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