As polymorphic the perceptions in IT business are, as individual are the expectations of customers regarding content management or any software. We would like to be able to say: 'You need a CMS ?' - 'It will be that much exactly ...' What will be the answer of a salesman if been asked 'how much is a computer'? Is his intention to trade fair and to get a new regular customer who appreciates and recommends his efforts he will provide technical advice and try to figure out what requirements are to be covered. Of course everybody can arrange his quite special 'own engine' from a variety of individual components, but will this meet the expectations as a whole?  Do the various components really match? Is the user enabled to use it without thick manual? And: What are the expenses for the time not calculated at first sight and energy to turn over, for service and maintainance in future, too? Think about offers like 'get a cellular phone or whatever for just a penny when signing a contract ...': What will be the total amount of money you have to pay for a certain period of usage? Even software you may get free of charge will cause its internal costs: It takes time to know and to master. Expenses in total are not always seen when starting a project. Will there be need for external consultancy, or do you have to calculate increasing indirect labour costs because of work being interrupted and time lost for unguided endeavours to assist in between your staff? We therefore don't take it for respectable to fix a price without a sound basis about the requested features to install. Set-up fees, additional starting and ongoing annual costs have to be calculated according to the system you require. Please let us know your expectations when looking for a CMS. We will be glad to define on common ground even how requirements not yet to be seen are to be taken into consideration right at the beginning of a project. What are the established workflows within your business, which other vendors systems shall be integrated or connected to via our customised NetContent software? It would be bought dearly when realising just at half way that the software acquired not suits to the intended purposes nor is future-proof. Don't even think about that 'old economy' operational and organisational structures are suspended. As a software and service provider of the IT branch we haven't invented the economy newly but offer your enterprise strategies the fitting tools. Our best practise software is said to be intuitively usable, maybe a best-of-breed among allrounders. Its inner structure is modular but still homogenous. Controlled by well designed user interfaces the NetContent software provided by News-Solutions can be utilised the way you want. Indeed, let's have a look onto the many concepts within the market: Do you really need different servers for content syndication, web content management, workflow management, e-learning, business data  exchange, document lifecycle or knowledge management, portals, ... ? What belongs together or just even fits? Without doubt your internal IT experts will be able to chose a software free of charge and adopt it to your requirements or -with some operating expense-  even develop a proprietary tool for your own. Anyhow, all kind of data stored digitally already are maintained for years and decades by computer scientists. But who guarantees when building up an inhouse solution that this won't lead into dead end? Once started, never can stop increasing costs?  Do you intend, however, to spread information of importance for the outer representation of your enterprise or to interact immediate with your customers, the 'speed to market' of changes and new contributions through marketing or other divisions comes to the fore: Let take content creators and editors ownership and responsibility for the information they provide avoiding the IT bottleneck. Why not enabling your lawyer to unlock items or reject with remarks and modifications to the post-processing after inspection on legal aspects. [Remark: The editorial system supplies control about the different versions of any document.]             For that matter an 'item' simply can be a product offered directly within the online shop, but even though the press information about the ongoing publicity campaign, a manual only for internal use, or the updated product information only registered customers  have access to. ... Content management for our understanding contains more but only storing information for online purposes a better way. With a NetContent editorial system you provide a tool for all your employees scaleable to the business needs and future requirements of your organisation to contribute valuable content or find access with minimum IT literacy. This is going that far as it is possible to visualise text-based data of B2B exchange by interim storage, and even to add continuous text to net-capable advertising films. [This may be the appropriate application to trigger video-boards or create websites which almost appear like news-broadcast with stock ticker.] Does your company not come up with the resources of journalistic or editorial approach the usage of a NetContent editorial system  will give the chance to organize a suitable cooperation with experts for PR and media; a sure meaningful investment. Of course News-Solutions likes to organize in coordination with your IT division the purely technical support, or will manage this for you 'one-stop'. If we know the range of your requirements we like to make an appropriate offer in relation to a monthly licence fee as preferred. This won't be a 'bottomless pit' but a calculable factor to ensure financial control. News-Solutions ©2005