The ever-changing information technology landscape offers new opportunities for businesses to streamline operations, improve inter-business interactions and drive down costs. In the knowledge-intensive economy of today, portals are the platform for integrated “anytime—anywhere” information delivery, communication, collaboration and automation of business processes through interconnected applications and web services. Latitude delivers Portal solutions embracing the latest technologies and business trends:

  • B2C and B2B eCommerce Portals
  • Enterprise Information Portals
  • Business Intelligence Portals
  • Knowledge Management Portals
  • Learning Management Portals (integrated with LCG’s award winning LMS)
  • Application/Web Services Portals

Portal Capabilities

Portal functionality can be divided into four main areas: user interface, content delivery and management, web services and portal management. A balanced purpose-driven combination of these elements defines the portals business value. Combining applied knowledge of portal development, the latest portal technology platforms - including Ektron, DotNetNuke, Joomla, Drupal - and our experience in enterprise application development, Latitude delivers a well-integrated set of portal functionality including (but not limited to):

  • Content Management — web-based administration, full life-cycle of content creation and publishing, single-source distribution, content approvals and go-live authorization

  • User Management — user authentication (registration/login), single sign-on, profiling, multilevel membership, user administration.

  • Site Usage Analytics   — integration with Omniture and Google Analytics to assess site performance in real time. 

  • Social Networking and Web 2.0 — web conferencing, instant messaging, forums, chats, blogs, message boards, feedback forms, event calendars, electronic newsletters, polls, surveys, ratings and reviews.
  • eCommerce — product catalogues, shopping carts, auctions, billing and secure payment processing, order management, shipping, inventory management.
  • Mobile Web — dynamic mobile friendly interfaces that provision all site content to mobile devices in any configuration or OS.
  • Security — various user privileges and access levels, personalized content distribution, data encryption

Latitude Portal Development Service

Latitude 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.

Portal Service Offerings

  • Strategy assessment and consulting
  • Business analysis and architecture design
  • User Interface design and usability
  • End-to-end portal application programming
  • Database design and integration
  • Integration with third-party Web Services
  • Integration with legacy business applications (like CRM, ERP, SCM, etc.)
  • Quality Assurance and complete testing
  • Portal performance optimization and tuning
  • Portal setup, maintenance and support
  • Portal upgrades and new features enhancements

Latitude Portal Partners