Russia's third-placed search and portal operator Rambler is to launch a major TV and movie site - described to me as a "Russian Hulu" - as the basis of its video advertising effort, as Russia's broadband population booms. Currently in beta and due to launch by September/October, Rambler Kinozal...
In the fall of 2002, the Center for Technology in Government CTG at the University at Albany conducted current practice research to identify and examine existing government to government (G2G) portal projects. The purpose of this research was to determine if single sign-on intergovernmental portals, that channel business functions across...
Apollo Hospitals Group has the largest chain of hospitals in India. Apollo Health Street AHS Ltd., one of the ventures of Apollo, wanted to setup a Virtual Medical University VMU as a portal to host multiple services for the medical fraternity (practicing doctors, doctors mastering in medicine and students graduating...
Based in Northbrook, Illinois, Allstate Corporation is one of the nation's largest insurers. In 2003, the company recorded roughly U.S. $32.1 billion in revenue. Allstate wanted to give customers access to life and annuity policies through its customer-facing Web portal. Such functionality already was available through another Web portal restricted...
The Staubach Company is the leading global real estate advisory firm that delivers cost-effective solutions for the users of office, industrial, and retail space. It needed a collaborative solution to help its brokers organize and exchange information across national and international markets. Staubach Connect, a Web portal using Microsoft Windows...
The main objectives of the 'Freeserve Christmas Shopping Game' were to increase awareness and depth of the product range on the portal, and communicate the convenience of online shopping. It was hoped that a fun light hearted game that made fun of the stresses of Christmas shopping would encourage visitors...
Electronic Arts, Inc., the world's leading provider of interactive entertainment software, is changing the game. EA envisions a future where people can meet, play games, and compete online. Facing launches from upstarts and major competitors, EA is creating its own future by launching a games portal to surpass anything in...
With 2,800 employees, including over 300 clinicians and an additional 3,000 contracted clinicians, HealthCare Partners provides care to over 500,000 patients from 32 locations across the Los Angeles area. To improve staff productivity and patient care, HealthCare Partners needed a faster and more accessible corporate information system. HealthCare Partners deployed...
The Allstate Corporation (NYSE: ALL), the nation's largest publicly held personal lines insurer, serves more than 16 million households. The Allstate Corporation relies heavily on Allstate Investments, LLC to manage its corporate investment portfolios and report pertinent data to its investment officers. Allstate Investments needed a better way to aggregate...
Comparison shopping sites and portals like Shopping.com, Shopzilla, CNET Shopper, Yahoo! Shopping and others can be very effective at driving highly qualified leads to a retailer’s online store. However, many online retailers fail to achieve these results due to data problems that limit the effectiveness of these marketing programs....
Alcoa, Inc. is the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina, and is active in all major aspects of the industry - technology, mining, refining, smelting, fabricating and recycling. Alcoa needed to provide employees with better access to critical enterprise applications, data stores and content repositories to...
Avnet needed to develop a customer-centric portal for the sales reps that could scale as the organization grew and integrate with other business management applications. Sage CRM SalesLogix Web client and Sage CRM SalesLogix Support with customizations was implemented to meet Avnet's integration and user interface requirements. This resulted in...
DaimlerChrysler has engaged in a series of portal projects in order to provide structured access to the huge amount of data and applications available to customers, partners and employees. One of the most successful usage scenarios has developed around the 'Supplier Portal', serving more than 15.000 individuals from around 7000...
A leading multinational helps drug companies analyze ECG patterns to determine if their drugs have helped patients. These analyses help the client's customers get the required background information that assists in getting approval from the FDA. The company wanted to develop a special portal for providing ECG test data to...
A global investment management company, with an asset base of over $248 billion composed of mutual funds and other investment vehicles, wished to increase its client focus and continue building relationships with them through e-services. It partnered with Infosys to create a portal to provide self-servicing opportunities for its financial...
The On Demand Workplace is a Web portal-based environment that helps simplify employee, partner, supplier and client access to content, applications, people and processes. It is designed to enable the delivery of capabilities to people - virtually whenever they need it and wherever they are, based on their role in...
This case study reports about protecting its revenue with an agile sales team. Although the company had a process for this, it usually took weeks before information was completely distributed, limiting the organization's agility. The company determined it needed to provide the sales team with up to date business critical...
So many movies are based on the concept of a portal; a magical door that transports a person from one world to another. A portal in the technology world is magical too. It provides the end user with a single integrated seamless view of information that behind the scenes is...
BT Group is a European leader in telecommunications. The challenge for BT was to react faster and more intelligently than its rivals, as market conditions change, customer expectations increase and new competition surfaces. It needed to upgrade the portal's basic search solution with advanced technology that could hasten employee decision-making...
This U.S.-based automaker wanted a robust CRM solution to support increasing numbers of customer contacts via phone, Web, e-mail and other channels. It also wanted to improve efficiencies and renew its focus on providing a superior customer experience. After evaluating the automaker's existing business processes and technologies, EDS selected Siebel's...
