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What is a good CMS for an intranet site?

I know that this question has been thrown by many developers and designers. I just finished working with my company’s intranet site using joomla 1.5 with a custom bulit template and changing almost everything in joomla. I wondered if I should use an enterprise CMS instead of a free open source CMS. I almost went with wordpress, but the company wanted Joomla to be there. It was great for me to switch to another CMS and find out, but is there a more efficient CMS that is designed for the intranet or does it really matter?

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Try OpenAtrium, for free.

http://www.openatrium.com

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If you are planning an intranet project using CMS, you need to clarify a few requirements before choosing the right one. I have a blog post with some simple options for choosing the cms for the intranet , in particular about collaboration and community opportunities. But other more basic requirements:

  • Is there a technology stack that the organization prefers / uses? Do I need to be in place or cloud-based? This will filter the candidates.
  • Is the Intranet read-only for notifications and information, or is it a community function (groups, lists, news feeds, etc.).
  • Does the Intranet require an SSO so that members can seamlessly interact with content based on their identity?
  • What budget is available for Intranet? All CMS installations have a cost, even those that do not have a subscription cost.
  • An important requirement is document and file management?
  • Are settings necessary for any specific Intranet feature or connection to other systems?

Wordpress will make a simple intranet, but it will start to work more if you start to receive complex requirements around authentication, groups and social functions. If you are on the LAMP stack and are looking for more complex requirements, look at Drupal or Joomla. On the Windows / .NET side, this answer already has suggestions - the choice ranges from full commercial answers, such as Sharepoint, to available, open-source, and commercial licenses, such as Dnn.

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Currently, everything is called CMS - tools for supporting websites, advanced portals, wikis, etc. However, CMS requirements vary widely for intranet and public websites.

An intranet usually has a high level of interaction, a lot of user-generated content, different types of content, etc. More users should be able to log into the system (basically, everything, not just content editors) with different levels of authorization and different roles in general. Collaboration as a whole is much more important than with an average "public" site based on CMS.

In addition, you usually need different types of plugins. Google analytics and SEO are much less important, you are more interested in some active user plugin, recent publications, integration with other internal tools (for example, project management) and, possibly, the publication of other data sources (databases, telephone directories, file systems with internal documents ), etc.

In my personal experience, Plone is a good choice. It provides most of the above out of the box or through existing extensions and has excellent integration capabilities with external systems. Cyn.in also provides a somewhat comprehensive plone-based solution.

If Plone is too much for you, you might consider some wiki-like system like TWiki or MediaWiki

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I have a custom long drupal, but now I'm switching to WordPress a lot easier if you don't want to create a community or something like that.

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As others have said, this will depend on your requirements. If you are looking for something else in the corporate space, then elcomCMS may be a good fit - although it is based on .NET (not sure if this excludes this in your case), it does have an API and other developer considerations. Pretty strong, both web CMS and intranet. http://www.elcomcms.com/Product/elcomCMS-Overview/Intranets

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