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Having a nice, user-friendly website is great.
Having a functional website for those supposed to maintain
its content is even better. Unfortunately, that aspect of
the service has often been neglected in the past, bringing
sometimes to desperate situation and to a Gold Rush towards
integrated Content Management Solutions (CMS). Of course,
the swing of the pendulum is that "Content Management Proves
Costly Without Planning. With hundreds of content management
vendors and systems, ranging in price from free to millions
of dollars once implemented, choosing the right system for
your organization can be daunting"
(Toby Ward, The Intranet Journal, March
21st 2003, http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200303/ij_03_21_03a.html).
To paraphrase Mr. Ward's valuable insights,
"a content management system's future performance and success
is determined before its birth with the identification and
documentation of business requirements including:
- Defining the users
- Number of users
- Speed of publishing
- Language requirements
- Page and document limits
- Approval and workflow processes
- Number and type of templates
- Use of multimedia
- Integration capabilities with existing
infrastructure
Once these requirements among others have properly
identified and documented, you may start evaluating CMS available
on the market, or simply consult us. Our tailor-made and modules-based
approach will enable you to benefit from our experience in
building corporate CMS while gaining on implementation time.
Our experience shows that it can be more difficult for an
organization to adopt cataloguebased solutions for CMS than
for Intranets and Extranets. Web Synergies will be glad to
assist you in getting it done, no matter how big or small
is your project.
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