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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
OU Campus Competitors
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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- Business Problems Solved
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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Score 10 out of 10
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Verified User
OU Campus Content Management System is used across our campus to update the content for our entire university website.
- OU Campus is quite simply a very easy product to manage and maintain for our users across campus.
- The easy-to-use interface makes using the product easy. As the administrator for OU Campus, I can set up user access and preferences according to user knowledge and expertise.
- Using OU Campus daily gives us the ability to keep our website up-to-date with quick access and easy usability.
- With version 10 of OU Campus, OmniUpdate has continued to grow and expand according to user needs.
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- With OU Campus as our CMS, our content remains up-to-date and easy to maintain back-end information for SEO. We have seen a significant increase in search engine traffic, along with repeat visitors to our website.
- Our users on campus now have the content in their hands. This took away the bottleneck with other CMS products we have used. By providing users with easy log-in, simple navigation and updates, content continues to always be updated for website visitors.
We selected OU Campus after reviewing a number of CMS products and are extremely happy.
OU Campus provides excellent customer service including instruction for administrators and end-users alike.
5
Good people skills needed for end-user training. Experience with HTML is needed.
- Managing end-users for our CMS
- Updating web content across our university website
- Updating main university content on a daily basis
- Updating PDF files and images with ease.
- Campus catalog, blogs, responsive design
Yes
We were previously using Contribute. With Contribute, we did not have a workflow in place, a way to run reports, ways to back-up content and more.
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- Product Usability
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- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
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Product Usability
If possible, we would have liked to have moved into OU Campus a couple of years earlier.
- Vendor implemented
- Professional services company
Our initial implementation was done with the assistance of OmniUpdate. Our complete overhaul was done with assistance from OU Campus and Noel Levitz.
No
Change management was a minor issue with the implementation
Our overhaul two years ago was in-part by management. They saw how OU Campus was helping the campus and wanted to go a step further with a complete overhaul of the site.
- Training end-users with a completely new system. Easily overcome with online training and hands-on training.
Yes
We pay for support that includes support tickets and phone calls.
Yes
As administrators of the product come across a bug, we report it to OmniUpdate. OmniUpdate updates their product often and will resolve any bugs found.
We went through a complete overhaul of our site two years ago. OmniUpdate was available to assist with moving our site to a new server while at the same time launching a complete new site.
- User log-in and content updates are made with ease across our campus.
- Administration of users is easy to manage.
- When a user is no longer available on the campus, we would like the ability to be notified in the system. This may be a function needed to be set up through our I.T. department.
Yes, but I don't use it
July 07, 2015
OU Campus - the best web CMS in the industry...
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
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.
Yes
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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- Product Usability
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.