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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