We are looking for an elegant content management system (CMS). It should be easy to integrate with AAD and should be accessible to both internal and external (non-Microsoft) partners, Role based access control (as certain pages are available only based on persona), rich API support, Version control and should be easy to customize like create forms or pages.
We are currently considering the below options. However, before we dig deeper, reaching out to see if someone has done this.
· RedTiger
· MS Docs
· Wiki
· Umbraco
· SharePoint
· PowerApp
· WordPress
· APIM 2.0 (We are currently using APIM 1.0, and are experiencing challenges due to custom coding here)
If you have a CMS platform that is working for your team, please let us know.
Umbraco is good to start because it's easy to use, quick implementation but if your data grows very fast you should consider to manage it yourself, in this case Umbraco is just like a authentication and role management system.
Hope it help.
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We are choosing a CMS platform for a big old solution. It's preferable to have site on-premise, not in cloud (company policy) and a lifelong license.
Does anyone have experience with building a solution with similar characteristics on Umbraco / Episerver / Sitecore / Sitefinity:
~ 4-20 mln visits a day (3 sites)
~ 4000 requests/sec
~ 6 mln pages of content (search is needed in admin for all pages)
It seems to me that headless solution would be the most suitable (with layers of caching in-between).
But is it possible to implement everything on-premise:
scalable solution (horizontally)
efficient search
recommendation system
All CMS vendors mentioned support both on-premise and cloud hosting and can easily handle such loads (if properly implemented).
Episerver has sophisticated search and recommendation engines, although those rely on cloud services even if the CMS itself is hosted on-premise.
A headless approach can be great from a technical/performance standpoint, but it does come with a risk of less user-friendly content authoring depending on the implementation.
The idea is to use combine Rich Content Management facilities provided by CMS +
Unlimited scaling options and performance(Content Delivery Networks)
Content from Sitecore is published to CDN via Uniform.
The result - best theoretically possible performance in any region in the world.
The specific architecture/design is to be used, though (JAM Stack).
i need to put a corporate site under a cms, which i haven't finally chosen yet, and have some tight requirements for it:
it should be very well organized at a code level, as i'm a developer and i need to add some very custom functionality to the site;
ability to create custom content types (a la drupal's cck does);
very good i18n abilities as the site will be multilingual to and fro;
caching / performance control solutions as the site experiences tens of thousands unique hosts a day;
publishing features like pre-moderation, authoring and versioning;
sending custom emails;
creating custom web forms with input data validation;
content access levels;
i would like to have my static content (images / css / pdf's etc) on a separate domain (possibly hosted on amazon cloud) processed by caching proxy server like nginx -- not a tight requirement, but still;
i evaluated these requirements and came up with ez publish as a solution. i'm not very experienced in cms world; i've worked with drupal and wordpress, but, being good cms'es, none of these meet my requirements (drupal isn't good at a code level and wordpress is a blog solution). also i don't want to mess with joomla or complexity of typo3. so, my question is -- does ez publish have a competitor in this field, regardless of the implemention language?
Given that you already went through a clear requirement analysis and already figured that eZ Publish meets them all, there is no other need for me than pointing you to the very welcoming eZ Publish Community, in case you would like to have more in-depth, real-life feedback on every of your points above, by eZ Community members.
You can find them there : http://share.ez.no
A recent code-level comparison between eZ Publish & Drupal confirms your intuition : http://share.ez.no/blogs/marko-zmak/ezpublish-vs.-drupal
I must confess i liked reading your :
.. and wordpress is a blog solution
Cheers,
I'd have to agree with Nicolas. I worked for about 4 years doing custom CMS integration for companies of all different sizes and requirements and to this day I haven't found an open source CMS that has the abilities of eZ Publish.
During that time I also did a lot of implementations of "Conversational Marketing" (blogs with marketing purposes) and they were of course all in WordPress. WordPress can be extended to do a lot of different things, but you're very correct in your pigeonholing of it as a blog solution. Any customization of it requires you to extrapolate your problem as if it was a blogging issue.
With eZ Publish, the community involvement is very expansive and the core of the CMS is built to be customized in any way you would like.
Best of luck, and I would agree with your choice and Nicolas's vote for it.
eZ Publish is definitely the right answer here as it meets to all your requirements by its built-in features or by its extensions.
Yes, eZ Publish learning curve can be tough, but it worths the effort !
eZ Publish will definitely deliver all of those functional requirements almost 100% out-of-the-box. Also, check out the eZ Components / Zeta Components library used by that CMS. Feature-wise TYPO3 is also strong but the code isn't so clean ( IMHO ).
The only other system I know of that can come close is Plone CMS ( Python based ).
We are building a content based portal. Along with the content, we want to provide some collaborative tools- i.e. chat, forums, online directories etc
We are hoping to leverage open-source software for this, as this isn't really a differentiator and will hopefully be faster/cheaper. I am looking at light integration between the content and these (common login, ability to easily reference content in chat/ forums etc) and am flexible on features being offered- as long as the broad functionality is achieved.
We have hosted on MS Azure- what should our considerations be towards identifying the right product?
Joomla! is one option. You want to ensure that the majority or all of the tools you are looking for are openly available no your chosen platform. It is hard to make a solid recommendation without much detail on the content, but you can check it out here:
http://www.joomla.org/about-joomla.html
It is free and open source, site says
Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. For example:
Corporate Web sites or portals
Corporate intranets and extranets
Disclaimer: Have never used Joomla
I am working on documentation of a Research Project at my college.
