OpenCms is a professional, easy to use website content management system. OpenCms helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain beautiful websites fast and efficiently.
Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites can be quickly and cost-effectively created, maintained and managed. OpenCms enables you to create highly customized layouts and interactive functionality.
Advantages
OpenCms allows to maintain a website with little or no help by an external agency or internet professional. Departments and individual users can thus concentrate on creating the content for the website, and publish it in an easy and intuitive way. The build in 2 phase (4 eye) approval workflow allows optional quality assurance before contents go "live" to the website.
OpenCms provides a professional, cost effective Open Source alternative to high expensive and proprietary "commercial" solutions, ready to be deployed by organizations or enterprises of any size. When compared to other Open Source solutions, OpenCms stands out for it's rich feature set, it's maturity and the high level of adoption worldwide. For OpenCms, support is fully available by the active OpenCms development community and also by a number of companies around the world that offer consulting and project services, support agreements and training.
Features
Using OpenCms is fully browser based. The OpenCms software is installed on a web server, users access the system from any location with their web browser. The fully browser based user interface features configurable editors for structured content with well defined fields. Alternatively, content can be created using an integrated WYSIWYG editor similar to well known office applications. A sophisticated template engine enforces a site-wide corporate layout and W3C standard compliance for all content.
OpenCms provides a number of features to help create complex web sites:
- The Explorer view is designed like common file managers and shows the contents of the website. It provides all functions for editors to work on the website.
- Editing page contents is easy with OpenCms by using the built-in WYSIWYG editor.
- Preview modified page contents directly from the editor by clicking on the "Preview" button without leaving the editor.
- The OpenCms link management detects broken links and keeps internal links intact after move, rename or delete operations.
- The integrated image scaling and resizing allows the manipulation of commonly used image formats.
- Full text search in website documents like HTML pages, structured contents, office documents and many more is supported with a lot of configuration options.
- The project mechanism of OpenCms provides an integrated workflow environment with offline "staging" and online "live" systems on the same server.
- The Administration view allows to perform advanced tasks like managing user accounts, configure search indexes and many more.
Solutions
An enterprise class website content management system like OpenCms is never a product used "out of the box", no matter what all the well trained sales people try to tell you. This is true for all commercial or Open Source products, as well as for OpenCms.
The bottom line is, all CMS systems must be configured and setup by a professional consultancy like Maerg. But after your website is ready, getting to know the system is easy, because Java knowledge is readily available and OpenCms is available as Open Source and based on 100% Java. Maerg can leverage existing know-how that might already be available in your enterprise or organization.
