Web and Portal Development

NetReach offers professional website design, development and maintenance and support services. A consultative process and our coordinated team of web engineers, designers and developers delivers technologically savvy web-based solutions on time and on budget, from smaller informational websites to dynamically functioning web portals and web-based applications. We provide full end-to-end life cycle services from business strategy through to maintenance and support.

Web Portals and Web-based User Communities

Web Portals

Web portals are generally larger web-properties designed to be a "one-stop" destination for a group of people (users). The portal provides personalized access to shared contacts, applications, documents, and other content that allows for collaboration among users. Providing these tools and content in a context-relevant way, using a familiar browser-based interface with "anywhere-anytime" accessibility creates efficiencies in:

• User adoption: (generally painless and a high-adoption rate — a factor often overlooked when implementing new technology initiatives).
• IT resource allocation: optimizing scare resources and budgets
  • NetReach can and has provided portals as Software as a Service (SaaS) hosted solutions, which require no hardware purchase, installation or maintenance.
• Deployment: as NetReach uses a RAD — Rapid Application Development approach. This can also be termed "faster time to value."

Web-based User Communities

With the advent of social networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn or Flickr one could make a case that these types of "looser" web-based user communities could be viewed as slightly different from a web portal used for business and networking purposes. Though, often feature sets are similar if not the same and in fact are driven by user familiarity with the huge social networking platform's toolsets.

• Blogs
• Chat
• Forums
• Video and image upload and sharing
• Comments & Rating
• User Profile

These types of web-based user communities must frequently accommodate tens of thousands of simultaneous users.

Learn more about NetReach's work for Associations and Membership Organizations.