Overall Satisfaction with CoreMedia
CoreMedia is used across the organization. Governance is done centrally by the Communications Department while content creation is done by 100+ users across all departments. Product implementation is done by software engineers in IT and by web developers in Electronic Communications. CoreMedia is used to deliver our content-driven public website, a peer-reviewed publications site, and a career advising content application.
- Integrates well with existing infrastructure and software applications. We leveraged ActiveDirectory authentication, a Solr search engine, Java/Spring, Oracle, and other technologies.
- Allows for multiple workflows for content publishing based on user roles. Each of our sites has separate workflows and allow for managed and unmanaged content production.
- Templating system is extremely customizable without being unmanageable. This allows developers to custom tailor content and presentation without worry about performance.
- Some technical concepts require quite a bit of learning. There is very good training and documentation available, but you will need a strong team of developers to leverage all the features of CoreMedia.
- The overhead of maintaining a 16,000+ page site is minimal now where it was entirely unmanageable previously.
CoreMedia Implementation
- Vendor implemented
- Implemented in-house
Yes - We had two tracks of tasks for the project. One was a set of tasks for developing the design then implementing the software based on those designs. This work was done by a team of in-house developers and a few consultants from CoreMedia.
The other track was a set of tasks for migrating content from our previous system (aka, HTML files). These were content analysis, information architecture, and data entry tasks.
The other track was a set of tasks for migrating content from our previous system (aka, HTML files). These were content analysis, information architecture, and data entry tasks.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
- Content migration took significantly longer than anticipated due to the complexity of analyzing static HTML files. We attempted to hire a 3rd party to automate the migration which turned out to be a waste of time and money. In the end, content experts migrated content manually.