When you log on to MSN, Yahoo and you’re on a portal. That is why most People understand, at least instinctively, what a portal is. Simply defined, it is an aggregation point for content, functions, and features, using web-based technology and dynamic channels to access existing applications in order to create an interface with a unifying theme. It is the interface between any particular user and the information they need or want for the day ahead or the task at hand.
Portals are very much on the minds of business and government leaders. According to Gartner, many surveys conducted in 2005 show enterprise portals on CIOs’ lists of top ten technology focus areas. Forrester Research reports strong growth in portal development and usage, especially in financial services, retail and government. And our own work confirms this trend: business and government requests for our help with portals are increasing substantially year to year.
This growth can be attributed to portals’ key
benefit: by using portals companies and
governments can achieve excellence in employee communication and productivity and customer management and service. Nirvana’s ongoing research into the characteristics of high-performance businesses shows that the most successful businesses and government organizations are those that can provide timely information to employees through technology so they can deliver an excellent, branded experience at every customer touch point.
Organizations that recognize the power of portals are pursuing portal projects to accomplish three
important goals:
1. facilitate customer and employee self-service
According to a study by Yankee Group, 82 percent of respondents cited employee self-service as a primary business driver for portal-based initiatives; 80 percent cited improving customer and partner self-service. Greater employee self-service was key for a leading global financial services firm. Following a merger, the firm had a corporate intranet environment residing on a wide range of technology architectures, featuring vastly different user interfaces, resulting in high total cost of ownership and poor communication
among employees. Working with Nirvana they developed a common technology infrastructure to support the disparate content management and portal services, and managed the migration effort to the new, shared environment. The result is the largest financial services portal of its kind in the world, with more than 200,000 users processing up to 750,000 transactions each day. The benefits
range from employees having fast, easy access to information, the firm having unprecedented flexibility to update information and change functionality, and technology infrastructure and
support costs having been reduced.
2. Enhance business processes and services Complex business processes, such as a highly integrated supply chain, require that many individuals, often across numerous organizational boundaries, coordinate their activities and respond appropriately to changing conditions, often in near real time. Portals are critical to providing up-to-the-minute data and instant response capabilities. The U.S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides an example of an organization benefiting from enhanced processes and services as a result of innovating their portal infrastructure. Teaming with Nirvana, NIST developed a portal that gives the nine Department of Commerce bureaus that NIST serves centralized real-time access to business systems, information, and reporting and analysis tools. With easier access to integrated current data, users have more time for data analysis and informed decision making. Now NIST and Nirvana are expanding the portal’s functionality, rolling it out to additional Department of Commerce bureaus, and extending the portal to serve as a gateway for public users.
3. Comply with legislation
Executives worldwide are concerned about complying with stringent new regulatory requirements, notably the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and Basel II. To be in compliance, companies must be able to integrate, access, analyze and store both the structured data (e.g. transactions) and the unstructured information. documents) that represent their
operations. Sophisticated information technology is critical to supporting legislative compliance, and portals are a key part of the solution. A well designed portal can ensure that the right information is captured, aggregated, presented to the appropriate user, and available for the analytical processes needed for compliance and risk management. In particular, as corporate risk or compliance officers assume ultimate responsibility for the compliance of their corporations, they benefit from having critical metrics readily available via a dashboard.
Portal rationalization
Portals can be a powerful tool – if they are efficient and effective. Many are not.
We have seen companies with thousands
of portals, supported by multiple technology platforms and operating models, and maintained as time allows by hundreds of people. A lack of standards and processes makes the portals hard to use and maintain. Content is often duplicated and may be of dubious quality. And developing and maintaining multiple portals is expensive. So, portals are also top of mind for business and government leaders worried about their cost and complexity.
Nirvana has established a business case for portal platform and application rationalization, which enables an organization to retire redundant hardware, simplify the operating model and staff support, and thereby reduce costs. For example, we worked with a large financial services institution to document their
potential benefits from portal rationalization. Hard savings included a reduction in IT infrastructure costs of 61 percent, and in IT support costs of 46 percent. Also important, though harder to quantify, were the benefits of greater workforce access to knowledge, increased productivity and better decision making. Nirvana believes portals can enhance an organization’s performance by
efficiently and cost-effectively providing the information that an organization needs when it is needed to perform critical operations, improve customer and employee self-service and fulfill its mission. Businesses and governments aspiring to high performance should take a fresh, hard look at improving
their information delivery by improving their enterprise portals.
