Thinner:
Let the Portal Fit the Need
Susan Miltenberger, smiltenb@mica.edu
Ted Simpson, tsimpson@mica.edu

Original Portal Goals
• Make key institutional information available
anytime anywhere
• Bringing systems together
• Centralized communication
• Role based access

Portal History @ MICA
PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal
• LDAP authentication
• Weather and email
• Snapshots and other html pagelets
• News

Portal History @ MICA
PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal
• Cold Fusion self service
• Marketplace and the Opening
• Pagelet authoring tool

Portal History @ MICA
PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal
• Support for Safari browser
• Re-branding
• Improved self service

Two Themes

What’s Essential
Ownership
institutional or departmental?
Audience
public or private?
Communication
controlled or collaborative?
Community
pre-fab or organic?

The “MICA Web” is not simply the
college’s “Web site,” but the full range
of digital communications vehicles…
• an essential tool for performing the full range of
academic, administrative, and transactional
activities of the college
• an environment where members of the MICA
community connect with one another and remain
connected with the College

What we didn’t get
• Anywhere/anytime - provided
you know where to go
• The central place might be
www.mica.edu or
home.mica.edu
• Coordinated systems were
other PeopleSoft applications=

Going on a diet
What the portal isn’t…
• A place to manage enterprise security
• A website
• A place to natively manage all of your
systems
• A place to check weather and stocks

How we’re moving forward
Nov 2007: Portal 9.0 de-implementation
Jul 2008: www.mica.edu launch

Thinner:
Let Needs
Define the
Portal