How to leverage on Google Sites Portal using gControl One of the key features of gControl is landing page control. I have spoken to many CIO and IT Heads who want control on their portal but they fail to do so. This is not because they did not do a it right but its because they way it was done till date. Let me explain the scenario Lets say a large enterprise with couple of hundreds of users is planning to launch a Intranet portal and they are pretty excited about it as it will bring a platform to communicate, collaborate and organise company information in one place. Now immediately the following challenges arises, • How do we ensure that its always available and accessible to all employees from anywhere • Ans - This is simple instead of going with a traditional route of Microsoft SharePoint take the simple route of Google Sites Portal which is easy to build and its on the cloud and is easily accessible to anyone who has Google Apps Email Account. How do we ensure that end users visit the portal atleast once a day or force them to come to the portal once a day. • Ans - This becomes very tricky on Sharepoint as the only control the IT has is to make the default page of Internet Explorer as Portal Page and users will see it when they use IE. This goes for toss when users use any other browser or are on another network or outside office. •
So, how do we handle this with gControl and Google Sites Portal. gControl has a great feature of Landing Page which allows the Google Apps admin to set a Google Sites portal as a default page after login to Google Apps, by doing this every user who logs on to Google Apps domain cannot miss the Landing portal and Admin can be rest assured that users visit the portal page once in a day without fail. Below is the setting found on gControl
Landing Page Setting on gControl for Google Apps
So take control of your portal with gControl.