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Centralpoint's Portal is a scalable enteprise which considers Document Management, Forms Management, Single Sign On, E-Commerce, Email broadcasting and data warehousing. These features yield a singular entity for your to make the most sense of your information.
ite that can grow as your organization does. One Centralpoint Portal can empower a large organization to manage their website, including (micro) websites for its Divisions, Regional Offices or local teams. Centralpoint portal considers the organizational needs to share and distribute information across large enterprises. This portal enables your organization to easily manage information from one 'central point' leveraging our entire module gallery to get the job done easily.
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Oxcyon will often refer to a project as a portal. This is the because of the breadth of the many audiences, channels and members to a website. Calling it just a website wouldnt be fair. There term 'Portal' is however ubiquitous, and in need of some clarification. According to Wikipedia, an Enteprise Portal is defined as: "a framework to provide a single point of access to a variety of information and tools." We completely agree, but still think this is a little vague...
Oxcyon believes that although any site may link to many other sites giving a centralized appearance, it is cheating. The records within the site must be managed within the same construct instead of linking to other locations. In this way, you can accurately search (that same container) for all records you are looking for, and also render the necessary relationships 'between' records. Oxcyon sees the development of your portal as a Top Down process vs. traditional ground up approach....simply creating a site with some links to those elements in the back office. To call something a portal, which does not act as its central repository is over simplification, and cheating. Linking to disparate databases, applications, or pages is nothing more than a hyperlink and has been around since the beginning of the internet.
Instead of managing hyperlinks to different locations, Centralpoint provides one very large repository for everything. First it allows segmentation of your portal into difference Audience Types. These are like microsites which live under the main portal, and there is no limit to how many you can create within an individual portal. This means your Centralpoint portal can have as many children, grand children, or great grandchildren microsites each with thier own unique design, navigation, roles, and user communities. Within this we offer content management modules. These modules allow you to post a record (example: a news article), and apply it to as many Audiences, Roles, Navigation, etc. as you like. In this way content cascades from the top, down to the respective audience group, based on their rights and roles. Centralpoint also provides administrative control at each level in this cascading delivery so that your department heads can get involved in the process easily, including the email editorial review needed. Some vendors treat portals (and their microsites) as individual databases. This is not the same, as separate databases restrict search (across multiple databases), and limit what relationships can be presented on the front end. Of course there will always be external content we need to show, and in those cases we employ data warehousing tools, or web services to keep the content centralized without using hyperlinks (or iframes) to different sites.
Oxcyon believes that a true portal requires one key ingredient....Centralization. Without centralization of this data, it is not a portal, merely a webpage. It is not enough to simply cobble together the many links to data and information people need; instead this information needs to be 'harmonized' together in order to make the most of it. Centralpoint portal is an N-Tiered architecture which can be carved up to meet the needs of any organization...segmenting it appropriately to give each group in your organization a stand alone website which represents a subset of your aggregate content. This universal structure, can be outfitted to serve any industry using this cascading audience structure to serve information from source, to distributor, to consumer. The verticals we curently service are: Healthcare (from the Hospital to its departments, physicians, and then patients) , Manufacturing (from manufacturer of a products, to its dealers, and then to consumers), Publishing (from Publisher, to its individual magazine titles, to its readers), Radio/TV (Media Conglomerate, to its affiliates, to its site visitors), Associations (from Parent to its local chapters, and then to its members), Education (from School District, to its schools, to its students). Because (multiple) Roles, Audiences, Taxonomy and Access Level need to be pre-considered for every piece of content within the portal...it is not as easy as it might look.
This means that a singluar portal can support multiple stand alone microsites, each with their URL, design, local , brand and has the ability to serve its content, and/or the content of its parent. The beauty of this approach is that content may now be Federated and distributed 'across' your constiuent websites, where necessary. Centralpoint's unique architecture allows you to submit one record, and tag it to as many Audience Types or Sites as you want to.....'centralizing' the management of your Global content, and allowing administrators locally to append and add only local (specific) content. This gives way toward some major time savings, easy maintenance, and federated searches 'intra-sites' or across your many sites.
This simple, yet scalable architecture is can be used by small company, mid sized business or Fortune 500/Multinational Companies. It is merely a question of the breadth of the portal you define, and the brand of the parent, and the differences of the constients under it. The best part of this approach is it leverages lessons from other industries...eliminating the need for a white board discussion of what 'should be' built. The standards are in place both for content management, digital rights, and compliance. There is nothing to interpret anymore, now it is a question of which vendor can deliver the most complete product in the fastest time to market.
You can quickly and easily create new Centralpoint microsites, within the Portal, that support specific content publishing, content management, records management, or business intelligence needs. You can also conduct effective searches for people, documents, and data, participate in forms-driven business processes, and access and analyze large amounts of business data.
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