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IP-City's Recipe For Success

Date published: 6th January 2002

Should you be getting more out of your website? Do you find keeping it up to date a daunting and time consuming task? Do you have to wait for your IT department or website provider to update the site for you - at a cost?

If the answer to these questions is yes - then you need the e-KIS Content Management System.

e-KIS, which stands for 'E-commerce Keep It Simple', does exactly what it says. With e-KIS Content Management anyone with basic word processing skills can update and maintain their own website. No complicated programming languages, no expensive Web Designers, no more excuses or delays.

Intuitive content management
Ipswich Borough Homes operates from four different offices and liases daily with workers and tenants at its sheltered housing schemes around the town. It needed a website that could give tenants and members of the public easy access to comprehensive housing information. In addition the website had to allow employees in different locations to update specific content sections. Finally they needed a system that would grow and manage content organically with minimal in-house technical input.

"The challenge for Ipswich Borough Homes was that its employees had limited IT knowledge - they are housing experts, not technology supremos. They needed an easy-to-use, flexible content management system that could work for them on a number of levels. We were able to provide all that, and more, using the e-Kis Content Management System," says Jeff Hume, Director of A Recipe For Success.

E-commerce experts A Recipe For Success are well known locally for producing websites that are highly effective and intuitive. With e-KIS they have managed to distil their expertise and industry best practice into a simple, flexible and easy-to-use integrated Content Management Systems.

No technical skills needed
"The e-Kis Content Management System is revolutionising the way we work. It took just 15 minutes to learn how to use, and we can now edit & add pages to the website ourselves. It has reduced the day-to-day administration in our jobs and freed up so much time" says Alison Ward, IBH housing services officer.

Access from anywhere
Today, the Ipswich Borough Homes website enables key staff to update content whenever they want, and from wherever they want. e-Kis Content Management System is web-based so it can be accessed from work, home or even an Internet Cafe.

Flexibility for growth
But the proof is always in the pudding. The bonus desserts for Ipswich Borough Housing came in December 2001 when they picked up the top award for Best Communications Using New Technology in the Britannia Communications in Housing Awards. It was also highly commended in the Best Strategic Communications category.

Not bad going after just six months.
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