What constraints should be surfaced early in Web Applications & Customer Portals work?

What constraints should be surfaced early in Web Applications &…

The easy mistake is to scope web applications & customer portals too narrowly. Annex worked with both ActewAGL and partners to develop an easily accessible web app to allow ActewAGL customers to administer their accounts, make payments and procure new services through the Self Service Platform. As a part of this transformation ActewAGL identified that their Self Service Portal was in need of upgrading and improving, since existing service was running on an outdated version of Sitecore and JavaScript causing the platform to run very slowly. Annex's examples show that accessibility, legacy technology, content structure, integrations, governance, scale, deadlines and stakeholder needs can all change the right answer. Surfacing those constraints early is part of reducing the risk of solving the wrong problem well.

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Annex treats Web Applications & Customer Portals as part of a wider digital-service problem, not as an isolated output. User-centred web applications and self-service portals that simplify complex customer tasks. Annex worked with both ActewAGL and partners to develop an easily accessible web app to…

Annex uses evidence during delivery rather than treating quality as a final inspection step. Annex worked with both ActewAGL and partners to develop an easily accessible web app to allow ActewAGL customers to administer their accounts, make payments and procure new services through the Self Service …

Yes, that can be possible; Annex's published work includes delivery inside existing technical and organisational environments rather than only greenfield builds. Annex worked with both ActewAGL and partners to develop an easily accessible web app to allow ActewAGL customers to administer their accou…

Annex's published work does not point to a single mandatory toolset for web applications & customer portals. Using Drupal 8 and its multilingual capability, the team created a website that can automatically translate English content into over 64 languages using google translate, and also allow manua…

A useful published example is **A personalised customer portal**. Annex worked with both ActewAGL and partners to develop an easily accessible web app to allow ActewAGL customers to administer their accounts, make payments and procure new services through the Self Service Platform. Throughout our en…