About Nirvana
Information Management Services
Nirvana Information Management Services is focused on bringing customers solutions to better manage their business, interact with customers
and make strategic, financial and operational decisions. This services specialize in information management including business intelligence, portals & content management and data management & architecture. For more information about
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How Portals Enhance Business Performance
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At Nirvana, our global clients' expectations for quality are consistently met or exceeded. We utilize a quality management framework that is sturdy, flexible, and continuously improving in compliance with the SEI CMM and Six Sigma models. The system is a wide-ranging warehouse of best practices, defect prevention mechanisms, metrics, risks and reusable components. The system helps all processes, including the software development lifecycle and project management processes. Our global Development Center has the distinction of achieving the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model (SEI-CMM) Level 5 The Focus of Nirvana's quality policy and process is to ensure that we deliver 'Customer Satisfaction' by making our software and services defect free. We achieve our quality by ensuring the quality of both the processes and the products independently. Nirvana's India Development Center maintains an exceptionally well-structured project repository. It also has clearly defined modes and forums for communication, as well as predefined roles and expectations. Nirvana understands that engineering management often compresses QA timelines in order to release products in time. Unfortunately, in an environment where product development gets delayed due to changing business requirements and resolving technical challenges, it is difficult to get enough time for testing the product completely. Nirvana has turned around this situation for many QA organizations within product companies, large and small, often converting a perilous situation into a competitive advantage for its clients. Based on its long experience of providing end-to-end quality assurance services, Nirvana has developed a set of best practices, techniques, and frameworks. This helps Nirvana in testing the products better in shorter timeframes. Some clients choose Nirvana's testing services because of its deep expertise in automated testing. Other clients select Nirvana for its experience in defining effective test cases. Nirvana has formalized communication mechanisms and tools for error-free interaction between the development team and Nirvana's testing team. Thus Nirvana's testing team can work as an independent unit. As you consider outsourcing your testing services or extending your team with Nirvana, ask yourself the following questions:
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Nirvana is equipped with an experienced technology management consulting team that improves the alliance of business and technology. Our consultants combine their extensive technical experience with strong strategic and business focused leadership. Nirvana's team of consultants strives to: We provide solutions to world's leading companies using a proven business-focused approach. First of all our consultants take a deep understanding of the business need of the client, then we work with them to design and deliver efficient solutions, striking the right balance between leveraging what they have and delivering what they need. We help our clients to streamline their IT strategy, governance, metrics, business processes, technology and organization structure needed to deliver and manage efficient, high quality IT services. In this way we help them in building a high performance IT organization. Using our substantial experience in both business and technology, we can help convert your business requirements into technical solutions. Some of the solutions provided by Nirvana are: When you engage Nirvana, you're Patnering a strategic technology consulting partner committed to helping you meet your unique business and technology objectives on time, on budget and with an optimal experience. We apply the expertise of our global community of technology experts, an unmatched portfolio of proven solutions, flexible delivery and a laser focus on the J2EE and Microsoft enterprise platform to help you increase revenue, reduce costs and reinvest in innovation for competitive advantage. When selecting a Nirvana's solution, you'll receive the best of our thinking and experience. Based on engineered, tested and reusable technology assets, our solutions are proven to help customers streamline operations, create new products and services, optimize collaboration across all groups and boundaries, and serve their customers better. In addition, with Nirvana's investment in multi-source delivery, you get the right resources at the right time, right location and at the right cost. Through our global delivery model of more than 3 delivery centers, we use offshore, onshore and near shore resources and repeatable architectures, methodologies and tools proven to save customers time and money throughout the development and delivery cycle. Our solutions, combined with our strategic approach to delivery, are designed to bring the highest-quality results with predictability and speed. Nirvana Ecommerce & Java Shopping Cart Nirvana's ecommerce platform designed to maximize sales with minimal time and effort. See how our cutting edge features help attract the right customers and convert them to buyers. Deliver more qualified customers to your site without relying on expensive paid search through industry-leading ecommerce features such as search engine optimization Help customers find what they want easily with powerful in-site search and navigation Ensure customers complete the sale with a full-featured shopping cart and innovations like one-page checkout Enable non-technical staff to create promotions and cross-sells or up-sells quickly and easily without programming Our ecommerce solutions are also designed for fast, easy integration and customization to deliver the best flexibility, time-to-market and TCO of any ecommerce software. The bleeding edge in The technology The best IT professionals, based in USA, will provide quality control to the projects of nirvanainfocom. Leading Systems Integrator We are consistently leading systems integrator by leading analysts, due in part to the success of our Global Delivery Centers (GDCs). These centers create an environment completely dedicated to technology project