Accessing Disparate Information In An Integrated WayENTERPRISE KNOWLEDGE PORTAL

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What is an Enterprise Portal?

"ENTERPRISE INFORMATION PORTALS ARE APPLICATIONS THAT ENABLE COMPANIES TO UNLOCK INTERNALLY AND EXTERNALLY STORED INFORMATION, AND PROVIDE USERS A SINGLE GATEWAY TO PERSONALIZED INFORMATION NEEDED TO MAKE INFORMED BUSINESS DECISIONS."��THEY ARE: " . . . AN AMALGAMATION OF SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS THAT CONSOLIDATE, MANAGE, ANALYZE AND DISTRIBUTE INFORMATION ACROSS AND OUTSIDE OF AN ENTERPRISE." ~ Christopher Shilakes & Julie Tylman, Merrill Lynch

In the advent of emerging Internet technologies and unrelenting business challenges faced by enterprises today, the need to "e-enable" business processes in order to collect, manage and report critical company data in an efficient and transparent way, while streamlining workflow processes on an electronic platform, has become increasingly apparent and necessary. Creating a single link to a company's vast technology resources and knowledge - typically buried deep across applications, file servers, databases, and people - is now a vital competitive strategy for business growth and continuity.

While information reduces the risks associated with decisions that ultimately lead to a series of actions, too much information can sometimes be a disadvantage. The abundance of content, both inside and outside the enterprise, has made finding the right information increasingly difficult. Employees often spend more time looking for the right piece of information than actually using it, resulting in high frustration and low productivity. Further inefficiencies are found in the continued reliance on paper processes, manual approvals, and long transaction cycles.

The proliferation of heterogeneous and independent applications - such as ERP, SCM and CRM - has made integrating enterprise wide data increasingly difficult. The answer to critical business issues or customer enquiries must often be constructed from information residing in disparate customer relationship management, vendor and email systems - impeding the seamless flow of information needed for maximum efficiency. Unlike many portals, tmsEKP™ allows you to access disparate information in an integrated way - allowing you to spend time analyzing and using the information rather than searching for it.

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tmsEKP™ (Enterprise Knowledge Portal) is designed to provide organizations with a single dashboard to integrate information, business applications and services from heterogeneous systems and sources so as to encourage collaboration, efficiency, informed decision making and employee self-service.

Serving as a single and unified gateway to a company's information and knowledge base for employees, shareholders, customers and vendors, tmsEKP™ enables enterprises to design and build a suite of modular solutions to allow seamless access to their organizational knowledge base (information) across the enterprise, enable information exchange as well as delivery of real-time and relevant information.

tmsEKP™ is built upon TMS' robust e-business development framework, powered by the J2EE technology platform, which is designed to accelerate and simplify complex development, deployment and management of multi-tier enterprise solutions. Due to its platform versatility, tmsEKP™ is able to support cross-platform development, and is platform-neutral and vendor-neutral.

tmsEKP™ allows businesses to integrate enterprise-wide data and information, pulling together all of the company's documents and resources and categorizing them, through a single login and interface within a robust structure that is in line with the organization's changing business goals. As processes and partnerships evolve, tmsEKP™ can quickly incorporate these changes, and accommodate a growing user and information base, so that companies within the virtual enterprise can effectively collaborate and exchange knowledge.

WHAT IS tmsEKP™?

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tmsEKP™ is built upon TMS' powerful and robust e-business development framework, tmsFRAMEWORK™, developed on the open standard J2EE platform.

Because tmsFRAMEWORK™ is made up of highly reusable codes or modules, programming efforts can be minimized whenever possible. Other benefits include:

• Enabling integration with legacy systems through ancillary technologies such as HATs, Web services (SOAP/WSDL) and custom connectors;

• Supporting cross platform development;

• Platform and vendor independent;

• Simplifying and accelerating complex development, deployment and management of multi-tier enterprise solutions;

• Indirect involvement of domain experts and business users ;

• Allowing for rapid application development;

• Accelerating time to market

• Providing application security, which is managed by the framework runtime and services; and

• Ensuring scalability of applications as business requirements grow.

