Plone

Plone is widely being used in our organization: from public websites to intranets, customized LMSs or customized sites designed to do some special thing, to smaller sites and different portals. We have had video publishing platforms, payment systems, customized forms, workflows and countless integrations to other internal and external systems. Plone is an extremely solid and safe platform to use, which is very important for us as a university. The content management is easy to use, and customization options are limitless. Especially important for us is the robust, yet flexible permission management; we may, if we want, to control the access permissions to a smallest detail in every page available.

• Zero licence cost on 100+ systems we have on Plone. On some other systems the costs might be astronomical based on our user or content amount.
• Our customized and well integrated LMSs - since 2009 we have received some 200,000 assignment submissions through our Plone-based systems. The amount of time saved compared to other ways of returning assignments is huge. Integration between Plone, our study management system and payments system allows students to enroll, pay and immediately access course content.
• Workflows - we have many systems where we utilize Plone's flexible workflow management, allowing us to easily digitize manual work and sending papers around campus. Again, saves a lot of work and time.

Drupal, WordPress and Squarespace

Flowdock, Microsoft Teams, Mendix, Zulip

Is a old proven open source tool very flexible to communicate the content we need to our customer´s employees. We help our employees to design and implement strategies supported with our proprietary app. Thus, for us is very important to be able to have a flexible way to communicate:

<ul><li>Strategies</li><li>Goals</li><li>Best Practices</li><li>Whitepapers </li><li>Instructions </li></ul>It´s easy to make changes in separate parts or our clients divisions. It´s easy to use the same content structures and exported to new situations.

• It was costly to learn how to use it. However, then it's very easy to train new members of the team. We have lower training costs.
• Since it is an old open source platform, there is a lot of documentation, codes, and experience to copy/adapt. We have lower development costs.
• As it is very easy to change/manage content, it allows us to save a lot of IT external companies.

Drupal, WordPress, Joomla! and Umbraco CMS

Python IDLE, Amazon Polly, Zapata Orquestra

• For out business Plone allows us to deliver enterprise level solutions at very reasonable budgets. We tender and compete against some of the much larger commercial CMS solutions and regularly win comfortably on price and deliver on functionality.
• Plone also allows us to provide much more functionality than many clients expect. We are often able to over deliver on small budget projects because Plone comes with so much built in.

• Plone makes it possible to maintain and update the running websites with very small effort.
• My customers need little to no support on using the CMS.
• Creating custom content types is really fast.

• Positive in that we were able to launch a new site in a few days, mostly copying and pasting directly through-the-web from our old site.