5. Critical Shortcomings
• heavily customized CMS
• perplexing code
• no SEO, no paths for pop-up content pages
• no sharing
• flakey Mailing and Calendar plugins
• complex staff interface
• no cross platform
• no mobile site
• high license fees
11. Moving Forward
• bring hosting and develop in house
• get the right back end
• give departments a larger role
in guiding and maintaining
• fix and expand Collection Online
• build to support many museum efforts
• restructure IMTS,
build an application department
17. CMS Options
• stay with Sitecore,
but hire an in-house developer
– licensing and training costs
– limited mobility
– complex interface
• move to Drupal,
with an in-house developer
– unknown negatives (black hole)
