Portal orientation:
Landray EKP provides a convenient gateway entrance, which functions to apply a unified entrance for different products, realize the personalized interfaces, operate a unified method of managing accounts, realize convenient landing with once only, realize the information synchronization, behaviors synchronization and business interaction synchronization among people and people, departments and departments, enterprises and enterprises serving the purpose of constructing convenient environment of interpersonal collaboration.

For the Enterprise Group, IT system construction will eventually characterized by " portal-oriented blueprint based on knowledge", which can target different audiences, Constructing varied portals with different objections, such as internal portals, customer portals, partner portal, as well as external portals. According to the scope of coverage, the internal portal could be divided into:

• Horizontal portal: portal refers to the Group Headquarters, the subsidiary units and different levels of the enterprise portals. Users of the unit are all staff members of the enterprise;

• sector portal: Group headquarters that the gateway to various functional departments, all employees of the department users;

• Vertical portals: means the professional portals that facing departments of finance, production, marketing, human resources, and other functional departments. And the customers vertically include the main longitudinal headquarters and employees of professionally functional departments of subsidiaries, for example, financial professional portal is facing to the personnel related to the finance function of the enterprises.

Horizontal portal concerns about the width and popularity of portal content while the vertical portal concerns about the depth and professionalism of the portal content. Usually both of them will be provided in the implementation of the portal so that the maximum information could be conveyed to customers and at the same time the requirements of being special and professional raised by customers can be satisfied. In specific details of the portal, different applications would be embodied in aspects of "coordinate and control work", "coordinate and control knowledge", " coordinate and control culture" in accordance with its management characteristics and needs.

Coordinate and control work:

In the layer of coordinating and controlling work, according to its own profound understanding of enterprise management, Landray discovers that cooperative work of enterprises can be divided into several major collaborative models, including coordination in processes, coordination in tasks and coordination in projects and so on. Therefore, Landray provides the supportive application of IT system through EKP with its base on coordination in processes, coordination in tasks and coordination in projects that groups of companies may get involved in.

Coordination and control knowledge
For group companies, whether they can achieve the sharing of inter-unit data, knowledge and personnel is the embodiment of important exponent to judge the group’s capacity in management and control. The cooperation and control usually reflects in three aspects, including data of structure, appearing unstructured documents and hidden tacit knowledge. Landray provides solutions of the supportive IT system consisted of data center, knowledge center and personnel center against the above three aspects.

Cultural synergy and control
For the Group enterprises, culture is a kind of conceptual knowledge, because of its complexity and its sense of concealment is high, it often reflects the profound value and codes of conduct hidden behind the conducts of enterprises, which makes the cooperation and control of the culture in Group enterprise difficult. Moreover, there are a variety of sub-cultures existing in enterprises. Group enterprises’’ capacity in management and control with depth would be reflected in their solution of overcoming the border between subsidiaries and Group headquarters and maintains the harmonious cultural environment of the group enterprises.

Requirements and challenges has been raised up by the business running and management needs of Group enterprises to its IT system, often are reflected as following:

• depth of organizational levels fails to support the organizational structure of software;

• Poly levels of business management required to achieve management of different layers;

• Maintenance system requires for amount of works which raise the needs for the system administrator to enable classification of the authority;

• Decisions of Group enterprises are hard to reach to the subsidiaries, and thus requires the application of a unified work-flow platform;

• human resources of the Group enterprises could not be unified which requires the application of the unified collaborative communication platform;

• Group enterprises owns a huge number of customers which require a system that could support a large volume of visitors;

• Network of Subsidiary organizations has a slow visiting speed, which requires several local servers that can guarantee visiting from the nearest position;

•Large volume of Group Information System data leads to the appearance of “ isolated islands of information”, redundancy of different sets of information and complexity of analysis and statistics, thus it requires centralized processing and integrating function of the data transportation to support inter-branch exchanging of different sets of data information;

Some cases: the burning Group, Valin pipeline, the Shanghai Electric Power Station, Tiens Group