CoreMedia CMS 2008 - Get ready for Web 2.0

CoreMedia CMS – Always one step ahead

You know CoreMedia as a widely-used Content Management System for high-traffic portals, corporate intranets or online customer self-service centers. In our previous CMS 2006 version, many customers were impressed by our innovative features, including our award-winning usability, integrated CoreMedia Analytics report tool and Editing Services for the simple creation of individual user interfaces. Now, with CoreMedia 2008, we want to go one step further and amaze you with our cutting-edge, forward-looking solutions.

CoreMedia CMS 2008 – Starter Kit, Social Software and Analytics

CoreMedia CMS 2008 not only contains many minor improvements but also the following major innovations:

Social Software Extension: Involve your valued customers and staff

Web 2.0 communities are the sites that now draw the most users on the Internet. The new “digital natives” want to communicate quickly and simply – something that needs to be provided for both within the company and also as part of customer self-service offerings. User-generated content (UGC) can help here to structure and validate knowledge contributed by all those involved with a company. By adopting the “customers help customers" approach, UGC not only simplifies and accelerates your support process but can also be utilized as feedback on your own products and services. This is where our Social Software Extension comes in. It offers blogs, comments, self-managed profiles, ratings, neighborships, an easy-to-use user management service, filtering of unwanted content and a powerful search engine. With the Social Software Extension, your CoreMedia CMS installation is transformed into an effective Web 2.0 platform.

Starter Kit: Best practice fuels fast time-to-market

You really don’t have to keeping re-inventing the wheel. While your projects have specific needs, they also have many general requirements. You know and value the flexibility of CoreMedia CMS, with its open interfaces and its almost limitless extension capabilities. At the same time, you want a basic implementation of the CMS that you can launch quickly but which should retain the broad feature set you know from many successful projects: the powerful navigation, multi-site capability and multi-language support. The Starter Kit offers you both: set up a complete CoreMedia CMS 2008 system in less than an hour, needing only to fill it with your content and adjust the layout to your requirements. Afterwards, you can extend the foundational system as part of your ongoing project – just as you are used to doing with our flexible CMS solution. Our new “Contributions” plus the improved plug-in capability of the Content Application Engine (CAE) will also help you to significantly reduce your project duration times. Extended Analytics: Why not ask your own system to tell you about its users? Running a website without performing user analysis is unthinkable nowadays. The data that amounts from registering clicks, tallying page impressions and tracking where your users have come from is simply too valuable. To enable you to extract even more utility out of this data, we are now shipping our CoreMedia Analytics application with over 22 standard reports. Thanks to its direct integration with the CMS, CoreMedia Analytics can give you a 360° view of your data, something that the external focus of standard tools cannot supply. One particular new feature in CoreMedia CMS 2008 is the precise analysis of your unique visitors. This enables you to find out more about the wishes and usage patterns of your customers and to thus better market your products and services – benefitting your customers and increasing your own efficiency. Other important innovations include the possibility to import and directly analyze log data from the IVW Box as well as a report export option, offering Excel, PDF and XML file formats. All in all, you’ll find that you no longer have any need for third-party web analysis products.

CoreMedia CMS 2008 – Even the minor innovations are not so minor

A number of further improvements are guaranteed to impress - Our tried-and-tested CMS delivery component, the Content Application Engine (CAE), has been given even more muscle. You can now link both static and dynamic content together in optimal fashion. Using the new connectivity to translation management systems (such as Trados and Star), you can now model translation workflows for editors and translators, and thus optimally manage content for your multilingual websites. In addition, it’s even easier to create plug-ins for CoreMedia CMS 2008 and to integrate partner solutions from third-party projects. Last but not least, we’d like to introduce our increasing “open"-ness: from now on, we will be offering some handy tools – called “Contributions” – on a free-of-charge, open source basis in our Download Center; we hope that some of you will follow suit!

CoreMedia CMS 2008 – people-centric™ software

Never forget that ultimately, you're always dealing with people: people that expect utility from your products and services; people who want to be presented with an easy-to se interface; and, lastly, people who want to talk to people and not contact forms. Take your chance to not just fulfill these expectations, but to dazzle your users with CoreMedia CMS 2008. One small upgrade on the technical side – and one giant leap for your business.