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Open Source CMS: Reducing Your Content Management Deployment Costs
Web based content management systems have evolved since their introduction in the late 1990’s. Over the last 5 years commercial product vendors have done a great job expanding their product capabilities thereby driving the costs of managing web based content in a downward fashion. However, the expense of deploying such commercial products is still creating a major burden on the organization’s IT budgets. As the CMS market approaches the commodity phase in the market lifecycle open source solutions have become a very attractive alternative due to their high quality, capabilities and no cost license.
eFoundry Corporation; founded in 1999, has deployed over 40 major CMS projects on J2EE based commercial platforms. eFoundry fully understands the issues related to enterprise content management. Why is this important? When you architect, develop and deploy major CMS solutions for companies such as JP Morgan Chase, Capital One, Best Buy, Sirius Satellite Radio, Disney, and GE you are able to develop the expertise necessary to resolve any CMS challenge. These are some of the most active and complex websites in the world.
As CMS experts, eFoundry has focused on ways to bring a high quality, lower cost CMS solution to their clients. After careful analysis, we have determined that OpenCMS offers the most comprehensive set of CMS capabilities of any open source platform. Being an open source product, OpenCMS will allow clients to deploy a well architected J2EE based CMS solution without paying expensive licensing costs. Since OpenCMS is open source you will also be able to deploy this platform on other open source products such as application servers, databases, LDAP, and search engines. In addition, eFoundry has incorporated many of the enterprise quality features expected in expensive commercial systems.
OpenCMS has been deployed by some of the largest companies in the world including 3M, British Petroleum, Banc Internacional d'Andorra i Banca Mora, Frito Lay, Renault, Tommy Hilfinger, and Disney. Why? Because these organizations understand the benefits of using proven open source solutions. The cost savings are staggering. Our experience has shown that organizations which deploy OpenCMS, rather than a commercial system, typically reduce their CMS deployment costs by 50%. This equates to hundreds of thousands of dollars.
By selecting OpenCMS you will not sacrifice in meeting any of your requirements. No CMS product, including commercial platforms, provides a full solution out of the box. All CMS products require a level of customization in order to specifically meet your needs. As CMS experts eFoundry will be able to design the solution which is right for you in a cost effective manner on an open source platform. Our expertise, experience, and support offerings will provide the most comprehensive open source CMS solution while offering a tremendous savings over expensive commercial platforms.
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