Internal Portal/CMS type software

mikeh501 · 9 Feb 2011 at 09:43

All,

Were after buying or having someone else host (possibly preferable) a portal type solution.

Ive seen a bunch of wiki type solutions out there, and also plenty of solutions which are more about websites than our intended purpose.

In terms of requirements:-

* Must be great at the storage of Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio etc)
* Must be centric around internal collaboration, not website maintenance.
* Must be able to do full text searching of these documents including their content not just the document properties
* Must be fairly lightweight, and preferably hosted. If hosted then is there anything which still allows SSO?
* Preferable if its open source, but not a pre-req.
* It cant be sharepoint.

ThorpedoUK · 10 Feb 2011 at 00:22

Is Joomla of any use to you??

mikeh501 · 10 Feb 2011 at 07:10

I'll go take a look. Have you used it?

matthab · 10 Feb 2011 at 10:13

I was going to Sharepoint, Joomla would be my next point of call.

Tonnes of add ons and is fairly light weight and installs on Linux/Windows so very cheap to set up. Its recently appeared in MS's Automated ISS installer so if your afraid of fiddling with Mysql and PHP MS can install it automatically for free.

mikeh501 · 10 Feb 2011 at 13:21

So ive tried a hosted joomla instance from cloudaccess.net. Its very configurable/flexible etc.

However

Seems like complete overkill for our needs. Looks like its very "pages" based, for people to add content and pages of info. Im more after something which will keep office documents together and allow people to upload/download them etc. This added to some hierarchy of documents (think directory structure) would be perfect.

See my original criteria. I think joomla breaks the ones in bold

* Must be great at the storage of Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio etc)
* Must be centric around internal collaboration, not website maintenance.
* Must be able to do full text searching of these documents including their content not just the document properties
* Must be fairly lightweight, and preferably hosted. If hosted then is there anything which still allows SSO?
* Preferable if its open source, but not a pre-req.
* It cant be sharepoint.

What I did like...

* Hosting was great. 30mins and its setup with the provider, no more hassles.
* Pricing was great. A few hundred dollars a year, peanuts.

matthab · 10 Feb 2011 at 15:06

See my original criteria. I think joomla breaks the ones in bold

* Must be great at the storage of Office documents (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Visio etc)
* Must be centric around internal collaboration, not website maintenance.
* Must be able to do full text searching of these documents including their content not just the document properties
* Must be fairly lightweight, and preferably hosted. If hosted then is there anything which still allows SSO?
* Preferable if its open source, but not a pre-req.
* It cant be sharepoint.

Have you looked at availible add ons which can do what you want.

mikeh501 · 10 Feb 2011 at 15:14

im no expert in joomla. what addons do you think might be best for those requirements?

matthab · 10 Feb 2011 at 16:44

Give this one a whirl:

http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/directory-a-documentation/downloads/10958

Nikumba · 11 Feb 2011 at 14:21

We have moved our entire intranet over to Joomla with the Docman addon

It works very well, we are able to do a text search over the entire intranet and it finds files referring to that those key words and its nice and fast

Kimbie