History – Major milestones to our success to render your Web, Intranet, Portal more successful

2003, Nicolas Bürki founded effinfo a 100% Web research company focusing on publishing research publications to address key issues of developing, managing and operating Web, Intranet and Portal applications.

2004, Partnerships for research publications with Bitpipe, MarketResearch, Research & Markets, Northern Light Group (former Analystviews) to freely access most of our research documents.

Thanks to all of our valuable online readers, we ranked multiple times in the top 10 most read research documents on www.forbes.com, www.pcpro.co.uk and on other major research research-oriented Internet portals.

2006, October, Susan Wiener former vice-president at Forrester partners with effbis. Susan heads up the Intranet and Portal Practice and is our North America & Canada Consulting Partner.

2006, November, in order to help you to realize your Web, Intranet and Portal investments, we deliver our expertise from now on through a dedicated consulting group named effbis (effective business information systems). effinfo will remain your eknowledge partner and continues to provide you free and subscription based Web, Intranet and Portal research documents and services.

Mission Statement

effbis’ mission is to make your Web site, Intranet and Portal more successful. Independent if you

• share information with your prospects and clients on your public Web site to reduce costs or generate sales lead
• sell your services or products through the Web<
• share information, provide online collaboration and transactions through your Intranet or Portal

you success is based on the following four pillar:

1. Strategy
2. User Experience Management
3. Organizational Readiness
4. Technology Implementation

Under performing or only partially addressing one of these pillars, increase the risk that your Web, Intranet or Portal application fails. Use our online self-assessment to find out, if you constructed a solid four-pillar foundation or if you need our expertise to fully make you successful.

Online information that is not accessible due to poor usability, information architecture and navigation is useless. effbis' mission is to render your information effective by ensuring that it can be accessed, shared and used for online collaboration

Management
Intranet and Portal Practice Leader & Partner North America and Canada- Susan Wiener
		Susan brings over 20 years experience in helping executives to develop, communicate and execute sound strategic and organizational plans to support complex technology initiatives. She has had proven success capitalizing on emerging technology trends, having founded an intranet firm in 1992 (bringing it public in 1997) and a collaboration software company in 1998. Susan was most recently a Vice President at Forrester Research where she held a variety of roles focused on creating and delivering new business offerings related to web site effectiveness and the impact of technology on marketing In1992, Susan co-founded Cognitive Communications, an intranet strategy, design, and development firm that developed and deployed the first enterprise-wide intranets for clients such as Corning, Xerox, Coca-Cola, and The McGraw-Hill Companies. She led the strategy practice, which provided clients with supporting business processes, content architecture, and Web site governance. Susan also co-founded Do-Able, whose award-winning team-based collaboration software was featured in Fast Company and CIO magazine Susan is a frequent speaker at international and national conferences to IT and business audiences. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Graduate Center of Marlboro College, which is dedicated to educating technology leaders. Susan holds a B.S. in sociology from Union College in Schenectady, N.Y.
Founder and Web Practice Leader & Partner EMEAI- Nicolas Bürki
		Nicolas was a senior advisor at GigaGroup (now Forrester). In addition, Nicolas headed up Giga's Web effectiveness program that helped global companies and non-profit organisations to increase the effectiveness of their public Web sites, Intranets and enterprise portals. Prior to joining GigaGroup, Nicolas was the technical director of a French consultancy focusing on Internet technology solutions. He set up the consulting activity from scratch by defining the market offerings, building the development team, standardizing the development methodology, and managing the projects. Previously, Nicolas was as a consultant at Accenture's Centre for Strategic Technology in Sophia-Antipolis. He worked on emerging technology projects to demonstrate the use of new technologies as business enablers. He also was a presenter on early-adopter Internet workshops for senior business customers. Nicolas graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich in Electronics Engineering, with a major in telecommunications and networks. He complemented his studies in multimedia data at the Institute Eurécom. Nicolas is fluent in English, French, and German.