Plone Case Studies
"Reduce and Reuse" an Environmental Website
After migrating to Plone from a CMS that was no longer supported, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's public website now utilizes the user-friendly Plone CMS, supported by over 300 solution providers in 57 countries. That, combined with more than 200 core developers of the software, will help ensure the long term viability and evolution of the system.
Acclaimed Science Magazine "Discovers" Plone
DISCOVER Magazine, the magazine of science, technology and the future, recently launched a newly designed website on the open source Plone content management system (CMS).
Airports site evolves, grows with Decoupled Delivery
Airports Council International-North America (ACI-NA) gets a Plone based website maintained by in-house staff and without vendor lock-in.
Anti-poverty site weathers flood of traffic ‘beautifully’
The primary goal was a system that could scale to serve Oxfam America's growing organization and donor base for years to come. When the tsunami crisis occurred, the system was put to the test.
Architectural Design Firm Integrates Plone
McCall Design Group, based in San Franciso, CA, is an architectural design firm that has done flagship projects with national and international retail and hospitality giants such as Limited Brands, Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide, Gap, and Williams-Sonoma as well as smaller, specialized prototype stores and boutiques for clients such as Kate Spade, Gazoontite, Gymboree, and cultural institutions such as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) and The San Francisco Symphony.
Artisanship of Unique and Custom Jewelry and Gem Art
The primary goal was to create a platform that artists in the field of gem sculpture and jewelry design without much knowledge of computers could use, and that consumers would find easy to navigate, browse, search, collect and interact.
AXIS Technology, LLC
Axis Technology Software, LLC, separate division of AXIS Technology, LLC company, that focuses on DMsuite™: Data Masking solution. AXIS DMsuite profiles, provisions, and masks data without slowing down business processes or time-to-market that is needed for enterprises whose business success depends on protecting customer and proprietary information.
Case Study on a Fortune 200 Pharmaceutical Company
SIx Feet Up reviews the process and results of a project for a Fortune 200 Pharmaceutical Company
Cleversafe.org - Developer Community Portal
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, Cleversafe is an open source-minded technology start-up that builds Dispersed Storage (extremely secure and fast storage cloud) appliances and solutions, based upon open source software and community. This case study explains how Contextual went about meeting Cleversafe's requirements for its new developer community portal.
Divorcenet
Enfold Systems worked with LawTek Media Group, LLC (“Divorcenet®”), an online divorce resource, offering state-specific articles, an online community and a nationwide directory of divorce lawyers, mediators and financial professionals.
Faculty Web presence grows with Plone via Enfold Server, Proxy
Houston Community College gets a user-friendly system that Windows-trained administrators are comfortable maintaining.
Health system site finds cure with Enfold
Enfold Systems helps a state health care system transform its slowing Plone site into a stable, maintainable, supported system that handles much more traffic.
New Mexico Consortium
The New Mexico Consortium integrates the strengths of New Mexico's research universities and builds strategic connections with scientific institutions throughout the world in order to support and promote scientific research and education in the state. It is owned and managed by the three New Mexico Universities: New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology and The University of New Mexico.
Pragmatic Marketing
Plone based web site designed and developed by Quinn Interactive utilizing both publicly available and custom products and enhancements.
UEMR - Ultimate Electronic Medical Record
A feature rich Open Source Core Electronic Medical Record for small medical providers developed with Plone. Core EMR functionalities: Patient History, Past Visits, Rx, Health Maint., Allergies, Labs, Vitals, Notes, and Procedures.
University empowers community with Plone, Enfold Desktop
Enfold Systems helps the University of Louisville with a rollout of more than 150 Plone sites, producing benefits for content managers, marketing and IT.
WebLion: Bringing Open Source Practices to the Educational Enterprise
Effective Web content management remains a painful problem for many institutions of higher education. Old methods and tools used in maintaining static web sites are costly and inefficient, and the quality of content is often poor. Content management systems (CMS) offer solutions, but do you buy or build? And how to get buy-in from independent-minded academic units? How are new systems and capabilities integrated with the CMS?
Windows environment, enterprise-grade Plone
The Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) launched a Plone-managed website running on Windows servers, integrating with their Active Directory database to manage user accounts and Internet Information Services (IIS) to handle caching and load-balancing via Enfold Proxy. For security, availability and performance, Enfold Systems set up a staging environment for content management inside CDOT’s firewall, with content then published to a production environment outside the firewall. Single points of failure are eliminated by using a Microsoft Cluster Service cluster and configuring Plone to store content in MySQL using dual-master database replication in both staging and production environments.
Winton Woods City Schools
Cincinnati-based school district of Winton Woods