Web Hosting AND Web Content Management at DESK Industries

1. Web Hosting AND Web Content Management at DESK Industries Valley Shop Consultation Services, LLC

2. DESK Industries Company Profile • Office Furniture Manufacturer • Primary clients include Schools, Universities and other Public Institutions • Employs 600 people • Focuses on Ergonomic Designs that prevent users from health issues

3. Desk Industries Web Hosting and Web Content Management Needs • Ability to take in orders through a website • Should Web Content Management be used? • What can be done with WCM? • Does it require an IT Specialist to maintain? • Is it ran in-house or offsite? • Are there open source WCM’s available?

4. Concept Map WEBHOSTING General Overview Free Webhosting Other Types of Webhosting Recommendations for DESK WEB CONTENT MANAGEMENT Final Recommendations for DESK Components and Features Types of WCM Examples

5. Web Hosting

6. General Overview • What is Webhosting? • Webhosts: • Bandwidth • Security • Types of Webhosting…

7. Free Web hosting

8. Top 10 reasons why not to use free webhosting: • 10. SPAM • 9. Security • 8. www.desk.expage/freewebhosting.com • 7. Content Restriction

9. Top 10 reasons why not to use free webhosting: • 6. Ad Restrictions • 5. Space limitations • 4. Unreliable • 3. No support • 2. Endless forms • 1. Adssource:http://web-hosting-services.topchoicereviews.com/why-not-free-web-hosting.htm

10. Types of Webhosting… • Shared Webhosting • 90% of websites • $2 -$10 / month • About 5,000 visitors / day • 10 GB bandwidth • No videos or crazy graphics • Performance problems

11. Types of Webhosting • Virtual Private Server (VPS) • >$10 / month • High performance • Option for internal management • >50 GB Bandwidth

12. Types of Webhosting • Dedicated Server Hosting • $80 / month • 1,000 GB • Big businesses or gaming websites • 1 million visitors a day

13. Types of Webhosting • Collocation Webhosting • Expensive: Thousands of dollars to set up • Hire an internal IT manager • Internal Control Source: webhosting.devshed.com/c/a/Web-Hosting-HowTos/Choosing-the-Right-Kind-of-Web-Hosting

14. Recommendations • Yahoo Shared Webhostingsmallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting • Merchant Services smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce

15. Web Content Management

16. Definition • A Content Management System (CMS) facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential web maintenance functions • Provides authoring (and other) tools designed to allow users with little or no knowledge of programming languages or markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease of use. • Primarily a website maintenance tool for non-technical administrators. Source – Wikipedia

17. Components of a CMS • Stores content in databases • Presented through templates • Administrated/Managed through browser based interfaces

18. Features • Automated Templates • Easily Editable Content • Workflow Management • Document Management • Content Virtualization • Expandability/Upgradable

19. Types of CMS • Offline Processing • IBM Web Content Management • Adobe Contribute • Online Processing • Eprise On-Demand

20. IBM Web Content Management • Product Demonstration • Product’s Advertised Key Features • Streamline content development while freeing IT resources • Empower users to manage content to increase efficiency • Help reduce IT costs by leveraging existing systems and content • Leading-edge services and solutions • “Whenever and wherever you need them”

22. IBM Web Content Management (cont) • Duke Medicine Case Study • Improved service availability • Enhanced compliance and security • Strengthened relationship between patients and care providers • Reduced IT management costs to redirect IT dollars to new initiatives

23. Eprise On-Demand • Advertised and reviewed as “The easiest CMS to use” • Features add-ons for: • Chat’s • Surveys and Polls • Event Management • Customizable to meet specific companies needs and budgets • Offers both hosted and unhosted

25. Winston Salem Warthogs "We have found Eprise On Demand to be instrumental to our Web-based presence. Utilizing such an easy to use content management system has enabled us to provide a state of the art, interactive web experience for our fans and team."~ Guy Schuman, President of the Winston-Salem Warthogs minor league baseball team

26. OpenCms • Free of licensing fees • Fully browser based • Requires a higher technical knowledge • Based completely online

28. Cost Analysis • IBM WCM $424 • Eprise On-Demand – $2900 per month hosted • OpenCMS – No License Fee

29. Tying the two together!

30. Final Recommendation • Host through Yahoo! Small Business Web Hosting • Cost of $11.95 Monthly, $144 Annually • Process Order’s through Yahoo! Merchant Solutions • Set up fee of $50 • Monthly cost of $39.95, $480 Annually • 1.5% Transaction Fee • Use IBM for Web Content Management • $424 initial cost, includes 1 year of full support • $104 annually for additional year of support TOTAL COST = $1098 for first year, $728 annually after that (Does not include transaction fees)

31. Required IT Staff • 1 IT Staff • Proficient in IBM Content Management Software • Familiar with both the companies objectives and the capabilities of the website • Understanding of what Yahoo!’s Web Hosting Offers • Responsibility for supporting other employees on software

32. Questions…?

33. Web Hosting AND Web Content Management at DESK Industries Valley Shop Consultation Services, LLC