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Contensis web CMS has been chosen by the London School of Economics and Political Sciences to manage its website.
The LSE, the world’s leading centre for social sciences, selected Contensis from over 100 other CMS vendors in a highly competitive evaluation process.
The LSE was founded in 1895, and is one of the largest colleges within the University of London.
LSE alumni and former staff include 13 Nobel Prize winners, around 29 past or present Heads of State, 31 current UK MPs and 40 current Peers in the House of Lords.
The organisational structure of the LSE website is made up of a variety of websites – there are over 340, each distinct with the purpose of meeting the information needs of target audiences (prospective students, professionals (including opinion formers), staff, alumni, and students) in pursuit of the School’s objectives.
The LSE sought to work with a partner who was able to supply and deploy an appropriate, cost effective, robust, flexible and scalable CMS.
The Contensis CMS will help to enhance the world class reputation of the LSE, allowing the School to achieve more, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of providers, and increase satisfaction for target audiences.
Contensis was 1 of 31 CMS vendors who submitted proposals at pre-qualification, Stephen Emmott, Head of Web Services for LSE speaks about the tender process and LSE's reasons for choosing the Contensis CMS:
" LSE selected Genetics Ltd as the preferred supplier of its CMS following a competitive tender via OJEU (Official Journal of the European Union). The CMS project board took a two-stage approach to selection: a) pre-qualification; b) invitation to tender.
Pre-qualification required a proposal to be submitted for evaluation and short-listing by the board. Of the 31 proposals received, 7 were short-listed and invited to tender, resulting in 5 tenders. Each tenderer was required to present to the board (witnessed by an audience of stakeholders) and provide visits to relevant reference customers. Following evaluation of the evidence gathered, the board concluded that Genetics Ltd and their CMS - Contensis - promised the best fit to LSE's
requirements as well as excellent customer references.
Like many universities, LSE has a large cohort of people contributing to its website. Enabling stakeholders to collaborate effectively and efficiently is central to our requirements. With the overall purpose being to produce and provide a website that meets the information needs of target audiences in pursuit of LSE's goals, Contensis offers the right combination of functionality and flexibility.
We're confident that Contensis is a CMS our people can quickly adapt to in the short-term whilst being adaptable to them in the medium- to long-term. Such synergy is crucial to a prosperous LSE website. "
Stephen Emmott,
Head of Web Services, LSE
About the company
The Contensis Enterprise Content Management suite of products began life, as many products do, following an animated discussion between a group of software professionals back in the autumn of 1998.
They all agreed, after exhaustive evaluation, that most of the products then available fell far short of their own vision and an idea began to gel. By spring 1999 work was well advanced on the specification of a system which not only met their criteria, and that of respected industry analysts, but equally important also reflected the views of end user enterprises. Power, ease of use and cost effectiveness were the key words. The beginnings of the Contensis development team were spawned a little later and work started in earnest to turn the dream into reality.
Philosophy
Our approach is completely customer-centric. Customers are our universe and we see their problems as our problems.
From a software perspective this means that we strive to ensure that every aspect of Contensis is simple to learn and easy to use. We believe we've achieved that, certainly at everyday user level. Even newcomers to the system are normally editing and contributing within minutes.
It's all part of our 'How can we make it simpler' approach.
About Contensis Enterprise CMS
Built using the Microsoft® .Net platform Contensis ECMS features an open API that facilitates easy and rapid integration with virtually any application, and is completely intuitive to use at every level.
One of the very few CMS solutions that combines the best of dynamic and flat file publishing, it has proved itself in the most demanding of circumstances and is fully scalable.