Portal Design Strategy
- Mark Skilton
- Apr 11, 2007
- 2 min read

Communities and channel strategy design
User journey mapping
Community groups
Community needs (Single customer view)
Company needs (Single view of customer)
Market channels
Channels to market
Process
Common services
Specific services
Syndicated services (e.g. white label)
Content
Structured
Master data
profiling
Unstructured
Media content
Branding
Look and feel
Customisation
Application integration
Web services
Content data base management
Community control
Acquire
Service
Change
Retention
Customer profiling
Customer preferences
Push versus pull services
Operational service
Hit box
Service levels
Performance
Architectural design needs
Technology choice
Knowledge centric
Content centric
Collaboration
Mobility
..
Standards
Interoperability
Functional
Functional
Search
Workflow
Aggregation
Role based use/access
Self service
Help
Knowledge management
Transactional
Collaborative
Security
SSO
ID&A
Messages
Content DRM
CDA
Caching
SLA needs
Deployment
Synchronisation
House keeping
CMA
Frameworks
Templates
Composition
Composites
Choreography
Portlets
Microsite tools
Content extraction and synchronisation
Business case
Cost
Consolidation of users
Consolidation of services
Quality
Business service commercial model
Time
Improved service life cycle
Web eComerce
Notes from Intervention 01 web eCommerce Model
- Web site content and design and development
- B2C web sites and microsite development
- B2B supplier and business portal design and development
- B2E employe intranet site development and services
- Mobile phone technology content and services design and development (SMS messaging, content delivery and content syndication services.)
- PDA content and services development
- interactive TV (WML) content and services development
- Issues around web based architectures covering
- Enterprise content integration
- Data protection act legislation
- Accessibility legislation
- database and content architectures
Portal Standards
I Have already developed Portal standards draft
See Intervention 75 Portal Standards and Intervention 77 Service oriented standards
This has subsequently been summarized and an area of development

Portal functional encapsulation
Notes from Intervention 78 Portlet Functionality patterns
Note on Portlet use
Functional Portlets
Fully encapsulated Portlet functionality
Intelligent Aggregation
Portlet selects and provided context specific content
Dumb Aggregation
Portlet provides window to other content (external web page)
Content will change as the change occurs managed by the dumb Portlet but no intelligence applied
Static links / Static content
Portlet contains links to other content / pages
Typically a combination is used of Functional portlets and static links to other services.
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