Undisclosed Intelligence Agencies Use Plone
A significant percentage of the U.S. intelligence community uses Plone.
Contextual has helped undisclosed intelligence agencies implement the Plone CMS. There are numerous such agencies known to be using Plone.
Some of them even have kept the Plone logo as their favorite icon that you see in your browser next to the URL (favico.ico).
These agencies typically aren't allowed to officially endorse products or vendors, so we appreciate that some have continued to use the Plone logo as their favico.ico or have continued to kept other indicators around, to show other organizations just how powerful Plone can be, and to show their appreciation to our community.
These agencies obviously evaluate various CMS tools before choosing Plone, and we've learned that some of the key factors that have led them to choose Plone over other tools include:
- Rigid security
- Fine-grained permissions management
- Content approval workflows being automated and enforced
- Ability to visually compare color-coded differences between versions of content
- Ability to audit changes and to revert changes when necessary
- Web standards and accessibility standards compliance
No other open source CMS can match Plone in these areas and this is why it's so popular among these large, security-focused enterprises.
Contextual is proud to have helped some such agencies implement the free open source software (FOSS) Plone CMS tool and is proud of the way these organizations are optimizing the use of taxpayer dollars by leveraging powerful and free (as in freedom and cost) open source software.
