Overview of Top Eight Content Management Systems for Higher Education: Buzzr Higher Education CMS, Campus Suite, Hannon Hill, Ingeniux, Jadu, Live Whale, OmniUpdate, T4

1. An Overview of Content Management
Systems Specialized for Higher Ed
Presented By:
Top Eight Content Management
Systems for Higher Education

2. 1) Buzzr.com Higher Education
Content Management System
 Platform is known as very affordable and having fast turn around
times. Created with mStoner, world’s leading digital marketing
consultancy for higher ed.
 Complete turn-key solution, with hosting and support built in.
Known as Software as a Service, or SaaS. Our solution lets
schools create and easily administer either their main campus
websites (and responsive mobile sites) for small colleges or
university schools and/or many smaller sites or micro-sites using
the same centralized multi-site platform.
 For an in-depth review of the process of working with the Buzzr
Higher Ed CMS for a small college, you can look at this video
from our partner.
 Recent websites include Palo Alto University, Paul Smith's
College, and this departmental site for Utah State University.
 More than 100,000 websites have been created with Buzzr open
source technology.

3. Buzzr Higher Ed CMS (continued)
 Strategic marketing, content, design services available
 Fully integrated responsive design for mobile and tablets.
 Buzzr implementations typically take 1/3 the time and cost less
than one half the price of a custom Drupal education website.
 Leverages Drupal, the most popular CMS in education, but since
the solution is fully-supported by us (including hosting, security
and training), eliminates the need for costly, in-house web
developers.
 More than 10,000 Drupal modules for further customizations.
 Websites can be cloud hosted or exported to your own servers.
 Optional Quickstart system for one-click self-service roll-out of
new sites. Ideal for student organizations, faculty sites, small
departments, or even teaching website skills.
 An intuitive, icon-based user interface for managing content.
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4. Buzzr Higher Ed CMS (cont.)
 Editing options presented in-line, on pages throughout each site.
 A flexible list of content types, such as faculty profiles, news articles and
feature stories.
 Create dynamically updates directories of content, such as faculty or
student directories.
 Calendars for presenting campus events.
 Online giving for donations and development
 Simplified user interface for managing user roles and permissions.
 Built-in site search tool.
 Integrated Google Analytics and search engine optimization tools.
 A homepage slideshow with text overlay.
 Drag and drop widgets such as calendar, campus headlines, Twitter,
Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, random stories.
A special interest feature system with randomized sidebar content.
 A system for tagging content and generating tag-specific dynamic views,
widgets and pages.

5. 2) Campus Suite
 Focused on just the higher education market for
15+ years. Focuses on bringing together
community of students, faculty, parents and
alumni. Views their products as communication
tools. Campus Suite customer support is trained
to focus on problems specific to Higher Ed. Offer
online, phone and video support.

6. Campus Suite (cont.)
 Simple-to-use content editing and publishing
 Workflow approvals Permissions based access
 Choose from multiple templates for design
 Responsive design for mobile and tablets
 Online directories. E.g. student organizations, faculty listings.
Faculty pages to create profiles. Teach pages for individual
teacher sub-sites with lesson plans, calendars, etc.
 Podcast tool. Podcasts personalize a website so greater user
engagement.
 Social media integration. Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and more.
 Form builder
 Announcements to spotlight timely news
 Photo galleries

7. 3) Hannon Hill
 Hannon Hill, founded in 2001, is known for
premium customer support. Customers can call
them as much as they want and speak to the
entire Hannon Hill staff. Special help forums,
webinars and tools & tips posts to further
advance customer support. Cascade Server is
their premium CMS product. Cascade
Server emphasizees features for mobile, social,
agile/flexiblity, collaboration and extensibility.

