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D1.2: An Information structure to provide categories and subcategories relevant for FIDIS

FIDIS Communication Infrastructure
CMS SELECTION PROCESS

CMS Selection Process

In the initial phase of the development of the website and the portal system, several CMS were evaluated for their functionality, their usability and the needed prerequisites for the installation of such a system. Table 1 summarises the results of the market study:

Product	Manufacturer	Comments
SharePoint Portal	Microsoft	Portal system for mid-size workgroups High prerequisites for the used Hardware Integration of Microsoft Office products Less flexible – Users are bound to MS Windows and the MS Internet Explorer Needs additional software for public website
eRoom	Documentum	Powerful JAVA-based application server system Very flexible, customisable and powerful solution aiming on collaborative workflow management High prerequisites for the hardware – Needs separate servers for the database, the content repository, and the JAVA-based application server (e.g. JBOSS or Tomcat or Web-Sphere). Complex installation process Most expensive solution, due to the fact that know-how has to be acquired from external consultants.
Zope/Plone	Open-Source	Python-based application server Very flexible and customisable Needs special runtime environment to operate (Python) Free of charge
Php-Groupware	Open-Source	PHP-based groupware solution, especially designed for technical purposes, such as software development or technical engineering groups. Powerful user management No support for external websites Free of charge
TYPO3	Open-Source	PHP-based content-management framework Highly customisable, flexible, and powerful system that can be tailored for any purpose Standardized API for extension development. At the moment, there are more than 200 extensions available. Does not need special a special software/hardware environment – a standard Computer, running Apache, MySQL, and PHP is sufficient. Offers integration of Microsoft Office and OpenOffice files Integrated and easy to use user/user-group management for setting access permissions Very active project, excellent documentation and ongoing development.

Table 1: Summary of the evaluated CMS.

Based upon the results of this market analysis, TYPO3 was chosen as CMS solution for the internal and extern website of the FIDIS NoE, offering the best mixture of flexibility and customisability. Furthermore, this solution offers the best integration for the internal and external website, using only one software system (see Figure 3).

Figure 3: TYPO3 Backend System.

More information about TYPO3 and its features can be found at http://www.typo3.com or http://www.typo3.org.

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