All around solutions for data, content and enterprise management of small to medium sized businesses.

Providing Enterprise Level Solutions for Smaller Businesses

Where content is the key!

You have a small company and maybe you are already on the Web. Are you happy with your current setup? Do you think you should be offering improved services to your internal employees or external customers? Are you able to update your own content without calling tech-support? Up until now most Enterprise Systems Solutions available have been geared towards big business and government. Eckford Solutions can identify your needs and provide a perfect match solution for current and ongoing requirements. We don't just deliver and then disappear. We'll be there when requirements change and you want an adjustment. We'll stand by when you re-evaluate your current business model. Changes are more than welcome! Eckford realizes that standing by in growth is a forward looking reality. With over 20 years of Federal Government and Enterprise Solutions experience, Eckford Solutions can now focus on small to medium sized businesses and provide an affordable and customized solution to your Business Requirements. We'll apply our big business management solutions and take you there one step at a time. No rush, unless YOU are in a hurry.

Content Management Systems (CMS)

A well designed Content Management System automates site content management. It allows you, the non-technical author or manager to contribute articles directly into the system with a custom user interface. This custom user interface can be designed to meet your individual needs and it minimizes potential errors or inconsistensies in the publishing process.


Let the CMS work for you, not you for the CMS.


Many individuals and organizations want a killer web site, but have no idea that Drupal is a great way to build one or to connect with other websites.
-- Dries Buytaert

What is Drupal?

To quote Drupal themselves:

Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to power scores of different web sites, including:

  • Community web portals
  • Discussion sites
  • Corporate web sites
  • Intranet applications
  • Personal web sites or blogs
  • Aficionado sites
  • E-commerce applications
  • Resource directories
  • Social Networking sites

Click here for more information on the Drupal website.

 

What is content and why should I manage it?

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What types of Content?

Content Management Systems are designed to manage content, but the definition of content depends on the structure of your business. Content can range from product information to special announcements; registration forms to user feedback; internal documentation to event postings. Photos, video and audio files can all be classified as content. A content management is a dynamic information management system. A typical Content Management System (CMS) will structure and organize all of your electronic services storage, retrieval and version needs.

Control over who sees what

With more and more options available it can be difficult to decide who should have access to what, and what levels of access does each role in your business require? While business has traditionally operated on a Read Only level of access to important information; imagine the benefits of collaboration and peer review. Content Management Systems are typically set up to provide Read, Write, Edit or Create on a "Role" basis. Clients and employees have different roles, consequently they also have different access levels.

Getting Started

Eckford Solutions recommends Drupal CMS for small to medium sized business. With the rapid expansion of Open Source technologies it is finally possible to provide what is traditionally referred to as Enterprise Content Management systems for a fraction of the traditional costs. If you have been considering the leap to a custom Content Management System we are here to assist you on your journey.

Why build a CMS Website?

Originally, the Websites of every Canadian company, from small personal pages to multi-page portals, were static Websites written in HTML. With the development of database driven Content Management Systems (CMS), many Websites, especially content rich ones, began contacting local Web design companies to switch to the new system. Today, most Canadian businesses are using CMS to create their company Websites, mainly because of the ease through which they can be maintained.
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