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| FEATURES |
PORTAL |
VIVIDESK |
| Access to
information |
| Access web
resources, applications and services |
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| Maintain links and
context when link from one web site to next |
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| Access local LAN
or WAN resources, applications and services |
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| Enables access to
content under control of portal promoter |
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| Enables access to
multiple portals e.g. local region, local
hospital, local practice, professional
organisation |
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| Enables ‘best of
breed’ content mix by accessing resources,
applications and services from any source |
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| Launch and manage
Windows applications on client LAN or WAN |
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| Bulletin boards
available |
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| Bulletin boards
able to access local user context and
attributes |
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| Forums
available |
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| Forums able to
access local user context and attributes |
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| Discussion groups
available |
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| Discussion groups
able to access local user context and
attributes |
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| Schedules
available |
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| Schedules able to
access local users resources |
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| High degree of
personalisation by individual groups and users |
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| FEATURES |
PORTAL |
VIVIDESK |
| Access to
information |
| Provides local
document management |
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| Provides video
streaming |
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| Provides contacts
database |
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| Multiple ways of
cataloguing contacts, name, organisation,
speciality etc |
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| Can send emails to
individuals or groups |
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| Provides over the
Internet content that only available on CD ROMS |
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| Navigation |
| Single sign on to
all resources, local or remote whatever their
source or logon protocol |
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| Return to specific
favourites or bookmarks behind pass worded
sites |
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| Favourites and
bookmarks available on device where originally
bookmarked |
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| Favourites and
bookmarks available on any device regardless of
where originally bookmarked |
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| Consistent filters
to permit simple navigation within own portal |
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| Consistent filters
to permit simple navigation within all portals |
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| Integration |
| CCOW compliant,
able to move data directly between CCOW enabled
applications, locally or remotely |
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| Access remote
resources and local resources simultaneously
(VIVIDESK sits above both the browser and the
Windows application) |
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| Perform automated
conditional actions depending on state of local or
remote resource |
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| FEATURES |
PORTAL |
VIVIDESK |
| Audit |
| Able to track
statistics and details of visitors to portal,
hence numerator only (’10 GPs visited this site
today’) |
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| Able to track
statistics and details of visitors to all portals
visited, hence numerator and denominator (‘10 GPs
visited this site today, 500 GPs visited other
similar sites, this site got 4% of the
traffic’) |
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| Surveys |
| Perform surveys
and questionnaires on line |
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| Automatically
change survey and questionnaire questions
according to local user attributes and context
derived from local resources, applications and
services |
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| Gives users real
time online feedback on responses to surveys and
questionnaires |
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| Gives instructors
real time online feedback of responses to surveys
and questionnaires |
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| Customistion |
| Database driven so
extremely flexible |
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| Administrators
able to update content |
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| Specific end users
able to update specific content only |
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| Very easy to
customise by sub groups |
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| Very easy to
customise by layered content e.g. nationally
common, then regionally common, then locally
common content |
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| My Workspace
available for each user |
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| My Workspace able
to access local users resources |
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| User has
consistent desktop navigation across wide range of
resources, applications and services accessed
(every portal has different look and feel and
navigation) |
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| FEATURES |
PORTAL |
VIVIDESK |
| Customisation |
| Multilingual |
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| Able to allocate
users to groups with common material for the group
e.g. doctors, nurses, managers |
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| Able to allocate
users, in addition, to ‘interests’ which are
orthogonal to groups e.g. our practice, our
region, paediatric cardiology with common
‘interest’ based content in addition to the
‘group’ based content |
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| ‘Interest’ groups
may be self-selected or administrator selected |
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| Security |
| Every database
field has up 5 security levels enabling
exceptionally close control of user access to
information by specific users or roles |
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| Encryption
available for web traffic |
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| Additional layer
of encryption applied by desktop client |
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| Other |
| Best of both
worlds - unlimited web resources integrated with
the richness and power of local Windows
applications |
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| ‘Sleep mode’ –
switch off then on resume, automatically return
all resources, applications and services to
previous state, whether local or remote including
single sign on |
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| Provides extensive
help facilities including tours and tutorials |
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| Create ‘show me’
links to web resources during on-line training |
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| Create ‘show me’
links to local resources during on-line
training |
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| Extremely stable
and robust (portal dependent entirely on 3rd party
browser reliability) |
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| Client runs on Win
98, Win 1000, NT, XP |
n/a |
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| Able to run on
Macintosh desktop applications that do not run on
Macs |
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| FEATURES |
PORTAL |
VIVIDESK |
| Enterprise
management |
| Provides portal
content management |
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| Is an information
tool for an end user organisation |
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| Is a management
tool for an end user organisation (challenge for
many organisations is managing the data they
already have, let alone adding new data) |
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| Provides end user
enterprise content management (software for the
capture, storage, retrieval and dissemination of
digital content for enterprise use and life-cycle
management) |
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| Enables end user
organisations to develop information-led
infrastructure and processes |
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| Organisation
centred |
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| User centred |
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