Enabling employees to communicate, organize and share information across departments and geographical boundaries is one of the most pressing needs that IT in a modern business faces. However, there is a significant gap between user expectations and actual delivery, which has led to poor portal utilization rates, lack of productivity enhancements and a fragmented portal strategy. Without a coherent portal strategy, user experience can quickly degrade, resulting in unclear and inconsistent quality of information. A clear, well defined and thought out portal strategy is a critical contributor to an efficient and innovative work culture in an organization. A portal can only be as effective as the thought, planning and inputs that go into creating it in the first place.

At Quadra, we can help you to integrate your business objectives, metrics, communications and training plan, information architecture and governance model into a cohesive portal strategy. The actual technology infrastructure would be secondary to these primary goals. Too often, businesses spend time and effort in evaluating the technology aspects, and end up choosing a portal solution based on its technology merits alone without actually having a well thought out portal strategy. There are several instances of 'failed' or 'abandoned' portals, simply because there was no compelling business benefit that would drive usage in the first place.

Most portal solutions today feature integrated content management functionality which can help to quickly and efficiently disseminate information, both internally and externally. With Web 2.0 and beyond, portals are quickly evolving to become a cornerstone of an organizations' innovation strategy – wikis, blogs, forums and integration with external sources are now driving the current trends in portal strategy.

We can help your organization formulate a clear and consistent portal strategy, with services across all stages from analysis, architecture review, data migration, infrastructure setup, performance assessment, operational analysis to business consulting and end user enablement. Thus,  we ensure that we mitigate risks, optimize costs, reduce costs and demonstrate a clear and consistent RoI in terms of business objectives.