[Evangelism] Plone is three kinds of flexibile.

[Matt Hamilton]

On 21 Dec 2009, at 00:56, Dylan Jay wrote:

> Had a customer presentation on Friday and we gave a new pitch on  
> what Plone's key competitive advantages are (in this case for  
> intranets). Thought I'd share it in case it's helpful to others.
>
> Following from Matt's recent "flexibility" ads we said Plone's  
> uniqueness is flexibility in three different dimensions making the  
> its flexibility greater than the sum of its parts. Flexibility makes  
> Plone a kind of intranet construction kit where the "elevator goes  
> all the way up".
>
> 1. Theme and branding
> - because it's a "web" content management system that gets used for  
> public sites
> 2. Workflow, permissions and hierarchy
> - because of it's "smart file system" data model. Ability to  
> delegate responsibility in different ways.
> 3. Functionality and plugins.
> - because of viewlets, portlets, content rules, content types, ZTK  
> etc - allow third party functionality that slips nicely into Plone's  
> UI. Plone's equivalent of the app store - 3000 plugins.
>
> Open source is I guess another dimension to the flexibility but we  
> didn't really go into that as much, e.g. no license restrictions to  
> encumber roll out.

Dylan,
   That is a fantastic set of points there. I really like it. Keeps  
away from any technical / philosophical issues and just focusses on  
benefits in a way that no other system could really touch.

Do you happen to have your slides available from your presentation?

-Matt

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