The importance of KISS – Keep It Simple Stupid October 17, 2007
Posted by mukundmohan in News.Tags: Deal Architect, Easy UI, Inovis Webware, Mashups, Simple UI, Vinnie Mirchandani, Webware
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Vinnie has a great post on The SAP/Oracle version of the Google home page.
Its well worth the click-throughs, especially as they’re free from PPCs.
It’s based on a premise that Google would be using their interface to promote themselves to gain competitive SEO advantage.
It starts with the current barebones Google search query entry form on a field of white. Various enterprise software concepts are added, including Dynpro, Oracle’s SmartClient design principles, PeopleTools, FlexFields, and Lawson Software.
The end result is what we’ve dubbed, the Google Portal Page.
Amazingly, it resembles every other online portal page, reminding us of that proverbial expression that a camel is a horse built by committee. That is, before the mashups.
Before the mashup concept took hold, an online portal entry page, whether personal or enterprise-wide, previewed what some other entity thought would be relevant to our online experience.
This was one of our fundamental driving our Webware release. Keep it really simple and easy. So its just like email.
With the emergence of personal and business mashup applications, the user is allowed to create an appropriate interface, changing it as needed, to create a dashboard view of personal and/or our business community management.
Fortunately Google, with other search engines following their lead, has kept the focus on the user search experience as we’ve evolved from the early days of the AOL portal model.
With iGoogle, our personal mashup page contains or leads to almost every online resource we employ on a daily basis, especially Google reader. Tabs and widgets allow for additional organization, functionality, and especially increased productivity, because that’s our Bottom Line.
