Web Content Management Suite features

The Immediacy Web Content Management Suite has been developed to help non-technical users to produce, maintain and control a complex website in a simple manner. It is acknowledged for outstanding ease-of-use and the resulting high levels of user adoption.
 
Immediacy was the first UK based supplier to launch a .NET Content Management dotNET imageSystem and had over 50 implementations in the first six months of its release. Analysts and industry commentators have been supporting the move to .NET content management systems because they are up to 5 times faster, more secure, easier and quicker to deploy and develop and, most significantly, can be scaled up to fit the needs of the most demanding organisations.

 

Immediacy has gained extensive experience in developing its .NET content management system and working with its partners and customers to implement it effectively in organisations of all shapes and sizes. This includes using the capabilities provided by the .NET platform to integrate the CMS with other applications and data sources.

Content creation

 

Acquisition
  • Supports all major filetypes
  • Copy and paste
  • Paste as text
 
Aggregation
  • Supports content aggregation via XML
  • Remote XML content contribution (Enterprise)
  • Interaction with web services via SOAP
 
Authoring
Content Element Editors
  • Accessible Editor user interface
  • Source Editor
  • Built-in table Editor
  • Share content objects within and across sites
  • Dynamic link management
 
Templates
  • Easy template creation and application
  • Wide range of template creation tools supported
  • Uses standard Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Dynamic template switching for different output devices
  • XSLT Style Sheet Support

Describing Content

 

Taxonomy Management
  • Intuitive and productive interface
  • Edit properties and relations of categories
  • Add synonyms and translations
  • Pre-configured with the mandated, local authority IPSV taxonomy

 

Auto-Categorisation
  • Keywords and summary extraction
  • Conversion of PDF documents to text

Content Management

 

Administration

Access Permission Levels
  • Comprehensive browser based administration
  • Role and user based security
  • Flexible assignments to workflow
  • Creator is automatic owner of content
  • Multiple site management
  • LDAP Support
 

Check In/Check Out
  • ‘Edit this page’ capability
  • Page locking
 

Workflow
  • Configurable workflow
  • Automatic email event notifications
  • Comments at each stage
 
Versioning
  • Page expiry and live dates
  • Automatic date/time stamping
 
Personalisation
  • Database-driven with dynamic page generation
  • ‘My Favourites’, 'Recently Edited' and ‘My History’
  • Built-in site membership and log-on capabilities
  • Configurable meta data categories
 
Localisation
  • Non western character sets are supported as standard
  • Multi language pages can be managed side by side in the Editor
  • Dynamic plug-ins are fully integrated
  • Search is fully multi-language compliant
 
Reporting
  • Editing history and audit trail
  • Webtrends, NedStat and other web analytic/reporting tool options 
  • Site usage
  • Link checker
 
Web Asset Manager
  • Set and maintain review dates
  • Stores unlimited revisions
  • Store, retrieve and search Flash, audio and video
  • Full MS Office integration

Content Delivery

 

Publishing
  • Supports staging and live servers with seamless synchronisation via XML
  • Full site publication as ASPX pages
  • Content scheduling
  • Automatic site-map creation
 
Syndication
  • RDF and RSS news Feeds
  • Web services
  • XML output on demand
 
Functionality
Plug-in function modules including:
  •  FAQ Manager
  •  Form Builder
  •  Email Newsletter Manager
  •  User Polls
  •  Auto-classification
 
Deployment
  • Supports one-to many server configurations
  • Provides capacity on demand in virtualised environments
  • Adds extra resilience to your web server infrastructure
  • Upload and synchronise content across servers in different locations
  • Only uploads content that is new or different since the previous upload
  • Secured data transfer using encryption and keys.
  • Single sign on using delegated authentication from staging to live environments
  • Selected live document upload from WAM
  • Selected live list upload from SharePoint as XML
  • Selected live file upload from TCM as XML
  • Bi-directional support for live site to staging
  • Roll-back to previous version

Content Integration

 

SharePoint Connector
  • Enables the display of SharePoint data in Immediacy driven websites
  • Enables the collection of data into SharePoint via Immediacy driven websites
  • Works in connected or dis-connected modes

Implementation and Development

 

General
  • Open Architecture uses XML, ODBC, ADO, SOAP, ASP, IIS, SQL2000
  • Supports interaction with external systems via XML or OLEDB/ODBC

 

Extensibility
  • Easy for developers to extend using industry standard code
  • Third party software integration using open interfaces

 

Storage
  • XML based
  • Files and database

 

Security
  • Firewall rules
  • Standard encryption technology support