What is a Web Portal?

A web portal is a web site that provides a starting point, a gateway, or portal, to other resources on the Internet or an intranet. Intranet portals are also known as "enterprise information portals" An effective Web portal offers the user a broad array of information, arranged in a way that is most convenient for the user to access. If designed correctly, a portal becomes a base of operations for the Internet user, or a home on the Web. To do this, the web portal must provide the user with fresh content, interactive elements, and easy access to the tools that the user needs. Portals provide selected users with access and the ability to interaction with an organization's information content, applications and business processes.

ITI specializes in developing web portals for Government organizations. Web portals are an ideal way to serve customized information and services to a client's organization and to their prospective users. ITI designs web portals to serve a wide range of end-user requirements across a broad spectrum of skill levels, so that it is vitally important that the information presented be easily usable and navigable. Users should be able to quickly locate the information they need, drill into it for more detail, hyperlink to related information, and search for relevant accompanying data.

ITI also customizes web portal content to meet the unique needs of our clients more precisely. Such personalization goes beyond the selection of fonts, colors, and placement which are traditionally offered by consumer portals, to encompass data-level personalization. This enables portals to deliver specific sets of information instantaneously to specific users based on their roles, access levels and responsibilities.

Although ITI's web portals are designed to provide rapid, open, seamless data access for a large number of portal users simultaneously, they are also designed to ensure that sensitive corporate

data is protected at all times. Intranet portals, for example, must provide pushbutton access to agency administration data such as benefits and pension plan options, without giving employees the option to view sensitive salary, bonus, or medical information. And even when government-sensitive data is properly protected, portals must incorporate proper access control to ensure competitors and hackers do not gain access to government agency data stores via the portal. ITI uses cryptography to provide authentication, secret key cryptography and digital signatures to provide for privacy and data integrity.

Government managers who seek to implement web portals should consider ITI to provide their organizations Intranet and Internet access to information and services along with the personalization, navigability, and security features web portals systems demand. ITI uses Microsoft's latest .NET Framework technology. Our developers build software on .NET Framework and Visual Studio.NET to support the development of web-based applications and XML web services.

ITI is committed to developing software solutions that focus on improving customer productivity and that provide a high return on investment. Our team is experienced in the development of web-enabled applications, client/server applications, and real-time control applications. We have produced a broad variety of technology solutions ranging from small, stand-alone programs to applications that are used world-wide via the Internet. Our service includes requirement analysis, system design, graphical user interface design, database design, implementation of transaction processing, and the implementation of distributed objects. ITI Software architects utilize component-based methodologies and component diagrams based on UML specification, a natural format to begin modeling a software solution. Component diagrams allow our architect to verify that a system's required functionality is being implemented by components, thus ensuring that the eventual system will be acceptable. ITI programmers can develop custom software, upgrade your existing applications and support Legacy systems migration.

From single-user databases to multi-user, client/server, ORACLE / SQL Server databases, ITI can provide migration between database systems, short-term design and programming services or long-term database administration support. Our software developers and ORACLE certified database administrators (DBAs) have worked with today's most common database management systems. Our DBAs are skilled in all areas of administration, particularly the crucial task of tuning and data performance monitoring.

We assure total responsibility of the project throughout the duration of its various life cycle stages including quality assurance. We develop an interactive solution to a given problem and proceed to evolve the design exactly to the specifications of the client. The prototype goes through vigorous testing before the final product is incorporated. Each and every process of development is carefully documented for future reference, possible troubleshooting or upgrading the system at a later stage. We use state-of-the-art methodologies to ensure that each step is as productive and as accurate as possible. We handle all projects through the complete software development life cycle; project planning, requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, training, and maintenance.