Lancashire County Council has selected Jadu Galaxies to power both its new ‘What Now’ website and an e-learning portal for Youth and Community Services. Jadu Galaxies provides Lancashire County Council with the tools to create the websites themselves, with no technical skills required – dramatically reducing web development costs and enabling rapid implementation.
Lancashire County Council has decided to replace the existing websites to increase functionality and make it more relevant to its youth audience. Jadu Galaxies enables the Council to rapidly implement feature-rich microsites that comply fully with Government technical requirements, such as latest IPSV (Integrated Public Sector Vocabulary) taxonomy and WAI (Web Access Initiative) standards. The savings made in web development costs mean that Lancashire County Council can reinvest resources into community-based projects.
Janet Wilkinson, eGovernment Officer for the Directorate for Children and Young people at Lancashire County Council, is impressed with the simplicity, yet powerful functionality, of Jadu Galaxies: "The solution is significantly better value than trying to build an in-house system. We have been able to radically reduce our costs because 80 per cent of what we want is off-the-shelf – all we have to do is populate the website.
"The number one benefit is that I don’t have to ask whether it meets Government compliance requirements – I know it does," adds Janet. "This frees up our webmaster and editor resources to concentrate on collating content. We don’t have to worry about anything else."
The websites expect to go live in Autumn 2006, with two further areas for Jadu Galaxies currently being assessed within Youth and Community Services.
Jadu Galaxies is an entirely new approach to creating a Content Management System (CMS), enabling webmasters and officers to design, build and manage multiple websites through a single interface. The new solution harnesses Jadu’s rich functionality and proven CMS technologies and is ideal for both full corporate websites and microsites.
About Jadu
Jadu helps businesses and public sector organisations to create and manage their online presence quickly, simply and cost effectively. Jadu was formed in 2001 to provide Content Management Systems (CMS) for government organisations. Since its first implementation for the DTI in 2002, Jadu has evolved further and been implemented for hundreds of private and public sector organisations across the UK.
Providing a refreshing approach to Enterprise Content Management, Jadu offers ground-breaking functionality including integrated Google searches, user intelligence and full statistical reporting, full eGIF and eGMS compliance, intelligent FAQs, and unparalleled support service.
For more information, please visit www.jadu.co.uk
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