Content Management Systems : The eFoundry Approach

eFoundry uses a proven methodology for implementing content management systems. The success of this approach allows us the flexibility to begin work with your organization at virtually any time during your content management initiative.

Building and launching content management systems for a wide range of organizations has enabled us to fine-tune our services and deliver consistent value to our clients. We've learned that while there are a number of content management applications on the market which provide excellent functionality, selection of the technology is actually secondary in importance to the implementation and deployment process which follows.

There are many instances where a company successfully "implements" a quality content management application only to find that they are not realizing the benefits — in terms of dollars saved and efficiencies gained — that they had anticipated. Our job is to work with our clients to not only deploy superior systems, but deliver significant improvements in ROI.

The eFoundry ABCDE approach is broken down into five distinct phases:

Analyze

• Client goals for content management
• Expectations of resulting infrastructure
• • System performance
  • Capabilities
  • Time/Cost Savings
• Expertise of content authors
• System Requirements
• • Number of system users (authors, editors, approvers, etc.)
  • Outputs (Intranet, Extranet, Internet, Print, Wireless, etc.)
  • Content Inputs
  • Processes surrounding content assets
  • Existing architecture (Hardware, Software, Databases, Content)
  • Content taxonomy
  • Templating requirements
  • Personalization requirements
  • Content segmentation schemes
  • Syndication requirements
  • Content expiration requirements
  • Number of domains to be supported
  • User experience
  • Search requirements

Build / Design

• Application architecture
• Content management architecture
• Outputs
• Product selection
• User experience

Construct

• Implementation of software application(s)
• Input mechanisms (Template, Data Flow)
• Data translation process
• Management/Approval process
• Integrate all data sources
• Output and deployment mechanisms
• Report creation

Deploy

• Full QA process
• Editorial training
• Technical training
• Launch

Evolve / Maintain

• Follow up training
• Workflow updates
• Template updates
• System and architecture optimization
• General application support
• Deployment updates