delivery, and the results are clear: our ADC projects produce a reduction of up 30% in effort and up to 20% fewer defects compared to other models. The Right Tools Our technology teams constantly seek new ways to improve the delivery experience. Delivery of our custom-software projects from 35% to 50%. Service-Oriented Architecture We have also established ourselves as a global leader in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and have worked with clients to develop SOA-based applications that improve technical flexibility and increase integration across their operations. Business Transformation Our application development and integration teams help clients transform themselves in response to changes in the marketplace or exchange demands. We have demonstrated that we offer the resources and hardware, software, and documentation expertise required to successfully integrate two or more partners. Nirvana offers customized software development services that can offer end to end solution for your agile business and is very precise in defining and satisfying your needs. We persistently keep our finger on the pulse of IT market, know the most asked-for services and choose only proved and well-operating among them. Our success, and that of our clients, is based on the quality of our people and their ideas. Our motto is ?Independent Thinking? And we believe our corporate environment reflects that, encouraging motivated individuals to excel. We carefully look for, train, and retain the best IT talent available on the market. 100% of our employees hold university degrees and ten percent are prize winners of international contests in programming, mathematics and informatics.And finally, we understand, how important trust and business ethics are for the stable ongoing growth. We assume it as the basis for long-term relationships, that's why we individually work with our customers to develop Nirvana offers Enterprise Information System Development services supplying the people, processes, tools and methodologies for managing custom and ERP software applications. The focus of these services is on a new application development as well as performance enhancements, customization, integration, and other services delivered in support of the life cycle of particular enterprise applications and information system in general. Nirvana major experience in custom development: Java, .NET, C++ (including cross platform development) Offshore Software Development services are based on global delivery model when activities such as software development, testing, and consulting become the objects for outsourcing. This model proved its efficiency especially in cost-time terms. Almost 5 years of successful outsourcing practice resulted in transparent and easy managing processes. Consulting and Analysis Services provided by Nirvana cover all the aspects of application development and management such as: technology and product consulting, applications consulting, and process consulting. The particular tasks of application consulting performed by Nirvan's specialists are formalization and systematization of software requirements, functional specifications development, analysis and enhancements plans development, and many others. Though, every project is a different case with its specific objectives and conditions Nirvana infocom global information technology integrator that understands technology , business and the bottom line. We have chosen a strategic global model combining the best of onshore and offshore software development to deliver best of bred services and products to our global client's .In today's competitive world most important risk for a business is overspending on information technology. Nirvana's high performance business" strategy builds on the expertise in consulting, technology and global delivery modeling to help clients perform at the highest levels so that our client's can create sustainable value for their customers at optimum price and quality. . We use our industry and business-process knowledge, our service offering expertise and our insight into and deep understanding of emerging technologies to identify new business and technology trends and formulate and implement solutions for clients under aggressive time constraints. We deliver competitively priced, high-value services that help our clients measurably improve business performance. Our global delivery model enables us to provide a complete end-to-end delivery capability by drawing on Nirvana's global resources to deliver high-quality, cost-effective solutions to clients under demanding timeframes. We operate in North America our global business model designed to enable us to provide clients around the world with the same high level of service. Drawing on a combination of industry expertise, functional capabilities, alliances, global resources and technology, we deliver competitively priced, high-value services that help our clients measurably improve business performance. Our three key service areas—Consulting, Technology and Offshore —development are the innovation engines through which we develop our knowledge capital; build world-class skills and capabilities; and create, acquire and manage key assets central to the development of solutions for our clients. The subject matter experts within these areas work closely with the professionals in our operating groups to develop and deliver solutions to clients. Client engagement teams—which typically consist of industry experts, capability specialists and professionals with local market knowledge—leverage the full capabilities of our global delivery model to deliver price-competitive solutions and services. Nirvana's SOA Point of View The information technology solutions that many organizations have implement over the past decades are no longer adequate to meet contemporary business needs. In today's economy, the global marketplace requires businesses to operate with greater agility, competitiveness, and productivity, at lower cost than ever before—because now their competitors come from every corner of the globe. Technological advances that one company overlooks will be adopted by another and used to their advantage. As a result, companies must quickly recognize and respond to new opportunities and challenges and growing global competition. We need to respond to customer requirements more quickly and precisely—and to offer tailored responses to the distinctive needs of various customers. Enhancing efficiency and productivity requires faster access to deeper, more accurate, and more timely information for better decision-making. As companies respond to their challenges by setting up