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What is OU Campus?
OU Campus from OmniUpdate is billed as a CMS for institutions of higher education. It can be deployed as a cloud-based service or hosted locally. It is built in Java, uses open standards, and is extensible through APIs.
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- Role-based user permissions (6)10.0100%
- WYSIWYG editor (6)9.292%
- Code quality / cleanliness (6)9.292%
- Admin section (6)9.292%
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What is OU Campus?
OU Campus from OmniUpdate is billed as a CMS for institutions of higher education. It can be deployed as a cloud-based service or hosted locally. It is built in Java, uses open standards, and is extensible through APIs.
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What is OU Campus?
OU Campus from OmniUpdate is as an enterprise CMS platform
for institutions of higher education. It can be deployed as a cloud-based
service or hosted locally. It is built in Java, uses open standards, and is
extensible through APIs. It features a WYSIWYG toolbar with in-context
editing as well as source code editing, instant and scheduled publishing,
multi-channel output, mobile-accessibility for end users, asset management, and
so much more.
The vendor attributes the fast and responsive user interface to the HTML5 technology. Additionally, the vendor says that new page templates, and the drag-and-drop functionality make their platform extremely user friendly. OU Campus can integrate with other campus systems via REST-style APIs to solve digital marketing needs, including social media mashup, online course catalog, faculty directory, mobile website, calendar, email marketing, blogs, interactive campus map, cost calculator, and more. Its decoupled architecture provides flexibility and safeguards. Global find and replace presents a powerful search option when scouring code. Unlimited sites and sub-sites may be managed through OU Campus.
OU Campus Features
- Supported: Powerful Administration
- Supported: Streamlined Content
- Supported: User-Friendly Editing
- Supported: Reusable Content
- Supported: Quality Control
- Supported: Convenient Publishing
- Supported: Extensibility
- Supported: Effortless Syndication
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OU Campus Integrations
- Oracle PeopleSoft HCM
- Google Analytics
- Jenzabar Internet Campus Solution (JICS), discontinued
- Ellucian Banner/Colleague
- CurricUNET
- YouTube
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OU Campus Technical Details
| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android, Windows Phone |
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OU Campus from OmniUpdate is billed as a CMS for institutions of higher education. It can be deployed as a cloud-based service or hosted locally. It is built in Java, uses open standards, and is extensible through APIs.
Cascade CMS, Terminalfour Digital Engagement and Web Development Platform, and Ingeniux CMS are common alternatives for OU Campus.
Reviewers rate Role-based user permissions and Internationalization / multi-language highest, with a score of 10.
The most common users of OU Campus are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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OU Campus is a versatile content management system that has been widely adopted by our organization to update and manage the content for our entire university website. Users from various departments and colleges across campus utilize OU Campus to edit their respective web pages and manage web content. The primary interface of OU Campus is used by content contributors campus-wide to effectively manage their web page content. This has empowered users to take ownership of their web pages and ensure that the public website content remains fresh, relevant, and accurate.
One of the key advantages of using OU Campus is the significant decrease in the time it takes for new content to be published live on our website. The intuitive user interface and minimal learning curve make it accessible for non-technical users as well. Additionally, OU Campus offers excellent customer service with quick and effective responses to user questions, which has been greatly appreciated by our campus community.
Another use case of OU Campus is its ability to create links for professors, faculty, staff, and community members to access department information. It also allows for quick uploading of materials to the web, saving time in creating and updating web content. However, one limitation of OU Campus is the inability to upload the same document without changing the original document name.
Overall, OU Campus has proven to be a valuable platform for managing web pages and content across our entire organization. Its scalability, user-friendliness, extensive documentation, and time-saving capabilities make it an essential tool for content management throughout our campus community.
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May 05, 2016
An OU Campus is a happy campus
We launched OU Campus in February of 2015, along with a responsive redesign of our main site. We have a web staff of two, but I was able to train over 100 content owners across campus in a very short time. Since we've launched, OU Campus has been so well received that we are currently working to move our Alumni & Development sites into the CMS. Purchasing OU Campus was a great decision. The learning curve for non-technical users is very small, and our campus community loves using OU. On the technical side, template creation can be a little difficult, but the customer service is top notch. I can count on someone to answer any question I have quickly and effectively.
- The JustEdit feature makes updating content a breeze. With a small staff, we rely on others to update their content. OU Campus makes it easy.
- Site-wide find and replace. I use the site-wide find and replace feature for all sorts of things - links, enrollment numbers, department names. It's really helpful.
- Customer service. The staff at OU Campus answers questions quickly and is always willing to discuss the most effective ways to take on new projects.
- Multiple browser previews. The browser/os preview seemed like a feature we could really use, but it is slow and not always accurate.
- Forms. The form builder lacks some advanced features, like captcha, but they are updating the form builder.
- Mobile access. As of now, OU Campus doesn't allow for users to log in from a mobile device. I don't want to update websites from my phone, but it would be nice to have access to some features on the go.
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- Increased satisfaction with user experience. OU Campus has made it easier for us to address problems when they arise, making our website more efficient.
- Role-based control. Our old CMS made it very easy for users to change fonts and colors on their sections, which was very detrimental to the overall brand. That's not a problem anymore.
- Reduced training times. OU Campus is so easy to use, I've been able to cut training times down by half.
During the RFP process, we also evaluated Hannon Hill Cascade and Terminal Four. Both CMS systems had pros and cons, but overall, OU Campus was an easy choice. The features were better, non-technical users liked the simplicity of the interface, and the price was competitive.
We used Sitefinity before we switched to OU Campus. Sitefinity was so slow, it made updates a pain. Pages could take up to 30 seconds to load. Our users hated the product.
