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Page 1: Stop competing and start leading: A user experience case study

THE PORTAL ORIGINAL

HOSTING’S customers weren’t using the HOSTING portal to manage their virtual servers.

Why not?

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a mess of links, tables, words, and numbers

buried links in an organizational maze

multiple navigational menus

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ignored news and alerts

confusing fee attribution

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THE PORTAL REDESIGN

For immediate ROI we redesigned the information architecture and the look of the portal.

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SOLUTIONS

SERVICES

TICKETS

BILLING

TRENDS

TICKETSC U S T O M E R P O R T A L

David H.Support

Open Tickets

Last Updated

Status

This Month

Timeframe

Anyone

Submitted by

(ICBM) [DAL01] restore campus db1

[DAL01] PAR not working for anyone on overnights

Hosting.com Solution For: Look Cinemas - #H224197

Open

Open

Open

Subject Status

23 min ago

Yesterday

Jan 1

Create Ticket

Export Tickets

simpler navigation filtering options

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SOLUTIONS

SERVICES

TICKETS

BILLING

TRENDS

MANAGE USERSC U S T O M E R P O R T A L

David H.Support

Name

Hide Disabled Users

Active / Admin

Active

Active

Active

Active

Active

Active

Active

Active

Active

Disabled

System Admin

Controller

DBA

Developer

Contractor

System Admin

Today

Feb 2, 2013

Yesterday

3 days ago

Jan 13, 2013

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Today

Dec 12, 2012

May 17, 2012

Jan 13, 2013

May 1, 2012

Status Title / Position Last Login

Adam Welsh

Brandon Meardon

Brandon Smith

Cameron Wood

Dave Malone

Debra Messig

Jim Kerrigan

Michelle Knowles

Scott Brennan

Steve Brown

Tera Gall

Create User

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cleaner design

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THE PORTAL INNOVATION

After success in the short term, we took the portal beyond merely competing with other portals.

We created the leading portal experience in the virtualization industry.

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Hex Dashboard

WWW SQL AD

WWW SQL FW

SRCH EML

SRCH

WWW SQL SQL

AD SQL

IMIS SQL

SQL SQL SQL

WWW SQL SRCH

WEBSITE - PROD IMIS - DEV

JOHN KIPLING - DEV

WWW SQL SQL

IMIS

WEBSITE - EXP

objects instead of listsvisual server status

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Solution ViewWEBSITE - EXP $120/MO

WWW

denver.server-h-194

6G RAM

SQL

sql-thorton

8G RAM

SQL

sql-thorton-2

8G RAM

IMIS

imis-2-stl

8G RAM

Configuring...est. 3 minutes

Duplicate this solution + $120/MO

Park this solution - $110/MO

View billing

Create a PDF spec sheet

Add a server

progressive details as needed

navigation appears where it is meaningful

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Server View

WWW

SQL

IMIS

imis-2-stl8G RAM

imis-2-stl

OSArchitecture

Linux64-bit

99.9999% uptime

RAM 8 GRAM in use

CPU

7.9 G

Dual-coreCPU

IMIS - DEV solution

INSTALLED SOFTWARE

intuitive object management

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Solution name...

Choose a purpose...

Ordering

WWW SQL AD

WWW SQL FW

SRCH EML

SRCH

WWW SQL SQL

AD SQL

IMIS SQL

SQL SQL SQL

WWW SQL SRCH

WEBSITE - PROD $145/MO IMIS - DEV $235/MO

J.KIPLING - DEV $10/MO

SHAREPOINT

CREATE SOLUTIONCREATE SOLUTION

EXPERIMENTAL

Experimental (EXP)

Development (DEV)

Test (TEST)

Production (PROD)

Add a server

Delete this solution

SHAREPOINT - EXP

easily understood fee attribution


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