Where to start when you need to pick the right CMS for your organisation? Photo by Jared Earle

I’ve recently been working on a project to procure a new CMS for a large organisation.

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A really useful resource has been CMS Watch – these chaps love talking CMS.

They’ve listed the 42 ‘most significant’ CMS vendors around today, from the big boys such as Interwoven to the Open Source options such as Plone.

And they’ve helpfully divided them into 6 categories to let you compare like-for-like.

This is a great place to start to get you head around the CMS landscape.

I found some of the posts in the project phase section very useful. There’s stuff on requirements gathering, shortlisting and project managing – all handy stuff when you’re facing the daunting task of finding and installing a CMS.

Obviously you will still need to do a whole bunch of work to find the right CMS for your organistation, but resources like CMS Watch will help you get there.

I’ll hopefully be writing more about CMS selection in the near future.

Liam