The Changing trend :CSS Portals

Customer Self-service Portals were preferred over other content websites to provide consolidated, customized and updated information. The trend moved towards one-click information on weather, cities, movies, music, communities, latest news, stock update and much more with customized and personalized user web space. Users started expecting the possibility of paying bills, checking bank accounts, transferring funds, city information and tracking insurance claims through a secure online platform. Users, no longer, wished to be caught in the slow and lengthy request-processing loop offered by call centers.

From Web Portal to Web Application

Users demands evolved, yet again, to expect web portals to function as web applications. Web applications enable a distributed and fault tolerant portal deployment over multiple channels. Web applications render device independence for wireless services.Remote access to web services, information retrieval and database connectivity is possible through mobile or even a PDA device. The web application server provides secure and dynamic content management. It provides integration between web technology and content retrieved from an open source and distributed over a wide network.

Web applications provide Enterprise critical benefits of:
• Single workspace for B2E, B2B and B2C business transactions, data and applications
• Consolidated view of enterprise for integrating and managing business processes
• Availability of business intelligence information through diverse connections
• Productive work environment through interactive user communities and groups
• Universal and remote access to Enterprise data through multiple channels like mobile, PDA and laptops
• Single sign-in for users data and application access
• Enhanced user experience with information for the right users at the right time
• Dynamic and adaptive web services with a user-centric approach

Summer 2010 Blockbuster: Mobile Point-Of-Sale | In This Issue | Mobile Enterprise Magazine

There are people who believe that cash and coins are obsolete -- someday, futurists claim, all money will be virtual. Some companies are already preparing for a transition by replacing retail cash registers with mobile devices.

Handhelds with credit card readers, running Microsoft Windows CE and often based on rugged devices from Intermec and Motorola, are described as mobile point-of-sale products and have been available for years. There are even Research In Motion BlackBerry options. But then the Apple iPhone came out, and that's changing the game.

Checkout devices built on iPhone or iPod Touch units are smaller, cheaper, and more adaptable than their Windows ancestors. Several small companies are joining this trend and they'll soon be followed by an 800-pound gorilla -- hello, Oracle.

Big or small, these companies deliver three major benefits to retailers. The technology differentiates the shopping experience, eliminates lines at checkout counters, and minimizes the chances of customers changing their minds.Read More

Mobile portals Mobilize For Scale

Mobile is rapidly becoming a key differentiators as companies use IT to gain strategic advantage in their marketplace.Infogain’s proven solutions yield attractive, user friendly and effective iphone and other mobile applications. We work together with the client to quickly and effectively achieve the following:

* Present industry best practices and brainstorm with you to understand your company's business requirements, determining which business processes could leverage mobile technologies, and measuring their impact
* Assess technologies
* Design and develop attractive, user-friendly solutions leveraging wireless and mobile technologies
* Integrate the mobile solution with enterprise data sources
* Deliver content and business intelligence to mobile devices