Joomla or Drupal for Intranet

[Nina Mchale]

Just an addendum to these great points: going with an expert Drupal vendor
(like Cary's Cherry Hill) can help fill in those knowledge gaps and still
allow you to benefit from using a robust CMS. Channing is absolutely right;
you can get yourself into a dangerous place, BUT, with hosting/outsourcing
options, a Drupal site for your library is still achievable!

Best,

Nina

Nina McHale
Arapahoe Library District

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Wong, Channing <CWong at marincounty.org>wrote:

> Our library went with an outside vendor peddling a Drupal solution.  If
> you have PHP and MySQL programming experience, Drupal is a very powerful
> and extensible platform.
>
> If you or the person signing off on the project does not have at minimum a
> good understanding web applications and Linux servers, I would think twice.
>  With poor coding that can lead to out of control memory usage, which will
> lead to stability issues.  Do extensive due diligence when selecting a
> vendor and make sure your agreement includes some type of SLA otherwise
> they'll nickel and dime you at any hint of ignorance.
>
> If you are looking for a free and open source Intranet, I'd rather look at
> Alfresco Community Edition.  It has a LGPL license, seems more mature and
> feature rich Intranet solution out of the box which can also integrate AD.
>  As a LLP I'm guessing you're a Law Firm or Accountancy, so you may have
> regulatory data retention or tracking requirements.  You might also need to
> take that into your consideration.
>
>
> Channing Wong
>
> TSS or something
>
> 415-506-3157
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> Hello,
>
> We are looking to migrate our intranet from a clunky, custom platform to a
> CMS. The two top runners right now are Joomla and Drupal. I know that both
> support Active Directory, but I am wondering if anyone has used either to
> integrate with other systems. Specifically I would like to integrate with
> our document management system and our time and billing system.
>
> I do plan on doing these integrations right, but want to know that the
> functionality is there when we are ready. Any insight you can provide would
> be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Liana Juliano
> Information Manager
> NOSSAMAN LLP
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