Web Content Management solutions provide a rich environment for creating, managing, and publishing web content, plus an infrastructure for supporting multiple sites in a number of different languages. They provide an environment that allows the business user to manipulate content without involving technical experts.

Although our consultants have experience with a range of WCM systems; Alfresco is our choice of product for Web Content Management. This has allowed our consultants to cultivate a deep understanding of the product, and Alfresco’s open architecture enables us to rapidly develop solutions that fit our customers’ needs. We have implemented Web Content Management systems in sectors including manufacturing, publishing, education and the public sector.

What are the business benefits of using a Web Content Management system?

• An integrated collaboration environment to allow web teams to work together
• Office-to-web automatically publishes enterprise content
• Marketing teams can simply create and publish new content
• Built on industry standard technology that can be extended using popular development tools

Alfresco Web Content Management caters for all groups within the business.

Your MARKETING TEAMS will love the following;

Alfresco Web Editor – modify and create content directly within the web application without having to understand how the content is stored.

A Collaborative Environment – using the advanced social collaboration capabilities of Alfresco Share to work with globally distributed virtual teams.

Leverage Office to Web – transformation tools automatically convert office files into web-ready formats for publishing, removing manual conversion processes.

Select an Interface of Choice – users can choose from a range of different interfaces for creating and updating web content

Make Updates from the Desktop – allow users to access Alfresco just like a shared drive. Users can continue to use existing desktop tools and simply use drag-and-drop to upload new content without the need for downloads or plugins.

Make Updates from Microsoft Office – Alfresco makes use of the Microsoft SharePoint protocol, which means users can seamlessly upload and modify web content from within standards Office tools.

Support an Enterprise Business Process – support for business processes that control how new content is managed through a review and approval process to ensure the right information is published at the right time. Rapid Site Creation – you have the ability to quickly create new sites, or micro sites, to support new marketing campaigns or corporate initiatives.

Rapid Site Creation – you have the ability to quickly create new sites, or micro sites, to support new marketing campaigns or corporate initiatives.

However, you will also be keeping YOUR DEVELOPERS happy with the following;

It is Standards Driven – Alfresco WCM is based on industry standard development tools (Java, Spring, Java Script, Freemarker, XMLT) allowing your developers to leverage and improve existing skills sets.

Script Support – a light weight scripting environment speeds application development without the need for application restarts.

Dynamic CMIS Runtime – provides an industry standard future proof platform

Open Source – you are provided with a scalable development platform that is quickly downloaded and easily extended to meet your business needs.

Content Reuse – transformation services can repurpose content for delivery through multiple channels, such as web, smart phones, tablets, etc.

And last but not least, YOUR IT TEAM will appreciate;

Multi-tier Deployment – editorial and delivery environments to meet enterprise security, redundancy and scalability requirements. Transfer and deployment services allow you to easily publish content between multiple environments.

Flexibility and Scalability – you can add more servers as your requirements change. Using repository clustering, flexible deployment and transfer services, architects can define and build web infrastructures that can scale to meet future business demands.

Full CMIS Support – Alfresco WCM provides repository interoperability, reducing vendor lock in and simplifying content migration.

Ixxus can help you develop the right web platform to meet the needs of your whole organisation.