IBM Web Content Manager

IBM Web Content Manager is a powerful and sophisticated browser-based application designed to accelerate the creation, maintenance, and delivery of critical business content across intranet, extranet, Internet, and portal sites. With IBM Web Content Manager you can interact with customers, partners, and employees in more relevant ways.

Features

For authors

Social software capabilities such as blogs and wikis
Simplified content creation process through the use of authoring templates
Intuitive user interfaces supporting a variety of user types
Inline authoring enables in-context editing from within a Web page
Enhanced rich text editor capabilities via embedded Ephox's EditLive! Editor, for creating HTML without developer skills
Access to content in ECM repositories such as IBM FileNet, IBM Content Management and Lotus Quickr via out-of-the-box integration that leverages existing investments
Increased limit for uploading large file content items

For end users

Advanced, rule-based personalization for highly customized experiences
Extensive site search capabilities
Accessibility support
End-users can participate in, and contribute to, Web sites using blogs and wikis

For scalability

Management of large/multiple sites using libraries
IBM WebSphere Clustering support
Advanced caching support
Better control of assets and deployment of content.

For Web site management

Web Content Integrator provides incremental value by consuming and publishing external content repositories
Better site management via WebDAV
Enhanced ease-of-use via the authoring of content and template creation using tools such as Adobe Dreamweaver and WebDAV hooks
Separation of content from presentation through templates
Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) support
Support for Web accessibility and standards
Business rule-based personalization
Control of the deployment of content and assets to different websites
Reusable components for creating and managing linked content

For site administration

Simplified caching and logging
Integrated administration with WebSphere Portal
Enhanced syndication reporting portlet for easier management of content

Benefits

Speeds time to market by enabling companies to rapidly build and deploy websites
Improves communications by enabling users of all skill levels to create, maintain, and deploy web content
Optimizes web experiences through advanced personalization and search
Improves efficiency by reducing the time it takes to get changes/content to the Web