The Right Tool for the Job

The capacity for humans to create new tools for any particular situation is remarkable. Just considering the flavors and variations of content management technology is remarkable. Where does a business even begin to decide what system it needs for internal and external use? Tony Byrne’s great article, Do you need an ECMS, WCMS, or a Portal?, on CMS Watch really highlights the difficulty. With so much out there, where do you start?


Well Tony does a great job breaking down all the various flavors of these systems, though as you can see below, in many instances they each cross over the others in some way.




Professionals far smarter than me can easily become frustrated looking through all the variations. Where can you begin just to determine which is the best fit for your company? I will say, Tony’s outline of what a company should do seems good advice indeed. Any opportunity to hear sound advice like that is well worth the price of admission. Any one of the discussions under Using Content Management, Search and Collaboration, at the PCC Conference could be very helpful. But again where do you begin? All seem great, whether it’s Paul Rehmet, Director Knowledge Management at Unisys discussing Unisys’ Knowledge.Net and the changes it’s brought to the company, to Colin White, President and Founder of BI Research reviewing Portal 2.0 vendors. There’s plenty to see and hear. I’m certainly interested to know how others are dealing with making such a selection and how they’re approaching the decision.