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    Content Management System

    Drupal is a CMS (Content Management System) which is software used for content management, and is the framework Proxous uses to build its websites and web applications. It can be used to manage everything from electronic files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents and web content. The idea behind a CMS is to make these files available inter-office, as well as over the web. A Content Management System would most often times be used as archival as well. Many companies use a CMS to store files in a non-proprietary form. Companies using a CMS file share with ease, as most systems use server based software, even further broadening file availability.  

    Drupal is a proven open source framework that is extremely configurable and scalable.  

     

    Here is just a quick list of large websites that use drupal themselves:

     

    As you can see, drupal is meant to scale.  As your business grows, your website will grow with it.  And why shouldn't it be that way? To have a system that adapts to how you do business instead of having to adapt your business to use software or the web in a particular way.

    Drupal is meant to be extended and can be retrofitted to integrate with a lot of legacy systems or existing systems.  Drupal is the perfect framework to help move all your data onto the web as you can easily pull the data back out if you ever need, you no longer have to suffer from vendor lock in.  It is the perfect free and open source toolkit that can help move your business into the twenty first century and onto the web.

    Analytics

    Web analytics is the measurement of the behaviour of visitors to a website or web application. In a commercial context, it especially refers to the measurement of which aspects of the website work towards the business objectives; for example, which landing pages encourage people to make a purchase.  It is meant to give insight on where your customers come to your website from, what search engine keywords are used to find your site,  how many visitors, per day, from where in the world.  Know if the users visit your website on a windows or mac.  There is a huge potential to use a tool like this to enhance your business with your existing clients as you can drill down into how they use your website completely transparently.

     

    Pushbutton publishing

    Pushbutton publishing is a term used by many web logging engines and services (more commonly known as blogs) to pair by association the idea of simplicity with the action of delivering content to the Net.  In simple terms it means giving you the abiilty to quickly post data to, or pull data from the internet, or even your own local intranetwork if you'd like.

     

    Document Management System

    A document management system (DMS) is a computer system (or set of computer programs) used to track and store electronic documents and/or images of paper documents. The term has some overlap with the concepts of Content Management Systems and is often viewed as a component of Enterprise Content Management Systems and related to Digital Asset Management.  Use web based software to remotely manage or access your personal or business related files in a secure fashion.  Allow things like access control or expiration dates on files to help make your system adminstration of your business a breeze.

     

    e-commerce

    Electronic Commerce (also referred to as EC, e-commerce eCommerce or ecommerce) consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The information technology industry might see it as an electronic business application aimed at commercial transactions; in this context, it can involve electronic funds transfer, supply chain management, e-marketing, online marketing, online transaction processing, electronic data interchange (EDI), automated inventory management systems, and automated data collection systems. Electronic commerce typically uses electronic communications technology of the World Wide Web, at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although of course electronic commerce frequently depends on computer technologies other than the World Wide Web, such as databases, and e-mail, and on other non-computer technologies, such as transportation for physical goods sold via e-commerce.

     

    Web-based E-Mail

    The terms Web-based email (or Web-based e-mail) and Webmail refer to the implementation of an e-mail client as a Web application that allows users to access their e-mail through a Web browser, as an alternative to using a desktop-based client such as Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Thunderbird or Eudora. A webmail client is usually offered by an email service to allow its users to access their mail stored on the service's server, but there are exceptions, if this is something your business needs it is available.

     

    Project Management, Tracking, and Ticketing Systems

    Organize and manage resources in such a way that these resources deliver all the work required to complete a project within defined scope, quality, time and cost constraints.

     

    A project is a temporary and one-time endeavor undertaken to create a unique product or service, that brings about beneficial change or added value. This property of being a temporary and a one-time undertaking contrasts with processes, or operations, which are permanent or semi-permanent ongoing functional work to create the same product or service over and over again. The management of these two systems is often very different and requires varying technical skills and philosophy, hence requiring the development of project management.

     

    Highlights of using project management:

    • Use a ticketing system to control the workflow process in your own environment.  
    • Monitor activities from a centralized location, whether it be from an office computer, your home, or even a mobile device.  
    • Receive instant e-mail notifications and respond immediately to any issues.
    • Take a step back and get a snapshot overview of how a well a project is coming along, typically referred to as a dashboard.

     

    Doing project management in this manner makes it easy to integrate into your existing business process.

     

    Sub-contracting

    If you are a drupal shop and need to throttle your human resource or workload bandwidth, proxous is also available for sub-contracting.

     

    *Rates and availability may vary depending on project workload and timeline for deliverables.

     

     

     

    Google Apps

    Let proxous help you move your archaic e-mail and document system over to google apps.  Why pay ridiculous amounts of money for software licensing for things like microsoft office, when you can run everything from a web browser at a significant cost savings.  Have corporate branded e-mail services, your own chat service, shared group calendar that can do auto scheduling of meetings, etc.  Below is just a small list of many advantages to moving your business to google apps.

     

     

    Business challenges:

    • Cost and resource-draining IT challenges, such as unreliable servers, setup and maintenance expenses, and operating a multi-OS environment
    • Small email inboxes
    • Virus attacks, Spam and phishing
    • Compliance to internal and external policies
    • Consumption of disk space
    • Inefficient sharing and collaboration

    How Google Apps solves these business challenges:

    • Lean on our 99.9% service level agreement for email to make sure your business is up-and-running.
    • Share information, don't send it. Real-time document editing cuts down the hassle of sending email attachments and version confusion.
    • You're actually safer with Google Apps. Since your data is hosted on Google's reliable and redundant data centers, you can stop saving your corporate data on insecure devices, a leading cause of data security problems.
    • Better message control over what comes in and what goes out of your company with Google Apps' message security and administrative management controls.
    • Access anywhere, anytime you have an internet connection - whether on your mobile device, laptop, or computer in a multi-OS environment (PC, Mac, Linux).

     

    Find out more by visiting the google apps for business website to see if this option is right for you.