Portals are one of the main ways that companies interact with customers, partners and staff, and have become an essential component of an overall marketing infrastructure. The emergence of social networking and mobility has made portals increasingly important, engaging, and ultimately the most important elements of not just content management, but virtually all of your mission critical marketing and eBusiness applications.

No matter what the size, style, and functional requirements of your portal, it needs to achieve key business goals. We have built a reputation around the strategy, design, and construction of actionable portals where companies interact and conduct business with their partners, customers, and staff. From personalization to social networking, from database-driven interactivity to rich media, and from secure access to collaboration, we have the experience and expertise to design systems that power your business.

Crimson's portal group leadership has worked together for over 10 years, designing and deploying some of the most mission-critical portals for major Silicon Valley enterprises. We have a client satisfaction rate of 100%, and a perfect track record of successful portal deployments.

Crimson offers a complete set of portal services, from strategy and competitive analysis through information architecture, user experience design, graphic design, site planning, web development, back-end engineering, secure hosting, and maintenance.

We build successful portals focusing on principles of information architecture and user experience design. Our IA and UX staff are the best in the business, all with high-profile enterprise portfolios.
We don’t use a “cookie-cutter” approach: we work with our clients to design systems that will work within their environment, based on their needs, their content, their infrastructure, and their audiences.
We architect systems that your IT department will welcome; we know how to partner closely with IT for project success, designing flexible and scalable systems that will continue to function for many years to come.
The result is portals that work—and delight the users with ease of use, superior functionality, and compelling design.

Crimson designs to the feature and functionality requirements of virtually any system, whether developed in-house, or deployed on enterprise content management solutions like Documentum or Vignette.

But we are also proud to offer our own StageOne content management and portal solution for completely custom-tailored applications, an extensible rapid development system in production for over 8 years at companies like Applied Materials, BEA Systems, Harmonic Inc., and Seagate Technologies.

Our StageOne Portal Solution includes a wide array of features and tools to support virtually any business need:

Dozens of pre-built yet fully-customizable content modules
Document library management including audio/video media
Control panel based administration—fully customizable
Detailed visitor tracking and reporting, including content access auditing
Template-based design with virtually no restrictions on visual design
Dozens of integrated plug-in applications for project management, mass email communications, and microsite management
Easy integration with community features - Wikis, Discussion Forums, Blogs

StageOne is mobile-friendly and enterprise-scalable, and supports integration with sophisticated web technologies like LDAP and calendaring as well as the strict requirements of mobile UI design. Advanced features include:

Robust topic-based and text-based search
Multi-tiered security access for users, groups, folders, and categories
Multiple levels of virtual foldering
3-level workflow with notifications
User-defined classification trees used to tag and cross-relate content
Future-dated content scheduling and expiration
Open APIs for 2-way exchange with other systems
Open, non-proprietary architecture based on Adobe ColdFusion and virtually any relational database

Contact Us

Feel free to contact Crimson's interactive practice partners Karen O'Brien or Rich Julius to discuss your portal or community needs.

Case Studies

	Strategy and development of online Partner Community that reduced cost by half and created a 400-500% capacity increase.
	Developed the global site and community strategy for ABC’s Day Time Soap brand, Soapnet.
	Web strategy and information architecture for partner portal and corporate website.
	Web and mobile self-profiling partner portal and online catalogue.
	Design of an online entertainment community for 5 million broadband users.
	Web strategy and design of the corporate website for both small and medium business and enterprise customers.
	Web and customer strategy in connection with their new web presence.
	Enabling digital entertainment services to create a first of its kind media platform for leading retailers.
	Ultra-thin-client mobile portal for healthcare leader.