Innovation. Strategy. Execution. Extension.

e-Services Practice

Practice Leader:
Pete Lagana


Marketing Literature:

The Excellis e-Services Practice is focused on delivering best-in-class governance, business and technology consulting services to clients seeking eBusiness solutions. Our experienced team members work closely with our customers to build highly useable, visually appealing, high-impact, scalable solutions that combine their existing IT investments with SAP NetWeaver technology and the most innovative Web 2.0 applications and toolsets.

Our technology specialization and consulting model provides a comprehensive set of capabilities and technical expertise across key delivery platforms such as SAP Netweaver, IBM WebSphere and Microsoft SharePoint. In addition to custom development, we offer packaged as well as turnkey fully-managed solutions for portals, e-commerce and SOA platforms.

Our e-Services Practice is composed of several solution teams, allowing our consultants to focus on particular areas of expertise and providing best-in-class support for technologies and tools. Further, we have the industry-specific knowledge and expertise you need, covering retail, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, high-tech, financial services and manufacturing.

Creative/Usability Solutions

The Creative/Usability Solutions team at Excellis understands the creative process, the consumer challenge, the business of marketing, the techniques and tools of execution, and the pressure of the bottom line. Our team uniquely mixes expertise and experience in creative, production, product, and strategy with usability, technology and systems. We bring you cutting edge, design firm quality artwork matched with visually appealing user experiences for your Portal, E-Commerce, and Rich Internet application implementations.

  • User Research & Requirements (Field Observation, Requirements Definition and Task Analysis & Design)
  • Rich Interface Design & Branding (Visual Design & Branding, Web 2.0 Design, UI Standards & Design Guides and Interactive Demos)
  • Product Branding (Digital Assets, Logo Design and Banners)
  • Usability Testing & Evaluation (Expert Design Evaluation, Usability Testing & Assessment and Usability Benchmarking & Management)
  • Information Architecture (Design Exploration, IA & Navigation Design and UI Specifications)

Portal Solutions

The Portal Solutions team at Excellis knows that to succeed in today’s highly competitive, dynamic and connected marketplace, you need flexible solutions—a single interface for your entire business. Our team provides a comprehensive portfolio of technical skills and the expertise necessary to deliver a single point of personalized interaction to applications, content, business processes and people for a unified user experience. Our Portal Solutions experts specialize in driving ease-of-use, adoption, federation and business effectiveness.

Our diverse platform support—spanning SAP Netweaver, IBM WebSphere, Oracle/BEA WebLogic and Tuxedo and Microsoft Sharepoint—provides maximum flexibility in delivering best-in-class portal solutions. Our comprehensive services offerings ensure success.

  • Business Value Assessment
  • Portal ISEE Methodology
  • Portal UI architecture
  • Product & Framework Selection
  • Rapid Prototypes and Proof of Concepts
  • Portal UI Development
  • UI Integration
  • 3rd Party Integration
  • Portal Federation
  • SOA Integration
  • Quality Assurance
  • Portal Education

E-Commerce Solutions

The E-Commerce Solutions team at Excellis has extensive experience designing and developing high-impact Web sites that engage users and create competitive advantage. We help organizations envision, design and create highly interactive product launch sites by combining design and rich internet application (RIA) capabilities. As such, these microsites help your customers connect and engage themselves with the product as well as your company’s brand. In all, we provide e-Commerce solutions that grow your online relationships, accommodate users’ demands, improve overall experience and increase profits.

Sample e-commerce projects include Rich Internet Applications (RIA), Intranets/Extranets, B2B/B2E/B2C and Online Sales.

  • E-Commerce Strategy
  • Technical Analysis & Design
  • Rich Internet Application Architecture
  • Rich Interface Development
  • Product & Framework Selection
  • Rapid Prototypes and Proof of Concepts
  • UI Integration
  • 3rd Party Integration
  • SOA Integration
  • Quality Assurance
  • Training & Mentoring

Social Software Solutions

The Social Software Solutions team at Excellis understands that the way we work is changing. Things move rapidly, multi-tasking is commonplace, and we work with people both near and far every day. It is time we engage the wisdom of crowds. The second-generation Web, referred to as Web 2.0, runs on the power of participation. Web 2.0 shows us what’s possible when users are put at the center of each experience and are provided tools to freely, quickly and actively contribute and work together. Our Social Software Solutions team leverages SAP NetWeaver’s User Productivity track to allow groups to self-organize around projects/activities and to create and share individual/team blogs, wikis, bookmarks, communities and mashups.

Our focused portfolio of services will help you "Web 2.0" your online solutions and help turn SOA into "Participant Oriented Architecture."

  • Social Software Strategy & Approach
  • Collaboration Strategy
  • On-Demand Collaboration Support
  • Web 2.0 Tool Implementation
  • Blogs
  • Wikis
  • Communities
  • Bookmarks
  • Mashups

Web Content Management Solutions

The Web Content Management Solutions team at Excellis understands delivers end-to-end internet/intranet/extranet content management solutions for organizations looking to bring structure and control to their ever-growing web content. Through our tested content management philosophy, [organization] can help your organization better manage web content by providing structure and guidelines to content generation, management and delivery processes.

  • Strategies for Approvals, Workflows and Migrations
  • Streamline Content Creation & Approval
  • Remove Webmaster/IT Bottlenecks
  • Blogs
  • Publish Information on Demand
  • Personalization & Tailor Content
  • Content Normalization (Consistent Look & Feel)