Content Management Systems Survey

CSG SurveyFall 2005

Tom Dopirak

What I Learned

If you try and start a CSG assignment within 2 weeks of the previous CSG you hear laughing

Carl knows everybody Counting is hard Surveys look great until you analyze them There is no point in starting to analyze survey

results until 48 hrs before the presentation The more questions you ask , the more confusing

the results are to correlate

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What is a Content Management System?

In computing, a content management system (CMS) is a system used to organize and facilitate collaborative creation of documents and other content. A CMS is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content, though in many cases, content management systems require special client software for editing and constructing articles. The market for content management systems remains fragmented, with many open-source and proprietary solutions available. -- WIKIPEDIA

Who has content management?

Minnesota - FileNet Delaware - Homegrown Duke – HannonHill Texas -Stellent Princeton - Roxen Cornell - Paperthin Penn State - Zope, RedDot Virginia - Brigolage, Layla Georgetown - Homegrown

“Sort of” Content Management

CMU (Blackboard) Georgetown (Blackboard/Xythos) Brown (Macromedia Contribute)

Not Centrally Run or Influenced

Wisconsin Yale Michigan -- Many in departments Virginia Tech Washington -- Looking at Plone for internal

use

Active CMS Evaluations

Carnegie Mellon - Full evaluation Delaware - Looking at open source Washington - Zope internally Brown - Considering Hannon Hill

How It all works .

Major Open Source Options

Bolinos Bricolage Cocoon Drupal Lenya ** Magnolia Mambo Midgard

Open CMS Oscom PHP-Fusion Postnuke Textpattern Typo3 Zope / Plone Joomia Hypercontent

Commercial Options Day Software Documentum Ektron Emojo Eprise FileNet FatWire Hannon-Hill Ingenix Interwoven

Media Surface Paper Thin Percussion Red Dot Serena SiteCore SiteRefresh Stellent Tridion UserLand Vignette

Which clients motivated your consideration/adoption

of a CMS?

Marketing -5 Athletics - 0 Alumni - 1 Advancement - 3 Academic Departments - 6 Enrollment - 2 Others - 8

Which clients adopted your CMS?

Marketing -7 Athletics - 0 Alumni - 2 Advancement - 5 Academic Departments - 8 Enrollment - 3 Others - 7

Administration,library, medical center

Principal Business Drivers

Separation of content from presentation and/or logic - 7

Uniform design - 7 Reduce publishing costs- 5 Enforce branding and identity - 6 Scheduled publishing - 4 Distribute responsibility and workload - 9 Enforce web standards (accessibility, technical –

non-design) - 6

Does your CMS provide content to multiple different websites?

Yes - 6 No - 4

What are your publishing targets?

Web browsers - 11 Mobile devices - 8 Print - 7 RSS - 1 EMAIL - 1

Another Day in IT

Editing Tools to support publish process

Dreamweaver - 4 Any HTML/XML editor - 3 Supplied with CMS - 5

Do you use a staging server to preview content?

Yes - 4 No - 4 Not sure - 1

Are you using Campus authz/authn?

Both - 8 Authentication - 2 Not sure - 1 Mixed - 2

Media Types beyond text

Image - 4 Video - 2 Audio - 2 Any format - 4 Forms - 1

What QA features does your CMS provide?

Link Checking - 5 Accessibility checking - 4 HTML/XML validation - 5 Template enforcement - 9

School

Complex

Workflow?

Number of roles

Did you migrate?

Minnesota no Currently 1 yes

Delaware No no

Georgetown No Variable no

Duke No Variable 20%

Texas No Variable no

Brown No 2 no

Cornell No 2 ~$150k

CMU Yes At least 3 ?

Princeton No 2-3 no

Penn State No 3 no

Virginia No Mostly 2 Unknown

School Functional expectations met?

Financial expectations met?

Minnesota Mostly mostly

Delaware No No expectations

Georgetown Yes Yes

Duke Mostly Yes

Texas Not yet Consulting &Staff time higher

Brown Too early yes

Cornell Yes Yes

CMU Too early Too early

Princeton Yes Yes

Penn State Maybe Too early

Virginia Yes Don’t Know

What is a content management system?

It’s like a fat substitute. Everybody wants one but nobody really likes the taste and side effects when they finally get it and go back to doing things the old way. --TGD

How Did Technology Affect the CMS Choice?

Integration with student system Integration with Campus Authz/Authn Establish vendor relationship Time to deployment Adherence to Open Standards Ability to affect product development

How Did Technology Affect the CMS Choice?

Preferred Open Source It was a major factor Wanted Unix + Apache XML database + push to multiple web servers Content in XML with XSLT rendering Likely to adopt J2EE/ Open Source

CMS Licensing

Minnesota System-wide license

Delaware Home grown

Duke Per CPU

UTA  Per server ,Per developer seat  

 Per contributor

Brown Per contributor

Cornell Per Campus

Princeton Per Campus

Penn State Reddot is per server per author

Georgetown Blackboard and Xythos

Why I am the way I am?

Do you use a staging server to preview content? Yes No

Does you publish processing use Campus Authn/Authz Yes No