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- 1. Adapted and designed for tomorrow’s web EPiServer CMS 6 is one of the world’s leading Web Content Management Systems. Our state of the art, .NET-based EPiServer CMS 6 transforms static websites into powerful sales, marketing and customer service platforms. EPiServer is the world’s fastest growing provider of Web Content Management (WCM) platforms and online community platforms. 3,000 customers worldwide use EPiServer CMS to create collaborative and engaging websites. EPiServer CMS is the foundation for more than 9,000 websites and is used on a daily basis by more than 130,000 web editors. EPiServer delivers its Web Content Management platform through an extensive network of over 350 competent partner companies in 30 countries. EPiServer combines the stability and support of a commercial product with a thriving developer community of an open source project through the EPiServer World community of over 8,000 developers. EPiServer is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with an AAA-ranking by Dun & Bradstreet since 2000. The company was founded in 1994 and has offices in the United States, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, The Netherlands, South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom. European HQ United States HQ Power through EPiServer AB Phone: +46 (0)8 555 827 00 EPiServer Inc. Phone: +1 630-613-7550 Regeringsgatan 67 info@episerver.com One Lincoln Centre, salesus@episerver.com SE-111 56 Stockholm www.episerver.com 18W Butterfield Rd. www.episerver.com Sweden Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181 United States Vers 1 March 2010, EPiServer cannot be held responsible for any typographical errors. EPiServer reserves the right to make changes to this brochure. EPiServer CMS is a registered trademark of EPiServer AB. All other trademarks mentioned herein may be registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective owners. ©Copyright 2010. All rights reserved. simplicity
- 2. More than 3,000 customers worldwide and leading brands like Small Luxury Hotels, Assa Abloy, Bauer, Scandinavian Airlines, Electrolux and Mazda use EPiServer CMS platforms. Power through simplicity Small Luxury Hotels: Built on EPiServer CMS, this business boosting and engaging web site provides a personalized online experience for hoteliers ASSA ABLOY initiated their “OneWeb” project since they needed a cost efficient solution. OneWeb is a global web framework. Not only a All encompassing Web Content Management at any of the 500 hotels, giving them the access to dashboard reservation performance reports, industry events and roadshows, and much more. new website, but a toolkit for the company’s 280+ websites. A toolkit where EPiServer CMS is the key to success. With EPiServer Today’s web users are sophisticated and demanding with THE ENGAGED WEB LANDSCAPE high expectations of what they want to do online. As a The engaged web landscape includes social media and community applications, SEO, CMS, we are personalization and rich internet applications where users can have an interactive web now in control and can direct result, marketers and business owners have had to experience. For marketers, online engagement presents an exceptional opportunity adapt their digital strategies to encompass much more than to become ever more intimate with customers and prospects and to meet their real communicate instantly web content management to actively engage their visitors. business objectives. We recognize this and have developed EPiServer CMS as an with our audiences. enterprise platform, empowering you, as business owners and editors to work with true Web Content Management core functionality eases the process of publishing content It has radically changed to the web. It empowers editors without programming knowledge to create pages, site management and deliver on your online goals, going beyond just managing content. the way we work. edit, add or delete content including images however as the internet matures so does The guiding principle in developing EPiServer CMS is “Power through Simplicity”. the software to manage it and the demands of users to have more applications and Powerful for the business owner and the editor with just a single sign-on to access the functionality. Instead of merely storing content and publishing online, users have specific full range of EPiServer marketing tools or third party components, yet simple to ensure MILES NICHOLSON business goals to fulfil, to improve sales conversion rates, deliver better customer service that organizations’ digital initiatives can be brought to market rapidly. Users can easily Director of Marketing and create an engaged experience for their users. create, manage and publish online content using the easy-to-understand EPiServer CMS Small Luxury Hotels of the World page-based concept. In addition, the site tree gives users a quick and easy overview of Core to any online strategy is creating quality content, vital for engaging websites, how- the whole website, its navigation and placement of all pages. And, as always, we have ever, marketers need more tools to manage their online presence. Increasingly, they want powerful new developer features in the release. e-business applications, community management, and sales and marketing on the web. Finally, this next generation of EPiServer CMS is also optimized for the larger EPiServer CMS is a fast, flexible and robust Web Content Management solution where enter prises, through its focus on both performance and usability. editors find it very intuitive to manage content online. It delivers extended functionality for business users to create their web presence, manage content and engage and collaborate with their target audiences. 3 2 3 2
