• Proven Success
  • Portula.net has been running in O2 for over the last 5 years across multiple business units/departments.
  • In 2004 it was deployed across the FAST group of companies, with four different implementations and is used to serve the FAST membership base. see what they say

• Internal departments need to share information
  • Portula.net Allows departments to publish information on the intranet/extranet/internet (share intranet data with external 3rd parties).
  • Portula.net branding can quickly be customised to follow corporate brand.
  • Portula.net is built on templates, which allow different business templates to be shared amongst different groups.

• Large Corporations require workflow systems at a department level, accessible via the intranet
  • Rolling out enterprise workflow can take years and rarely fits the business process once implemented as organisations/processes have changed
  • Offering low costs workflow process automation, allows the individual departments to control and improve efficiency rather than IT departments, who rarely understand what a department does.

A full feature list is below:

1. Real-Time Site Updates - Streamline the content deployment process by enabling business users to publish their own content. Removes content publishing ‘bottlenecks’ and mistakes made by web teams using content specific terms and jargon
2. Role-based publishing - Empowers business users to intuitively create and publish content rich sites by means of their Internet browsers
3. Template-based Publishing - Centrally manage branding, navigation, and layout through authoring and presentation templates
4. Content Scheduling - Ensure content is always published on time and is never out of date by automating your publishing and reviewing schedule
5. Fast development and deployment – Sites are produced using an existing framework. A site can be created and deployed and tested in days – roll out the intranet
6. Search / Catalogue: Portula.net uses the power of SQL Server catalogue search to provide a full-text search engine without any additional software cost
7. Centralised Image Library: Enables users to use resources from a branded image bank
8. Personalised image bank – users can upload and store personalized images for use on their web pages
9. Share your content with different portula.net subsites with one click
10. Share your content with an extranet site and allow only defined content areas to be visible to the extranet
11. Multilingual - you can use XML to define different languages for the same portal, without duplicating effort
12. Extensible open standard format
13. Extensible templates, roles
14. Flexible statistics
15. Control of your brand
16. Portula.net is a content management system, enabling business users to publish content on the intranet, extranet, internet
17. Portula.net connects to any ODBC compliant datastore, allowing you to integrate ‘soft’ content with data driven from an external ODBC database e.g. Oracle, SQL Server
18. Connect data rich systems to your portal, ensuring your intranet site is useful and the place to get information
19. Develop a web based system in typically 50% less time by re-using the portula.net security model, portula.net branded templates, portula.net menu structure. All your developers have to do is ‘hang’ their pages from the portula.net menu
20. Use the Portula.net Active Sever Components to quickly create new templates to output content data
21. Using SQL Server 2000 as the Portal database, data can quickly be retuned as XML datasets allowing you to connect this data quickly with other business processes
22. Using XML datasets, workflow enabled applications can be integrated quickly into the portula.net system
23. Portula.net allows your IT team to quickly build on-line forms with database storage and email functionality

Built with flexibility in mind, Portula.net can be used to deploy Internet sites, intranet sites, and extranet sites. Portula.net integrates with several other development modules so that internal IT teams can build and deploy the core infrastructure of a Web site, including site structure, presentation templates, site design, application integration, and security quickly and easily.

Once a site has been deployed, business managers and content creators can use the Portula.net back office to create, publish, and manage their own content. By reducing the need for ongoing IT site maintenance, Portula.net can lower the overall costs of maintaining and developing an Internet/Intranet or Extranet presence.

Take the Features tour to see exactly how Portula.net simplifies web management for content authors, developers, IT managers, marketing and brand managers.