Portal Assessment Worksheets
170 Portal Server 6 2005Q1 • Deployment Planning Guide
Table E-5 User Management and Security Questions
1. How would you segment, categorize, and relate (hierarchically) your user community?
2. What are your current and future security policies?
3. Do various departments own or maintain their private view of the customer?
4. Do you have an enterprise directory?
Table E-6 Business Intelligence Questions
1. Do you have a need to gather, store, analyze, and provide information for enterprise decision-making?
2. Do you already employ any data analysis or OLAP tools?
3. At what level(s) do you need to collect business intelligence (enterprise-wide, division, department, project,
onetime event)?
Table E-7 Architecture Questions
1. Do you already have an existing architecture strategy?
• Do you have the capabilities to implement a new architecture solution?
• What technologies do you currently use?
• Do you have the staff to implement a new architecture solution?
2. Are there organizational issues that are hindering a successful implementation of a new IT architecture?
3. For the top ten services that you would like deployed by using a portal, what platform and architecture do you need
to support?
4. How do these services authenticate users and manage access control
5. How do you programmatically gain access to these services?
6. What is your current and future messaging (email) and collaboration architecture?
7. What is your current and future enterprise directory architecture?
8. What technologies are used for application integration?