What is a Portal?
A web portal presents information from diverse sources in a unified way. Apart from the standard search engine feature, Locus ePortal offer other services such as e-mail, news, regulatory information, RSS feeds, application integration and interoperability, general information, and much more. Portals provide a way for enterprises to provide a consistent look and feel with access control and procedures for multiple applications, which otherwise would have been different entities altogether. Locus ePortal is built on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and provides Single Sign On (SSO) access to applications and content making the life of environmental executive and manager much easier.
ePortal is the integrated solution for managing the various applications through a Single Sign On (SSO). Applications could be any of Locus' applications, client applications or third party applications. It is a comprehensive approach to capture, manage, maintain, preserve, and archive all the important elements associated with environmental projects of any type. It is also a full-featured set of robust software applications that serve the ongoing needs of energy and environmental managers for day-to-day activities, even when needs change.
ePortal brings together, online and on-demand, the power of Locus' most popular Internet environmental applications...and leaves room for more:
- EIM — The world's largest and most respected Internet environmental data management system. EIM has the power to manage all your important environmental data from water chemistry to geologic boring logs, geological, and geophysical data.
- eSite — A simple, yet powerful, tool to track and manage vital environmental site information across small or large portfolios of sites.
- Resource Management — Manage resource consumption at your facilities. Includes energy, fuels, water and many other modules.
Many companies are drowning in information and starving for knowledge. ePortal is a "Yahoo-style" portal that accesses necessary environmental information to effectively organize, manage, and operate environmental and energy information. The environmental industry is fragmented, inefficient, and generates huge amounts of information — and, yet, there is no infrastructure to deal with it effectively. ePortal solves all these issues in a practical and effective way.
ePortal is offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS), bringing customers all the benefits of robust, deep-domain environmental applications without all the hassles and costs associated with self-installed silo or client-server systems. ePortal was built from the ground up as a fully Internet-based application using the best tools and technologies that Web 2.0 offers.
ePortal brings together all of Locus' applications into a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) portal, providing clients with a Single Sign On (SSO) for environmental data and information from EIM, eSite, eLibrary, and energy, sustainability and other applications, with a dashboard interface with superior data mining and display capabilities. ePortal allows users to get to their information with an ease never before seen in the environmental industry - all within an easily customizable interface. More importantly, ePortal is built on advanced integration technologies (XML, SOA, SOAP, AJAX) that allows the portal to grow and integrate with existing customer applications, bringing the concept of "manager's dashboard" and "augmented reality" to a manager's desktop.
- Single, secure login to multiple environmental applications, along with client-customizable features.
- Daily self-management by content owners. Portals are built to allow content owners to self-maintain their information, without the need for outside technical support costs.
- Robust document control in a logical customizable folder hierarchy, to ensure long-term document management and version control.
- Custom views and components to meet the changing needs of environmental professionals.
- Wide selection of available environmental portlets to display, manage, report or review key environmental data or metrics from Locus' environmental applications.
- Consolidate mission-critical environmental information into a single location with single-screen simplicity.
- Maintain project continuity and site knowledge over long project lifecycles.
- Lower transaction costs - everything is in one place and accessible as needed by project participants or senior executives.
- Display the data and information important to you – no more time wasted looking for information, clicking through menus for reports. Everything is available right were you want it and how you want it.
- Simple user interface to speed data retrieval.
- "One-click" simplicity - mine data from EIM with simple yet powerful tools.
