Content Management for Teams

Many organisations work and run on `projects`. Projects can be:

	A sales proposal or bid
	The formulation of a case
	Work for a particular client
	An office relocation
	A new product launch

Each project needs to draw on the experience and infrastructure used on previous projects. Where this can fail is if:

	Things are re-invented
	Standards are not followed
	Knowledge is isolated

Using the Web as a project medium, a `virtual` team can be created, involving skills from multiple offices or multiple companies, to contribute to the success of a project.

By managing the content of a project space on a web site, an initial set of assets can be made available to the virtual team. This can include templates to help the use of standards and ensure the team focuses on productive tasks.

With experts being able to contribute to many projects in parallel, their view of the required work needs to be filtered/personalised so that they can be prioritise their efforts.

In a similar way, managers need to be able to view the status of all the projects for which they are responsible.

The content of these project areas of a Web site need to be secure and fully integrated with the team member's software. Any asset, whether it be a Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Project plan document, must be capable of being located on the site or referenced from the site.

Ether Solutions are able to deliver this project based Web content infrastructure using Content Management so that organisations can increase the benefits they gain from working in project teams.