�Based on open standards such as J2EE, XML and WebDAV, tmsEKP™ can leverage on open source technologies such as Linux and MySQL, further extending the investment in existing technologies without the need for custom programming. Developing your applications on J2EE technology ensures portability and compatibility among multiple application platforms. Its "Write Once, Run Anywhere" (WORA) capability provides businesses with a freedom of choice and eliminates the need for tedious interfacing traditionally associated with integration or migration tasks.

tmsFRAMEWORK™ consolidates miscellaneous J2EE technologies such as JavaServer Pages, Java Servlets, J2EE Deployment API, JDBC data access API , Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI), and simplifies the development of applications on Java platform by providing various services, which reduce the complexity and costs usually associated with an intricate programming model like J2EE.

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�Clustering provides businesses with server availability and data integrity for mission critical applications so that costs incurred due to lost time, productivity and opportunities will be minimized in the event of system downtime.

With tmsEKP™ (Enterprise Version), its server clustering technology is used to provide availability and server consolidation through fail-over for any applications developed on tmsFRAMEWORK™. The Enterprise Version of tmsEKP™ can cluster across multiple platforms such as Solaris, Suse, Redhat and Windows - providing a platform-independent architecture capable of increasing the application's scalability and adaptability while reducing costs. Not only that, but businesses can also keep infrastructure costs low by deploying small and inexpensive machines during start-up while planning for future scaling and growth.

Unifying Your Enterprise through Application Integration

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tmsEKP™ provides users with a centralized, unified, and consistent environment to access information from disparate and unconnected systems in a unified way. The integration services of tmsEKP™ helps enterprises increase savings and minimize their cost of ownership by incorporating new applications into the existing portal infrastructure and simplifying both enterprise deployment and interactions for the end user.

The integration of various independent applications is made possible via portlets - reusable web components that display relevant information to portal users in the context of a composite page, such as email, discussion forum, news, address book, appointments and tasks. Portlets are used to integrate the various heterogeneous applications such as customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning, finance, logistics and human resource, into a single dashboard. With the use of portlets, not only can users retrieve and view information from these various applications, they can also monitor multiple business processes, interact and work together on documents created in different business units.

Clustering Architecture

Powered by the proprietary tmsEKP™ portal server technology, which utilizes any variety of existing web technology in the market, portlets can be configured with different settings, for example how many email messages to display. More importantly, tmsEKP™ can support as many portlets as can be assembled without compromising the portal's performance and stability.

Types of portlets that can be integrated into tmsEKP™:�

• Web Services (XML/SOAP/WSDL/UDDI) such as Google Search• RSS (Rich Site Summary) Feeds to aggregate news headlines from the Web in XML format• Servlets, JSP, JSTL• Security Services (ACLs, MD5, DES, SSL)

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Knowledge Management Repository of Unstructured Documents and Web Content

tmsEKP™ provides a proven, single, unified solution that allows users to create, capture, store and access business (unstructured) and web content from all databases, repositories, and file systems within the organization - then structures it and puts it into context to be used for business operations and create innovative results.

Business or unstructured content is characterized by all of the operational, non-database content that is created and used by employees everyday, and typically includes text documents, images, spreadsheets, presentation materials, reports, emails and videos. Unstructured content represents 85% of corporate information and according to Gartner Group, doubles every three months.

About 80% of business operations are conducted based on unstructured data - from customer enquiries and customer servicing to critical business issues like assessing the performance of products and evaluating the viability of new markets. Unfortunately, because computers do not compute unstructured information, manual human effort is required to convert and process the data. With tmsEKP™, time consuming and traditional manual processes such as tagging of data can be automated so that information can be exchanged, used and reused.

The ability to automate processes around unstructured information has a significant ROI, based on tmsEKP™'s ability to reduce costs associated with manual processes, as well as a widespread impact across the enterprise, its customers and vendors.

Web content is content specific to a website and typically includes informative and collaborative content, such as company news, joke-of-the-day, threaded discussions, community topics, and shared group folders. External websites and the global Internet comprise critical resources similar to that of a virtual library - here, enterprises find competitive information and use that information to respond to customer situations and develop their competitive advantage - all via tmsEKP™.

Unlike other portals, tmsEKP™ does not simply find and display information. Rather, it presents content in context by automatically generating business taxonomy and categorizing results into common sense groupings-by source or topic. While the search engine of tmsEKP™ enables people to query both within the organization and beyond, the taxonomy of tmsEKP™ allows an organization to essentially inventory "what they know". By being able to capture existing knowledge bases, organizations are capable of creating a framework for knowledge sharing.

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Cash flow, inventory, �tangible assets, databases,etc.