- 3. Adapted and designed for tomorrow’s web EPiServer CMS is an encompassing platform for managing your web presence. Certain features and functionality will appeal more to specific roles business owners, editors, marketers and developers who focus on different goals and objectives but all have one thing in common, to build an engaging website. Now you can manage your web presence from one place, the EPiServer OnlineCenter. You can personalize this dashboard to easily access functions relevant to your daily work and your specific requirements. Below we list a few highlights from EPiServer CMS for each role, empowering you to simplify processes and ease your workload. Streamlining processes for Business Users EPiServer CMS presents a modern user interface for today’s business professionals. OnlineCenter’s unified dashboard is a customizable workspace for day-to-day work. It gives an aggregated view of your website where you can track and monitor different online activities, for example, when visitors complete a form on your site, or a gadget that monitors how your brand is being discussed daily in social media. Business users can instantly access their work from anywhere via a browser, affording flexibility and control at all times. Improved usability lets users specifically focus on the work for which they have responsibility and with shortcuts from the dashboard they can create new pages and manage content online quickly and EPiServer CMS easily. Compliance considerations are covered as well as ensuring standardization and consistency for publishing content. Business users is the foundation can follow the online behavior of website visitors, and understand what pathways they are using. Additionally web forms are easy to create and of more than 9,000 publish with the further ability to immediately measure the success of such campaigns by tracking how many forms are completed. websites. EPiServer OnlineCenter has a Empowering Professional Editors handy dashboard and a customizable workspace for day-to-day work. For example, it gives an aggregated view Creating engaging and interactive sites becomes faster and easier with EPiServer CMS. of your website where you can track Its intuitive editing environment allows editors to maintain, change and update content, and monitor different online activities. text, images, pages and workflows in an instant. You can localize content for different markets and set personalization features for different audiences. Built on the .NET 5 4 5 4
- 4. EPiServer CMS is used on a daily basis by over 130,000 web editors. Since we framework, using open standards, including international accessibility standards, Specifically the Enterprise edition of EPiServer CMS enjoys more EPiServer CMS integrates with other business applications such as Microsoft CRM relaunched systems and Search, empowering you to build optimized websites with familiar tools. features than the Standard version, these are: the site we have been Non-technical users can build web pages and sites with a minimum of training, • A Load Balanced environment enhances the scalability, and review website revisions on a production server letting them concentrate their expertise on content creation. consistently reaching new speed and reliability of the platform. Distributing the before making a page live and is automatically workload over several servers, Load Balancing delivers high propagated to all servers. record traffic levels. Critical With the OnlineCenter and Global Navigation, you are presented with a customized performance and failover protection as well as optimizing dashboard where you can use shortcuts to access the gadgets and applications you use • Custom Page Providers integrate external information to this was the strategic most regularly. With integration of commerce and community into EPiServer CMS, you resources so system response times are significantly faster. into your website. In essence they act as intermediaries partnership with both our can also switch seamlessly to work in one application from another. The many different • Multi Site management in one place/ Site Information connecting an EPiServer site to an external data store. functions and features include Dynamic content, Office integration, Page comparison, digital agency and our Image editing, Link checking, Globalization and Localization, all of which contribute to support where you can add new sites to your primary Although they appear as pages in the tree structure, website and make them available immediately. Here, the data still resides in the original store but is viewed, CMS provider. making it a very powerful authoring tool for you to publish content online. licenses can be created, activated and managed. edited and managed through EPiServer CMS. You don’t need to know where the content resides to be able to COLLEEN HIGGINS, Built for the Enterprise • Database support for enterprise high performance needs. EPiServer CMS uses Oracle and Microsoft databases. As access it via EPiServer CMS. Web Communications Manager • Open Standards Following industry standards provides Enterprises are highly aware of the necessity of brand control, keeping the brand widely used databases, it makes it easy for enterprises to Lawn Tennis Association important benefits by simplifying your integration estate consistent throughout a site. With the delegation and devolvement of work and integrate other systems with EPiServer CMS. contributions to a large website from many different departments the usefulness of efforts, future-proofing your architecture, and lowering high performance mirroring, controlling the access rights on page types, and workflows • Staging using high performance mirroring (testing and development time and costs. EPiServer CMS 6 provides becomes all the more beneficial. EPiServer OnlineCenter and Access anywhere ensures reviewing), where, for extra security, the content staging full support for WSRP and continues our record of that you can access your work quickly and efficiently, maintaining flexibility and control at (mirroring) environment allows you to preview, test tracking W3C standards. the same time. Compliance considerations for corporate governance and archiving are covered with the solution’s recordkeeping features. 7 6 7 6
