RapidStart/WS Portal: Quickly Allows You to Realize the Value of WebSphere Portal

• Delivers a well defined set of services to provide you with an operational WebSphere Portal footprint.
• Focuses on knowledge transfer and mentoring to ensure your IT professionals have a fundamental understanding of WebSphere Portal.
• Provided by WebSphere Certified Professionals with real-world industry experience.
• Produces deliverables that can be used for the strategic deployment of WebSphere Portal on an enterprise-wide basis

Business Challenge

You are challenged with providing intuitive and personalized services to your customers. You have already chosen or want to choose WebSphere Portal as the foundational platform in providing such services. Training in-house professionals through traditional means is expensive and more importantly, does not allow you to build a robust mission-critical platform to meet the needs of the business on time. The next challenge you face is determining how you can get the most out of WebSphere Portal as quickly as possible without adversely affecting your ongoing operations.

Solution

RapidStart/WS Portal delivers a methodology driven approach to assist you in architecting, installing, configuring, and customizing WebSphere Portal based solutions. These well defined, packaged services are designed to give you a WebSphere Portal footprint from which you can grow your WebSphere Portal environment. In addition, they are delivered by WebSphere Certified professionals with real world, practical experience. The service provides an ideal setting for developing "Proof-of-Concept" WebSphere enabled applications and the environment for quick technology transfer. Ultimately you will be left with a functional WebSphere environment that can be used as the foundation for developing WebSphere throughout you enterprise.

Service Overview

RapidStart/WS Portal program offering provides a packaged set of consulting services to quickly implement a fundamental WebSphere Portal environment. It is delivered by our WebSphere consultants - all of whom have an extensive background in WebSphere - to solve your unique problems. Combining depth of industry expertise with leading edge functional approaches, we are uniquely qualified to help you easily and effectively implement your WebSphere Portal infrastructure. Our consultants are knowledgeable in all aspects of complex enterprise architectures, planning, installation, configuration, administration, tuning and performance, programming, and integration.

RapidStart/Portal Basics

During this 2-3 weeks service engagement, Across Borders WebSphere Certified professionals will:

• Install and customize WebSphere Portal on one hardware platform of your choice with sufficient detail to enable you to test WebSphere Portal in your environment.
• Discuss administration and operational aspects of your environment with operations personnel including WebSphere Portal tips & techniques.
• Provide you with a detailed report that documents your WebSphere Portal custom installation environment and parameters, security and future deployment consideration, "best practice" naming convention guidelines for use with WebSphere Portal and value added WebSphere Portal products available in the marketplace.
• Provide you with a skills assessment overview in a matrix format so you can tactically plan and budget for WebSphere Portal training/resource requirements.

RapidStart/WS Portal Advanced

During this 4-5 weeks service engagement, Across Borders WebSphere Certified professionals will perform everything provided in the RapidStart/WS Portal Basics as well as:

• Install WebSphere Portal on one additional platform.
• Review your Enterprise WebSphere Portal architecture, topology and document enterprise WebSphere Portal implementation and integration considerations.
• Provide a one-day WebSphere Portal overview training session (three students maximum) that addresses the fundamentals of WebSphere Portal including:
  • Overview, Concepts and Architecture
  • Planning and Customization
  • Sample Applications
  • Future plans and considerations

Custom Services

Customized Services beyond what is available with RapidStart/WS Basics or Advanced can be delivered by Across Borders. This includes:

• End-to-end implementation strategy and planning.
• Certified training.
• Configuration, design and business requirements documentation.
• Verification & validation documentation.
• Integrating WebSphere Portal with the enterprise.
• Lifecycle maintenance.

Service Commitment

Driven by our commitment to excellence we are our own hardest critics. We strive to exceed your expectation as value-based providers of consulting services by:

• Adhering to proven project and quality management methodologies.
• Employing delivery oriented project plans.
• Conducting frequent peer reviews.
• Performing client satisfaction surveys.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

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From aligning your IT with your business needs to an end-to-end strategy for transforming your enterprise, Across Borders has the world-class experience and expertise that you need. Contact a Consultant today.

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