Web Content Managment
Greetings!
My company (fortune 50 grocery retailer) is looking into a Web Content management and/or a portal solution for out intranet. I was wondering if anyone happens to be working with Interwoven, Vignette, or Docmentum for their content management on their websites...external or internal. If so, please tell me the problems you had with migration, if any. Are you happy with the product you have or is hindsight really 20/20?
thanks
PUNKK
Enigmatic posted this at 13:45 — 18th October 2001.
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I would go with Vignette, since their platfrom is kind of more understandable and easier to deploy. But, everything depends on your needs and how you want to proceed.
We have some experience with their e-commerce platform - very good, but very pricy...
Best,
Enigmatic
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mjames posted this at 01:06 — 19th October 2001.
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Out of those, I have only used Vignette, but coincicently, Vignette has been the only one I have worked with on sites. I like it - if you an afford it and get it setp, it is worthwhile.
punkk posted this at 01:42 — 19th October 2001.
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At this time we're looking really hard at Interwoven. Gartner Group research rated them the highest on ability to execute. Our resources/brain power are not at issue. It's mostly what kind of bang for the buck we can get. Chances are we're looking at a seven figure prices for any of these. Anyone else have any experience with these vendors?
PUNKK
tijn posted this at 19:05 — 19th October 2001.
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If your looking for a simple solution, take a look at http://www.flexwindow.com. It's a service, you add one line of JavaScript to your page and update your content by e-mail. How simple can it be? It's not a complete CMS solution, but it works well for annoucements, product updates, etc.
punkk posted this at 19:09 — 19th October 2001.
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Thanks for the info but we're looking for something that IS a complete solution that will serve (with and established workflow solution) 1000 publishers and 110,000 visitors on a daily basis.
Cheers
PUNKK
punkk posted this at 17:13 — 29th October 2001.
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Hello again!
I just thought i'd update ya'll on what's been going on. Our company has pretty much decided on Interwoven for our WCM solution. Question: Has anyone used Plumtree or IBM eBusiness portal soltions on their intranet? Anyone familiar with the products?
punkk posted this at 23:16 — 16th November 2001.
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Well it looks like i was premature in saying that my company has chosen Interwoven. Has anyone had any expericence with any kind if Content Managment soltion and/or a portal solution for a very large enterprise?
I've read all the Gartner, Giga, and Meta groups' research but i'd like to chat with a real person about the product instead of reading a mountain of white papers.
PUNKK
m1l posted this at 15:37 — 19th November 2001.
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Punkk,
I've done 6 months of Interwoven Teamsite admin and personally think it is a very good product. As you say in your post, it isn't for small enterprises, I used it at the biggest online travel agents in Europe, which bought it in the Dotcom boom.
I think it's really easy to administer, the deployment of the site is pretty seamless. We ran it on a Sun Solaris backend and the virtual filesystem could, from time to time be a little flaky. One negative point I have to say is that the support in the UK was very bad indead, it may be better in the US but in the UK they where no use at all.
The users (content developers) didn't love it, they didn't hate it either. With any creative people, having to check in and out files can stem the creative flow but any content management system will have this problem.
Hope this is of some help.
Mike
Anonymous posted this at 12:03 — 20th January 2002.
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Have you thought about Microsoft's CMS??
http://www.microsoft.com/cmserver/
This, to say the least beats the copetetion in price and compatibility issues as well.
Tell me what you guys think.
punkk posted this at 18:12 — 21st January 2002.
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We don't really want a microsoft product because we're an IBM/Websphere shop. We've actually chosen a solution through IBM called Aptrix (Presence Online). The CMS' that we looked at were:
Interwoven
Vigenette
Aptrix
Stellant
Documentum
Percussion
along with a proposal from Cap Gemini Ernst & Young to help us develop something in house.
Along with our portal & personalization servers, we should have a pretty bitchin' intranet in about 6-8 months.
Cheers
PUNKK
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