Melbourne, 5 March 2007

The Salvation Army Australia Southern Territory www.aus.salvationarmy.org.au has transformed its online capability using Netcat WCM, from the largest Australian-owned web content management company, Netcat.

The Salvation Army Southern Territory administers all programmes and activities of The Salvation Army in Victoria, Tasmania, South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory.  The Salvos challenge was to reconcile scalability with ease of use, a difficult task at the best of times. 

“Our requirement was to find an easy-to-use content management system that could cope with 1400 authors who have basic computer skills and want to maintain their own content on 250 websites on our portal” said Michael Bouy, Manager of Ecommerce and Internet Communications.   

“After a year long tender and evaluation process, we chose Netcat because of its intuitive user interface, their workflow process for review and approval of web pages before they are posted online, and the ability of our web development team to create tools that could be used by any author without needing any special skills.

“Netcat also offered the capability to instantly import over 3,500 existing web pages into their content management system, and merged our existing intranet accounts into a single access control database for both environments.” Said Buoy.

Netcat met the Salvation Army’s key selection criteria of ease of use, enabling non technical people to update their sites with minimal training, low implementation costs, and importantly, web browser editing. Editors can see exactly what the finished content will look like, as the visitor and authoring view is identical.

“Once everything was configured and ready to go we turned it on at 9pm on a Monday night and held our breath,” said Bouy. “We had just launched our Christmas Appeal and my worst  nightmare was that it would not handle the daily load of 15,000 visitors and 30,000 page views. It ran with our ever increasing traffic load flawlessly”.

“The scale and complexity of many not for profit organisations means that their content management needs can’t be met by toy systems" ‘says Netcat CEO Bruce Wren. "But nor do they want to spend excessive amounts on IT – they want their funds directed to where they are most needed – helping the less fortunate in the community. Netcat was the ideal solution because it was both affordable, and scaleable." says Wren.

About Netcat

Netcat is the country’s largest Australian-owned content management software (WCM) company. We provide Web Content Management,  Document Management Integration and Word to Web Transformation to all levels of government, and medium and large corporates. Netcat’s home page is www.netcat.biz

About The Salvation Army

The Salvation Army is one of the largest and most diverse social welfare providers in the world. The Australian Southern Territory has more than 600 centres assisting people from all walks of life. Every 20 seconds the Salvos help another Australian in need.

For more information contact

The Salvation Army

Michael Bouy 03 9895 6207

Michael.bouy@aus.salvationarmy.org.au

Netcat

Bruce Wren CEO  02 99223499 or 0416100957

Bruce.wren@netcat.biz