Businesses today are increasing their use of web portals style services to use the internet to greater effect. Often the drivers behind this are related to their need to adopt market segmentation strategies, or to use the web for non-public facing information sharing purposes.
By running multiple website entities, extranet and intranets can provide many business advantages; however they can also become cost prohibitive and complex to maintain. Realising the benefits of centralising the management and hosting of online infrastructure can significant reduce the establishment and ongoing maintenance costs which are commonly associated with of supporting multiple online entities.
At CDAA we can help you establish a single robust development platform that supports the content management and maintenance requirements of multiple websites or web applications. The benefits of centralising your web based infrastructure lies with the establishment of functionality, content, hosting and maintenance resources which can then become shared across a range of online entities.
Compared to the more traditional way of developing and hosting multiple websites or web applications independent from each other, the shared option indisputably strong business case for companies and corporate enterprise that wish to operate multiple business entities in a efficient and cost effective manner
Key advantages to centralisation
The financial and resource impact on new site deployment, maintenance and administration can be greatly reduced through system centralisation in the following ways:
Ability to create multiple website entities with their own independent administration access and domain. The cost of producing a new website is in most cases is significantly lower than the original investment as there are no additional hosting and content management system integration requirements.
- Ability to share administration responsibilities across additional resources as the required skill set is minimal. Technical website development knowledge is not a requirement in order to maintain your website content.
- Transferable skills as all sites can be administered via the one system. Once trained on one website, Admin staff then has the ability to edit any further company websites as they are using the same platform.
- Web based administration enables changes to be made from any location without specialised software. A current internet browser is all you need.
- Maintenance and hosting requirements will be centralised on a single platform, therefore providing a saving in maintenance cost, verse the expense more commonly associated with supporting multiple website platforms and hosting environments. Any upgrades or additions to the base platform will also be shared across all other sites.
- Functionality developed for one site can be made available for others without the need for additional module development. Investment in new features and functionality can be shared across all entities.
- Customisable user accounts and access rights. A users access can be limited to only a single website, or even restricted to a single page.