Internal Portal/CMS type software

mikeh501

mikeh501

mikeh501

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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.
 
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.
 
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