DECISION MAKING ON CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM SELECTION FOR KNOWLEDGE PORTAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Nissi Tawanda Govera, sudent

National Aerospace University named after N.E. Zhukovsky KhAI Companies have created a need to have efficiency within their information environment. This is because of ailments such as irrelevant and exhausted information which causes decision making in organizations to be confused and less accurate because of the influx different information. This problem is aggravated by companys needs to use their knowledge and experience accumulated during business activities. The solution for the problem is to introduce Knowledge Management. Knowledge Management is enabling individuals, teams and entire companies to collectively and systematically capture, store, create, share and apply knowledge, to better achieve their objectives. One of important issue when introducing knowledge management into a company framework is to develop a Knowledge Portal as adequate technological platform for identifying and exploiting knowledge potentials. Knowledge portals are portals that support knowledge management in the following ways: Acquisition of knowledge, Distribution of knowledge, Storage of knowledge. It serves as the central technical platform for identifying and exploiting knowledge potentials. The innovative strength and flexibility of companies greatly depends on the selection of Content Management system (CMS) as platforms that they choose. Content Management controls a Knowledge Portal tool. There are a lot of commercial CMS available on IT market. All of them might be considered as alternatives when company is trying to implement Knowledge Management project. This decision problem might be decomposed to hierarchy to sub problems and analyzed independently. Once hierarchy is achieved comparison based on evaluation is made from the essence of human judgments. Analytic Hierarchical Process (AHP) is suggested as an approach to compare CMSs taking into account a set of criteria. AHP converts the numerical values and compared over entire range of the problem. A numerical priority (weight) is derived for each element of the hierarchy allowing diverse elements to be compared to one another and in a consistent way. Scientific adviser: V Brezhnev, associate professor of
Computer systems and networks department, KhAI