The ever-changing information technologies constantly bring new opportunities for businesses to streamline operations, improve inter-business interactions, optimize costs and thus get critical competitive advantages. In the knowledge-intensive economy of today, portals become integrated “anytime—anywhere access” platforms for information delivery, communication, collaboration and automating business processes through interconnected applications and web services. ETrends delivers end-to-end Portal solutions embracing the latest technologies and business trends:

• Social Networks and Communities
• Content Distribution Portals (Digital Docs and Media)
• B2C and B2B Ecommerce Portals
• Enterprise Information Portals
• Business Intelligence Portals
• Knowledge Management Portals
• Application/Web Services Portals

Portal functionality can be divided into four main areas: user interface, content delivery, rich set of web services and portal management. A balanced purpose-driven combination of these elements defines the portal business value. Combining practical knowledge of portal development best practices and experience in enterprise application development ETrends delivers a well-integrated set of portal functionality including (but not limited to):

• Content Management
  Web-based administration panels for content creation and publishing, content approvals and go-live authorization


• User Management
  User authentication (registration/login), single sign-on, profiling, multilevel membership, user administration, user behavior tracking, reporting and analysis


• Collaboration and Communication
  Mailing systems, forums, blogs, message boards, feedback forms, event calendars, electronic newsletters, polls, surveys, ratings and reviews


• e-commerce
  Product catalogues, shopping carts, billing and secure payment processing, order management, shipping, inventory management


• Business Process Automation
  Customer Relationship Management, Human Resources Management, Workflow Management


• Security
  Various user privileges and access levels, personalized content distribution, data encryption

ETrends offers full cycle portal development services. We work closely with our clients to first identify business objectives, define a solution strategy and develop a detailed roadmap for Portal implementation. Based on the roadmap and architecture developed during the assessment and specification stage we deliver custom-built solutions with comprehensive business logic, efficient performance and business and technical scalability. Following the system implementation we help you ensure that your solution is running smoothly and error-free. We are ready to provide seamless portal upgrades and enhancements to meet the evolving business needs.