Enterprises of all sizes need to extend communication and information to employees, partners, suppliers and customers despite the following challenges :
Poor integration among information sources within the enterprise.
Multiple systems built and maintained to address different user-communities.
Complexity in managing site taxonomy, security and meta data.
R Space Portal is an enterprise portal that supports collaboration in conjunction with providing access to enterprise applications and information & solves many of these problems and issues.
R Space Portal is based on open source and has a flexible & scalable design.
Highlights
User Authentication and Authorization.
Active Directory Synchronization and LDAP authentication possible.
Single Sign On achieved without a Single Sign On infrastructure.
Creation of different levels of hierarchy and creation of sites at these levels with ability to customize the layout and gadgets of the sites.
Ability for Admin Users to create new Functionalities or Gadgets like News, Links, Bulletin Board, Reporting Dashboard using Gadget Factory (GF).
Support for predefined Gadgets like Document Library, RSS News feeds etc.
Ability for the users to create content using the Gadgets.
Support for Content Workflow with two levels of approval for publishing content.
Personalization of their own pages by the individual users.
Ability to do simple and advanced search in the created content.
Benefits:
Lowers Costs through speedy implementation and increased reuse.
Reduces total cost of ownership as it is built on open source technologies.
Improved Adaptability through the use of powerful development tools for extending and customizing out-of-the-box capabilities.
Protects investments by the use of standards that enable compatibility and interoperability across heterogeneous applications.
Sample case study
A Leading Power Systems company.
Created secured website workflow.
External customer login facility.
Facility to maintain products, evaluation board details, users, site information, view audit log information, watermark documents and customize email messages.
