The Content Group gives JANET a makeover
Education network JANET(UK) selects The Content Group to manage implementation of web content management project
JANET forms an online education community via the internet
Enterprise content management (ECM) provider The Content Group has been selected by education network JANET(UK) to manage the implementation of a new web content solution.
The Content Group will provide ECM Expert – a methodology designed by the firm to ensure a successful web content management project.
JANETconnects the UK’s education and research organisations to each other, as well as other universities in other countries, to form an online education community via the internet.
Currently JANET(UK)’s customers have to go to different web sites for different services including videoconferencing or booking events, which are often hosted on different IT hardware platforms.
JANET was keen to provide a single destination for its users to improve user experience and reduce hardware footprint.
Russell Nelson, head of communications at JANET(UK), said: “Our service portfolio is inherently based upon the community we serve. However, as our web presence has evolved incrementally, a number of our services have become disparate and not entirely integrated within a common service offering.
“We have approximately 35 content contributors within JANET(UK) alone and many third-party suppliers that maintain their own areas and as such, the structure of the sites was in danger of becoming a hindrance.”
The network includes UK universities, further education colleges, research councils, specialist colleges and adult and community learning providers, with an audience of 18 million users.
Nelson added: “We have now reached critical mass whereby we need to deliver a coherent and integrated service portfolio to our users and improve the accessibility to all our services.
“We wanted to make it possible for staff from one university to log on to their own university web portal and then be able to access all our services on our web site directly, without needing to log in again or having to go to another site. But this was beyond a basic access permissions issue – we had to improve the underlying web site infrastructure to achieve this.”