Enterprise Information Portal (EIP)

The student is taught how to build ePortal platforms based on open standards to master today's heterogeneous IT environment. Special attention is given to the use of collaboration, knowledge management, business intelligence, and Web content to integrate information, application and services. Industry strength projects are assigned to show how ePortal can provide employees, suppliers, customers, and other communities with immediate, secured, and role-based access to key information and applications across the extended enterprise. Lectures led by ERP experts show how information and applications are unified in a single interface through the ePortal. Accordingly, users can identify and address business issues faster more effectively, and at lower cost to create measurable benefits and strategic enterprise advantage. Live demonstrations reveal how ePortals allow customers (small and large) the opportunity to leverage their existing IT investments and unique business practices by seaminglessly integrating all types of third-party applications, files, documents and structured databases. The student comes away with an understanding how open technology standards like J2EE, XML and .Net delivers personalized interfaces through Web browsers, PDAs and wireless devises

A post graduate work program is also available where promising students are given paid opportunities to build ePortals for small neighbor businesses looking to partner with the corporate community. This technology gives the small guy a level playing fied to compete. The student graduate can now serve in the capacity to either build more interfaces and/or to give advice as to how small companies can engage business from companies of any size, any where.