Use of Luminis Content Management System
The University of Alaska state system (16 campuses) is considering implementation of the Luminis Content Management System. We have Luminis 3.3.3 in production with Banner 7.3. There are at least 3 other CMS in use by various campuses (which means many are skilled - but with Roxen, CommonSpot and Cascade Server CMS software).
I'd appreciate if you would describe your functional and technical experience with LCMS.
-Surprises/Lessons Learned?
-How do you rate the end user interface?
-If your school purchased SungardHE's Professional Service package for technical, organizational and training consulting, where did you get or not get the value you expected?
-Did you customize the software?
-Is LCMS's integration with Luminis as advertised?
-If you already has CMS, what was your migration strategy?
-How did you develop your end user training?
Thank you.
Tom Moyer
MyUA Project Manager
University of Alaska
(907) 450-8336
www.alaska.edu/myua
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RE: Use of Luminis Content Management System
We looked at LCMS here but decided not to go with it for the same reason you already mention; we already have a CMS. Why use multiple CMS's? If you have a distributed content management model, its only a burden on users to have to learn two systems for content updates. This is made even worse by the fact that sometimes there is content that you want featured in Luminis and on one of your externally facing websites. Instead of just having your main CMS publish to two places, you're forced to duplicate the content in two different systems. Blech! We're currently in the process of integrating Cascade and Luminis.
In IMplementation
We are starting our implementation. We really like the product, but we do not have a enterprise grade CMS at the moment, so it's really only taking over content that may have been managed by dreamweaver/contribute.
To me, as a developer, the product seems more mature than the portal, and each release is building off of a strong base, so features are not usually buggy... But that is in my small amount of experience with it.
Dave
We are in the final stages
We are in the final stages of our implementation of LCMS. It has its bugs for sure. But, overall, it is a strong product.
I love the ability to limit the functionality of ceratin users, especially the use of fonts and colors, within the editor panes.