We used Sitefinity before we switched to OU Campus. Sitefinity was so slow, it made updates a pain. Pages could take up to 30 seconds to load. Our users hated the product.
July 20, 2015
Great for content editors and content experts alike
Our university uses OU Campus to edit web pages for all departments and colleges. It is used to divide each of our six colleges each with their own editors and content creators. These individuals will have different permissions based on their role in the university to edit pages; edit pages and submit them to "publishers" or edit everything. It is very flexible in the sense that it is scalable so there isn't just one person editing everything all the time.
- Assets are easily managed and can be edited independently of the page they exist on.
- Version history is handled well. Allows for a comment section to note what changes have been made.
- Dependency tags are perfect for media that is used in several places. Upload a photo once, use it in multiple places, edit the photo or its description in one place.
- Formatting. The page can sometimes look very differently when published than what it looks like while editing. Some improvements have been made in this area with version 10 however.
- Find and replace. The command+F needs to find text on the page while editing, not present an actual find and replace dialog box. At least give me the option to simply "find" the text I'm looking for. The dialog box just gets in the way most of the time.
- There is not a way to "unpublish" items. At least not a way that I can think of. I would like the ability to pull a page offline without deleting it. Seems like it should be done simpler.
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- The time it took to previously publish an edit a web page was largely dependent on how busy the web team was during a specific period. With OU Campus, the content editing is now directly in the hands of the content experts. If a user notices a page needs to be updated they can do it themselves within minutes.
- It was imperative to get all of our content into a CMS before proceeding with a full website redesign. Things will go much more smoothly now that everything is more "universally" managed.
July 07, 2015
OU Campus - the best web CMS in the industry...
Score 10 out of 10
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OU Campus is the primary interface through which our public website(s) are edited and upon which web content is managed for our entire organization. Although there has been no real support 'from the top' of the organization regarding this product's adoption across our institution, OU Campus use has spread by word of mouth, and prospective users contact me on a regular basis requesting training on and access to the system for editing their website content. To date, we have had a 100% user adoption rate across the campus. Basically, everyone who has started using OU Campus is still using it today. The specific business problems that OU Campus continues to address are: (1) empowering users and content contributors campus wide to manage the content on their respective web pages, (2) decreasing the amount of time it takes for new content to be published live to our website, and (3) our public website content is more fresh, relevant and accurate as a direct result.
- SIMPLE TO USE - non-technical users of the product learn the functions and features easily, and they continue to use OU Campus on a regular basis.
- PLATFORM-AGNOSTIC & NOTHING TO INSTALL - OU Campus can be connected to anything that can be accessed via FTP, and that content can be managed through a web browser.
- ENTERPRISE-LEVEL SOLUTION - content can be repurposed to multiple outputs (mobile, PDF, CSV, HTML) in a single step, OU Campus has site-wide dependency management tools built-in. Web-based image editor is built-in. Simple to multi-step workflow and content scheduling (publishing/expiring content) is built-in. Web content snippets (bits of code) as well as digital 'assets' management (images, scripts, code sections, data, etc.) is built-into OU Campus. Site export and ZIP Import (with auto-extraction) is built-into OU Campus.
- OUTSTANDING CUSTOMER SERVICE - If you ever need a question answered, OmniUpdate's support team is second to none. My experience over the past 8 years has been that I get a response within the business day (and typically within an hour).
- I used to have an issue with the 'Browse...' button on the initial 'Insert/Edit Link' interface, but that's already been fixed/resolved/improved.
- I think the reporting interface could use a facelift - at this point you can pull out CSV files and manipulate them in Excel (which works well), but providing something more visual for displaying system-wide data/reporting would be great (I believe there is something in version 10 that addresses this, but we're not yet migrated over to that version).
- I think a visual template editor (with drag-and-drop capabilities) would be a great addition to this product. Something that allows for reshaping CSS DIVs, drag-and-drop of page elements (in HTML5/CSS3 and/or for XSL functions).
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- Maintenance on dozens of sub-sites across our web presence are now being managed directly by the owners of the respective content, making our website's information more fresh and relevant to site visitors.
- OU Campus has been directly responsible for improving our entire Student Services and Counseling functions by providing relevant and important updates to students.
- Website style / theme consistency has been achieved through OU Campus, reducing the amount of confusion for site visitors and improving our marketing of our brand.
I have evaluated Ektron, PHP Nuke, Drupal, Joomla!, typo3, Reason and SharePoint. OU Campus outshines all of these in the web CMS space. The OU Campus interface is more intuitive, more user-friendly, and the system itself is more flexible and scalable and capable in almost every way. I have yet to find a use case where OU Campus couldn't help in some way.
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We replaced direct FTP access (horrible idea), Dreamweaver (similarly horrible idea) and PHP Nuke (through which our public website was hacked twice in a single month). We simply had to do something different, because the existing setup was producing nothing but problems and legal liability issues. Additionally, when our users were allowed direct FTP/Dreamweaver access to our website, they were producing completely inconsistent content.
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The ease-of-use - both for user and administrators - absolutely sold this product to us. It is important that technology be something that solves a problem for users, but in many cases, technology actually can make users' jobs harder, however, OU Campus does not do that - it truly simplifies people's work day and makes them more efficient.
I wouldn't. We ended up with OU Campus, so we did our work in choosing our product well.
Change management was minimal
Change management did not play much of a role in our implementation of OUCampus, because the software worked out-of-the-box with our Web pages as soon as copies of them were uploaded to the staging/editing environment. All that remained from that initial upload was any enhancements that we wanted to incorporate into the editing experience for our end-users, which we have rolled out gradually over the last 9 years.