Shift the focus from the information back to the employee

Most employee portal solutions take the easy way out: they simply provide the employee with a search facility that delivers access to content in the exactly the format that made the author's life easy. Database entries, Word documents, Excel spreadsheets—they're all dumped from the point of storage into a filtered view or list of search hits for the user. It's up to the employee to find what he or she needs—not only within the displayed information, but within the files themselves.

Think about having to search for critical information in a list of search hits containing 100-page documents. Whether the user has to launch Word itself or a PDF rendition, the effort is significant. The problem with this approach is that it gives employees access to the information they need at the expense of increasing their effort. The bottom line: no productivity gain—and often a productivity loss.

Studies show that 60% of the content found in today's employee portals is a manual or some other type of authored, unstructured content, so on the issue of employee portals, ensuring content can be not only quickly located but also quickly consumed is a vital part of ensuring success.

Achieve optimal productivity

The Hyper.Net Employee Portal delivers significant improvement in productivity by focusing not only on providing access to all of your organization's critical data, but also on minimizing the effort required to consume information. Imagine an employee portal that provides intuitive access to all of your organization's content—enhanced with the full power of SharePoint's powerful CMS & Web 2.0 features and including all of the essentials provided by the SharePoint infrastructure: user management, security, full text search and collaboration. Hyper.Net Content Services then take it to the next level with the automated distribution of user-optimized information: not only is every bit of information in SharePoint made available to the employee in an online library paradigm, it's also made available in exactly the right format needed to optimize the task at hand: At the desk? Online hypertext, with a direct hit to the hypertext topic containing the content on page 83. In the lab where no computers are allowed? A PDF rendition that can be printed without Word. On the smartphone? In a Web site optimized for mobile access. In a secure environment? A Flash rendition that displays on the user's screen without downloading it to his computer. All from a single source.

Heterogeneous knowledge, homogeneous content

In addition to SharePoint's features for searching through external systems, the Hyper.Net Employee Portal also pulls together content stored in systems like SAP, Lotus Notes and IBM Content Manager and converts it into the formats users need and publishes the result into centralized locations in SharePoint. Regardless of where your information is kept, the Hyper.Net Employee Portal makes your dream of providing blended, intuitive, homogenous access to corporate information a reality.

Employee Portals Flyer (PDF)