RETURNS ON INVESTMENT (ROI) &BENEFITS OF tmsEKP™

Do You Face These Challenges In Your Everyday Tasks?

• Scrambling to search for misplaced or misfiled information

• Unable to respond quickly to customer enquiries and complaints

due to lack of information

• Unable to track customers' accounts or product shipments

• Overwhelmed with too much unnecessary information

• Information resides in too many different applications that do not

'talk' to one another

• Unable to monitor your sales team's performance and �

customer engagements

• Unable to track opportunities versus targeted sales

Fulfillment of Technology & Business Requirements

tmsEKP™ is designed to satisfy the different needs of various lines of business users, such as Human Resource, Finance, Manufacturing, as well as IT professionals by:

• Ensuring enterprise agility and business continuity for knowledge workers

• Guaranteeing a rapid and substantial return on investment for Human Resource departments with its ease of implementation and administration

• Integrating corporate information such as handbooks and training manuals

• Automating and simplifying company processes such as leave application and company claims

• Enabling employee self-service and boosting efficiency

Improved Organizational Collaboration & Communication

Poor collaboration can often hamper organizational efforts and impede revenue growth. �One of the great benefits of tmsEKP™ solution is the unequaled collaborative capability they make possible, which results in:

• Information to be rapidly and effectively deployed to a dispersed group of employees, partners and customers

• Traditional communication barriers to be eliminated

• Extensive cost savings

• Increased sales

• On-the-fly collaboration

• A self- service environment

Customized & Scalable e-Business Solutions �With tmsEKP™'s modular and robust architecture, complex and customized �e-business solutions can be developed to meet specific organizational and divisional needs, so as to:

• Assure enterprises of an immediate competitive advantage

• Respond quickly and effectively to market changes

• Deploy the solution incrementally and adapt easily to changes

• Enable the solution to grow as your needs evolve

• Allow additional functionality to be plugged in as and when needed

• Accommodate a growing user without compromising performance and stability

Knowledge Sharing and Business Continuity

The corporate portal appears to be the "first killer application for knowledge management (KM)", according to US-based market researcher The Delphi Group. Reason being, the portal seems to be the "first user-friendly interface that can deliver knowledge management tools in a way that is palatable to the knowledge worker". An effective portal such as tmsEKP™:

• Makes knowledge sharing easier

• Acts as a knowledge sharing center where users can share information and access other business applications

• Encourages users to contribute information to the pool of corporate knowledge

• Facilitates the collaboration with subject experts and peers on specific issues

• Transforms unstructured information into organizational knowledge and business advantage

• Codifies and harnesses employee intelligence for business continuity

�Enhanced Productivity & Efficiency of Employees

The goal of any portal is to get the right information to the right user at the right time. By enabling the immediate availability of meaningful information, tmsEKP™ results in:

• Smarter and faster decision-making

• Improved staff efficiency and effectiveness

• Better decision making

• A more responsive and competitive organization

Adaptability of e-Business Solutions

No matter what the specific business problem driving a portal implementation, it is important to choose a solution that adapts quickly and easily to the existing environment. Because tmsEKP™ is developed on the J2EE platform, it offers:

• Flexibility to leverage on existing technologies

• Architecture which is platform-, application-, and vendor-independent

• Adaptability of solutions to be deployable and accessible across a variety of platforms and devices

• Integration with external applications and legacy systems such as:

- AS400

- SAP

- Microsoft Exchange

- LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol)

- SMS gateways

Security & Reliability�As with any Internet solution, security issues are paramount. Organizations need to know that their information, data sources, and mission-critical applications are safe from unauthorized access. tmsEKP™ security features include:

• Individual user access via password and username

• Built-in encryption

• Support for standard authentication models

• Document rights management

�Maximization of Your IT Investments �By offering a full range of e-business modules such as Content, Collaboration, Sales Force Automation, Human Resources, Project Management, Business Processes and Helpdesk, tmsEKP™ provides companies with the right mix of functionalities so that they can:

• Leverage on their existing technology investments

• Reduce investment costs

• Focus on their core competency

• Integrate collaboration with vital partners, customers and suppliers

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Dynamic Content Management System

tmsEKP™'s content management system dramatically improves productivity and enables organizations to maintain accurate, timely and current web content with consistent branding and presentation across all corporate sites.

