The Daisy Scope

Bottom line

Daisy is a platform that allows you to add value to your organization's information. How much value depends on the amount of effort you spend on setting up your ideal Daisy environment. Typically, Daisy within used for information-rich content management projects, and is suited for content, knowledge, and (technical) documentation management.

However, there's hardly a more vaguely defined IT domain than content management, so here's our vision on where Daisy fits.

The broader picture

Scope of Daisy

Defining "content management" is no exact science: it ranges from the simpliest of Wikis or shared network folders over the management of web pages to large-scale enterprise document archiving solutions. Daisy is a generic content management software product and can be used for a myriad of purposes, however it is important to understand its sweet spot to maximize potential usefulness for your environment.

Even though the license cost of Daisy is non-existent due to its business-friendly open source license, and even though we spent great effort in creating a maximum out-of-the-box usefulness, Daisy is better suited for potentially complex, content-centric environment rather than managing a handful of webpages of a brochure website.

Valuating information

We see three common strategic directions in information management systems nowadays:

  1. collaboration
  2. document management
  3. website management

Daisy's sweet spot is in the bottom area of the diagram above: it will demonstrate a potentially tremendous return on the investment (ROI) in your information once it is set up and customized for a maximal fit with your organizational environment, especially when you need a tool that allows you to add lots of extra value, i.e. metadata, information or navigational aids around your information.

A few good examples are:

  • complex web site management with dynamic, query-based navigation
  • general internal knowledge management and distribution
  • production of manuals or software guides
  • ISO 900x quality documentation
  • media asset management
  • ASP-style managed CMS hosting
  • product catalogues