The City of Nedlands

The City of Nedlands is situated just 7km from Perth and stretches from the banks of the beautiful Swan River to the edge of the Indian Ocean. A population of 21,338 live in the suburbs Dalkeith, Mt Claremont, Nedlands, Swanbourne, Karrakatta, and parts of Floreat and Shenton Park.

The City of Nedlands is recognised as a best practice local government authority and provides a wide range of products and services to its community. Its website has been designed to assist local residents, businesses and visitors access council services and information and keep up to date with the latest news and events.

The City of Nedlands uses Verdi for its public website, Councillors' Extranet and its internal staff Intranet.

The Verdi systems are managed by a distributed workforce of over 25 City of Nedlands staff who regularly use the system to keep different aspects of their public website, Extranet and Intranet up to date.

The City of Nedlands public website comprises of almost 2,000 content items, and the Intranet has over 1,300 content items. Both systems have been implemented by the City of Nedlands to utilise Verdi's capabilities to integrate with Open Document Management Architecture (ODMA) compliant applications, which means that Verdi can read and display content from the TRIM electronic Document Management System used by the City of Nedlands. This powerful feature enables the correct version of frequently amended documents to be automatically displayed on the relevant page of the website or Intranet.

The City also utilises the Active Directory integration feature of Verdi to assist with the simple management of user permissions for access to Verdi's administration consoles.

Here's what the City of Nedlands has to say about Verdi and IBC Solutions...

"The City of Nedlands has been using Verdi / PortalMaster Enterprise CMS from IBC for several years for our Intranet and public website. We're now upgrading to Verdi CMS version 2.7. It is very flexible for our needs.

The City have a number of staff who take responsibility for their own content areas which is easy with Verdi's Edit Pencil. Having our own Active Directory system linked to Verdi's permissions makes this distributed authorship easy to manage. The integration of Verdi with our Trim document management system helps us to ensure that accurate information is presented to ratepayers and other visitors. We've formed our own CMS User Group who meet monthly, and we're finding this very helpful to complement IBC's training and support and our own Train The Trainer approach to staff training."

Michael Cole, Director of Corporate Services, City of Nedlands, Perth

View the City of Nedlands website