Piece of advice: Scrap your CMS portfolio and use an Enterprise Wiki instead
I don't have the time and resources to do it - therefore here's the business idea for free (for any European county):
Having worked as Technical Product Manager for a known Enterprise CMS vendor - I now enjoy using Confluence day-by-day.
It provides a surprisingly fresh view on corporate content management challenges. Examples are the nice way to manage department news with the built-in blogging features (write news in the different spaces=department/team and aggregate them on the corporate level) - managing navigation based on hierarchies (traditional) and taxonomy based (tags). Built-in simple Document/Asset Management, export articles as PDF or Word and neat versioning (articles and docs). Finally full-text search on the whole content repository (incl. docs)... and yes.. of course it's easy to deploy and update.... to name a few.
And no... I don't get money from Atlassian to say that ;-)
Happy filling out "out-of-the-box" in the RFPs.
Update: Thanks for picking up the post...
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- Call up Atlassian and make a deal to contribute the internationalised Confluence version in your home language (should be easy with version 2.2+)
- Scrap the WCM/CMS/Portal solutions in your portfolio
- Train your tech team in customising templates, writing plug-ins and using the API of Confluence (e.g. build a nice Word editing plug-in)
- Build some nice Intranet and Extranet templates
- Train your sales and consulting fellows to do fancy demos
- Don't sell it as Enterprise Wiki! - sell it as Intranet & Extranet solution for small and mid-size companies.
- Get some happy customers
Having worked as Technical Product Manager for a known Enterprise CMS vendor - I now enjoy using Confluence day-by-day.
It provides a surprisingly fresh view on corporate content management challenges. Examples are the nice way to manage department news with the built-in blogging features (write news in the different spaces=department/team and aggregate them on the corporate level) - managing navigation based on hierarchies (traditional) and taxonomy based (tags). Built-in simple Document/Asset Management, export articles as PDF or Word and neat versioning (articles and docs). Finally full-text search on the whole content repository (incl. docs)... and yes.. of course it's easy to deploy and update.... to name a few.
And no... I don't get money from Atlassian to say that ;-)
Happy filling out "out-of-the-box" in the RFPs.
Update: Thanks for picking up the post...
Technorati Tags: confluence atlassian cms intranet
Excellent idea! Though we have been happily using Confluence/Jira for a while and just need an expert for maintenance, updates and plugins. So if somebody follows Cédric's idea here in Switzerland, let me know.
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Marc |
June 20, 2006 9:10 PM
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