Business Case for SunWeb 4.0

The SunWeb portal is driven by the current realities of work. The workforce is global and knowledge based, the work location is anywhere with a high-speed Internet connection, and the work schedule is whatever is needed to get the job done across multiple time zones.

The SunWeb portal is driven by these work realities and the continuous challenges that come with them, such as access anywhere, anytime, and on any device, while meeting security, availability, response time, and redundancy requirements and fulfilling corporate compliance and reporting responsibilities. The complexities posed by Sun's work realities are considerable and underscore the critical nature of SunWeb:

• Approximately 40,000 employees in 170 countries

• 18 major business divisions

• 18,000 internal web sites

• 4 million internal web pages

• 5 million emails per day

• More than 900 internal applications

The SunWeb 4.0 portal deployment addressed these complexities by consolidating content, services, and applications on a single platform built on Java ES. The Java ES solution helped Sun achieve many key business objectives, including the following:

• Improved employee productivity. Sun's workforce is connected to whom and what they need when and where they need it based on user roles and entitlements.

• Reduced operational costs and complexity. Sun's business groups use a single platform for all phases of the information management and distribution life cycle.

• Demonstration of Sun's use of Sun technology. Sun's customers see a real-world implementation of a Java ES architecture and gain a better understanding of how a Java ES solution might be designed and deployed in their own environment to address similar business problems and requirements.