TalkBMC

talkbmc BMC Software, Inc., is a leading provider of enterprise management solutions that empower companies to manage IT from a business perspective. Delivering Business Service Management, BMC Software solutions span enterprise systems, applications, database and service management. Founded in 1980, BMC Software has offices worldwide and fiscal 2005 revenues of more than $1.45 billion.

BMC provides IT with the solutions it needs to drive business value through better management of technology and IT progress.

TalkBMC focuses on podcasting and blogging. TalkBMC is a place to engage on topics concerning the information technology industry. Every visitor can listen to podcasts, read blogs from BMC Software employees, customers, partners, and analysts. The topics are broad and relevant, including BSM (business service management) and ITIL, regulatory compliance and IT controls, IT process improvement, and infrastructure and asset optimization. A visitor can subscribe to any of their available RSS feeds.

This site outlines various service components and encourages visitors to sign up to get access to members-only info.

Thanks to a plone-based content management system, visitors can easily find information they are searching for either through direct navigation or through more appropriate search results.

Project Outline

TalkBMC site was developed by Quintagroup in collaboration with 4WebResults and BMC Software. Sophisticated and informative Plone-based content-managed website was designed and built with the following important add-on products used for such purposes:
  • SimpleBlog product was used, which adds three content types: Blog, BlogEntry and BlogFolder - all works so that to organize the blog entries published on site in a desired way.
  • qPingTool - used together with SimpleBlog product to enable pinging of external feed aggregators.
  • RSS2 feeds are generated with qRSSyndication Plone product, that includes support of audio and video feeds. The amount of feeds on site is great, including podcasts and blog feeds.
In addition to a new look, the site features a lot of useful information, TalkBMC contains blogs written by people of different occupations, such as corporate strategists, directors, executive producers, developers, software architects - all amounting approximately 20 bloggers.

Quintagroup Delivered

  • Plone skin
    • drop-down menu
    • static portlets
  • Plone development
  • Plone hosting
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