Portal Development, Administration and Hosting

PROSOFT has harnessed the power and collaborative capabilities of web portals for its own internal processes and for the requirements and benefits of its customers. We have leveraged Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) products such as Microsoft SharePoint Portal and SharePoint Web Services for our own Intranet site. There we host over 60 production project sites and 100+ personal ("My Site") sites. Several of the production sites are customer accessible where external users have been granted access to collaborate. Users are configured with "contributor" privileges to post, review, author and edit project documents. The version control and check-in/out capability allow for controlled document management and document assurance. Additional collaboration features and functions are: executable .NET applications, alerts, workflow and threaded discussions or blogs. All privileges, access and activities function within the security perimeter set up by our portal administrators. A few examples of our customer portals are:

• Defense Information System Network – Video Services (DVS)
• U.S. Navy NSW Combatant Craft Division
• U.S. Army Transportation Corps (CASCOM)
• U.S. Army Systems Approach to Training (SATS)
• U.S. Marine Corps Distance Learning (MCDL)
• Virginia Department of Social Services

IWe have developed customized portal products such as the U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) web portal, hosted at the customer location. This portal is a command-wide supported initiative which enables departments (or J-codes, such as J-6, J-7, J-9, etc.) to have their own portal sub-sites under the larger JFCOM site umbrella. In order to maintain best practices, PROSOFT has enlisted the help of advocates that go between J-codes and the development and administration staff. The payoff is customization with user buy-in and ownership and control over functionality affecting scalability and enterprise level processing. In order to develop this customized project and others, PROSOFT has leveraged the following tools, languages and technologies: