Share Your Enterprise Plone Deployment Story… Win an iPod!

by Munwar Shariff — last modified Sep 12, 2006 10:43 PM

This is your chance to win an entry to the panel discussion on “Plone and Large Enterprises” at the 2006 Plone conference.

Do you have compelling Plone implementation information to share? Great! Tell us your story and we will select the panelists from these entries. You may also qualify to win an iPod (winner to be announced after the panel discussion).

Munwar Shariff, Plone Foundation board member, CTO of CIGNEX and Co-author of the Plone Live book will be moderating a panel discussion on “Plone and Large Enterprises”. The panel discussion will be everything you wanted to brag about your Plone solution – architecture, extensibility, ease-of-use, scalability, or just the story of how Plone provided an elegant solution to a complex enterprise problem.

You could be invited to participate in the panel discussion during the fourth annual Plone Conference which will be held October 25-27 in Seattle, Washington, USA. For more details visit: the Plone Conference 2006 page.

Why are we doing this?

This is an effort at sharing the leading enterprise Plone deployment stories with the community. We expect this to increase the adoption of Plone in the enterprise. And we genuinely want only the very best Plone implementations – large enterprises, complex deployments and compelling statistics.

What is in it for you?

  • You could be short listed to participate in a Panel discussion “Plone and Large Enterprises” at the Plone conference
  • You could win an iPod
  • The Top-5 implementation stories will be shared at the Plone Conference

iPod Winner

Winner will be announced at the end of the Panel discussion and if you are not present to receive it in person, we will contact you by email.

Privacy Policy

Any information shared is for sole use at the Plone Conference, on Plone.org, and on Plone.net websites.

Deadlines

Submission – September 22, 2006

Announce Panelists’ selection – September 25, 2006

Sponsored by CIGNEX

CIGNEX (http://www.cignex.com) is the Platinum sponsor for the Plone Conference 2006.

Just fill out the following form describing your Plone solution and email it to munwar@cignex.com with a subject: Plone and Enterprise - <Your Company Name>.

Plone and Large Enterprise Story Form

Project Description (website URL and Business Problem solved with Plone)

    • 5 to 10 lines

Tell us more details about your Site Statistics?

    • Page Views / month:
    • Unique Visitors / month:
    • Registered users:
    • Number of Content Types:
    • Number of Workflows:
    • Number of documents or Database size:

Contact Information

    • First Name/ Last Name:
    • Title:
    • Company:
    • Phone:
    • Email:

Additional Information:

    • Any information which you feel relevant to share such as integration with external systems.

I have got some interesting stories to tell

Posted by Munwar Shariff at Sep 27, 2006 01:05 AM
Thank you very much for responding. From the final 9 stories, I am in the process of choosing top 3 stories. The selected project leads/managers will be on the panel. You must register for Plone Conference to listen to this cool stuff, to interact with them directly and to know their experience.

I will inform you about the top 3 finalists very soon.

"Plone and Enterprise" FINALISTS

Posted by Munwar Shariff at Oct 10, 2006 12:31 AM
By Munwar Shariff, 10/3/2006

1. Brazilian Chamber of Deputies

The "Câmara dos Deputados" (http://www.camara.gov.br) in an information portal about Brazilian laws for the brazilian people. This Plone site delivers about 12 million page views per month to 800,000 unique visitors and 22,000 registered users. Around 350 Content authors use the portal to manage 914,617 content items (9.5 GB of database size).

2. Oxfam America

Oxfam America (http://www.oxfamamerica.org) is a non-profit organization that works to end global poverty through saving lives, strengthening communities, and campaigning for change. On Dec. 23, 2004, an earthquake in the Indian Ocean triggered the deadliest series of tsunamis in recorded history. Oxfam America raised more than $13 million via its online presence to aid survivors with shelter, clean water and small business funding. This Plone site proved to handle high traffic, uses Zope3/Five technologies and has about 81 content types and 20,000 documents.

3. National Instruments

Community site, which allows engineering customers to upload and own example programs (computer programming code). NI has more than 3,900 employees with direct operations in nearly 40 countries. In 2005, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries.

4. Voice Signal

VoiceSignal Technologies, Inc. develops speech solutions for wireless mobile devices. This Plone based intranet site is expected to have thousands of documents and 500GB of data - upwards of 1TB by the end of the year. The web team is importing three dozen NNTP newsgroups into listen, the mailing list product for Plone.

5. Yankelovich, Inc

Yankelovich, Inc. is a market research / market sciences company. They had a large amount of content in an existing customer website which did not meet customer needs or expectations. They needed to build a new website that would allow customers secure access to content for which they had purchased subscriptions. Plone fit the bill and the results can be seen at http://portal.yankelovich.com (public site: http://www.yankelovich.com). This Plone site has over 150,000 content items serving to more than 1000 registered users.