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Hi Giulio,

By sheer chance I came across this just now
https://growcreate.co.uk/blog/which-cms-works-best-with-microsoft-dynamics/

Of course, bear in mind that this is a company which specialises in Umbraco (and Episerver) - as their conclusion seems to be "Umbraco and Episerver" :-)  But it may be worth a look.

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark D. P. Norman
> Sent: 03 October 2018 11:06
> To: 'Giulio Romano' <[log in to unmask]>; WEBSITE-INFO-
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> Subject: RE: We're thinking of switching our web CMS
> 
> Hi Giulio,
> 
> We're using Umbraco which is a Microsoft-based (.net/IIS) CMS.  Open
> source, however.
> 
> It's good for us, as we have very simple needs and I'd guess it would cover
> your " blog commenting, site search and social media" needs, but not sure
> about anything so sophisticated as integration with Dynamics.  We chose it
> about 18 months/2 years ago and we went live with it about a year ago.
> Umbraco seems to have a decent developer community but isn't big in FE/HE
> (HE is dominated by Drupal).
> 
> I guess my advice would be to go with something which has a large and active
> developer community (i.e. are there several
> companies/contractors/developers you can turn to for bits of work, or to run
> the whole thing?).  If open source, check that it's releasing frequently, and
> what the contributor community looks like.  I'd be open minded regarding
> open source vs proprietary.  If it's open source and being actively developed,
> popular, used by many others, it's a decent bet.  Even the most robust
> looking and popular proprietary CMS could get bought by a competitor who
> has plans to backwater it or wind it down entirely, so it's a similar risk.  Drupal
> is really popular and has a lot of developer/implementer companies.
> 
> After all that, I guess if your 'killer' requirement is something like integration
> with MS Dynamics, that may be the thing to focus on (i.e. companies which
> have done that before, using a particular CMS).
> 
> HTH a bit!
> 
> Mark
> 
> Mark Norman
> Director of IT | Nuffield College, University of Oxford Associate Director of IT
> | All Souls College of the University of Oxford Tel 01865 278596
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Managing institutional Web services <WEBSITE-INFO-
> > [log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Giulio Romano
> > Sent: 02 October 2018 15:12
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: We're thinking of switching our web CMS
> >
> > Good afternoon all
> >
> > I must admit to being a very occasional contributor to this list but
> > hope some of you can offer some advice. I manage the web services at
> > the Scottish Funding Council (www.sfc.ac.uk). We're not a FE/HE
> > institution as such but distribute public funding to Scottish colleges and
> universities.
> >
> > I'm doing some very initial research into the possibility of changing
> > our web CMS in the future. We currently use a product called
> > Activedition which has served us well but the vendor, C2 Software, has
> > changed its own priorities over the years to the point that we are now
> > using the last version of the software that is likely to be developed
> > - so now seems a good time to think about moving on.
> >
> > Our website and intranet both use Activedition, each with connections
> > to our Dynamics CRM. We also use other 3rd party tools for blog
> > commenting, site search and social media. So we're basically looking
> > at replacing the CMS with another one without changing the overall
> > set-up or doing any kind of site re- design.
> >
> > If anyone has experience of switching their CMS, any advice would be
> > greatly appreciated, in particular:
> >
> > - Any pitfalls or things to look out for?
> > - Open source or propretary?
> > - Recommended small-medium scale CMS systems?
> >
> > Many thanks
> >
> > Giulio Romano
> >
> >
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