CMS - Content Management System
Alphasoft Systems have content management system that allows you to update you sites quickly, easily and efficiently. It requires little technical skills to operate.
Content Management - The Get Started Way
Our content management systems empower our clients to perform a range of tasks for which they previously needed to hire professional developers (like us).We believe that when a company can update the content (text, images, files or other data) of their own website then the site tends to:
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be more accurate and up-to-date
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have more content, structured more appropriately for visitors
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be more popular and successful
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be better value for money over its lifetime
However, the main reason that we are so committed to content management is that our clients love to be able to update their own content. Our commitment to making CMS affordable and successful for our clients has led us to develop content management systems that end up being cheaper than static sites.
Key Features: Overall Design
1. Content Creation (Acquisition, Aggregation, Authoring)
- Acquisition
- Native support for filetypes
- Multiple file transfers (FTP, site import)
- MigrationTools (from another CMS)
- Conversion tools (e.g.,Word to XML "chunks")
- Rights management
- Mandatory metadata tagging(force structure and semantics)
Aggregation
- Incoming feeds
- Metadata management (read incoming metadata)
- Integrated Web Services (e.g., currency conversion)
Authoring (Editing,Templating, TaggingTools)
- Content Element Editors (Naive and Power Users)
- WYSIWYG Through-The-Web Editor
- Source Editor
- Structured Fields Editor
- XML Editor
- Spell checker
- Content objects use templates
- Media asset repository (images, sounds, Flash, video, etc.)
- Template Editor
- WYSIWYG Through-The-Web
- Template Gallery
- XML Editor
- Tag Editor (semantics and style)
- Drop-down menus of all tags
- Metadata Thesaurus
2. Content Management Proper Workflow, Editing, Approvals, Staging, Repository, etc.)
- Workflow
- Access Permission Levels (Privilege granularity)
- Number of levels
- Per User, Per Folder, Per Role, Per file, Per Content Element
- Flexible assignments to workflow
- Creator automatic owner of content
- User subscription to workflow
- LDAP Support
- Check In/Check Out
- Open page on web (Edit this page)
- Automatic file lock on open
- Conflict Resolution (who has it?)
- Instant Messaging(email, phones)
- Workflow Messaging
- Email notifications (links to work)
- Status (stage in workflow)
- Comments at each stage
- Audit trail (workflow log)
- Arbitrary Roles (Writers, Editors, Graphic Artists, Rights Managers, Publishers, etc.)
- Versioning
- All elements, templates date/time stamped
- Personalization
- Identity Management
- Relationship Management History)
- Actions tracking
- Session/Click
- Reporting
- Chrono workflow and by worker
- WebTrends-style for whole site
- Specific monitors
- Performance (page delivery times)
- Storage
- Format (text, HTML, XML)
- Database only
- Files
- Files and database
- Backup
- Onsite and offsite
- Files and database
- To nonvolatile media
- Disaster recovery plan
- Security
- Firewall rules
- Encrypted sessions
- Staging Server for QA
- Testing methodology
- Replicates publishing environment
3. Content Delivery (Live Server, Publishing, Syndication)
- Publishing (Delivery)
- Separate Delivery from Creation/Staging/Testing
- Use different server platform?
- Replication
- Synchronization of mirror sites
- Syndication
4. Lifecycle enhancements (Apply to all three stages above)
- Security
- Audit Trails
- Users
- System
- Network
- Business Rules
- Records Policy
- Privacy Policy
- Integration
- Enterprise portal
- Legacy database reuse
- Associations
- Hierarchy,taxonomy
- Index
- Cross reference
- Analysis
- Analytic tools
- Pattern recognition
- Search and Locate
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