Best Buy chooses Plumtree Corporate Portal platform
The portal, known as TagZone, will act as the focal point for bringing together resources from major repositories available to Best Buy.
Consolidating Best Buy's distributed information resources in a portal framework promises to help increase the return-on-investment for a wide range of existing Best Buy systems, helping create a single point of access for all employees, and a centralized administration for information technology engineers.
"TagZone is focused on distributing the right information to the right people at the right time," said Best Buy director of knowledge management Allen Meyer. "By collecting information from our internal and external partners, Best Buy employees will be capable of sharing knowledge to help them work more efficiently and effectively."
The TagZone Portal will integrate views of Best Buy applications and relevant Internet services as Plumtree Portal Gadgets, modular portal components that embed in a portal page key information and services from enterprise applications and Internet sites -- such as sales leads, industry news, or e-mail messages. To support the deployment, Plumtree offers hundreds of ready-made gadget plug-ins and a suite of hosted gadgets available through the Plumtree Portal Network. TagZone's gadgets will represent a wide variety of corporate services. Some examples include:
- Best Practices and lessons learned
- Microstrategy sales reports from a data warehouse
- Calendar and electronic mail from Microsoft Exchange databases
- Industry news from the Microsoft Network
- A skills-based enterprise people-finder from Oblix
- Database reports from Microsoft Access