Significant competitive advantage can be obtained when an organization's knowledge, stored as both structured and unstructured data, is captured, managed, and put to work in a meaningful and efficient way. Corporate information portals help organizations manage a vast amount of information to make more informed and effective business decisions. Corporate portals are an extremely convenient way to deliver business information to users in the extended enterprise, across Intranets, extranets, and the Internet.

The promise of competitive advantage, increased staff efficiency, and improved effectiveness are all compelling reasons for implementing an Corporate Information Portal. Furthermore, these portals give companies the ability to extend their business so that they can form closer relationships with their customers, partners, and suppliers.

The typical enterprise information portal solution must include the following:

• A single point of access (single login)
  
• Unified search across all information sources within the enterprise
  
• Personalization and customization based on users' rights
  
• Application integration across multiple platforms
  
• Collaboration
  
• System security
  
• Scalability
  
• Openness
  

Corporate portal solutions offered by Makaya may include a fully customizable Web-based environment to access the Internet, Intranet and Extranet, mission-critical legacy applications, enterprise business packages, CRM solutions, custom applications, custom business solutions, and other vital applications.