Employee Center
Quick answer
A single portal for services across IT, HR, facilities and finance, with targeted content and taxonomy.
Key takeaways
- One portal, topic based rather than department based
- Audiences and user criteria drive personalisation
- Content quality decides adoption
- Every topic needs a named owner
What it is
Employee Center is a unified portal built on Service Portal with a topic based taxonomy. Instead of separate IT and HR portals, employees see one place where content, catalog items and knowledge are organised by topic rather than by department.
Taxonomy and targeted content
Topics group catalog items, quick links and knowledge. Audiences and user criteria control who sees what, so a manager sees hiring content while a new joiner sees onboarding.
Rollout advice
Portal projects fail on content, not technology.
- Start with the twenty most requested services and get their wording right
- Use audiences rather than building separate pages per department
- Measure search and deflection from day one
- Give each topic an owner responsible for its content freshness
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Check your understanding
What organises content in Employee Center?
- A. Departments
- B. Topics and taxonomy
- C. Tables
- D. Roles
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B. Topics and taxonomy
A topic taxonomy replaces department silos.
Which controls who sees a catalog item?
- A. ACL only
- B. User criteria and audiences
- C. Client scripts
- D. Form views
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B. User criteria and audiences
User criteria and audiences target content to groups of employees.