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Information Management Weekly Milestones Report =01) 02/16/01
General Project Status. Project continues on schedule. An IM executive sponsor meeting is scheduled for 2/23/01, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.,= =20 EB50M03. All IM executive sponsors have been confirmed to attend. Portal.=20 Brandon Rigney's team has completed and presented the portal "Look and Feel= "=20 to the portal IT team. Steve Kean will be presented this next week. The= =20 portal "Look and Feel" meets Corp. marketing and communications guidelines= =20 and specifications. Brandon's team is recommending the portal name: =20 anywhere.enron.com. =20 Price-Waterhouse demonstrated Hewlitt Packard's benchmark portal. Before= =20 this portal, HP had 9000 webpages and some 300 competing channels. They=20 consolidated their webpages down to 900. Now they have one portal with a= =20 host of seamless applications available through a single sign-on process. = =20 Approximately 90% of employees use this tool. The portal was unveiled in= =20 October of 2000. The $30 million project costs were realized by February,= =20 2001. In cost savings, HR alone has saved $10 million since October, 2000.= =20 PW's portal uses both Verity and Infoseek as their search engines. The tas= k=20 force will work with PW contacts at HP to learn about their experience with= =20 both these tools. =20 Allan Sommer has targeted resources to support the change management=20 initiative for the portal pilot. According to HP the key to success for a= =20 portal project is change management. Communicate, communicate, communicate= . =20 Joe Wong's development team continues portal pilot development. All=20 potential portal pilot applications (in scope, out of scope, and killer=20 applications) are being reviewed for delivery. UDM/ESE.=20 Verity has been selected as the UDM/ESE tool of choice to pilot. Sue Vasan= =20 has been identified as the internal Business Analysts/Project Coordinator f= or=20 the UDM/ESE pilot. Sue, who works for Debbie Brackett in Rick Buy's=20 organization, will be working this pilot effort for the next three weeks=20 minimum. =20 All task force members are to identify targeted audiences to test the UDM/E= SE=20 tool. =20 All task force members are to identify a list of BU/FU applications to targ= et=20 a UDM/ESE tool to search on (e.g. LiveLink, HR systems, etc.). =20 IM Strategy Proposal. Per Steve Kean, the Task Force should continue focusing on delivering our= =20 objectives with little expense tagged to this project. Task force members= =20 are encouraged to provide resources and support for all task force=20 initiatives. Allan Sommer is scheduled to deliver a draft of the IM Strategy Proposal. = =20 Allan will deliver his pre-draft work to Marie Hejka end of week.
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