Thinner: Let the Portal Fit the Need

Thinner:Let the Portal Fit the Need

Susan Miltenberger, [email protected] Simpson, [email protected]

Original Portal Goals

• Make key institutional information availableanytime anywhere

• Bringing systems together

• Centralized communication

• Role based access

• LDAP authentication• Weather and email• Snapshots and other html pagelets• News

Portal History @ MICAPeopleSoft Enterprise Portal

• Cold Fusion self service• Marketplace and the Opening• Pagelet authoring tool


• Support for Safari browser• Re-branding• Improved self service


Two Themes

What’s EssentialOwnershipinstitutional or departmental?

Audiencepublic or private?

Communicationcontrolled or collaborative?

Communitypre-fab or organic?

The “MICA Web” is not simply thecollege’s “Web site,” but the full rangeof digital communications vehicles…

• an essential tool for performing the full range ofacademic, administrative, and transactionalactivities of the college

• an environment where members of the MICAcommunity connect with one another and remainconnected with the College

What we didn’t get

• Anywhere/anytime - providedyou know where to go

• The central place might bewww.mica.edu orhome.mica.edu

• Coordinated systems wereother PeopleSoft applications=

Going on a diet

What the portal isn’t…• A place to manage enterprise security• A website• A place to natively manage all of your

systems• A place to check weather and stocks

How we’re moving forward

Nov 2007: Portal 9.0 de-implementation

Jul 2008: www.mica.edu launch

Thinner:

Let NeedsDefine the

Portal

Technology

Thinner: Let the Portal Fit the Need