"When working on
a standard portal, we can easily reach 30
% time saved."
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| Decembre
14, 2000 |
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It
is now a few months that Pentalog High
Tech ensures the integration of The Port,
the solution for creation and management
of website portals launched by Inet.
Project
manager, Pierre P. highlights the various
advantages of The Port.
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Aleth D. :
Pierre,
you are the project manager for the Integration
of The Port to the CERIB. Would you shortly tell
us what is this all about ? |
Pierre
P.
: The
Institute of studies and research of Concrete Industries
wanted to share, within its Intranet, resources
coming from diverse existing applications and that
were common to every users in order to cross and
multiply possibilities of requests. Its major wish
was to implement rigorous management of rights of
access to this knowledge database.
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| Aleth
D. :
Why
The
Port ? |
Pierre
P. :
The
Port is a generic enterprise portal. Thus it allows
to transversally access to information, through
Intranet, Extranet or the Internet. If you want
The Port to meet a specific need, you just have
to parameterise it.
To tell shortly, when building a portal with The
Port, you just have declare the different profiles,
personalise the interface with the colours of the
company and link information sources and applications
you want to allocate to the portal to make it operational.
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| Aleth
D. : Thus,
creating a portal website with The Port is a piece
of cake... |
P.P.
:
Almost.
Instead of entering the code, testing and debugging
and testing again features such as the rights of
access to the reference base - which constitute
the core module of such tools - you just parameterise
them.
And it is the same for the realisation of the pontoon
(the navigation bar) and the interface : instead
of drawing html pages and convert them in jsp or
java, The Portmaster (administration tool of The
Port) integrates elements of the graphical schedule
and understand XML parameters in order to build
pages with colours of the company automatically.
This way, every pages of the intranet wear same
colours and layouts.
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Aleth D. :
Ok, to summarise, using The Port enables
you to work faster... |
P.P.
:
Yes,
time savings are drastic actually.
When
talking about the CERIB precisely, we are not saving
as much time as building a standard portal, nevertheless
time savings amount 15 %.
When working on a standard portal, we can easily
reach 30 % time saved. This time we save is obviously
interesting for developers but indeed for the customers
who get financial benefit.
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Aleth D. :
And can you tell the system is reliable ? |
| P.P.
: Question
of reliability is solved in the same circumstances
as a classical development : Pentalog
High Tech sets and realises
a rigorous testing plan.
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A.D.
: And security
?
P.P.
: Access to The Port and management
of rights are under control of The City,
the functional core module of The Port.
Elements of security as encoding or those linked
with system intrusion are managed by the active
elements of the network. As The Port
is multi-platform, compliancy is immediate. Further
in the Cerib project.
More
information: consult
Pierre P. CV
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| Contact
: Hélène
Hemery |