Besides allowing content authors the ability to easily add, modify and approve content within the context of their web sites, updating a site or adding entirely new pages can be done whenever and wherever, further decentralizing the content distribution responsibility throughout an enterprise.

Features include:

• Rich Text Editor (WYSIWYG HTML Editor)• Content Publishing Scheduler• Content Archiving• Content Versioning Control• Content Audit Trail • Front End Edit• Banner Advertisement Management

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Knowledge Assets and Document Management Capabilities

tmsEKP™'s document management enables organizations to effectively and efficiently capture, secure, share and distribute documents and reports. Document management is becoming more crucial as the volume of digital assets in an organization increases at a rapid rate. According to statistics, the data inside a corporation doubles every six to eight months. There is no limit to the number and type of documents that can be categorized and managed in tmsEKP™ - this includes marketing materials, video, audio, training resources in any format, and any kind of unstructured content that can be digitized. Because tmsEKP™ enables the integration of information across the enterprise, its search engine is also capable of searching for any content in the entire organization, and categorizing the search results in context.

Interactive and Collaborative Communication

One of tmsEKP™'s strengths is its collaborative capability - connecting users within an organization and companies' decision-makers with their network of suppliers, customers, and partners no matter where they are, so the flow of information can be easily automated through all phases of the value and supply chain. This increased efficiency and focus on communication afforded by tmsEKP™ enables the creation of a "virtual enterprise" where key production steps are outsourced to partners.

Features include:�• Collaborative Taxonomy• Federated Search • Search Update Notification• New Content Notification (via email)• Bookmarks• Multiple File Attachment• Multi-Level Security Individual Access• Multi-Level User Management

Features include:

• Community Collaboration• E-mail and Memo• Instant Messaging (Internal)• Threaded Discussion Forums• Form Wizard with Approval Cycle• Calendaring Scheduler• Company Resource Management• Subscription Management• Group Mailing List Management• Web Blogs• Address Book• Task Manager (To-Do Tasks, Appointments, Events)

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As projects accumulate and get more complex in requirements, it gets increasingly more difficult for organizations to keep track of the progress, specifications, resource allocations, and project deadlines. tmsEKP™'s Project Management System helps with the process of planning and managing projects by monitoring inter-related tasks while enabling resources to be assigned according to their competencies and existing work assignments.

One of the key features of tmsEKP™'s Project Management System is its incorporation of Gantt charts to resolve issues on resource allocations and scheduling, and ensure that projects are managed within budget and deadlines.

With the system, organizations can effectively deploy resources, monitor and improve the performance of multiple projects simultaneously while ensuring their timely completion. By enabling the generation of instant reports on project statuses, project managers can now focus on pre-empting and identifying problem areas - all in real-time with tmsEKP™.

Features include:

• Resource Monitor• Multiple Projects Management• Project Gantt Chart• Project Schedule• Project Summary Report• Project Templates

Human Resource Management

tmsEKP™ accords Human Resource departments with guaranteed rapid and substantial ROI by easily integrating corporate information such as training manuals, handbooks and guides. By automating the routing and submission of processes such as leave applications and company claims, tmsEKP™ encourages an employee self-service environment, which further enhances efficiency.

Features include:

• Leave Application and Approval• Leave Summary and Entitlement • Leave Administration• Assignment of Various Leave Classifications (Half-Day, Replacements, Public Holidays, etc)• Claims Management• Claims Reimbursement• Form Wizard

Project Management

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As your organization grows, it gets increasingly difficult to manage and track not only customer accounts and engagements, but also the opportunities and activities of your sales people.

tmsEKP™'s Sales Force Automation automates the tracking of opportunities and sales, customer engagements and pipeline activities, while enabling the collective experience of the sales team to be captured and leveraged upon.

The Sales Force Automation equips sales reps with customer data and history records of interactions, best practices and sales methodologies so that they can make informed decisions, respond promptly to customer situations and close more deals.

Besides helping the sales reps to perform better, the system also allows sales managers to track and monitor the sales activities and pipelines of their reps so that

they are always ensured of their team's optimal performance. They can track the overall and individual opportunities against closed sales, and monitor sales target versus actual sales while tracking sales projection, opportunities and performance for the month, quarter and year at one quick glance.

Sales organizations can now quickly identify which opportunities to focus on to meet and exceed quota so that they can pursue the right deal at the right time. With faster access to customer information - via the Web or mobile devices - the Sales Force Automation allows sales people to spend more time selling effectively and less time on paperwork and administration.

