CIOview eUpdate
ROInow! for Portals

Portals -- A Look into the Soul of the Organization
Why is it so difficult to figure out the costs and benefits of a portal? Part of the answer is that portals can be used in many different ways and with varying degrees of complexity. Much of the difficulty is simply in assembling the volume of information required to do a thorough analysis. In addition, unless you have lots of experience in deploying portals, estimating the human resources required for a deployment is something akin to a theoretical physicist trying to figure out how much water would leak into a barrel on its way over Niagara Falls.

	Portal Approaches aContent Portal aInternal Transaction Portal aEnterprise Transaction Portal aCollaboration Portal

Despite the diversity of portal deployments CIOview believes that the financial costs and impact of portals is heavily influenced by a user's selection of one of four implementation approaches, and each approach has unique financial implications.

What makes a Portal Complex? The complexity of the portal drives many elements of your cost picture such as deployment resources, time to market, and ongoing personnel. The degree of collaboration required in the portal is the overriding influence in assessing your complexity, but you also need to take into consideration:

Portlet Development Choices
aHow many portlets will you deploy using building block portlets?
aHow many portlets will you build using pre-built, packaged components from a third party vendor?
a How many front-end portlets will you build to clip content from other internal or external web sites?
a How many portlets will you have to develop on your own?

Volume of Information: What kind of volume of information are we talking about you may ask? CIOview's ROInow! product for WebSphere Portal has:

• More than 180 server prices
• 300+ default answers
• 300+ "helpful hints" context sensitive advice
• 25+ "what-if" factors

The End Result: A portal Return on Investment (ROI) analysis is now possible in 20 minutes of work or less. And, if you spend 20 to 30 minutes responding to CIOview's ROInow! for WebSphere Portals the CIOview software will automatically generate a 35-page business case detailing all of your assumptions and results. You can then selectively edit the Microsoft Word or WordPro report and hand it to the financial decision-maker.

	Join us for a complementary Web seminar: Determining the ROI on your Portal Investment Tuesday, August 20, 2002 11:30 a.m. EST; 8:30 a.m. PT To register send your name, company, phone and email to info@cioview.com. Space is limited.

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The default answer either comes from market research data typically provided by a major market research firm such as IDC, or it is driven by CIOview's inference model. For example, when you select a customer's industry, this drives the default data for employee benefits, tax rate and the cost of capital. There are two important points that you should be aware of. First, all the default answers can be easily changed. Second, every default answer has a "Helpful Hint", which is available by simply clicking on the question response field. These Helpful Hints are often quite detailed, include a great deal of technical information, and can be used as a foundation for making judgments on the validity of your responses.

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