I am looking for a content managment system for a client. I can’t seem to find a system that meets all their needs. The RedDot solutions are perfect other than price. The Express version starts at approximately $15,000 and the full version starts around $70,000. The cost is too high for my client. There are others that provide very similar functionality and have their own draw backs. LiveStoryBoard provides most of the necessary functionality and is affordable ($150/user $50/user, Robert Koberg let me know I had an incorrect price), but it is a hosted solution. GlobalScape PureCMS provide great content management features but does provide for the automatic generation of lists, i.e., authors edit news stories, the news page lists all of the current stories. The search continues…
Parital List of Requirements
- Cost less than $2500
- Support publishing to a remote production server
- Serve as the staging server (or editorial server)
- Support publishing to static HTML
- Dynamically generate indexes and lists, i.e., enter the job posting, enter the publication schedule, automatically generate the job lists for categories
- Support for versioning and version control
- Support for simple workflow
- WYSIWYG HTML editing
- Support for Dreamweaver templates and integration
If it wasn’t for the version control, content scheduling and workflow for approvals I would strongly consider using MovableType. Strange to be considering MovableType and RedDot for the same project.