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From:marie.hejka@enron.com
To:george.wasaff@enron.com
Subject:Information Management Weekly Milestones Report
Cc:beth.perlman@enron.com, steven.kean@enron.com, rick.buy@enron.com,richard.causey@enron.com, cindy.olson@enron.com, philippe.bibi@enron.com, karina.prizont@enron.com, maureen.mcvicker@enron.com, sharron.westbrook@enron.com, peggy.mccurley@enron.com,
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Date:Fri, 9 Feb 2001 15:09:00 -0800 (PST)

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Information Management Weekly Milestones Report =01) 02/09/01



Portal.=20
Portal development work continues for respective BU/FUs under Joe Wong's=20
direction. This work is based on information collected from portal surveys=
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Brandon Rigney's team committed to delivering the portal graphical treatmen=
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by 2/16/01. A new portal name is being discussed. The decision for the=20
portal "look and feel" and the portal name will be made next week. A=20
"progress before perfection" approach is planned for releasing the portal.

"Killer" or "sticky" applications for the new portal are being identified a=
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prioritized. All task force members are required to identify five "killer"=
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or "sticky" applications by next week's IM Task Force meeting.

Some features of Hewlitt Packard's benchmark portal are being discussed and=
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targeted for development. =20

Tibco 2.0 version targeted as a requirement to provide personalized color=
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treatments for portal. Allen Elliott to confirm licensing agreement for=20
Tibco 2 is in place.

Single sign-on capability will require changes to the producer portal=20
applications. The single sign-on security task force has developed and=20
proposed a strategy to make this happen. The portal development is working=
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this issue to ensure the eventual release of a single sign-on entry point f=
or=20
the portal.

Philippe Bibi was provided a project update. Philippe re-emphasized the ne=
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to unveil a best practices portal that is simple, wanted by users, and=20
value-added for users. =20

UDM/ESE.=20
Inktomi and Verity appear to be the choice contenders. Since Autonomy=20
requires an obtrusive amount of work on individual employees, interview=20
results predict users would not support this product type. Consequently, t=
he=20
task force does not expect to pilot Autonomy.

Business Analyst Paul Timberlake collected high level pricing for each=20
vendor. Below is a table of that information. Paul is working with GSS's=
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Peter Goebel to gain additional pricing support. Note, Paul's final report=
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will have extensive licensing information for each vendor.=20

Vendor=09Initial Cost=09Annual Support & Maintenance
Autonomy=09$3,000,000=09$540,000 / year support
Inktomi=09$1,375,000=09$206,250 / year support
Verity=09$682,500
=09($487,500 + $162,500 + $32,500)=09$130,000 / year support


IM Strategy Proposal.
Steve Kean attended the weekly IM Task Force meeting to get an update on th=
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IM Strategy Proposal. Although the task force was suggesting an executive=
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point person be identified, Steve reminded the task force of the value of=
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grassroots efforts. The task force will remain focused on identifying and=
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developing sticky portal applications to improve the flow of information=20
which ultimately should increase the flow of revenue. Steve's message to I=
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Task Force: do what it takes to make it happen.

During the discussion with Steve, the task force reviewed HP's best practic=
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portal. Steve would like to view the HP demonstration of their best=20
practices portal. =20

The Task Force team met with EES' Knowledge Management team to discuss a ON=
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Enron approach to information management. EES emphasized need for executiv=
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management to encourage BU/FU IM/KM coordination.