Plone for Offices
Intranet solution to easily and effectively share organization information
Looking for a simple and easy to use solution to manage your office or organization information, files and events?
Plone lets non-technical people create and maintain information using only a web browser.
Perfect
for office intranets, Plone offers superior security without
sacrificing extensibility or ease of use. If you find that you're
constantly emailing files, or looking through dozens of folders on the
server for information, then this is the solution for you.
We provide installation, training and support services to get you up and running.
Features
- Robust yet flexible security based on roles and workflow are easily configurable to whatever your needs may be.
- Less Hassle. User friendly yet powerful interface means easy access by any member of your organization whether they need to update it or simply read it.
- Fingertip Access. Share and organize files seamlessly from your desktop.
- Heighten Productivity. Synergize collaboration efforts seamlessly through calendars and event listings, combine and filter events as you need and effortlessly work as a team.
- Stay Connected with a directory of all staff.
- Be On Top of things. Built-in wiki feature lets anyone in your organization keep information up-to-date, wherever and whenever they need to.
- Empower your people with full text search for office documents (PDF, MS Office, OpenOffice.org), with ability to easily categorize and link related items. Dublin Core meta standard ensures all contents have key information you need for professional and seamless collaborations.
- Customize the way you work with user created forms and saved search results.
- Control and Delegate. Determine who gets access to what using Secure hierarchal role base system with familiar and user friendly permissions and workflow management. Easily share, read and edit access down to per content item level. Upper management can manage all department documents while managers of each department only have access for their individual departments
What you get
- Installation on site. We'd come and install the software for you. We recommend that you run it on Linux* operating and if you haven't got a machine with Linux already running, we'll even install that for you too.
- Corporate Branding. No one likes a generic out of the box product without any identity. We'll do some light theming for your organization. We'll put in your logo, corporate colours, maybe even a motto. We'll make it yours.
- 2 days hands on training. What's the use of software if no one uses it? We'll teach you and your staff the basics needed to use this software effectively so that you would get your money's worth from it.
- Full Support. For a whole month we will provide you Plone Technical Support and Zope Basic Server Administration support so you can keep your mind at ease
* Plone can be installed on a Windows server, but some features such as full text indexing may not be available. It is also generally more cost effective to use a free open source server such as Linux as almost all the features of Plone can be managed by none-technical users via a web browser.
Additional Add-ons
Bolster up the value of your Plone for Office with additional functionalities to make your work even easier. Plone is an extensible system with dozens of additional open source add-ons. We also provide additional customizations and development of add-ons such as electronic forms and workflows. If you have an internal IT team, we also provide training on how to use free rapid application development tools to extend your Plone Intranet system.
Enterprise Ready
As your needs grow, your Plone platform is ready to scale in terms of performance and features. New applications can be developed leveraging your existing system as well as integration with other systems. Plone is used by leading multinational organizations such as Nokia, NASA, European Union, the United Nations and governments.
Ready to give it a try or just need more information? Let us help you.
