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ExtraNICE Overview . The ExtraNICE is NICE's external services infrastructure and is a platform for NICE to provide online services to NICE's customers, partners, channels
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2. ExtraNICE Overview The ExtraNICE is NICE’s external services infrastructure and is a platform for NICE to provide online services to NICE’s customers, partners, channels & employees
3. What’s In It for me? Shorten cycle times
Improve user experience
Improve communication with outside parties
Reduce administration requirements
4. Numbers Business partners in 140+ countries
~ 6000 ExtraNICE accounts
~ 3900 new ExtraNICE accounts
+ 2300 NICE Employees
Average Downloads per month: 17,000 files
Project
MOSS POC: 2 months (from 9.2006)
Kickoff & Analysis: 5 months (from 01.2007)
Development: 3 months (from 06.2007)
Site Launch: 1 day (09.2007)
5. About NICE
6. Previous Portal Ad Hoc growth from 1997
Separate login for each section
Poor search results
Documents had no classification or categorization
Dumped into folders
7. ExtraNICE Objectives Secured, intuitive, user friendly, profile based.
Collaboration platform - replacing other portals.
Expand online services implementations
Reduce development costs of new features & enhancements.
Improve flexibility and response time for users' requests.
Ease of maintenance and administration.
8. Demo – Login One Login for all sections
Secured and authenticated
Serves business partners / customer & NICE employees
9. Security Architecture Authentication via ISA
Separate DMZ for ExtraNICE
Trust between ExtraNICE and NICE
Internal and external DNS entries
External users must login
Internal users are logged in silently
Password policy and complexity
10. Demo – Site Navigation & Architecture Profile based content and homepages.
Pre-defined content templates that provide enforceable standards for pages, libraries & document uploading.
Consistent method for navigating & viewing information across all sections.
11. Demo – Homepage Profile based
Content can change depending on business unit
User can have access to more then one section / homepage
12. Demo – Classification All files added to the portal are classified.
Site wide and site specific classifications.
Users can browse for content and select attributes to retrieve relevant results
13. Search “…the new ExtraNICE is a hit! … thanks to ExtraNICE’s new Search tool. I searched for 836, got 2 docs … Kudos to NICE.”
14. Demo – Online Training Schedule Self-service application.
Connected to Oracle OLM for course information.
Course updates are immediately reflecting within the site
Easy, pre-filled registration form
15. Demo – Alerts Long standing request by users
Out of the Box feature
16. About the Project MOSS POC
Server/DMZ configuration
Kick-Off
Information architecture
Site templates
Special development
Internal training
Content migration
Branding
QA & pilot
User migration
End user communication
Launch
17. Information Architecture No assumptions
Interviews with partners and users
User centered design methodology
Goals for the portal
Users & tasks analysis
18. Methodology
19. About the Project Teams Over 60 stake holders
Teams in USA, UK, Switzerland and Israel
Project forum created for each business unit
Project Manager & Representatives from:
Corporate Marketing
Product Marketing
Services
Technical Writer
Training
R&D
20. Future Is now
Collaboration sites for Partners and NICE
Specialty sites on ExtraNICE platform
Security Resource Center
More online services
One stop shop
21. Conclusion Online services saves time & money
Leverage platform for new business requirements
Goals met with out of the box features
22. Lessons Learned POC
Demos
Speak to users
Communications
Record it for late comers
23. Thank you