Native .NET Web Content Management

Corporate Web Site

Allow business users and non-technical personnel to add, author, and update Web content using our WYSIWYG editor and put your web messaging control directly in the hands of your subject matter experts. Editing content becomes as easy as editing a Word document.

Translate content on-the-fly with the best-in-class automated localization support, allowing you to easily deploy in a multi-lingual environment. Apply workflows, approvals, and permissions as well as maintain a complete history of content changes.

Feature highlights include:

Taxonomy
The most easy and flexible way of categorizing and organizing your content into logical groupings. Its one-to-many relationships are perfect for repurposing shared content into different areas of your site, making updates and edits manageable from a single piece of content. The taxonomy directory control also provides built-in navigation. No longer does the content author need to worry about how a site visitor is going to navigate to the page. Just add the content to any category, and the directory control does the rest by providing a hierarchical navigation structure. In addition, taxonomy can limit the scope of a search by maximizing the amount of relevant information returned.

GeoMapping
Ektron’s new GeoMapping support lets your content authors create geographic-sensitive content (baseball fields, gas stations, branch offices, etc.) that appears on a Google or MS Virtual Earth map. Since the map control plugs right into your web page, site visitors are never directed away from your web site to get map directions. Your team provides the message, and Google or Microsoft provides the map.

Subscriptions & Web Alerts
Allow Web site visitors to self-register and self-administrate email notification preferences. When content is added or updated, an email is automatically generated and sent to subscribers keeping them coming back to your site and increasing customer loyalty.

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Intranet

Ektron has helped thousands of companies launch their intranet. This experience has taught us that your intranet needs to be a communication, collaboration and distribution tool for your organization. With Ektron CMS400.NET, your intranet will be able to achieve these goals.

Communication: Your intranet needs to be a communication platform that allows corporate leadership to easily and frequently communicate the company’s vision and strategy, and to align the goals and culture of the entire organization. With Ektron CMS400.NET your intranet will support inter-departmental communication. Employees will be able to find colleagues’ contact information in an online directory. Project statuses can be updated using blog postings. Group announcements can be distributed by web alerts. Threaded discussions and wikis can enable collaborative interaction on specific topics. Event dates can be tracked in the calendars. And, easy to use and manage photo galleries allow employees to submit photos and interact more frequently on the intranet. Collaboration: When enabled with Ektron’s social networking tools, your intranet becomes a collaboration platform where content, documents and assets can be created, edited and managed among team members. And, thanks to Ektron’s membership, workflow and approval tools you can apply a strict security model to determine access and rights to those corporate assets. Distribution: Ektron makes it easy for teams to deliver assets to different parts of the company. Your marketing team needs to be able to deliver the messaging and supporting collateral to the sales team. Your IT team needs to deliver support articles to all departments (FAQ and knowledge base articles). Your HR team needs to deliver HR policies and information. Your intranet solution and strategy should allow you to easily implement and support all of this and Ektron CMS400.NET will get you there.

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Social Networking

Make your site an online destination! Increase site “stickiness” by giving visitors their own place to create an online persona, establish groups, and invite friends to join. Participation in your site’s social network encourages the type of interaction and viral marketing that has real business value. Social networking is also a powerful collaborative tool for your business’ intranet, allowing coworkers to create project workspaces through which others can efficiently find information and work together, regardless of your industry.

Feature highlights include:

• My Workspace (images / documents)
• Flagging
• Community Groups
• Inviting system for members and groups
• Documents
• Messaging
• Tagging
• User Taxonomy
• Message Boards
• Friends & Favorites
• Search

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Web 2.0 Management

Version 7.5 provides the most comprehensive and complete Web 2.0 toolbox to ensure you meet and exceed your Web site's goals and vision. Utilize new and existing CMS features like forums, five-star rating, or tagging to build rich and powerful Web applications for any Web, intranet, or extranet scenario.

Open Architecture

Ektron CMS400.NET ships with a deep set of out-of-the-box functionality that addresses most of the common needs for your Web site project. These built-in options don't “box in” developers, though. Ektron's open architecture supports flexible customization. This powerful platform approach lets developers customize both presentation and functionality while integrating Ektron CMS400.NET into their existing IT environment. Take some time and check out how open we have built this system.