Re: Intranet & Content Management System

On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 17:44:26 -0500, James Robertson  
<[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> There are no shortage of CMS products within Australia:
> http://www.steptwo.com.au/cm/vendors/australian/index.html
>
> (Approx 140 at last count.)
>
> The best place to start is to document very specific business
> requirements around what you are looking for. This will then allow
> you to assess different solutions, noting that CMS products are
> very different in how they work...

I think the reality is - this person is screwed. If you do not have  
trusted project management and technical people either on staff or as  
consultants you are basically rolling the dice.

-Rob

>
> Cheers,
> James
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> I encourage you to contact the CM Pros Australia Community for help.
>> http://www.cmprofessionals.org/communities/regional/australia
>>
>> Many of Australia's leading CMS Consultants are members.
>>
>> I am copying this to the co-chairs of CM Pros in Australia.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Bob.
>>
>> Andrew G wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I work for a medium sized financial services company
>>> in Melbourne, Australia.
>>> We're currently looking at replacing our Intranet with
>>> a CMS. The main purpose for this is to enable
>>> non-technical staff to be able to author content and
>>> publish it to the Intranet.
>>>
>>> The main usage of the Intranet currently is for news
>>> articles, links to internal applications and websites,
>>> job advertisements, and some company and workplace
>>> conduct information.
>>>
>>> We use RoboHelp as a separate CMS. We have separate
>>> folders for each business group and product. Each
>>> folder is a collection of html pages, forms and linked
>>> documents.
>>>
>>> Ideally we're looking for an all-in-one Intranet & CMS
>>> that can do that mentioned above, plus more. ie.
>>> Version Control, Workflow and Access Control, Company
>>> Resource Booker (Meeting Rooms, Projectors), Online
>>> Forms, Document/Image Management, Surveys, Reporting
>>> etc
>>>
>>> We also plan on setting up departmental subsites.
>>>
>>> We are currently evaluating Intranet DASHBOARD which
>>> appears to meet most of our requirements.
>>>
>>> Does anyone know of any other commerical or open
>>> source CMS's which would meet our requirements? Of
>>> importance is ease of deployment and use, mature
>>> product with support available, low to no cost.
>>>
>>> We may also consider getting a consultant in so please
>>> let me know if you're interested and live in
>>> Melbourne.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Andrew
>>>
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