The CSO is responsible for compiling Irish official statistics including national accounts, economic indicators, population and labour market information, crime, births, deaths and marriages and many other statistics. The website is the primary vehicle for disseminating this information and has experienced a 15-20% annual increase in content for the last six years. To manage this growth and to create greater operational efficiencies, the CSO decided to invest in a WCMS.
TERMINALFOUR, a leading web content management company, today announced the successful deployment of its Web Content Management System (WCMS) for Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO). The WCMS will be the underlying web infrastructure for the CSO's website which currently receives 2.5 million visits a year.
The CSO is responsible for compiling Irish official statistics including national accounts, economic indicators, population and labour market information, crime, births, deaths and marriages and many other statistics. The website is the primary vehicle for disseminating this information and has experienced a 15-20% annual increase in content for the last six years. To manage this growth and to create greater operational efficiencies, the CSO decided to invest in a WCMS.
TERMINALFOUR is providing the CSO with its flagship WCMS – TERMINALFOUR Site Manager. It will enable the CSO to devolve content authorship, automate the publishing process and remove web publishing bottlenecks by delivering an easy-to-use system that removes the need for technical staff in updating content.
Importantly, the CSO needed a mechanism to ensure that certain time sensitive content is published at exactly 11am every day (for example the latest Consumer Price Index figures). The national importance and newsworthiness of the three hundred annual publications attracts the attention of the Irish media, international media, Government bodies, interest groups and the general public. With all eyes on the website, it's critical that the information goes live precisely when the CSO has committed to it being made publicly available.
TERMINALFOUR's WCMS has future- proofed the website to facilitate plans for social media integration, mobile, open data exchange and other elements of the CSO's long-term website and data dissemination development strategy.
Adrian Redmond, CSO Head of Dissemination, said, "The CSO's website is one of the most high profile in the country and the reports we publish are often at the heart of every breaking news story relating to the economy or Irish society. It was important for us bring the site to a stage were the publishing of content became automated, easier to manage and gave us the confidence that we would always meet our stringent deadlines."
TERMINALFOUR's experience working with Government, local authorities and international bodies like the UN and the OECD, convinced us that their WCMS was built to meet all our current and future needs", Mr Redmond continued.
David Miller, COO of TERMINALFOUR, said, "The CSO's website faces the full glare of the media spotlight and the ever increasing online expectations of the Irish public. With such scrutiny, its decision to begin the process of a website overhaul was both proactive and smart. Apart from the operational and publishing efficiencies that the WCMS will deliver, the system will in time allow the CSO to foster greater engagement with the public through mobile and social media integration."
