Hi,
at work I got the task to design/develop a new corporate intranet. Our old one is years old and was designed as an information-only platform instead of a collaboration tool, so it's time for a replacement to meet the requirements of the next 10 years.
After a few days searching the web I'm more confused as before about what framework/system to choose.
Maybe some of you have experience with intranets and can give me some ideas.
Here are some corporate infos:
*Healthcare background (Hospital), about 1000 users at all. Hospital means: no IT understanding! Whatever it will be, it has to be really REALLY simple to use for the customer: idiot-safe for the most and easy to learn for those considered as editors/content provider.
Main features it should handle:
!Multilanguage or german language-support!
Information platform:
=>Content has to be accessible based on login (Novell eDirectory & ADS, so every LDAP-connector will do).
=>Possibility to add own pages/artices with ease.
Workflow-management:
=>articles provided should have to be approved before shown to the public.
=>users must be able to request tasks via forms (e.g ordering room-maintanance or special food delivery), others must be able to process these requests. Best would be a framework with strong webforms/ajax-support that handles most of the work when developing own forms/applications.
Framework/Development:
=>as I'm the only developer in our IT department it should be based on PHP (favorite) or ASP (ok). Perl, Python or Ruby is a NoNo for me ;) Learning an integrated scripting/template language would be ok
=>development of own applications must be possible and should be relative easy in terms of time and complexity.
And, guess it: the whole thing has to be cheap, max $10.000!
This is a huge list of impossible features to get for this price, right? I know there is no "Get what you want out of the box" solution, but with spending some time (2-3 months fulltime) there should be a system customizable to fill most of our needs.
So, what system/framework you think is worth to have a look at?
Jake
at work I got the task to design/develop a new corporate intranet. Our old one is years old and was designed as an information-only platform instead of a collaboration tool, so it's time for a replacement to meet the requirements of the next 10 years.
After a few days searching the web I'm more confused as before about what framework/system to choose.
Maybe some of you have experience with intranets and can give me some ideas.
Here are some corporate infos:
*Healthcare background (Hospital), about 1000 users at all. Hospital means: no IT understanding! Whatever it will be, it has to be really REALLY simple to use for the customer: idiot-safe for the most and easy to learn for those considered as editors/content provider.
Main features it should handle:
!Multilanguage or german language-support!
Information platform:
=>Content has to be accessible based on login (Novell eDirectory & ADS, so every LDAP-connector will do).
=>Possibility to add own pages/artices with ease.
Workflow-management:
=>articles provided should have to be approved before shown to the public.
=>users must be able to request tasks via forms (e.g ordering room-maintanance or special food delivery), others must be able to process these requests. Best would be a framework with strong webforms/ajax-support that handles most of the work when developing own forms/applications.
Framework/Development:
=>as I'm the only developer in our IT department it should be based on PHP (favorite) or ASP (ok). Perl, Python or Ruby is a NoNo for me ;) Learning an integrated scripting/template language would be ok
=>development of own applications must be possible and should be relative easy in terms of time and complexity.
And, guess it: the whole thing has to be cheap, max $10.000!
This is a huge list of impossible features to get for this price, right? I know there is no "Get what you want out of the box" solution, but with spending some time (2-3 months fulltime) there should be a system customizable to fill most of our needs.
So, what system/framework you think is worth to have a look at?
Jake