- 5. Powerful web content management functions Accessing integrated products from one place EPiServer CMS has a lot of functionality that will benefit business owners, editors and developers in their daily work. You can easily create, manage and publish online content using the easy-to-understand EPiServer CMS page-based concept. In addition, the site tree gives users a quick and easy overview of the whole website, its navigation and placement of all pages. EPiServer CMS OnlineCenter for site provides us with 1 management and gadgets efficiency benefits because Global navigation – accessing integrated modules OnlineCenter is a unified workspace that you won’t find in any other CMS. It is we can, for instance, create presented as a dashboard for easy navigation and integration of different products from one place a website for one country – EPiServer products or third party products. The dashboard can be personalized to Customized to your requirements, Global navigation makes it easier for you to your preferences and requirements, so you can access functions relevant to your daily navigate and manage your complete online presence. You can navigate different in less than a month, at work all from one place, wherever the function or product module resides. The Online- products and modules such as EPiServer CMS, Community, and Mail as well as no extra cost to ourselves. Center dashboard aggregates site information and exposes important functions to the third party products or similarly integrated modules, all from one place. The menu user via tabs, zones and gadgets. New gadgets can be easily created and plugged into But above all, it has created is designed to be oriented on products and modules, so that each top menu tab the dashboard so that you can access the ones you most frequently refer to and use. represents a product while the sub level menu contains the actual views, functions Global navigation makes is easier to manage a focus on what we are or parts of that product. your online presence by navigating different products and modules all from one place. EPiServer CMS ships with some standard gadgets such as External Links which shows supplying to customers how many pages have links to external websites, the Forms Viewer where you can Presented in a similar way to anyone working with a browser and tabs, you no and has contributed to get information shown as to who has completed a form, and Recently Changed Pages longer have to upload a separate program each time you want to switch from one which displays a list of the last ten pages changed and who edited them. It’s only your us speaking the same product to another, in fact you only need to login once. Another time saving device, imagi-nation that limits what other gadgets you may want to develop, from an analytics Global navigation makes it easy to move seamlessly from one module to another as language. gadget that tracks visitors to your website to monitoring the trend of your search all you have to do is click on a different tab. phrases on different search engine. The list is endless. Access anywhere SUNE NANBERG Using these shortcuts containing specific functionality or linking to other products that CIO Securitas have been integrated into the framework, you can always find what you need and EPiServer CMS includes a WYSIWYG XHTML Editor with more than 60 editor what is particularly relevant to you. By creating an intuitive workspace, OnlineCenter tools and functions benefitting both editors and developers. One of the main advan- minimizes repetitive tasks and comprehensively increases efficiency and improves tages of this Editor is its browser-friendliness, with support for all browsers includ- You can easily create, manage and publish online productivity. ing, for example, Internet Explorer or Firefox on both Mac and PC. Wherever you content using the page-based concept. In addition, are, you will have access to manage a website, from a number of different browsers. the site tree gives users a quick and easy overview of the whole website, its navigation and placement The Editor is also extremely easy to customize, configure and extend. of all pages. 9 8 9 8
- 6. Dynamic Content – enabling content You will only be able to edit in languages for which you have permission. For example, 2 reuse, page design and integration as a local country administrator, you can edit and localize their language version pages or site but they may not have the rights to edit the primary dotcom site. Whatever you rights, you can still compare two different language versions of a particular page in one The CMS Editor is an intelligent authoring interface where you can reuse content, design view. pages and integrate dynamic content in a page. For example, you can place information blocks of dynamic content such as RSS news feeds, maps or video wherever you want Document Management 4 on a site. Also content from other pages, as well as its associated properties, can be reused elsewhere on the site. Using the WYSIWYG editor, you can quickly add dynamic Fully integrated with Microsoft Office, EPiServer CMS not only manages content to a page whenever and wherever you want. You create placeholders for the online content but can manage many other file formats and versions of content to be ‘fetched’ from elsewhere straight onto that page. This is a time saving documents. With its check-in, checkout system, you can collaborate on a document feature, as if and when the content needs updating, it need only happen once and then in the knowledge that when you have it checked out, no one else is working on that it will appear wherever that Dynamic Content is published on the site. version of it. As in any good document management system, employees are able to access vital records from wherever they are. Localization and globalization 3 With EPiServer CMS check-in, checkout system, you can collaborate on a document in the With EPiServer CMS, at any one time, more than one person can access a read-only If you are online, your business by default becomes global. To manage knowledge that when you have it checked out, version but there’s only one version of a file that is available for editing. Versioning gives no one else is working on that version of it. your global marketing assets you will want to enforce central control over a document that’s been edited more than once a new version number so, if necessary, some of your brand estate but allow local flexibility for other parts of it. With multi- you can retrieve previous versions and continue work from a selected point. Versioning ple websites in different languages across many markets, true globalization factors in is useful for documents that change over time and require updating, and where it may be the localization requirements of different cultures, languages and market sectors while necessary to go back to a previous copy. communicating a consistent brand. In EPiServer CMS, managing access rights to website language versions can be personalized. You can control who is doing what and where by The EPiServer CMS file system is makes it easy to integrate with any file repository It’s easy to manage multiple websites in different languages across many markets assigning rights to different editors according to the pages on which you want them to and integrating with Microsoft SharePoint is extremely easy using the additional add-on using the multilingual support. contribute content or to edit. product EPiServer Connect for SharePoint. More than 1,000 websites use hosting services from EPiServer Hosting Center. 11 10 10 11
