Improve Business Productivity by Building a Web Portal
Improve Business Productivity by Building a Web Portal
Web portals – as businesses big and small know – handle the data management needs of a business and help improve the business’s productivity. For those not familiar with them, ‘portals’ provide one access point for useful applications, people, and data. Depending upon the company’s needs, they may choose a regular portal which is what the general public uses, or they could choose an enterprise portal designed for those running a business or providing clients or customers specific services.
How does having web portals increase productivity?
There are a variety of ways web portals increase productivity on your website. Consider the following:
- Allowing automated access to services that you offer
- Making information easy to access
- Authenticating access to business information to keep it protected
- Providing a way for employees to easily customize their personal work environment
Bay Area Online Marketing understands how much competition there is for businesses on the internet today. We can help improve your online presence with the following services on your website:
- E-Commerce
- Content Management System
- Document Management System
- Collaboration Software
- Business Process Management Systems
- Customer Relationship Management
- Business Intelligence
- Intranet
- Knowledge Management System
Self-Service Portals Increase Effectiveness and Advance Productivity
Today’s consumer wants to find what they want, when they want it, using whatever device they have at their disposal. Self-service is the mantra for consumers because it gives them more control – over their time and their money. The more they can do on their own, and at a time that is convenient for them, they better they like it. Having a self-service website is vital for a customer, partner, or employee because it will allow them to interact with your business like it was open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Self-service portals allow your business to be available all day, every day, from anywhere. We know how important self-service is to your website and can help you develop a self-service portal which will allow visitors to place a new order, let you know about a service issue, or review their previous orders no matter the time of day.
Do you need vertical or horizonal web portals? A vertical portal focuses on a single service such as employee management. Horizontal portals provide a means for users to access a variety of services or applications to help with daily work. By offering an organizational portal, your employees are better able to do their work. When you include a portal directed toward clients or customers, you offer a means to improve your relationship with them as well as provide services that are convenient, efficient, and quick.
A well-designed web portal, depending on the type used, can easily create income based on customized traffic to your business website. Boosting your employees’ productivity, as well as making the organization simpler, will help you maintain and keep track of the information you distribute. Bay Area Online Marketing can help you design the web portals you need.
Here are a few of the websites we have worked on to provide the portals they needed:
Luxim – The Luxim Corporation is one of the world’s premier lighting component manufacturers. We built a secure client portal for their one-stop knowledge center to include application development, a way to download product document revisions, as well as track how the portal is being used and who is using it.
NDS Surgical Imaging – NDSSI is a premier medical imaging technology company. They move documents related to DOME lighting for download from their website. We developed a secure client portal to allow medical drivers and software to be easily uploaded and downloaded to a document management system.
RespiTrack – The RespiTrack system manages and tracks the time that hundreds of caregivers spend with their special needs patients. Their multi-tenet system allows caregivers to import their hours from a time-keeping system, tracks government approvals, manage all caregive’ schedules, handles complex invoicing and billing, and support reports that are needed.
Pak Foods – The Pak Foods client portal manages employee documentation, payroll, hours, and sick time for employees at a variety of fast food franchises. We have built multiple apps to include filling out employee documents, communicating, and others. This system supports several hundred stores.