virtual supply chains that bring more global partners and vendors into their core business, they need ways to seamlessly integrate with those partners and vendors. Many IT environments aren't up to the challenge. Their systems are inflexible, incapable of quickly adapting to new business or regulatory requirements. Too many systems are complex, proprietary, and siloed, making customization and integration difficult. The inability to share existing application components increases the time and cost to develop, test, deploy, and maintain new solutions. As a result, too many resources are tied down with fixing, maintaining, and attempting to integrate existing solutions, rather than investing in innovative solutions to new business needs. The IT department, which needs to be a strategic asset to the company, is too often a cost center instead of an innovation center. Fortunately, trends have been moving in a more productive direction. Technologies like extensible markup language (XML) and simple object access protocol (SOAP) enable new ways to integrate systems. Legacy investments may now integrate with new solutions across platforms, departments, geographic boundaries—even across enterprises Together, these developments provide the foundation to solve the problems facing business and IT: service-oriented architectures (SOAs). IT STRATEGY & CONSULTING
Global Delivery model
Small business Solutions
The Need for a New Enterprise Architecture
Nirvana Consultancy, Technology Global Delievry
Nirvana is equipped with an experienced technology management consulting team that improves the alliance of business and technology. Our consultants combine their extensive technical experience with strong strategic and business focused leadership. Nirvana's team of consultants strives to: We provide solutions to world's leading companies using a proven business-focused approach. First of all our consultants take a deep understanding of the business need of the client, then we work with them to design and deliver efficient solutions, striking the right balance between leveraging what they have and delivering what they need. We help our clients to streamline their IT strategy, governance, metrics, business processes, technology and organization structure needed to deliver and manage efficient, high quality IT services. In this way we help them in building a high performance IT organization. Using our substantial experience in both business and technology, we can help convert your business requirements into technical solutions. Some of the solutions provided by Nirvana are: The bleeding edge in The technology The best IT professionals, based in USA, will provide quality control to the projects of nirvanainfocom. Leading Systems Integrator We are consistently leading systems integrator by leading analysts, due in part to the success of our Global Delivery Centers (GDCs). These centers create an environment completely dedicated to technology project delivery, and the results are clear: our ADC projects produce a reduction of up 30% in effort and up to 20% fewer defects compared to other models. The Right Tools Our technology teams constantly seek new ways to improve the delivery experience. Delivery of our custom-software projects from 35% to 50%. Service-Oriented Architecture We have also established ourselves as a global leader in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), and have worked with clients to develop SOA-based applications that improve technical flexibility and increase integration across their operations. Business Transformation Our application development and integration teams help clients transform themselves in response to changes in the marketplace or exchange demands. We have demonstrated that we offer the resources and hardware, software, and documentation expertise required to successfully integrate two or more partners. Nirvana infocom global information technology integrator that understands technology , business and the bottom line. We have chosen a strategic global model combining the best of onshore and offshore software development to deliver best of bred services and products to our global client's .In today's competitive world most important risk for a business is overspending on information technology. Nirvana's high performance business" strategy builds on the expertise in consulting, technology and global delivery modeling to help clients perform at the highest levels so that our client's can create sustainable value for their customers at optimum price and quality. . We use our industry and business-process knowledge, our service offering expertise and our insight into and deep understanding of emerging technologies to identify new business and technology trends and formulate and implement solutions for clients under aggressive time constraints. We deliver competitively priced, high-value services that help our clients measurably improve business performance. Our global delivery model enables us to provide a complete end-to-end delivery capability by drawing on Nirvana's global resources to deliver high-quality, cost-effective solutions to clients under demanding timeframes. We operate in North America our global business model designed to enable us to provide clients around the world with the same high level of service. Drawing on a combination of industry expertise, functional capabilities, alliances, global resources and technology, we deliver competitively priced, high-value services that help our clients measurably improve business performance. Our three key service areas—Consulting, Technology and Offshore —development are the innovation engines through which we develop our knowledge capital; build world-class skills and capabilities; and create, acquire and manage key assets central to the development of solutions for our clients. The subject matter experts within these areas work closely with the professionals in our operating groups to develop and deliver solutions to clients. Client engagement teams—which typically consist of industry experts, capability specialists and professionals with local market knowledge—leverage the full capabilities of our global delivery model to deliver price-competitive solutions and services. Nirvana offers customized software development services that can offer end to end solution for your agile business and is very precise in defining and satisfying your needs. We persistently keep our finger on the pulse of IT market, know the most asked-for services and choose only proved and well-operating among them. Our success, and that of our clients, is based on the quality of our people and their ideas. Our motto is ?Independent Thinking? And we believe our corporate environment reflects that, encouraging motivated individuals to excel. We carefully look for, train, and retain the best IT talent available on the market. 