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02/02/2001 Archived Entry: "Eprise"

Despite what I wrote yesterday, I haven't given up on the idea that there may be a third-party CMS that fits our needs. EPRISE Participant Server boats major integration capabilities along with personalisation, but a lot of it seems to depend on the system running as app server. That's at first glance, anyway. There's also the question of getting its own repository out of the way. But the diagram shown in one of their demos looked quite promising - it was a three-tier one like mine from yesterday, but showed integration with other systems at all layers. (The demos use this nifty ActiveX control that has Eprise's rather dull VP of something talking to you while you can see what's on his screen, with a transcript on the side. The nifty aspect is that it's very easy to skip around.)