Université Catholique de Louvain

Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) has choosen Cediti as partner to implement its Reddot CMS system.

See the published site at http://www.uclouvain.be

The main objectives were :

• to improve the support for authoring and publishing of content by distributed non IT-staff
• to offer personalized services to students, staff, and partners through the university portal
• to syndicate numerous and heterogeneous information sources from all faculties, departments, and partners.

The quality of the implemented solution :

• all non-IT staff can now create and manage published content with SmartEdit interface
• 2 IT staff were trained by Reddot, and can now maintain the project on their own
• integration of all services for students and staff in a single portal managed by LiveServer
• transparent single sign-on to all integrated applications

Main challenges :

• the heterogeneous nature of integrated legacy and third-party applications

The result :

• the web site online since September 2005

Some figures :

• 1 CMS Server (Windows 2000/Microsoft SQL Server 2000), 5 concurrent administrators, 25 concurrent editors
• 20 000 students and 5000 staff access their personalized portal for all common services