Chapter 1. Portal Assessment

This chapter covers the initial portal assessment leading to a Proof of Value (POV), which needs to be executed for portal engagements at program and/or project levels. One of the main assessment goals is to capture the business drivers for choosing this technology and evaluate the business value to be added with a portal solution. The outcome of the business assessment is a current and future state gap analysis and subsequently a mapping of the business drivers to portal capabilities. The assessment covers business and technology aspects. It helps drive the next discussion of the need for portal governance, process, and organizational changes that a portal project can bring as a requirement to an enterprise moving to the portal paradigm. This chapter will provide orientation to get started with assessing and looking at options for a portal POV; and how the cloud plays an important role in the enablement. By the time we are done, we will have looked at the following topics:

• IBM WebSphere Portal (WP), IBM Web Experience Factory (WEF), and the cloud

• Cloud service models — SaaS/IaaS/PaaS

• A case study

• Cloud use cases applied

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