Leading Pharmaceutical Company Deploys DefinedLogic’s Portal Platform
DefinedLogic, LLC, a company with a long track record of developing and deploying mission-critical solutions for enterprise customers, announces the release of a comprehensive portal platform that leverages open-source technologies such as Lucene, Jakarta-commons and Tomcat. The portal platform includes a suite of document management, content management, analytic and collaboration tools.
West Long Branch, NJ (PRWEB) July 28, 2005 -- DefinedLogic, LLC, a company
with a long track record of developing and deploying mission-critical solutions
for enterprise customers, announces the release of a comprehensive portal
platform that leverages open-source technologies such as Lucene, Jakarta-commons
and Tomcat. The portal platform includes a suite of document management, content
management, analytic and collaboration tools. Previous versions of the portal
platform have been implemented in a multitude of industries including one of the
largest pharmaceutical companies in the world.
Focusing on clients that
are seeking a robust portal solution, while leveraging the cost effectiveness of
Open-Source technologies, DefinedLogic has developed a platform that enables an
organization to implement a variety of portal features for a fraction of the
cost of an enterprise package. This proposition intrigued a leading
pharmaceutical company and now seven portals later; the cost savings and
implementation timelines have exceeded all expectations.
The
Opportunity
The contracts organization within a leading pharmaceutical
company was seeking a solution to organize and disseminate analytical
information to their business partners. Because of the sensitivity of the
information it was critical that each user accessing the information would be
authenticated via the corporate single sign-on process, however flexibility was
required once a user was authenticated to enable that user to have access to
documents within other business portals. The organization was also looking to
provide state-of-the-art analytical charts and graphs which could present a
complex set of statistics in an easy to read graphical rendering. After
evaluating several enterprise portal solutions, DefinedLogic was approached to
assist in the evaluation and implementation phases.
The enterprise
portal solution providers were narrowed to a finalist. However, it quickly
became evident that the licensing fees associated to the enterprise package
would exceed the existing budget and the implementation costs of the enterprise
package had not yet been determined.
The End Result
"When we began
working with our client, we never considered our platform. Our approach is to
remain technologically agnostic until we understand the full set of business
requirements. They were already evaluating packages and requested that we help
evaluate the finalists based on our experience," Alex Shanley, analyst from
DefinedLogic said. Once the license fees negotiations broke down, we were asked
for an alternative. We presented our portal platform as a cost-effective
alternative and demonstrated its capabilities. Our group security model met the
required flexibility for user permissions and our document management, events,
links, alerts and feedback portlets were able to support all of the business
requirements with minimal customization.
The next goal was to define and
design the analytical portlets required to support the graphing and charting
requirements. After assessing several products and creating proof-of-concepts
models we selected Advizor Solutions (www.advisorsolutions.com) and SmartMoney's Map Applet (www.smartmoney.com). By
integrating these products in to the portal platform we were able to provide a
robust analytical platform that married statistical analysis to documents and
training materials. "We were looking at a relatively short turn around time
between the initial product evaluations and the timeframe for launch, which was
about 4 weeks, as well as a budget of $50,000 to get the solution up and
running," stated Alex Shanley, Analyst, DefinedLogic. "The overall experience of
using the analytical tools needed to be powerful and user-friendly while still
offering a low cost. We were able to bring the project from concept through
deployment, fulfilling these goals, by following our proven methodology in
developing enterprise-level portal strategies and the technology to support
them."
With the portal solution fully deployed, the contract’s group
analysts were able develop and disseminate accurate and meaningful documents,
reports, charts and graphs. The need to create numerous, lengthy e-mails to
disseminate their work was eliminated. The portal alleviated the need to email
the documents and analysis, while always providing the user with the most
current versions and providing the user the capability to access the archived
history of a document. It also provided a central location for all of the
information created and collected by the organization and a powerful search tool
to quickly access the most relevant information.
About DefinedLogic's
Portal Platform
DefinedLogic's portal platform is a proven, cost effective
technology alternative to out-of-the-box products that fall short of a solution
that fits the exact needs of your business. The platform has been implemented
for public sites that support hundreds of thousands of visits per day as well as
intranet that support critical business functions. We have implemented the
platform to support a businesses' corporate web site, as well as their intranet
and extranet functions. Our intranet implementations have included sales force
automation projects, human resource integrations as well as a hub for analytical
reporting dissemination. It is simple and cost effective to implement and
maintain.
About DefinedLogic
DefinedLogic, LLC (www.definedlogic.com) is
the leader in developing and delivering proven technology solutions to
enterprises that need their employees, customers and partners to be integrated
into business processes. DefinedLogic offers highly experienced business
analysts, project managers, designers, and developers to assist enterprises with
completing projects on time, on budget and in line with their objectives.
DefinedLogic prides itself in remaining technologically agnostic to provide its
clients with the best unbiased advice and service available.
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