Features include:

• Customer Management• Contact Management• Sales Forecast Analysis• Sales Summary (by Month, Quarter, Year)• Sales Performance Comparison (by Month, Quarter, Year)• Opportunity Management

Helpdesk and Support

tmsEKP™'s Helpdesk System not only acts as a customer service or call center, it also manages customer support activities. The system helps the organization to record and track any incident report, allowing the creation of customers list, assignment of tasks and monitoring the support progress online.

The system includes search capabilities for locating similar or related logs based on the problem description, failing which, answers can be searched from the organizational knowledge base. By making relevant information easily available and accessible,

customer service reps can make informed decisions to respond quickly to customer needs. Should there be unresolved issues, the system allows escalation to higher levels for the attention and resolution by product specialists.

Because the sales, project and support teams are all working from the same customer database, no one needs to waste time searching for information, historical records or status on customer issues - resulting in further productivity, efficiency and faster response time to customer situations.

Features include:

• Incident Log• Customer Management• Contact Management

Sales Force Automation

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Document Rights Management

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The Document Rights Management (DRM) module of tmsEKP™ protects the copyrights of digital content such as software, audio, video and the likes, by enabling secure distribution and/or disabling illegal distribution of the data. DRM encrypts the content so that it can only be accessed by authorized users, and empowers the content owner to limit and control how the document can be used or viewed by restricting the downloading, viewing and printing of selected sensitive documents.

This tmsEKP™ feature can support documents of a wide range of format, from Word and Excel documents to images (jpeg, gif, jpg, png), Acrobat and HTML materials. The DRM module enables permissions such as: View Only, View and Print Only, and Full Access Download.

tmsEKP™ can work with Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Image Processing softwares such as ABBYY for Linux and Windows environments to manage image to text conversion, forms processing, as well as conversion to searchable PDF documents.

Scanned documents can be quickly converted into electronic files such as PDF, that can be added to searchable databases in tmsEKP™, allowing immediate availability of data and the quick retrieval of scanned documents based on their content.

Other Features of tmsEKP™

The Enterprise Version of tmsEKP™ also includes features and modules such as:

• Reporting Module• Corporate e-Learning System• i18N (Multi-Language Support)• Balance Scorecard• Time Card Management

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tmsFRAMEWORK™: TECHNOLOGY BEHIND tmsEKP™

tmsFRAMEWORK™ provides several common core services that are essential in business applications. The services offered are:

• security service which provides user, group and permission management along with user authentication and authorization; • indexing service which enables full- text search capabilities; • scheduling service which allows the ability to run tasks asynchronously and on a scheduled basis; and • storage service which offers a central file repository to allow applications clustered across multiple servers to access the same data.

The applications of tmsEKP™ is built upon tmsFRAMEWORK™, a highly scalable and extensible multi-tier application development and deployment framework that covers every level of software development - from user interface and business logic to the persistency of data models - all of which provide basic modules and components to simplify and accelerate the development of applications.

A software development framework that solves the inherent problems of developing complex Internet based e-business applications, tmsFRAMEWORK™ introduces a new programming paradigm whereby a series of business processes is encapsulated in a single module. Each business process is a workflow modeling the actual business activities.

With pre-existing reusable modules and a non-code centric framework such as

tmsFRAMEWORK™, building business applications on tmsEKP™ is now faster, easier and more productive than ever. tmsFRAMEWORK™'s modular architecture also enables applications to be easily enhanced and scaled over time.

Open Standard J2EE PlatformtmsFRAMEWORK™ provides businesses with a J2EE application development framework complete with reusable modules and codes to solve the most common application infrastructure issues, allowing organizations to focus on the business relevance of the application.

Besides leveraging on the J2EE platform, tmsFRAMEWORK™ also supports all Java based operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux, Solaris, and databases with JDBC drivers like MySQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle and IBM DB2. Not only can tmsFRAMEWORK™ work with other J2EE features such as Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) when

necessary, it can also be integrated with technologies such as web services namely SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, as well as other frameworks such as Apache Struts.

tmsFRAMEWORK™ ArchitecturetmsFRAMEWORK™'s pluggable layered architecture enables team development through application partitioning and modular design - this not only accelerates development, it also prevents platform and vendor lock-in, and gives businesses the freedom to choose their preference of development tools, deployment platform and vendor to suit their cost and business requirements.

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