The largest college in Surrey, Guildford College is the latest to choose Contensis CMS to support its new website. The College has two campuses at Stoke Park and Merrist Wood and recently also merged with Farnham College, moving it into the top 10% by size in England. The College provides further, higher, adult and professional education as well as courses for businesses.
Guildford College has a significant Web Services team, which reflects the importance they place on clear communication and interaction with their many stakeholders, from local learners, parents, employers and the non-profit sector to international students and government bodies.
After conducting extensive research, the College invited a small group of the most promising content management system providers to present their systems, with Contensis coming out the clear winner. In the last three months, the College took advantage of Contensis's highly intuitive development model to create an entirely new website with enhanced levels of user interactivity and participation. Head of Web Services, Amila Moslimani, said:
"Contensis was the right choice for us – functional, intuitive and scalable, it ticked all the boxes. The range of core and add-on modules gave us the flexibility to purchase only what we really need. Being based on .NET we can build our own modules too…
We managed to develop a brand new website in just 3 months – thanks to close working relationship with the Genetics Implementation team. It's important to know that there are people who care about our project just a phone call away!"
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.