100% of our employees hold university degrees and ten percent are prize winners of international contests in programming, mathematics and informatics.And finally, we understand, how important trust and business ethics are for the stable ongoing growth. We assume it as the basis for long-term relationships, that's why we individually work with our customers to develop Nirvana offers Enterprise Information System Development services supplying the people, processes, tools and methodologies for managing custom and ERP software applications. The focus of these services is on a new application development as well as performance enhancements, customization, integration, and other services delivered in support of the life cycle of particular enterprise applications and information system in general. Nirvana major experience in custom development: Java, .NET, C++ (including cross platform development) Offshore Software Development services are based on global delivery model when activities such as software development, testing, and consulting become the objects for outsourcing. This model proved its efficiency especially in cost-time terms. Almost 5 years of successful outsourcing practice resulted in transparent and easy managing processes. Consulting and Analysis Services provided by Nirvana cover all the aspects of application development and management such as: technology and product consulting, applications consulting, and process consulting. The particular tasks of application consulting performed by Nirvan's specialists are formalization and systematization of software requirements, functional specifications development, analysis and enhancements plans development, and many others. Though, every project is a different case with its specific objectives and conditions When you engage Nirvana, you're Patnering a strategic technology consulting partner committed to helping you meet your unique business and technology objectives on time, on budget and with an optimal experience. We apply the expertise of our global community of technology experts, an unmatched portfolio of proven solutions, flexible delivery and a laser focus on the J2EE and Microsoft enterprise platform to help you increase revenue, reduce costs and reinvest in innovation for competitive advantage. When selecting a Nirvana's solution, you'll receive the best of our thinking and experience. Based on engineered, tested and reusable technology assets, our solutions are proven to help customers streamline operations, create new products and services, optimize collaboration across all groups and boundaries, and serve their customers better. In addition, with Nirvana's investment in multi-source delivery, you get the right resources at the right time, right location and at the right cost. Through our global delivery model of more than 3 delivery centers, we use offshore, onshore and near shore resources and repeatable architectures, methodologies and tools proven to save customers time and money throughout the development and delivery cycle. Our solutions, combined with our strategic approach to delivery, are designed to bring the highest-quality results with predictability and speed. Nirvana Ecommerce & Java Shopping Cart Nirvana's ecommerce platform designed to maximize sales with minimal time and effort. See how our cutting edge features help attract the right customers and convert them to buyers. Deliver more qualified customers to your site without relying on expensive paid search through industry-leading ecommerce features such as search engine optimization Help customers find what they want easily with powerful in-site search and navigation Ensure customers complete the sale with a full-featured shopping cart and innovations like one-page checkout Enable non-technical staff to create promotions and cross-sells or up-sells quickly and easily without programming Our ecommerce solutions are also designed for fast, easy integration and customization to deliver the best flexibility, time-to-market and TCO of any ecommerce software. The information technology solutions that many organizations have implement over the past decades are no longer adequate to meet contemporary business needs. In today's economy, the global marketplace requires businesses to operate with greater agility, competitiveness, and productivity, at lower cost than ever before—because now their competitors come from every corner of the globe. Technological advances that one company overlooks will be adopted by another and used to their advantage. As a result, companies must quickly recognize and respond to new opportunities and challenges and growing global competition. We need to respond to customer requirements more quickly and precisely—and to offer tailored responses to the distinctive needs of various customers. Enhancing efficiency and productivity requires faster access to deeper, more accurate, and more timely information for better decision-making. As companies respond to their challenges by setting up virtual supply chains that bring more global partners and vendors into their core business, they need ways to seamlessly integrate with those partners and vendors. Many IT environments aren't up to the challenge. Their systems are inflexible, incapable of quickly adapting to new business or regulatory requirements. Too many systems are complex, proprietary, and siloed, making customization and integration difficult. The inability to share existing application components increases the time and cost to develop, test, deploy, and maintain new solutions. As a result, too many resources are tied down with fixing, maintaining, and attempting to integrate existing solutions, rather than investing in innovative solutions to new business needs. The IT department, which needs to be a strategic asset to the company, is too often a cost center instead of an innovation center. Fortunately, trends have been moving in a more productive direction. Technologies like extensible markup language (XML) and simple object access protocol (SOAP) enable new ways to integrate systems. Legacy investments may now integrate with new solutions across platforms, departments, geographic boundaries—even across enterprises Together, these developments provide the foundation to solve the problems facing business and IT: service-oriented architectures (SOAs). IT STRATEGY & CONSULTING
Global delivery model
Small business Solutions
Nirvana's SOA Point of View
The Need for a New Enterprise Architecture
