Cardiff University chooses Percussion Software's Rhythmyx ECM system for enterprise-wide web management project

LONDON, UK — 4 April 2006 — Percussion Software's Enterprise Content Management system Rhythmyx has been chosen by Cardiff University, supporting its decision to use IT as a key enabler in its mission to be recognised globally as a leader in Higher Education.

The ECM solution is part of an 18 month rolling migration project to rationalise IT whilst effectively managing content of over 80 research sites and 28 different schools sites.

Cardiff University is recognised in independent government assessments as one of Britain's leading teaching and research universities. Founded by Royal Charter in 1883, the University today combines impressive modern facilities and a dynamic approach to teaching and research.

The University is keen to simplify the process of content authoring, editing and publishing, and needs a single, robust ECM solution in order to ensure consistent quality across its multiple sites. This will require migrating from the University's two previous content management systems to standardising on Rhythmyx, thereby enabling better performance and usability.

Paul Hobson, Web and Portal Manager for Cardiff University said: "The website is the global public face of the University and is a key component in showcasing our world class aspirations, so it's of paramount importance that we have an efficient management and publishing system in place. With such a rich and diverse range of communities within the University, it has been challenging to maintain the consistency and quality of the user experience systems previously in place."

Rhythmyx offers Cardiff University a powerful content management system enabling it to track and streamline the content authorisation processes through Rhythmyx's audit trails and workflow capabilities. The software's De-Coupled Delivery architecture, which separates the management of content from the content delivery environment, will allow the University to publish to multiple sites, ensuring the sites stay live at all times.

Paul Hobson: "The University requires a resilient platform as it is vital that our website is always operational. The Rhythmyx software's De-Coupled Delivery architecture was a primary technical factor in choosing Percussion over its competitors. We have looked at how global organisations are running content management systems as we want to ensure our website up there in terms of presentation and functionality. Percussion is able to offer us a cost-effective, user-friendly and flexible system to achieve this objective."

Joseph Wykes, managing director, European operations for Percussion Software added: "We are pleased to be working with Cardiff University which is a further validation of Rhythmyx's ability to help higher education institutions as well as large commercial organisations achieve business objectives whilst providing a functional and useable tool."