Web Content Management

Overview

The key to effective communication with customers is to determine how they find information, form their opinions and make decisions. Based on that analysis you can develop and implement your web presence to support your customers' behaviors. The next challenge is to keep the information relevant, current, competitive and flowing to existing and emerging channels. This process and related efforts can be a costly endeavor if you are relying on in-house or consulting resources to provide updates and site development.

Web Content Management systems alleviate these pains by allowing content authors and editors to create and manage web site content with relative ease and require little to no knowledge of HTML or programming, however the initial costs associated with these implementations can be prohibitive to small and medium size companies. Additionally, any significant changes to the look and feel or site functionality such as branding changes, product updates, new service offerings or new go-to-market initiatives, will require development resources to modify core templates, web application behaviors and create new integrations.

Aligned Global provides a managed, access as needed, model that delivers the engineering talent required for these types of implementations and projects for your company, on a short or long term basis at a significant cost reduction to your organization by using skilled engineering talent based in our Argentina development center.

Approach

The process of engagement with Aligned Global is very simple. You communicate your requirements and objectives to us and jointly we define the metrics of success, tailor the team of software engineers, agree on a cost-effective pricing model, and begin the effort. We partner with you from internal proposals and budgeting, through project approvals, all the way to delivery, deployment, and maintenance (including porting where required) and support.

Process Overview:

Strategic Vision. Ensure a shared vision of the project and agree on business objectives, success metrics and overall risk assessment. Once aligned, identify the team and establish a broad definition of requirements as well as overall solution design.

Design and Planning. Determine what to develop along with design concepts, specifications and system requirements. Implement plan and project backlog with initial sprint plan completed.

Iterative Development. Using an agile, iterative and incremental approach the project team develops the solution with hands-on usage across small, cross-functional teams until feature complete.

Stabilization. Strong focus on identifying, prioritizing and resolving issues to prepare for release, including final release, notes, source code and documentation.

Deployment. The team deploys the solution into production, transfers the project to operations and support facilities, and obtains final customer approval.

Functional Capabilities

Web Content Management

Design integration
Layout development and template adjustment
Custom content type development
Custom extensions and module development
CSS/DIV-based templates (Table-less design themes)
Customization of core WCM

Custom Programming

Extensions and module development
Dynamic page development
Rich web development

Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

SEO best practices

Globalization and Localization

Content translation
Web site code, scripts and electronic material translation

Web Trends

Web-based Usage and Statistics Reporting
System Operational Support and Maintenance

Technical Capabilities

Operating Systems

Microsoft Windows Server, Linux, FreeBSD

Applications and Web Servers

Microsoft IIS, Apache, JBoss

Databases

MySQL, PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, SQLight

Programming and Scripting

PHP, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, .NET(C#, VB.NET,
WinForms, WPF) , Java, C/C++, Active Script

Web Technologies

Web Services, SOAP, REST, ASP.NET, WebForms, PHP,
J2EE. HTML/DHTML/XHTML, XML, XSL/XSLT, CSS, AJAX ,
Flash, ActionScript, Adobe Flex, AIR, Silverlight

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Rhythmyx, Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress