Lean Portal

user interface for Systems2win Excel templates for continuous process improvement

What is the Systems2win Portal?

The Systems2win portal is:

a search-friendly user interface
One of the 4 alternate ways to find and open your Systems2win templates, the S2winPortal shines as the easiest way to find a template you have not used before.
the central master location for your company's master templates
When your Lean Leaders personalize any master template, they simply overwrite the master in your portal - and it automatically syncs each local PC with the master templates in your portal.

Portal Setup

This simple browser user interface does not require much Information Systems support.

The S2winPortal can be installed on a local PC or on a server.

It is only a file repository (no programming is on the server) - and can be set up in less than 5 minutes.

Personalization

You can optionally personalize your portal - free

These simple HTML pages were written using purposefully simple technologies, to make it easy to personalize your portal.

But just because you can easily personalize your portal doesn't mean that it's a good idea.

99% of our customers never change anything about their portal pages, even though they might do all of the following:

You can easily remove templates you don't want to distribute to your users.
(Yes you could personalize your portal to remove any reference to templates that you remove, but every portal page contains the user tip: "Links are active only for those templates your company has chosen to purchase and distribute to your users")
You can easily add your own Word and Excel templates - developed either in-house or by any of your consultants
(Yes you could personalize your portal to display your custom templates exactly as the standard Systems2win templates are displayed, but it is much easier to simply train your users to use any one of the other alternate ways to find and open your Systems2win templates to open your custom templates in their S2winSync folder)
You can easily personalize your Systems2win templates
(Yes you could personalize your portal to add additional links to variations of standard Systems2win templates for multi-language or special purpose uses, but it is often easier to just use your S2winSync folder)

If you do personalize your portal... be sure to make an entry in your Customization Log - to remind yourself (or your replacement) to make the same changes whenever you upgrade.