A Content-Incentive-Usability Framework for Corporate Portal Design

-----------------------------------------------------------ABSTRACT----------------------------------------------------------The role of corporate portal on consolidating an organization's internal and external information and knowledge repositories has been recognized by many organizations worldwide including manufacturing firms. The purpose of the study was therefore to create a Content-Incentive-Usability Framework for Corporate Portal Design from a Knowledge Management Perspective looking at Unga Group Limited. It specifically investigated the creation and integration of content-Incentive-Usability Framework for Corporate Portal Design; Experimental research design was used as the research design. The architecture described here realized data integration using EAI systems. These offerred functions for the mapping and transportation of heterogeneous data from the different applications involved. The web service standards SOAP, WSDL and UDDI provided the framework for inter-organizational and cross-application system-to-system communication through remote function calls. While portlets only allow reading access to the data of different heterogeneous applications, EAI systems such as e.g. the IBM Websphere Business Integration Suite or the mySAP Exchange Infrastructure provided coordinated writing access to different systems and their data. The study therefore concluded that there was a created, integrated, developed and Validated Content-Incentive-Usability Framework for Corporate Portal Design for Unga Group Limited and recommends that Unga Group Limited should invest more in content management tools that offer abilities to integrate, classify, and codify knowledge from various sources. 1 Masters Student in Computer Systems from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Date of Submission: 04 February 2016 Date of Accepted: 20 February 2016 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------