I am searching for a mediawiki style content management system with good user privilege features so that the sections of wiki accessible to the wiki user will map to their privilege level.
Users who do not have an account will not be able to access the documentation. I am not sure mediawiki has that feature. Please suggest some options to select from.
DokuWiki seems pretty interesting for this purpose. Tested it myself and it is quite simple to install and manage.
http://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki
You can also look for SharePoint 2010 Foundation which is free of cost
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/Pages/Licensing-Details.aspx.
Is there any CMS such as expression engine or wordpress that allows a user to click a button and convert all the text to another language (it would have to be human generated otherwise it has too many mistakes probably).
I'd like to know if there are any good solutions out there that work for real world use, in like business company websites.
Tridion CMS is designed to assist in website translation. They even have translation services to help you through the process of translating your content. It is not a cheap solution but is a viable solution.
As noted above - this is a huge topic and not easily answered briefly. But here are some things to consider...
NO CMS on the market today elegantly interoperates, out of the box, with translation technology for use in real-world translation projects. Reports from clients we've worked with have even raised concerns about the SDL integration.
At best - a handful of CMS's either offer very light-weight features that "appear" to help (side-by-side editing that prevents use of TM) but don't scale or have modest oem connectors to captive translation providers (CQ5<>TDC).
If your needs are modest - these might work fine.
But if you're serious about localization and have a moderate to high volume of content and want to work with any translation provider - you need a proper, rich, scalable integration between your CMS and the TMS (translation management system) used by your Translation firm (LSP).
Regrettably - these are scarce. We do nothing BUT build these connectors and use a neutral platform to provide direct integration all sorts of translation providers and technologies, the full SDL suite included - and still we've only been able to build a few rich CMS plug-in connectors because they are very complicated and require substantial development effort - IF they are going to be useful.
But the CMS choice you make should be driven as much by your broader needs. Localization should only be one facet of the decision process.
I guess the harsh reality is that there is NO CMS that will do what you descibe without smoe modification or a connector.
RK
I would recoomend you to use Kentico CMS.
See the video on Multilingual support in Kentico CMS:
http://devnet.kentico.com/Blogs/Martin-Hejtmanek/March-2010/Webinar-5---Multilingual-support-in-Kentico-CMS.aspx
Kentico CMS offers multilingual functionality including Right-to-Left languages and Eastern languages. Please see some "live" examples:
Site in 10 languages (incl. Chinese) : http://www.chep.com
Site in 7 languages (incl. Japan, Korean): http://www.wayoutback.com
Arabic: http://www.scb.gov.sa/
Hebrew: http://www.medicsfile.co.il/
Chinese: http://www.royalcaribbean-asia.com/?lang=zh-CN
Hindi site: http://www.rajasthantourism.gov.in/
More details on multiple languages support:
http://www.kentico.com/cms-asp-net-features/Content-management/Multiple-languages.aspx
Kentico also offers Translation Management:
http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/index.html?translation_management_overview.htm
Especially the translation status overview makes it really easy to manage multilingual web sites. If only a part of web site is translated then you can set to combine the rest with the original language without adding the missing pages in it manually.
By default Hippo CMS utilizes Google Translate, but you can plugin your own translation engine / review process. See for more information: http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-cms/hippo-cms-75-launched-introduces-drag-drop-layout-localization-channel-management-010391.php/
If your organization already uses SDL for translation services then using SDL Tridion is a natural choice because of the built-in connector to send Tridion content for translation using a right-click on the GUI item. After translation, it is updated in the CMS and the author is notified.
SDL Bought Tridion a few years ago and has been maturing this solution since then. Today it is available in the current release, Tridion 2011 SP1, and is compatible with both World Server and Translation Management Server.
This is all human translation and any solution that honestly recommends machine translation for final content is not serious about it.
Drupal 8 is the best option available for Multilingual capability... Although you have to wait a little bit for its release, You will get a good result. Also earlier versions of drupal including Drupal 7 supports multilingual functionality.
But Drupal 8 will have more features...With Drupal 8 multilingual functionality, it is possible to translate anything in the system.
The multilingual functionality provides language configuration, assignment and detection functionality. It also provides a user interface to the existing back-end support for automatic software translation. Now it’s more easier to translate contents with the build-in user interfaces.
Plz refer the link for more detailed info Drupal 8- What’s new and Expected Inside
Day Communique (CQ5 - now ADEP), in combination with a third-party translation vendor, can do this job.
In Communique/ADEP, you manage your pages in whatever native language you choose. Once they are done, you kick off a translations workflow. This will go to your translation vendor (of which there are several). The vendor will have a human translate it, and possibly also use software to speed up the translation process. It will come back to you for approval in the workflow, if you wish. Otherwise, it will just be published to your web site.
So yes, from the user's perspective, one click can indeed translate a page in multiple languages, and publish it to multiple web sites. Our company is doing this, only we are doing our own in-house translation.
I have not used this, but I looked into it awhile ago and this looks to be the best solutions I have seen.
http://umbraco.org/blog/2009/3/25/microsoft-translator-and-umbraco
That is not how major businesses do translation. It's good for quick and dirty, general idea translation, but it's not for anyone serious about messaging to multiple languages and cultures. Typically, businesses work with translation vendors and grow translation memories that help to guide content authors to creating a consistent message and to reuse content (keeping translation costs down).
This is a big subject, not a small one. Honestly, I'm kind of flabbergasted at how to answer this question, so I'll stop here.