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Introduction
Smooth Design Content Management Solution enables companies to quickly and efficiently deploy, and maintain content-rich Web sites. By streamlining the Web publishing process, Content Management Solution can reduce the need for costly site maintenance, empowering business users to manage their own content.
Content Management Solution enables organizations to reduce the cost of online communication while increasing productivity by providing:
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A comprehensive solution for managing Web content. The easy-to-use tools in Content Management Solution enable your employees to schedule content refreshes, manage workflow, and index content by means of an Internet browser window. |
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Faster time to deploy and lower total cost of ownership. Build and deploy Web-based business solutions in less time. Content Management Solution enables your organization to quickly and cost-effectively develop a Web content management solution. |
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Mission-critical abilities. Benefit from the proven scalability, reliability, and extensibility of a Content Management Solution. It supports industry-standard load balancing and failover technologies, serves content in HTML, and enables HTML Web services customization and standards-based interoperability to ensure mission-critical capabilities that are simple and straightforward to manage. |
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Features and Functionality
Web content management is a critical component of any successful online business strategy. Content Management Solution enables organizations to maintain:
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An Internet presence. Extending your brand, market reach, and customer service capabilities are key to growing your business. By using Content Management Solution, you can deploy content-rich, personalized sections and ensure that the content on your sites is up-to-date, relevant, accurate, easy-to-find, and tailored to meet your needs. |
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E-commerce capabilities. Developing an e-commerce site can help your organization manage business-to-consumer (B2C) and B2B transactions through the Web site. By using Content Management Solution, your organization can provide rich content about your products and services, which enables your customers to make informed buying decisions quickly and complete their transactions on your Web site. |
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Enterprise information portals. Increasing employee productivity is critical to achieving the most streamlined business processes. By using Content Management Solution to build enterprise information portals, your organization can provide employees with a central location to access up-to-date, accurate information and applications. |
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Enterprise content management. Integrating Web content management and digital asset management can help organizations centrally and cost-effectively manage brand and design elements on corporate Web sites. |
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Content Creation, Publishing and Storage
Basic tools in Content Management Solution ensure that business managers of all technical abilities can manage Web content:
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Admin Section. Create, edit, and publish content directly within an Internet browser by using the Web Admin Section. When employees need to add or edit Web content, they can browse to the location on the site. Once they have been authenticated as a content author in the Content Management Solution workflow tool, they can select "Switch to Edit Site" in the browser and begin editing content. Web pages can be previewed before they are submitted for review. |
Content Management Solution stores all content in MySQL, HTML, and PHP for maximum flexibility. Web pages can be built and served dynamically. This enables content to be personalized based on user profile or behavior, browsing device, or language preference.
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Web Site Deployment
Content Management Solution provides a flexible and extensible mechanism for deploying Web sites and content from one Solution to another. The Site Deployment Manager provides an easy-to-use mechanism for packaging content objects using MySQL, exporting them from one server and importing them into another server running Content Management Solution. Developers and network administrators have everything they need to perform manual, automated, incremental, and transactional site deployments.
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Scalability and Reliability
Content Management Solution has been tested to serve over hundreds of dynamic pages per day. Content Management Solution scales up to continue to provide superior performance with high Web site traffic demands and provide failover support, ensuring maximum uptime.
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