Wrong. Large dynamic sites can make significant savings in real terms if they choose the right content management system.

How the Arconics solution saves you money:

• Increase throughput of content without needing extra staff
• No expensive developer resources required
• Short implementation cycle - out-of-the box
• Extremely intuitive - minimum training, quick staff uptake

Cut the cost of web publishing

Arconics applications gives your audience a richer experience without increasing the head count of dedicated web staff. Contributors add the relevant metadata at the point of content creation and directly add it to the system, taking the workload from the web department. (At C.E. Unterberg , a single junior research coordinator using our system contributed well over 500 pieces of content [six months of CEUT research] to the website in just 10 man days.) An editor can quickly check the content before it is published on the site.

Your web staff will be freed up from the time-consuming task of continuously updating content and can instead concentrate on evolving the structure of the site and enriching the site experience.

Save on development resources

All features of the application can be executed by non-technical staff. A site management system, such as IA Builder, will cut development time, allowing you to create and maintain a site merely with the aid of an information architect and a graphic designer.

The application gives you total control not only over the content workflow process and content storage, but also over the presentation layer.

Most content management systems leave control of the presentation to standard web authoring packages such as Dreamweaver and HomeSite. Arconics have advanced, integrated tools to control the presentation layer. Dynamic elements can be instantly added, removed, or reconfigured.

This offers great presentation flexibility without requiring development resources. More advanced functions such as template management, classification, and system configuration can all be executed by non-technical staff.

Short implementation cycle

However, to have the kind of return on investment that is needed, the system needs to be reasonably priced and intuitive. Whatever labor savings you make can be eroded by high training and implementation costs. Arconics applications are extremely affordable at less than the price of one HTML trainee. Their intuitiveness means less time spent training employees on how to use the system.

Many competing products are development platforms - they require highly trained, expensive staff for the initial installation and every time there is a major structural change to the site. The Arconics solution, on the other hand, can be configured by an information architect.

The Arconics products are designed to be easy and quick to implement. Typical content can be contributed within 1 to 2 weeks of starting a project. Competing content management solutions can be expensive (costing 100k -200k) and require months of specialist consulting resources to configure. The total cost of the initial implementation can be high.

Arconics products have no need of such specialist resources - typically, internal staff with information architecture skills can quickly learn the application. This dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership.

Minimum training required

Our customers find our products extremely intuitive and therefore require little training. Typically, a short tutorial is all that is needed for a contributor to become familiar with the content contribution process. As the interface has all the common word processor functions, staff adapt to the
application quickly. This allows all staff to have the capability of contributing content quickly and easily.

Take a look at our C.E. Unterberg case study where staff took to the application with surprising speed and success. In fact, the only training given was a single two-hour session on the Content Contribution tool. Additional training for other modules had been prepared and even scheduled, but was not required. This is testimony to the intuitive nature of the Arconics solution.

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