8. Hannon Hill (cont.)
 Cascade Server product specialized for mobile publishing and responsive design
 Integrated publishing with Twitter, Wordpress and Facebook
 RSS Broadcasts
 Simple-to-use content publishing and editing.
 Workflow management tools.
 "Content Strategy Management Suite"
 Multi-site platform with Quickstart tools. Unlimited sites ad users.
 Cloud or installed servers. Platform agnostic (Windows, Linux, etc.)
 Analytics suite.
 Schedule publishing of content
 Shorten URLs for SEO. Search engine friendly, SEO scoring
 Custom meta-data
 Enterprise Search Version control
 Personalized administrative dashboards. Online and onsite training Free code repository
 Annual user conference
 Multi-server publishing, load balancing, failover

9. 4) Ingeniux
 A popular choice, Ingeniux offers CMS 8, along with 24x7
support. They also offer robust digital asset management.
 Software as a Service. It’s a hosted, cloud solution. If you
have a web browser and permission to enter, you can access
the CMS.
 Add apps. 300+ extensions.
 Form builders
 Google analytics
 CRMs.
 Simplified editing. They advertiser a “tech-free” editing
experience, meaning no coding or tech training required to
administer day-to-day content.
 Mobile ready. A responsive site accessible from any mobile
device is part of their service offering.

10. 5) Jadu
 Jadu is very popular with colleges. It’s also a CMS
used in other verticals.
 Drag and drop design that non-techies can use.
 Simple to add and edit content creation and editing
function.
 Customize marketing message based on visitor
registration information. E.g. Prospective students
shown info on the degree they want to pursue.
 Multi-site called Jadu Galaxies. Let your departments,
organizations all use the same CMS as the main college
website, but with their own sites.

11. 6) Live Whale
 The LiveWhale’s CMS also provides easy content
creation and editing. Bills itself as the CMS “for
storytellers."
 Design flexibility. Hundreds of color coordinated layouts.
Skip the designers when building a site. Or hire them to
build a custom design.
 Unlimited e-mails tech support.
 One day of on-site training.
 LiveWhale Calendar is made just for schools. Add images,
videos, content on events listings. E-commerce for tickets
sales to events.

12. 7) OmniUpdate
 Founded in 1982, the company has focsed on
higher ed since the 1990s. Their OU Campus
CMS has been deployed by scores of educational
institutions, making it a market leader. The CMS's
highlighted features include powerful
administration, streamlined content, user-friendly
editing, reusable content, quality control,
convenient publishing, extensibility and effortless
syndication.

13. OmniUpdate (cont.)
 Software as a Service cloud or local hosting
 Code open to developers
 "Modules" -- add ons to extend functionality.
 Course catalogs
 Calendars
 Campus maps
 Faculty directories
 Blogs
 E-mail campaign managers
 Mobile
 Social media mashups
 Live delivery platform
 "True cost calculator" for adding up tuition, fees, etc.
 Robust dashboard called “Gadgets.”
 Back end dashboard for analytics, going as deep as analysis of individual pages.
 URL editor
 Image editor
 Drag-and-drop "snippets" of information from page-to-page
 Check out content
 Site activity trackers Inbox messages
 Dependancy tags.
 Simple-to-use publishing tools. No tech knowledge required to post and edit content. Rich text editor works
isimilar way to creating an offline documents with text, charts, images. One click to publish.

14. 8) T4
 T4's slogan is "defining digital engagement for
Higher Education." Headquartered in Dublin, T4
serves large numbers of European clients, but
also has U.S., Australia and UK offices. "Achieve
greater engagement online with personalization,
social media integration, easy to create micro and
mobile sites," T4 promises.

15. T4 (cont.)
 Intuitive editing tools
 Permissions based publishing of content
 Multi-sites with large numbers of templates
 Responsive design and mobile templates
 Accessibility
 Workflow approval
 Social Media Dashboard
 Google Analytics
 SEO tools for improving performance
 E-mail integration
 Campaign management performance
 Form builder
 Recruitment dashboard
 Research dashboard
 Integrate with third-party systems such as Blackbaud, Ellucian and Blackboard
 Personalize user experience
 Course structure
 Course catalogue
 Social poster
 University events
 Expert databases
 E-portfolios
 Research showcases
 24/7 support

16. Want more information?
 Contact Buzzr.com at 917-410-1490 or
ed@buzzr.com
 Ask for Ed Sussman or Taub Swartz