New Version of multisite management application
While many organizations enable business users to easily change text on a Web site, most users still have to involve a centralized Web development team to implement other simple changes, such as editing navigation or adding a new section to the site — creating yet another Web site bottleneck.
According to Forrester, "…the capability gap remains wide between the best that thin client user interfaces (typically rendered through conventional HTML) have been able to offer and the capabilities of the rich desktop, despite numerous proprietary attempts to split the difference. Rich Internet Application technologies like Ajax promise to close that gap. … Ajax promises to be rich enough for the user interface needs of many, if not most, enterprise applications while retaining zero-desktop-deployment benefits of a pure browser application."
Stellent, a global provider of content management solutions, released today at the AIIM 2006 Conference & Exposition a new version of its award-winning multi-site management application Stellent Site Studio. Site Studio — a component of the enterprise-scalable Stellent Universal Content Management system — provides a software infrastructure for creating, maintaining and deploying multiple internal and external Web sites.
The new version aims to empower Web site managers — often the Web site "audience expert" within a business unit or department — by offering in-context site assembly and organization capabilities through a new Site Studio Manager tool. Additional Site Studio enhancements include built-in usage analytics and an expanded search engine offering.
"Stellent coined the widely accepted industry term ‘multi-site management’ three years ago with our introduction of Site Studio, and we remain committed to continually advancing this award-winning technology in order to fully optimize the tremendous task of managing numerous Web sites," said Dan Ryan, chief operating officer for Stellent. "A key aspect of this process is distributing Web site assembly and maintenance to business units, while maintaining centralized control of branding, layout and design. Our new Site Studio Manager tool makes it even easier for companies to strike this balance. Web developers remain responsible for creating site templates to ensure overall consistency, but Web site managers now have greater flexibility to be creative and directly modify more aspects of their sites to ensure their business needs and objectives are met."
"Companies increasingly use Web sites for collaboration, communication and commerce, which is driving business units to take more responsibility for their sites," said Lou Latham, principal research analyst for Gartner, Inc. "For many business people, the Web has been the province of the IT group. But IT wants out from under the essentially clerical duty of editing content and navigation, and business managers realize time and money are wasted by interposing an IT ‘middleman’ between content authors and audience experts and the Web. Consequently, we believe demand will grow for Web site management technologies that help facilitate an appropriate balance between IT control and business unit autonomy."
Site Studio Manager empowers Web site managers with in-context site management features, and offers a tighter integration with Stellent’s repository analytics tool.
www.stellent.com/sitestudio77.
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