Business & Consumer Portals

Portals and web applications are at the center of e-business strategy today. The global market for portals and the engineering work around that is estimated to have grown 7.1 percent to more than $8.5 billion in 2005. The market is expected to grow to $10.3 billion by 2010, with a five-year compound annual growth rate of 4.1 percent.

Portals impact the way organizations deliver products and services. Portals support business skills to deliver information to various players in the value-chain. The market for business portals at $278 million in 2003 is expected to grow to $1.2 billion by 2009.

In an age where portals have become de facto desktops for the Internet, the expectations from the market have increased for the portal to satisfy all of the below key aspects:

• Fast performance
• High availability
• Total reliability
• Extensive scalability
• Full security
• Complete usability
• Global compatibility
• Smooth integration

These expectations are consistent for all types of portals, be it business or a consumer portal.

In 1997, Aztecsoft was quick to identify the power of the Internet and began working on Internet technologies. Since then, we have developed extensive expertise in nearly every facet of hosted software internet technologies. We have helped several of our customers build their applications from ground up - right from defining the architecture to execution and deployment of the end solution.

Aztecsoft has developed various kinds of portals which provide the basis for information access functionality, content management, search, personalization, lightweight applications, and lightweight systems architecture. All these portals have robust architecture with enterprise capabilities, a robust framework to integrate applications, collaborative features, and wireless support

Aztecsoft has developed a unique framework called the Aztecsoft Portal Framework (APF) to accelerate the portal development and implementation. APF is a framework that can be customized to give each user a different presentation, with a unique look and feel, unique content, and unique strengths based on the business rules and expectations defined for the type of portal.

Key features of the APF:

• Applicability to any type portal (Business or community)
• Rapid development methodology to quickly deliver results
• Quality and flexibility of internal/external content and services Integration
• Customizable to various domain / vertical requirements
• Flexible architecture to accommodate changing needs
• Platform, architecture, and technology of choice
• Collaboration services offering synchronous and asynchronous communication

We have extensive experience in developing and consuming web services leveraging a range of middleware products that are based on Microsoft, Open Source and Java stacks.

Aztecsoft Labs supports our portal offering through introducing cutting edge technologies and concepts, such as Web 2.0. Under the guidance of Aztecsoft Labs, the company has built several Web 2.0 portals that are superior in their performance, security, and reliability.

Key services offerings for business and consumer portals include: