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5/22/2007 7:16 PM
 

I'm trying to sell my MGT team on using DNN for the corporate intranet. Currently they are using static HTML with one guy maintaining it. The mgt team would like to talk to some one who is using it for their intranet Preferably in a Retail Organization.

Thanks In advance for any help.

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Brent

 
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5/22/2007 11:51 PM
 

How much info do they change and what are the goals of the intranet?  - If you dont have to change stuff all the time or need logins then static html might be best - - I am totally for using DNN - dont get me wrong but using it cause its cool or neat when you already have something in place is kind of a waste unless you are wanting to go from static to some sort of dynamic reporting and presnetation

In the ned its not really any of my business and I am really writing cause i have been programming for too many hours today and nothing works anyway so might as well make an a** of myself in the forums :)


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5/23/2007 10:20 AM
 

Those are valid points. Thanks. Currently we have one guy maintaining all the static html. His design skills are questionable. He is in mgt and has better things to do. Also 99% of the business applications are written/run out of access 97. I know there just too much wrong with that for one post. I was brought in to convert these apps to a more reliable, secure, etc, etc, ad naseum, framework. My plan is to let the individual business unit manage there own content. Rather than the it systems "deploying" access apps to a users desktops and set up odbc connections they should just assign roles to them with in dnn. My apps will use windows auth to validate the users against the dnn security model.  IT systems seems to think this will add to their work load rather than take away from it. Senior manangement is concerned about how to secure dnn is and if this is a good base to build on.

maybe some one out there can tell me if I'm off base? Thanks. FYI My company has ~600 retial stores nation wide. Thus not a small organization.

 
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5/23/2007 10:41 AM
 

i would agree with the above, it truly depends on what you are trying to accomplish with the intranet.  If you are tyring to boos the usage and functionality them most likely it would be a very good thing!

I manage a DNN installation for a large mortgage company that serves as an intranet site for about 200-300 people.  If they have any questions about my usage you can feel free to shoot me an e-mail.


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5/23/2007 11:14 AM
 
Thank you for your post on the dnn forums.
 
I am trying to accomplish 2 things.
  1. Better organize and maintain the current intranet.
  2. Move away from Acess 97 as a "Corporate application enviroment"
These two do not neccessarily have to be dependent. How ever my thought process is to use the built in security model in dnn to manage access/permissions to new web applications I will be developing. The alternative is developing a admin protions for every new web app or one global admin app for all the new web apps. I believe that the dnn security model should be fine for what we are trying to do.
 
Have had any experience using dnn and developing web apps to be reference from it? Does this "plan" sound reasonable? Specifically the IT systems manager is concerned with added administration with dnn vs current administration with access deployment and odbc connections.
 
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