Content management

Content management sites are among the latest developments introduced to websites. These are of interest to commercial companies or organizations and media institutions as they enjoy full control of managing their site content in terms of introducing new content, modifying existing content or deletion, such as merging articles, photos, sound files, etc. This is a substitute for the direct intervention of site designers or programmers. Content management sites allow owners to merge the latest technology required in the world of ecommerce. Some such techniques include blogs, forums, and gates. 

The growing complexity and interdependence of content, as well as the size and speed required by digital publishing rendered the use of website information management indispensable. 

A recent study conducted by the Center for Digital Economy Studies (Madar Research) expected the GCC market for document and content management to grow at the rate of 32% in 2009. This forecast is based on growing demand for the adoption of content management solutions on part of government and quasi-government agencies, petroleum and gas companies and banking institutions. 

The study expected this year's GCC volume of spending on content and document management programs and services to reach US$94 million, compared with US$72 million in 2008. It also pointed out that the volume of spending on content management solutions amounted to US$23 million in the United Arab Emirates and US$16 million in Saudi Arabia in 2004. 

Accordingly, Media International is among the most important companies seeking to adopt the solutions that we provide to our customers with the aim of building and managing the content of their portals. 
 

Comprehensive Content Management System Implementation Methodology

Identifying goals

Right system selection

Good choice of system analysis, design and implementation team

Completion of the technical infrastructure requirements:

Servers and storage devices

Local and extended networks

Logical database design

Observing relevant statutory controls and legislation

Access to all content management functions in a single system

Operates on a web-based browser

Easy to configure and use 

Following are some of our most prominent customers:

The Islam Online Portal in Arabic and English

Islam Online is a well-known comprehensive portal for Muslims and non-Muslims. Since it was established as a website, it has been one of the most visited in the Arab world. The portal aims to project the live and unified image of Islam as it interacts with life's developments in various fields under a slogan of credibility and distinction. 

The site received the ISO9001: 2000 international quality certificate in December 2004 to become the first site to receive this certificate in the Arab world. Various indicators show a growing demand on visiting the site as it receives over 1.5 million visitors on average and about 7.7 million page views per month. Since its inception the portal has contained over 424,489 Arabic articles and about 1.5 million pages both representing almost 220 million words that cover news, analysis and global events, as well as all the topics in the fields of science, health, culture, art and numerous audio and radio files around the clock, in addition to 50,000 articles in English. 

Reading Islam Website

The Reading Islam project aims to acquaint the Western public in non-Muslim cultures with Islam as both a religion and a culture in order to provide a comprehensive and true vision of the Islamic system. 

The Reading Islam project depends on the English language to relay its message through diverse media tools and channels. The first such tool is the Reading Islam website which provides information to its non-Muslim and new Muslim public within an intellectual and cultural framework that explains Islam's ideology in a way compatible with the mentality of Western societies and non-Islamic cultures. The project's most important objective is to provide new converts to Islam in the West with spiritual strength and useful Islamic information that suits their religious, intellectual and cultural background. 

Among the most significant issues that the site addressed over the past years, working to clarify Islam's position toward them, were issues of intellectual interest in the West, such as the rights of Muslim women, international peace and human rights, minority rights, religious freedom, the preservation of the environment, compassion for animals, etc. 

The site succeeded in relaying the message in a modern manner that suits the diverse sectors of the Western public leading to the conversion of a number of readers to Islam, by the grace of God Almighty. Thus, the project started to develop itself and seek to use other tools in relaying its message. Indeed, the work team started preparing to establish the Reading Islam Academy and Cultural Center. This stage of the project aims to work on communicating the same message using the same approach through e-training, seminars and workshops which will enrich the target audience's religious and cultural dialogue. 

BiblioIslam Website

BiblioIslam is the first online academic portal that provides comprehensive information, research and academic interactive services for students, researchers, intellectuals and academics. The portal aims to establish an academic and research community in three areas:

The Islamic legal, linguistic and historic fields and related sciences, such as investigating heritage, translation and monuments, fundamental studies from the Islamic legal, moral and methodical perspectives in various social and humanitarian fields,

Social, human and legal sciences and related studies, such as civilization, epistemological and future studies,

Behavioral, security, environment, information sciences and related intellectual studies in both Arab and English and soon in French. 

Within the framework of communication services, the gateway serves the following themes:

Contribute to establishing inter-generational communication through the re-publication of out of print works, particularly those of great writers after obtaining the approval of their heirs.

Serve as a communication link with about 40,000 registered researchers from 164 countries.

Offers the most important dialogue forum between intellectuals and academics on issues of importance to Muslim nation.

Allow research in over 200,000 research material.

70,000 theses covering 280 Arab, Islamic and foreign universities

60,000 articles published in scientific journals and periodicals

45,000 books published for about 4,259 publishers and distributors

25,000 published research papers from conferences, symposia, forums and local and international meetings

Online access to over 25,000 abstracts and about 4,277 full texts

Online access to over 1,050 series of books, over 1,283 international seminars and conferences, and over 1,319 full editions of scientific journals, as well as future exhibitions and conferences

Guide to the most important sites of research institutions and academic and research activities

The portal provides a unique service reviewing proposals, academic theses, periodicals and international documents, in addition to books

Offers the most important project that seeks to publish academic theses in cooperation with research institutions 

20@: Youth Site

One of the most popular youth sites in Egypt and the Arab world, and the first experiment of its kind at such a high technical and management level. The site addresses the youth and is independently run by a group of young Media International personnel in their early twenties.