- A one-off setup and configuration fee.
- Ongoing fee for the managed service.

The initial set-up fee is usually between £5,000-£20,000 depending on the number of websites, pages, and extent of configuration required.

The ongoing management fee is typically between £2,000-£8,000 per month, primarily depending on the amount of content covered. The fee includes:

- Hosting and provision of the core application. The platform comes with a comprehensive library of best-practice compliance checkpoints. Additional brand and editorial checkpoints are custom-built for each client.
- Training; both face-to-face, and via webinar
- Unlimited support, by email and telephone help desk.
- All software upgrades

Pilots and other flexible options, available upon request.

As John notes above, ActiveStandards is not so much a “tool” as an entire enterprise governance platform. It provides a framework for managing all your governance policies and processes, including: accountability management, editor training, benchmarking and KPIs, alongside automated compliance and content quality management.

P.S. Nic (Vamosa post) – cut the brochureware, and just answer the question like everyone else. What you got to hide…?

At Vamosa, we have definitely approached this challenge with a pragmatic and ultra leading edge solution to the challenges of real time monitoring of the whole web estate (both inside and outside the firewall).

Although we re latest to the market with monitoring, our pedigree of web site analysis, migration and ongoing care and maintenance goes back to 2003 and we have hundreds of the worlds largest corporations and governments on our customer roll. Being the latest to market, we have taken advantage of this by bringing a totally unique approach to the challenge and recognizing the fact that this is not a problem that can be viewed in isolation.

Uniquely, we offer:

– a full set of solutions for all stakeholders in the web content life cycle – authors, web masters, project managers, marketing teams, information and knowledge managers and IT professionals

– a set of web content governance products to analyze migrate cleanse monitor and maintain all published sites as well as the base content inside of the CMS, to manage and govern a total 360 degree view of the full content ecosystem

– our products are provided as a service via our leading edge cloud based services and can also be licensed to be installed inside of a customer’s firewall to provide the same governance services to closed corporate content as well as public facing websites (in our experience only around 25-30% of the full web estate appear on the world wide web)

– the capability to apply a full set of cleansing and governance processes to all content, and then use these same rules to perform ongoing monitoring of the content

– out of the box we provide over 200 transformation and monitoring processes and it is a simple task to create highly complex customized monitoring capabilities (because one size doesn’t fit all)

– we uniquely offer web records management capabilities that allow for the review and capture of changes through time, storing and reporting on what has happened to each and every change since monitoring and maintenance began

– we offer Check and Fix as a service to web authors, as well as Vamosa Content Analyzer to provide web masters with the ultimate in ad-hoc reporting of all aspects of the web estate – what is published, what is inside of the CMS and what is being accessed

– the ability to fix the issues found as we believe that it is quite annoying to be presented with all of the problems, but no offer of an automated solution.

Pricing is therefore a direct function of the amount of content being monitored and the number of rules being applied. Total flexibility is important as it allows your organization to home in on what is important to you.

Sitemorse is very transparent, easy to do business and scalable from an SME to any Global Corporation. Excludes any client specific brand integration (includes banned brand alerting / IP/trademark monitoring)

- Web Benchmark
Internal, Performance, Competitor and Best Practice Benchmarking, by running Sitemorse’s Benchmark service across websites (peers, competitors etc) you are empowered with exact results to immediately improve & enhance online capability. Priced by on scale of web estate (25 sites £500 month – 1,000 sites £7,000 month).

- Discovery
Sitemorse Discovery solves one of the key issues organisations face today – finding out exactly what’s online, and creating a detailed inventory of what’s where, what’s built up and what you are dependent upon to operate online.
Sold as a one off service – 3 packages £6/£12/£24k

- Correction
Sitemorse Web Correction is initiated on the completion of discovery focus on immediate online improvement. Working to agreed quality, compliance and performance requirements, we deliver a 6 – 8 week project starting with a workshop, to focused corrective action. From day ONE we guarantee improvements. Priced as a one off service – 3 packages £1/£2.5/£4k

- Migration
Sitemorse Web Migration its the world’s only automated solution to review and catalogue every element that makes up the entirety of a web estate. There after we prioritise corrective action and step by step migrating requirements, and focus resource on issues that deliver the greatest benefit. Priced as a one off service – 3 packages £3/£6/£9k

- Snapshot
Snapshot empowers Content Editors, Developers etc to instantly test pages at their point of creation – with the use of in browser tool, to allow immediate review of the created / updated page. Delivered within the ongoing monitoring services subscription, or sold on a ‘per seat’ £20-£100 per month.

- ITT Support / Vendor Verification
Sitemorse ITT Support / Vendor Verification helps to address the question those procuring web services face “they all tell me how good there services and systems are – how or where can I go for independent, consistent verification?”. Priced as a one off service – 2 packages £1/£2.5k

- Continual Monitoring
By the minute, hour, day, week, month we continually monitor your availability, compliance, performance – reading the content, checking templates and 3rd parties and monitoring the infrastructure. This ensures the continuous delivery of the very best online experience. Sold as annual subscription service £500 – £38k per month

- On demand testing
Our final service component is ‘on demand’ testing – this allows you to check from a single page, to an entire website – choosing how deep and where to start. Fully self managed, and executed directly from the Sitemorse dashboard. Services are included with monitoring subscription.

I didn’t know there was a question or confusion over the rankings, the methodology is online at; http://www.sitemorse.com/benchmark.html

All of the tests we include are listed here; http://www.sitemorse.com/sitemorse.html

Hope this helps

L Shaw

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