Step Two Designs

Intranets have been going ‘social’ for some time now, first with lightweight aspects such as commenting on news articles, then with more embedded functionality such as blogs, wikis and document co-authoring. Now, a new breed of software products are gathering momentum in the shape of enterprise social network (ESN) tools. The likes of Yammer, Newsgator, [...]

Categorised under: Collaboration, Digital workplace, Enterprise 2.0, Intranets

Also tagged: Collaboration, evaluation, Intranets, selection, social business, social intranets, social tools

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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 [...]

Categorised under: Content management, Intranets, Web development

Also tagged: cms, content management systems, evaluation, Intranets, selection, website

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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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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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I’m working with a state government agency to help them select a CMS at the moment. The product is for their intranet, as part of a wholesale site redevelopment (much needed!). They have an incumbent provider of enterprise solutions, one of the large vendors, who they’d like to evaluate alongside other offerings. (And no, being [...]

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Also tagged: content management systems, evaluation, selection

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