What is Mobunti

Mobunti is a company management system. This means that it not only puts you in control of the content on your website. Graphics (i.e. pictures), text, layout - you can update it, it also gives you the tools needed to run your business.

This is the key difference between a content management system and a company management system

Content Management Systems allow you to update your content and they then have bolt on extras, often written by third party companies that whilst they integrate with the core system, they don't co-exist fully. Our components inter-operate together. It's a modular structure where you can just switch on the services that you want and it will just work. There aren't third party components where you try and link two components written by different people together and it just doesn't work the way you want it to. Mobunti is developed in house, for SME businesses that don't want to take a chance with their business website. They want order and invoicing that works, statements, inventory systems for products and services, security features, all as modular units so if you don't want that feature you don't have to pay for it.

Why did we do it?

OK, there are lots of management systems around. Why did we feel the need to create a new one?

We have used several of the available content management systems but there was always something missing. One would have good content facilities but little in the way of adding "programming code" to the system, others would concentrate more on the programming, which whilst thats fine for us in house, it was not good for customers who wanted simple systems.

Others had overactive caching faciltiies, or were being updated just far too often (which in one way was good but it also meant you had to keep on top of what the changes were in case they affected anything that was running). So after a while of reviewing the options, it was decided that we'd have complete control if we wrote our own.

One of the major items that very few systems seem to have in place is content backups. With many CMSs when you make a content change and click to save, thats it, your old content is gone. Unless you manually stored the contents somewhere else you have no way of getting back to what it used to be like. Mobunti keeps your previous web page versions - so if you change something by mistake, your website isnt affected for long

Who is it for?

Initially, unashamedly, we have written it for ourselves. The main company website was running under Joomla and we felt that the first customer for Mobunti (besides this Mobunti website itself) really ought to be us. As our own site is quite heavy on ecommerce, forms, products etc it meant that we could develop these features for Mobunti rather than just write something for our own use.

 

Mobunti is still in development. We started this project under another name 2 years ago and then halted development due to  volume of work coming in but recently we have seen the need to progress this to its ultimate conclusion. Functionality from the last 10 years of developments are being integrated into the system, and is expected to be complete in early 2012. Once complete, and our own website is running with it, it will then be rolled out to any customer sites that are either using an existing CMS or have no CMS, and Mobunti will be the base for all future systems from us. At this point it will be available for new customers to use. If you are interested, please get in touch.