If you are seriously contemplating Content Management as a solution for your web presence then you really need to take the following into account.

Why?-Money

• Will it save you money?!
• Or will it make you money?
• How can you use this technology to deliver a service that your customers/potential customers will use?

How? -Technical

• Does the system enforce consistency?
• Are documents maintained in the data repository?
• How will you deal with existing content that is on your existing web site or elsewhere?
• Will the system expand with you?
• Where will the site be hosted?
• What will be the costs of:
  • Hosting
  • Software
  • Training
  • Implementation

   

• What new routes to the content do your users want?
  • Mobile Phone
  • TV
  • PDA

Who? - Your People

• Is authoring/editing easy and friendly?
• Do your people understand the needs and benefits of such a system?
• Will they buy in to it?
• Does the cms work with, and not against the authors/editors?