Posts tagged: content management systems

Use your CMS to improve intranet content

We have written a number of articles on how to improve intranet content including Improving intranet content and Helping intranet authors write quality content. Most of these activities focus on intranet teams and authors. This article focuses on items that should be considered when selecting or implementing a content management system (CMS). For those that [...]

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One CMS or two?

Selecting a new web content management system (CMS) is no small matter. As discussed in one of our earliest articles, How to evaluate a CMS, this decision must be driven by an evaluation against business requirements. One question that often arises early in the process is whether the same CMS should be used for the [...]

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Scoring spreadsheets, the bane of my life

Theresa Regli has written about the problems with scoring spreadsheets when conducting product evaluations. To quote: I am more cynical about quantitative methods of evaluating vendors. It makes me think of people who buy wine simply based on what The Wine Spectator rating is (without considering the food they might drink it with, or what [...]

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CMIS – an important standard for buyers of ECM

Alan Pelz-Sharpe writes about CMIS. To quote: CMIS (Content Management Interoperability Specification) has been ratified as a standard by OASIS. What is it and what does it mean to buyers and users of ECM and Document Management technology? Well put simply, CMIS is the most important new standard in the ECM world in decades; it [...]

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Evaluating vendor proposals – kill your spreadsheets

Alan Pelz-Sharpe has written about evaluating vendor proposals, and recommends killing the all-too-typical evaluation spreadsheets. To quote: We strongly advocate a test-based approach to procurement, based on the value of scenarios; nevertheless, many enterprises want to apply a quantitative, spreadsheet-based assessment approach. In some cases these can become really quite complex. We have advised on [...]

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