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Content Management

Content Contributors

Today's content contributors are more and more Internet savvy. With the increased prevalence of advertising based personal blogs, multimedia and social networking sites, more people are building the skills to be able to manage content on the web. This is not only a new opportunity for companies to take advantage of these skills, it is almost a requirement to stay as fresh and relevant as their competitors.

A CMS platform gives you complete control over your web content by:

• Providing direct access to content contributors, reducing time and cost of IT resources.
  
• Allowing for faster updates of web pages, delivering timely and relevant content.
• Providing an always-on web toolkit, accessible from any Internet connection in the world.
• Delivering easy-to-use authoring tools drectly to your web browser, so content contributors don't need to know HTML.
• Enforcing standardization rules, protecting the website design and securing important content from unexpected or unauthorized. changes.
• Creating a platform from which to add new features and functionality over time without reinventing the wheel.

Picking the Right Tools

There are a number of open source CMS options, each with their own strength and weaknesses. We have worked with many of them and reached an expert understanding of several. We work with you to determine which solution alternatives best meet your needs. Do you need to integrate with internal corporate data or a third party XML feed? Do you need to support a specific technology stack such as Java, or an Oracle database? How many people do you expect to be contributing content, and how does the approval process work? By asking these questions up front, we are able to help you realize the best return on your technology investment.

While we are comfortable working with all open source projects, and can deliver a solution in several CMS frameworks, we have come to recommend two primary systems depending on your needs. OpenCms is the most robust and scalable content management system currently available on the Java platform. It is architected well, the supporting company maintains a high competency in source contributions, supports several workflows and is very scalable. OpenCms is a great solution for enterprise users.

On the other hand, Joomla! is a PHP based Content Management System that has taken a different approach. Focused on creating a framework that allows for easily integrating new features functionality, what they have traded in source control, they more than exceed in available functionality and size of participating community. The additional out-of-the-box offerings of the Joomla! CMS offers an unprecedented value to the small to medium-sized business.

We stand firmly behind both of these projects, using existing features, creating new functionality, and giving back to the community in many ways. Contact us today to let us help you determine which is right for you.