Features for your customers
features for your Business
The Backbase Portal Manager is a web based application to empower your Business and IT teams to configure and manage the Portal platform and to optimize online customer interactions. The open architecture of Backbase Portal Manager allows you to quickly integrate your existing content, analytics and e-marketing tools directly into the Backbase Portal Manager console.
Portal managment dashboard
The Backbase Portal Manager includes a dashboard that provides you with the information you need, instantly. It includes gadgets for analytics, reporting, statistics and workflow activity. It also acts as a launchpad to frequently used functionalities such as gadget, metadata, content and search engine management.
Gadget managment
The gadget manager allows business people to define and manage the gadget catalog, containing a collection of gadgets available to the various sections of your portal. Backbase Portal's built-in analytics provides actionable information about how and where your gadget are used so that you can optimize them accordingly.
Content managment
Use your existing Content Management System. Backbase Portal integrates seamlessly with any CMS. You protect your existing CMS investments and use Backbase Portal to get an additional return on your business-critical content.
Backbase Portal offers an optional lightweight CMS module with a very simple principle - create once, present any way you want. Business users can easily create new content and publish this directly into different publication formats, ranging from full portal pages and gadgets, to RSS feeds and mobile applications. The lightweight CMS module includes workflow, versioning and access control.
Meta managment
Applying metadata to your content has many benefits such as industry compliance, search optimization and taxonomy support. As well as offering innovative features like guided navigation and faceted search, Backbase Portal uses metadata to enable personalization, contextual navigation and user generated content.
A/B & multivariate testing
Backbase Portal offers a pre-build Google Site Optimizer integration bundle, offering you a neatly integrated A/B and MultiVariate Testing (MVT) solutions that can be applied to any relevant gadget or content within your portal. Find out what content works for your customer and see the results on your conversion funnel.
Backbase Portal comes with an open API and integration blueprint to enable quick and easy integration with best-of-breed commercial scenario testing solutions such as Omniture, Optimost and SiteSpect.
Search engine optimalisation
SEO strategies are an integral part of every company's marketing mix. Backbase Portal delivers strong SEO features and enables your web annalists to optimize your portal's content, HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.
Unlike other portals, all content, regardless of where it is located, can be indexed by search engines. This is due to the unique way in which each page and gadget is rendered.
Reporting & analytics
Backbase Portal offers a pre-built Google Analytics integration bundle, offering you an array of reports that can tell you how your Portal is performing in the real world.Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features let you see and analyze your visitor data in an entirely new way: Up-to-the-minute stats on how people customize portal to their needs, what gadgets and content they consume, what click-paths they ollow and how actively they contribute to your community.
With integrated Google Analytics, you get rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. You're better prepared to write targeted ads, strengthen your marketing initiatives and optimize your online sales opportunities.
features for it teams
If you are an IT manager or system integrator, Backbase Portal provides a single point of access to all portal related functionality and technology. Thanks to its open architecture you can consolidate existing web management interfaces directly into the Portal Manager application so that you have a 360 degree view on all portal functionality.
In addition to this, the Backbase Portal Manager provides a number of built in features to assist with user, deployment and layout management. The Backbase Portal Manager is: fully Single Sign On (SSO) ready, which means you can provide role based access to Backbase Portal features using existing roles and authentication systems.
User managment
The security of your portal is critically important, and Backbase Portal offers a rich set of tools that allow you to control who can manage your Portal in the staging and production environment, as well as allowing you to directly manage the privileges for your portal visitors.
Backbase offers a sophisticated permission management system to grant rights to users, groups and roles. Backbase integrates well with external authentication and authorization systems, and is engineered to plug into existing systems such as CRM solutions.
Deployment managment
Backbase Portal makes a clear separation between staging and production environments ensuring that portal assets, like content and gadgets, aren't available on the live portal until they are ready. Backbase Portal provides a host of publishing oriented features to allow portal assets to be to be moved or published from staging to the production.
Backbase Portal allows business users and administrators to set dates that control when portal assets will be published and unpublished from a given site, and provides a simulation environment that shows an user what the portal will look like on a given date. Backbase Portal also supports publishing to an unlimited number of targets, or production web servers, giving you unlimited scalability and the choice of cloud availability.
Layout managment
Backbase Portal keeps every portal asset, such as content and gadgets, separate from the way they are presented. All portal assets can be presented and re used in many different layout and navigation formats. Backbase Portal gives you control of how portal pages and gadgets should look, and lets you enforce that layout by providing editors with the only choices that makes sense for any given gadget, or section or page on your portal.
Backbase Portal also provides automated functions such as navigation, bread crumb and tree crumb tools to simplify new page creation and navigation consistency.