- 7. Multisite management support Global search 5 With EPiServer CMS Enterprise edition, enterprises can manage 7 Global search not only helps you easily find the content you are looking separate sites from the same user environment. You can share content for so that you can find and edit pages with specified content it also speeds and functionality, such as templates, files, categories and images across multiple sites. up the process of finding that content and to get it edited and published. The Online- Another benefit is that system administrators can have a full overview of all sites in one Center search takes you from simple web management to site management, giving you place while local editors can only access their sites they have permission to edit and ultimate control over all the content on a site. A new search reveals the page(s) which review. contain the query either in the name of the page or in its content via a results list. As the search function is a global product module, you can also find data that is related to other products (including third party products) on the dashboard to get a complete overview. With EPiServer CMS, you stavningskontroll, WYSIWYG editorn med can manage klipp- och klistra från Microsoft Word och separate sites from the same user Friendly URLs 6 förhandsgranskning. environment. URLs can be the single barrier that prevent visitors from coming to your Page bank site. Query strings, numbers and symbols can be quite unintelligible to most website visitors. EPiServer CMS creates plain language URLs that not only lend elegance 8 EPiServer CMS provides a page bank of templates. The package includes and clarity to a site but improve usability and the user experience. A very important Global search reveals pages that contain best practice features and lets you as a web editor or developer to get a the query either in the name of the page aspect of this is that these friendly URLs are great for marketing purposes as well as be- or its content via a result list. head start in their website project and concentrate on the content. Pre-populated with ing search engine friendly, they also help improve page rankings and are good for seeding some content and functionality, these demo pages can be customized in design and your content in social media. EPiServer CMS helps you produce URLs that are short, functionality to incorporate brand identity, house colors, and look and feel. memorable and in plain language so they are easy to recall. EPiServer delivers its platform through a network of more than 400 competent partner companies in 30 countries. 13 12 12 13
- 8. Office publishing EPiServer CMS 6 functions 9 From Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint CONTENT MANAGEMENT you can publish pages and list documents directly to EPiServer CMS and • Site Management PUBLISHING even add them to the File Management Library. The Office Integration Client has a • Site Search • Scheduled publishing • Global Navigation • Workflow and process management built-in toolbar which is installed on your desktop to enable ease-of-use while producing • Dashboard with gadget support • Microsoft Office integration and publishing content for websites. • Dynamic content • Page management • Spellcheck (limited functionality) • Statistics From Microsoft Office programs such • Content categorizing • Tasks as Word, Excel and PowerPoint you can • Multilingual support • Blog, support for MetaWebLog API publish pages and list documents directly Report center 10 to EPiServer CMS. • Form management • Content channel EPiServer CMS Report Center makes it easy for you to quickly find • Image editing • Report Center information about your website to help you with your everyday work. • Friendly URLs EPiServer CMS includes six built-in reports: • Content archiving OPERATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT • Changed Pages so you can follow which pages have been changed and when. • Rich text editing • Powerful API • Version management • .NET based • Expired Pages shows which pages are soon to be archived or disabled. • Multi-link property • Visual Studio integration • Not Published Pages displays pages not yet published with a last changed date in • Support for Internet Explorer and Firefox on • SQL Server support a certain time span both Mac and PC • EPiServer Deployment Center • Published Pages displays published pages within a specified time period • EPiServer Page Bank • Simple Addresses overview all the simple addresses used in the system FILE AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT • Full set of sample pages, including • Link Status identifies broken links. EPiServer CMS will periodically check all links • File management templates for: Forms, Search, Site map, created inside the CMS system (internal and external) to see if they are still valid • File versioning RSS, Subscription, Registration, • Uniform file system Documents, Login and File listing. EPiServer CMS Report Center makes it easy and reachable. Editors can see which pages or site sections contain broken links. • Document Management for you to quickly find information about your website to help you with your everyday work. • Document check-in and check-out SECURITY • File metadata • User management • WebDAV support • Access rights for Content and files • Functionality access rights ENTERPRISE • Role and membership provider • Load balancing • Virtual groups • Staging using high performance mirroring • Oracle Support PERSONALIZATION • Custom Page Provider • Portal solutions • Multi Site management • User preferences • Custom Page Provider • Language preferences • WSRP support • User and member registration • Subscription services Managing three brands across seven European countries in as many languages is a breeze now that we have EPiServer CMS. Our website has a consistent look and feel and our users get the information they need under the brand they know, in the language they speak. JEROEN DIDERIK, eBusiness Manager, Fleura 15 14 15 14