Purchasing Programs
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Tuesday, August 26, 2003
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Volume 4, Issue 5
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Dartmouth College Decides on OmniUpdate
After Research and Evaluation, OmniUpdate Withstands the Dartmouth Test
Their mission was established... research, evaluate, and deploy a web content management system. Their solution emerged...OmniUpdate.
Dartmouth College and the CMS Discovery Team evaluated four web content management solutions in October of 2002 that fit the initial requirements. The Team looked for a solution that could deliver the tools and services that satisfied the college’s preferred features. Then the group asked for presentations from their top four options. Those asked to present fit a specific profile created by the Discovery Team. This profile required that each CMS provider had at least one content management product or service on the market for over two years, with implementation by major clients. Next, the Team required that the vendor's service cost less than $20,000 a year for 20 users, for hardware and software (or for an application service license) and could be implemented within 6 to 9 months. Finally, all CMS solutions must meet a majority of the top features that the group determined to be important to the Dartmouth Web community.
The Team participated in a personalized Web-based demonstration of OmniUpdate and with the other three competitors, and received responses to their follow-up inquiries. After further review, the committee calculated a total score based on how well each product or service satisfied the feature list.
The team looked at a number of evaluation factors to help in their decision making process, including:
• Simple page authoring and editing
• Simple site administration
• Standards and accessibility
• Separated content and presentation
• Workflow management
• Scalability
• Emerging technologies and standards
• Speed of implementation
Upon evaluation, the Dartmouth College Web Publishing Services recommended the implementation of what the CMS Discovery Team deemed the “top qualified, cross-platform WYSIWYG content management application: OmniUpdate OU Campus.”
Dartmouth College joins California State University of Long Beach, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Lincoln University, Los Angeles Community College District, Louisiana Tech University, University of Massachusetts, University of Michigan, Pepperdine University, Pima Community College, San Francisco State University, Tulane University, Utah Valley State College, and a host of other education and business institutions using OmniUpdate for their web content management.
For more information, please contact OmniUpdate on the web at www.omniupdate.com or by calling 800-362-2605 ext 208. Be sure to mention collegebuys.org or schoolbuys.org.
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