The Client was a leading service management organization from Bay Area. The client wanted a collaborative content driven corporate web site so that the various departments of the organization could effectively publish content without external help. The client was also desirous of a platform wherein his departments had separate access permissions for editing, deleting and publishing content related to them.

The content publishing requirements included audio, video, images and formatted text. The client also had a need wherein content needed to be edited on the fly and on a continual basis.

Savitr proposed a number of solutions, but the client had different ideas on the scale of the project and wanted to experiment with this project and as is the case with experimental projects, this project had a shoestring budget.

Savitr researched a number of open source applications and identified the right open source application, which would match the client’s needs both in the short term and in the long term. Savitr worked on Rainbow (an open source content management system in C#) to provide the required solution to the client.

The application allows editors to use multiple themes, decide on what blocks to publish on the home page, where to publish them and for how long. This application had multiple role based access levels and lets the users’ aggregate headlines, content, adding images and modifying text at various granularities. It was modeled so that new modules like articles, chat, polls, events, forums and other collaborative features could be easily added to the framework.

This solution developed by Savitr is ideally suited for large content based web sites, mini portals, newspapers and community applications.