Plone for Education
Whether it’s building a dynamic public-facing website or a content-rich intranet, Plone provides the Harvard School of Engineering a powerful open source CMS that integrates within their existing IT infrastructure.
Plone is reliable
Plone is a web collaboration and publishing system used by researchers, departments, colleges, and universities around the world, such as Pennsylvania State University, U. of Washington, Rice University, and more.
It's funded through the efforts of other universities that use Plone and by an international network of developers and integrators who make their living extending and improving the software. And it's backed by the non-profit Plone Foundation.
Plone solves a very real problem for Higher Education as it conforms to state and federally mandated guidelines for accessibility. And it works in all major browsers.
Plone is affordable
Plone is less expensive to deploy, compared to many other web publishing systems you may have heard about such as Vignette, Ektron or TeamSpace. There are no licensing fees and therefore Plone provides a much lower cost of entry.
Plone is easy to use
And what’s best about it is that everyone - from secretaries, to grad students, to faculty - can simply login and hit the edit button to make an update to their web site. It's really easy to use.
