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Information Management Weekly Milestones Report =01) 02/02/01
Portal. ? The list of HR employees to receive the IM Portal Survey is pending=20 approval. HR is delayed because of compensation responsibilities. Tempora= ry=20 delay will not impact pilot deliverables. =20 ? The technical team is creating portal templates for the respective Busine= ss=20 Units/Functional Units. Each template will reflect BU/FU content, a simila= r=20 =01&look and feel=018, a dynamic technical platform (a platform which can b= e easily=20 updated), and a secure platform (a platform which reflects the latest singl= e=20 sign on effort). ? The production server for the portal is being built. =20 ? myhome.enron.com is being targeted as the portal name. Brandon Rigney ha= s=20 been consulted to provide user experience input and ensure a smooth=20 transition of current users from the former myhome.enron.com site to the ne= w=20 best practices IM Task Force myhome.enron.com portal. =20 ? IM Task Force is investigating IT pilot project for single sign-on=20 application. The Task Force intends to provide a single sign-on interface= =20 for all applications accessible from portal Unstructured Data Management/Enterprise Search Engine tool. ? A request has been made for vendors (Autonomy, Verity and Inktomi) to=20 provide the IM Software Selection Team with a proof of concept evaluation a= nd=20 customer references. =20 ? The SST is having a challenge getting software prices from all three=20 vendors. GSS will be requested to support this effort at this early stage.= =20 ? Each of the vendors license their software in a different manner. Inktom= i=01, s licenses are based on number of documents indexed, Autonomy=01,s licenses= are=20 based on number of end users, and Verity=01,s can be a combination of serve= r=20 instance and end users. The inability to accurately predict numbers of=20 documents, users, and server instances makes a side-by-side comparison=20 difficult. =20 ? The SST is continuing to work on the software evaluation report. Custome= r=20 feedback and pricing will be incorporated as it becomes available. IM Strategy Proposal. ? Momentum from the pilot phase of this project is needed for the delivery= =20 stage =01) the stage where we take what we have developed for a pilot and b= ring=20 it to Enron corporate-wide. To do so, an IM executive coordinator needs to= =20 be identified ASAP. =20 ? Allan Sommer is meeting with Price Waterhouse and Ernst & Young and will= =20 collect information on Knowledge/Information Management. =20 ? Although this project has task force accountability and timelines, no one= =20 executive has accountability for the budget. True accountability lies with= in=20 the organization which has a defined, approved budget for the project. =20 ? Information presented at last week=01,s Analyst meeting appears to suppor= t the=20 need for a formalized, executive sponsored IM program. =20 ? The IM Task Force is meeting with EES next week to discuss the informatio= n=20 released at the analyst meeting. =20
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