BlueStorm Portal Services

Our consultants have been building portal solutions and assisting clients with portal implementation since 1999. We have experience with many of the leading portal applications. As a third-party review agent, we offer independent, unbiased and objective advice. Our professionals provide a wealth of information and experience to any project.

Practice Overview

Enterprise Portals represent the latest development for an enterprise's business intranet strategy.  Corporate intranets have grown exponentially in the last few years.  They provide everything from knowledge sharing to self service and critical business process applications.  In the typical enterprise, hundreds or even thousands of web sites may proliferate, each in a different location with each maintaining their own content, authentication, and infrastructure.  As these web sites and applications grow, it becomes more and more difficult for associates to find information quickly and work efficiently.  People need to find and share knowledge, but the array of outlets for doing so can be overwhelming.
IT organizations are highly motivated to find a solution that brings this information together. An enterprise portal strategy provides the means for consolidating and presenting critical business information.  Portals can also represent a community forum where members of an organization can collaborate, exchange and share information, and serve as a gateway to business process tasks and employee self-service.

An effective corporate design solution requires the teamwork of business executives, IT representatives, and architects who understand the unique synergy between business process and technical implementation.  BlueStorm Technologies, Inc. provides its customers this expertise through its Enterprise Portal Process Model (EPPM).

The Enterprise Portal Process Model is a multi-step series of mini-projects that help the client deploy a successful portal initiative.



EPPM's key value lies in providing a roadmap for a successful portal implementation.  It guides all stakeholders through the process that defines the rules, interfaces and systems that comprise the portal infrastructure and provides a direction for change management as stakeholders and owners learn how to leverage the portal’s features and capabilities.  It also provides resources and project breakdowns for organization and execution. all of which is based on where the client is in their process and what their specific needs are.  We work with our clients/partners in tailoring EPPM to each organization's unique needs.  Each customer's needs, project history and in-house resources are different, and each EPPM is uniquely tailored to address what has already been accomplished (or is unnecessary) and focus on the areas which portal expertise and direction are required.  BlueStorm Technologies, Inc. not only provides technical resources for architecture, design and development, but assistance and guidance for everything from authoring the business case to portal product selection to change management. 

Enterprise portal initiatives are not just software projects.  They require gathering the consensus of important stakeholders from business groups and from IT, understanding the business process that drives the need for a portal, and architecting a solution that lives within the boundaries of the organization's software and hardware infrastructure.  BlueStorm Technologies, Inc.  EPPM offerings allows our customers to organize and manage their enterprise web initiatives and obtain the highest rate of return on their enterprise portal investment.




Key Components:

• IBM WebSphere Portal
• IBM Portal Business Value Assessment
• BlueStorm EPPM: Enterprise Portal Process Model
• Portal Development
• Portlet API Development
• Installation and Configuration
• Document Management
• Portal Content Management
• Systems Integration