Web content management is essentially the ability to manage the content (text and images) of a web site separately from the actually code and html of the page(s). It allows authors/contributors of web sites to create and manage content without having to write code, in a managed and secure way, providing things like in-line editing, version controls, security and workflow approval.
For more details see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system
Oracles WCM Solutions
Oracle offers a number of WCM (Web Content Management) solutions all built into Oracle UCM. Here are a few tools that are included in UCM that make help make WCM work.
- Site Studio – Supports full web site creation, authoring and hosting inside the WCM server. It supports:
- Inline Content Editing
- Inline Approvals
- Enterprise Security through LDAP
- Multi-Website hosting
- SEO Friendly URL’s
- Support of display and serving of any content hosted inside the UCM server
- Auto conversion of documents to pdf for web consumption
- Conversions of documents to web friendly HTML for easy authoring of web site content with MS Office tools.
- Site Studio for External Applications (SSXA)- Host your site inside a jsf application and develop right in Oracles J-Developer.
- Integration with Oracle Digital Asset Management – Digital assets of images and video can be served up in your sites.
- Site Studio Publishing Utility – Scrape a site and turn it into static HTML to be served by any server anywhere.
- Open WCM – Read content into any system that can make an http request. Ideal for including systems in asp, jsp, php or ajax powered sites.
Features and Benefits to Oracles WCM
Oracles WCM products are built to scale and have been developed to integrate with the modern office. Oracle’s products can do a very fine job at:
- Granular security integrated with your corporate LDAP store
- Custom contribution forms allowing forms to be tailored to specific business requirements
- Developer definable editors, developers can define what users can and can’t do to a page
- Consume and publish any type of document from the Oracle UCM repository
- Provides friendly URL structures for easy to read taxonomic structures
- Can be targeted and filtered to provide the right content to the right people
- Supports fully customized meta data modeling to allow enterprises to fully catalog all web site content.
- Sharing the same content across multiple web sites.
- Sharing templates across multiple web sites.
- Supports full HTML rendering meaning there is no templating or skinning, you simply are rendering fully functional HTML in the templates. This means you can create HTML in any tool you like, such as Dreamweaver and then port this over to Site Studio.
Competitive Benefits
Oracle’s Web Content Management (WCM) solutions are built on a central platform and have the following benefits:
- Highly scalable and robust repository, especially as compared to open source solutions
- Integrate-able with corporate security solutions for enterprise class security (not found in many open source solutions)
- Very robust API’s for web services, java, Ajax and JSON calls.
- Flexible implementation and publishing models. Dynamic or statically published content.
- Integrate-able with .NET, Java, PHP or just about any technology that is able to make a web service or http request.
- Supports multiple web sites with the same content.
Xumulus’s WCM Services
At Xumulus we have years of Oracle WCM experience and can help organization’s with:
- Strategic WCM system Architecture and Design
- Development services
- Full service design and build for those who would like both the graphics design and build of your site to be provided in a single project from a single provider.
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