Comments on: ECM in India – Challenges and Opportunities

By: Rahul Dewan

Rahul Dewan — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 03:59:28 +0000

Hi,

I had written an article on “Building Business Ready Websites” for the Indian small-medium industry using Open Source Systems such as Typo3, Plone, others. The article was picked up by BenefIT magazine, part of the Linux for You group. Infact, an IT partner in Denmark, has also picked up my article and written a joint version for the Dansih market. So you could conclude that the arguments presented for an Indian business, work well in the European market as well.

Here are the links, including others that I have written or presented, which the audience may find useful:
- http://www.srijan.in/fileadmin/user_upload/business_ready_websites_typo3.pdf
- http://www.benefitmag.com/admin/issuepdf/Typo%203.pdf
- http://www.srijan.in/articles_seminars.html

Also, we’ll be activitating a whole lot of extensions written as a demo for Typo3 at http://typo3.srijan.in.

Write in to me with comments on what you think of the article(s) and Presentations.

Thanks.

Warm Regards,
Rahul Dewan
http://www.srijan.in
Srijan Technologies Pvt Ltd, India

By: Rj

Rj — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:38:08 +0000

Fivee (5E) Technologies is an integrated and a pioneering one-stop solution provider for all Typo3 based services. Visit http://www.fivee.in/

By: Vikram Mandal

Vikram Mandal — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 06:28:13 +0000

I could not agree less on the points mentioned by the author Apoorv Durga. And I also agree to the point “..that most content management markets remain highly national” mentioned in CMS Watch.

I have been working on Open source CMS & ECM and have noticed the trend that most of them cater to specific regions. Mambo has more presence in the US and the Typo3, which is an Enterprise class CMS is widely popular in Europe.

Typo3 can be a very promising ECM solution for Indian market given the fact that it already supports backend in multiple languages and extending an existing framework is far less effort than creating a from-the-scratch CMS/ECM solution target to a region. And with tools like Digital Asset Management, Versioning, and whole lot of features Typo3 is bang on!

Some of the popular names I recognize and are running on Typo3 are:
http://www.omegawatches.com/
http://www.unicef.de/

A more complete list is available at
http://typo3.org/about/sites-made-with-typo3/

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Best Regards,
Vikram Mandal.

Typo3India.com

By: Vikram Kumar

Vikram Kumar — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 14:55:21 +0000

Good material. Keep it up.

Vikram

By: Rahul Baji

Rahul Baji — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 07:54:00 +0000

India is known to be a price-conscious market.
Hence the challenge ahead is to articlulate the features of the Open Source movement in the Indian Market.
With the large number of Open Source CMS products, many of whom have matured over the years, this option is almost always a great option.
One that can sell well in the Indian market.
Open Source always lagged in the Enterprise Content Management space.
But with entry of
http://www.ez.no
http://www.alfresco.org
this space also seems to be hotting up.

Regards,

Rahul

By: Debiprasad

Debiprasad — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 08:43:56 +0000

Agree on all counts. More so in India with the multiple scripts and non-availaibility of superior word-processing softwares. With the eGovernence drive in full swing (AP leading the pack), the need for maanging content in local languages is serious need. Are we ready?

Would like to hear more from you on these lines.
DB

By: alan pelz-sharpe

alan pelz-sharpe — Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:55:40 +0000

Great post! You must be psychic as I have been sketching out a post for my blog on the issues of internationalization

Keep up the good work!
alan