I am researching cms systems, and have seen promising reports of Umbraco.
Would Umbraco scale well? For example, would it be suitable for an intranet for a large scale company with many thousands of users : they would all need to have a log in as any of them could need to post documents to the intranet at any time.
Ideally they would automatically be logged in with their Active Directory account whenever they accessed the intranet.
The site would possibly also have several thousand documents.
In direct answer to your questions - yes you can write an AD connector, yes you can run thousands of users in the Members database, and yes you can upload thousands of documents. But would you want to?
Umbraco does scale well if architected correctly, but I'd ask the question why use a CMS for an intranet? There are better SaaS solutions out there like Igloo.
I'd use a specialised application for an intranet - they tend to be a breed far removed from regular websites unless your requirements for customisation and personalisation are very very simple.
yes you can run thousands of users in the Members database
aren't members different to 'Users'?
I'd use a specialised application for an intranet - they tend to be a
breed far removed from regular websites unless your requirements for
customisation and personalisation are very very simple.
In the Umbraco world "Users" are CMS admins, and "Members" are normal users of the front end of the site that may require login creds for restricted functionality or content controlled via a membership database.
This is when getting it architected properly comes into play.
Is Umbraco scalable?
I am researching cms systems, and have seen promising reports of Umbraco.
Would Umbraco scale well? For example, would it be suitable for an intranet for a large scale company with many thousands of users : they would all need to have a log in as any of them could need to post documents to the intranet at any time.
Ideally they would automatically be logged in with their Active Directory account whenever they accessed the intranet.
The site would possibly also have several thousand documents.
I would appreciate any advice.
Thank you.
Hi Parker - welcome to Umbraco.
In direct answer to your questions - yes you can write an AD connector, yes you can run thousands of users in the Members database, and yes you can upload thousands of documents. But would you want to?
Umbraco does scale well if architected correctly, but I'd ask the question why use a CMS for an intranet? There are better SaaS solutions out there like Igloo.
I'd use a specialised application for an intranet - they tend to be a breed far removed from regular websites unless your requirements for customisation and personalisation are very very simple.
Regards
Neil
aren't members different to 'Users'?
Interesting point.
Thank you
Hi Parker -
In the Umbraco world "Users" are CMS admins, and "Members" are normal users of the front end of the site that may require login creds for restricted functionality or content controlled via a membership database.
This is when getting it architected properly comes into play.
Good hunting
Neil
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