[thelist] RE: content management systems?

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Subject:  [thelist] RE: content management systems?


>Before you decide on a CMS, do a little cost analysis on the product
>based on the following criteria:
>1. does this CMS exactly meet my needs?

Or rather, 'how exactly does it meet the needs which I can forsee at the
moment?'
1a. How much do the needs which it doesn't support actually matter?
1b. How much would it cost (time and money both) to get it to exactly meet
    my needs?
1c. *Now* how much do I care?

So you do a balancing act between being perfect and being affordable and
likely to be launched in what is inevitably a restricted timescale, and set
your
project scope and budget accordingly.

>3. how quickly can it be tailored, installed, and integrated?
And usually, that's the expensive bit for the client.

Cheers
Martin


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