JoomlaChicago July 2009 meeting presentation led by David Steele of the Acquity Group. Comparison of four top Open Source Web Content Management Systems currently on the market for enterprise use: Alfresco, Drupal, Joomla and Magnolia.
6. Traditional Website Deployment: Manual Process Inefficiencies Request Deploy Did you mean? Clarification Wait Wait How is this? Review Wait Ready now? Approval Internal Coordination Web Server In a traditional Website deployment model, process inefficiencies increase cost, limit innovation, and constrain business value. Design Manage Business stakeholders are fully dependent on the available capacity of IT to sustain the velocity and value of their primary digital marketing channel. Business / Marketing Manager HTML Developer Content Author
7. Web Content Management: Direct Engagement of Content Owners Author Web Server Review Design Content Lifecycle Automation (w/Approvals) Business / Marketing Manager HTML Developer Content Author
Joomla! is performance conscious and allows administrators to configure automatic caching. Internationalization is supported and free language packs are available for download. The Language Manager is easy to find and use. System users can send and receive messages as well as mass mails to users and groups. Search with statistics is available. Remote Procedure Call support to the API via HTTP and XML enable web service style integration. Content Management is well-organized, simple to use, and is performed through a thoughtfully designed administration interface. Content can be categorized, archived, previewed, toggled between published and unpublished, and generated with a WYSIWYG editor. Extensions are well-structured and come in the forms of Plugins, Modules, and Templates. User administration is flexible and alternative authentication methods are supported such as LDAP, OpenID, and Gmail.
The Joomla interface is attractive despite its simplicity and no-frills nature. To-date, Joomla is the most compared CMS on CMS Matrix http://cmsmatrix.org/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/joomlatools/2199928805/ download statistics. Joomla! is used to serve both public facing and internal websites of many well known brands such as Harvard University (http://gsas.harvard.edu), International House of Pancakes (http://www.ihop.com), MTV Networks Quizilla (http://www.quizilla.com), and Citibank (Intranet). PostgreSQL support is planned with DB2, Oracle, Sybase, and SQL Server following after.