Well, I've been active at hardforums and VH.net for a while and have lurked here for a long time. So here's my first post:
I'm the training manager for a software company (we make Telecom billing and financial software on the IBM AS/400 platform).
Being that we're an AS/400 (iseries) shop, there aren't a lot of web-savvy people here. I know HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, a little ColdFusion, javascript, and a few other things. I also worked for a company that develops and runs news websites for TV stations so I am the one that knows the most about web apps here. I however, am not a programmer.
We also have a Java programmer.
Between the 2 of us, we need to develop a corporate intranet. About 7 months ago, I built a front end and everyone loved it, but it was static. We need something dynamic that can integrate with several DBs.
Here is what we need:
- Integration with several databases (Customer profiles, employees) and the ability to update, sort and produce queries/reports on these DBs from within a web browser.
- Ability to upload documents (PDF, .DOC, .XLS etx) from within a web browser. Click a button to browse your local drive, upload it to a folder on the server and add a link.
- Ability to add news to the front page of a department from within a browser. Department heads could add news, links etc.
- Ability to archive news items and link them within a department page.
- Ability to add dynamic calendars that certain users could update from within their browser.
- Ability to catalogue my training documents and search for them (flash and HTML).
So I'm looking for opinions. What platform would be best for this?
I've looked at CMS programs such as Zope, PostNuke, PHP-Nuke. I've also played around with ColdFusionMX.
Whatever it is, me and the Java programmer will have to learn it and deploy it - in hopefully a short time frame.
Add this into the mix - we have an unused AS/400 that they would like to use as the server. This may limit our options.
I may be able to convince them to buy/build a small server though. We are a company of about 50 people. I would suspect we could have 20 or so concurrent connections at any one time.
Thanks in advance for any help. Looking forward to hearing your ideas.
I'm the training manager for a software company (we make Telecom billing and financial software on the IBM AS/400 platform).
Being that we're an AS/400 (iseries) shop, there aren't a lot of web-savvy people here. I know HTML, Dreamweaver, Flash, a little ColdFusion, javascript, and a few other things. I also worked for a company that develops and runs news websites for TV stations so I am the one that knows the most about web apps here. I however, am not a programmer.
We also have a Java programmer.
Between the 2 of us, we need to develop a corporate intranet. About 7 months ago, I built a front end and everyone loved it, but it was static. We need something dynamic that can integrate with several DBs.
Here is what we need:
- Integration with several databases (Customer profiles, employees) and the ability to update, sort and produce queries/reports on these DBs from within a web browser.
- Ability to upload documents (PDF, .DOC, .XLS etx) from within a web browser. Click a button to browse your local drive, upload it to a folder on the server and add a link.
- Ability to add news to the front page of a department from within a browser. Department heads could add news, links etc.
- Ability to archive news items and link them within a department page.
- Ability to add dynamic calendars that certain users could update from within their browser.
- Ability to catalogue my training documents and search for them (flash and HTML).
So I'm looking for opinions. What platform would be best for this?
I've looked at CMS programs such as Zope, PostNuke, PHP-Nuke. I've also played around with ColdFusionMX.
Whatever it is, me and the Java programmer will have to learn it and deploy it - in hopefully a short time frame.
Add this into the mix - we have an unused AS/400 that they would like to use as the server. This may limit our options.
I may be able to convince them to buy/build a small server though. We are a company of about 50 people. I would suspect we could have 20 or so concurrent connections at any one time.
Thanks in advance for any help. Looking forward to hearing your ideas.
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