University Campus Suffolk (UCS) is the latest in an ever-growing list of universities to select the Contensis content management system to develop its website.
UCS, whose main campus is based in Ipswich, opened its doors to new students in September 2007. UCS is a modern approach to higher education, with university centres in Bury St Edmunds, Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Otley complementing the major new campus development in the Ipswich Education Quarter.
The UCS website was initially launched in February 2006 when the project began and has been further developed over the past 18 months but mainly as an “online prospectus” site.
The task ahead for the Contensis CMS team is to work alongside the University’s IT and marketing teams to re-engineer the site, implementing the content management system and advising the marketing team with new features and ideas. The emphasis has been put on the Contensis CMS team to work closely with UCS staff throughout the implementation stages.
The look and feel of the existing site will not change as it has been well received by prospective students, but will become more interactive to appeal to the growing student market.
Contensis’ university sector account executive Mark Owen said: “We are extremely excited about working in partnership with UCS and look forward to the new ideas that both we and UCS will generate.”
Carol Macaskill, Business and Operations Manager for UCS said " UCS selected Genetics Ltd. from a strong field of candidates for the outstanding quality, simplicity and flexibility of their Contensis CMS but also their willingness and ability to work closely with our newly formed team at UCS. Our deadlines are challenging but we have every confidence that this project will come in on time and on budget. As everyone in the university sector knows, UCAS waits for no one!"
Contensis is the leading CMS in the university sector with other partners including:
Southampton Solent University, University of Bolton, Canterbury Christ Church University, University of Cumbria, London School of Economics & Political Sciences, European University Institute, and now University Campus Suffolk.
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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.