your
partners? Suppliers? Customers? Employees?
8. Who is the target community for your portal?
Table E-2 Organizational Questions
1. Who are the stakeholders of this portal?
2. Who are the business owners (department, organization, or an individual) within your organization who would
expose the content or application service that they own by using the portal?
3. Would an application service exposed by using the portal be made up of smaller business applications managed
by an inter-departmental business process?
4. Who would “own” this portal (the infrastructure)?
5. Who would own the content?
6. How do you plan to recruit additional business owners within your organization to contribute their content or
applications for your portal?
7. What project management, architect, and technical implementation resources do you have available to help
develop this portal?
8. Who sets the policies for web site characteristics such as look and feel and presentation?
Table E-1 General Questions