Kryos Systems has provided portal consulting services to Viterra for many years. Viterra is a multi-billion dollar agri-business with operations in grain-handling and marketing, agri-food processing, feed manufacturing, and financial products. IBM portal technology was originally introduced as a means of delivering secured online services to their large group of Producers, Suppliers and Partners on their mainframe infrastructure.

The first project delivered on the portal was a re–write of an existing Oracle–based web application. The goal was to simplify the interface and maintain as much of the back–end in place as possible. We helped educate Viterra on how designing portal applications was fundamentally different than traditional web  applications.

The new portal application reduced the number of interfaces from over 55 web pages to 3 portal pages, a 95% decrease. Additionally, workflow turn-around time reduced by 30-40%, staff overtime decreased, and productivity doubled for their mission-critical grain sampling process.

In keeping with our incremental approach to portals, the second project delivered at Viterra was the Producer Portal targeted to 40,000+ grain producers.

After the Saskatchewan Wheat Pool rebranded as Viterra, the corporate web site was migrated to the portal infrastructure and the intranet was overhauled with a new theme and WCM.