Userfriendly CMS for a large organisation [duplicate]

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Which Content Management System (CMS) should I use?

I am looking for a CMS for a large organization.

There are many sites managed by many webmasters. The size of the sites range from pretty small to pretty large (60,000+ pages).

The choice of technology does not matter, as long as the product meets the following requirements:

Allows complex workflows to accomodate the multiple needs of a lot of clients. (Many levels of revision, translation, approval, etc.)
Very easy for the users (Very easy for developpers too is great but could live without)
Has content history (It is possible to view what the content on a page was at a specific date)
Must be multilingual (At least French and English)
Has a flexible security model
Has good performance
The layout of the pages must be highly configurable (not sure if I should write as all CMS probably meet this criteria)
It must be possible to publish content that respects the WCAG 2.0 AA standard

Can you point me in the direction of a CMS that meets all those criterias ?

Also, urls of translation must be predictable(Let's say one page has the url: mydomain.com/topic-eng, the french version of topic should be topic-fra). The requirement is not strict about eng, fra per se, but it should be easy for a user to guess what the url for an other language is.

Basil · Answer 1 · 2012-01-13 08:34:02Z

I've made good experiences with the Django-CMS. Here are some points off the top of my head:

Most of our non-tech-savvy clients manage the content of their site themselves, so I think you could consider it user-friendly.
It's definitely easy to use for developers (and it uses Django :) ).
I know that you can see the change history of a page, but I'm not sure if you can see what the content looked like at a specific time. If not, there might be a plugin for this.
It is multilingual.
Good security model.
Performance is good I guess.
Pages can easily be customized. You can write custom plugins for specific elements.
Lots of plugins exist. We use the news plugin a lot for example.
You can use rosetta for translations.
The language of the page is visible in the URL (eng/intro and fr/intro for example)

I think it does, you can give users different levels of access for example. I've never used it this way tough, so you might have to try it out yourselves.
Workflows are not just about security accesses, it is also about the chain of approval/revision before content gets online. It has to be flexible because depending on the branch, the approvals required to publish are not always the same.

Drai · Answer 2 · 2012-01-11 13:44:00Z

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My company uses Ektron Which is very powerful, stable and offers the features you listed.

answered Jan 11 '12 at 13:44

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It looks like an interesting product, I might take a look at it. – Martin Jan 11 '12 at 14:14

Alasjo · Answer 3 · 2012-01-11 06:25:56Z

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If your developers are familiar with java/jsp I'd recommend Liferay Portal (here's an introduction from the documentation).

It's open source, built for large organizations, has a clear user-role setup.

answered Jan 11 '12 at 6:25

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	Do you have experience using it? From what I can tell, a lot of CMS look great on paper, but when you actually try to use them, they tend to be overly complex and not userfriendly at all. – Martin Jan 11 '12 at 14:13
	I have some experience using it, I've started building my own themes and I'm working with some devs who are building portlets. It's wonderfully customisable, however somewhat complex. But I love how well it integrates with Eclipse (IDE). – Alasjo Jan 11 '12 at 15:00

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