SiteBuilder

Breakthrough Technology in Multi-Site Management Software

Managing multiple websites is usually complex and costly for organizations. And when you don't have the resources or tools to manage them effectively, your website consistency suffers, along with the experience of site contributors and visitors.

Crown SiteBuilder for EMC Documentum can help streamline your approach to web content management. It's a comprehensive suite of web content management components for multi-site and complex site management, offering a robust set of easy-to-use applications to manage and deliver your content. SiteBuilder is complementary to EMC Documentum and leverages EMC Documentum’s repository and content services strengths. SiteBuilder’s revolutionary approach helps to integrate and enhance the efforts of your knowledge workers, business content authors, and web developers. With SiteBuilder, you'll benefit from a simple contribution interface, ongoing design integrity, and rich visitor experiences.

Quick Facts

• More than 500 websites managed by a single infrastructure, spanning 6 countries and 38 languages
• 25 websites successfully launched in 25 days
• Reduction in time to deploy site by 60%
• Reduction in cost to deploy site by 60%
• Optimized and aligned with EMC Documentum products, earning the “Designed for EMC” accreditation

Who's Using SiteBuilder?

• Fidelity
• Nationwide
• GlaxoSmithKline

 

Enabling a High-Performance Platform and Rich Visitor Experience

Crown SiteBuilder optimizes complex and multi-site implementations with intensive requirements such as support for multiple content editors, internationalization and localization capabilities, and the need for dynamic content generation. SiteBuilder’s proven architecture leverages EMC Documentum’s enterprise platform strengths, and offers many advantages, including:

• Reduces the time and costs associated with creating, managing, and deploying websites
• Improves the content contributor experience for your business users
• Enables your content authors to make more frequent and dynamic content updates, improving the visitor experience
• Improves standards, consistency, and reuse of content across multiple websites
• Reduces the skill level required to create and manage sites, templates, and content
• Provides flexibility while maintaining design integrity and control
• Offers out-of-the box support for RSS channel and feed templates

A Multi-Component WCM Enhancement, SiteBuilder is comprised of the following:

1. Web Content Manager – An AJAX based alternative to Web Publisher classic view. Features include: search, filtered search, advanced search container/component/personalized component relationship display, configurable display options, configurable actions, column sorts, and much more.

2. Web Composer – A lightweight, in-context forms-based editing application. It is designed for the non-technical business user, the “knowledge worker," providing a simple approach for managing web content. Web Composer reduces the need for specialized skills and training, allowing users to be more productive in less time.

3. Dynamic Content Generator – A component that assembles content (such as index pages or navigation files) at design time based on configurable set of criteria. This allows the routing of dynamically assembled content through workflow or manual approval process.

4. Navigation Designer – A component to add, remove, re-order, sort, style and maintain links in a navigation. Navigation Designer provides the ability to extend navigations with custom fields for complex navigations.

5. Site Wizard – A wizard that walks a contributor through a series of configuration interfaces to set up the infrastructure of a site in Documentum.  The Site Wizard provides the ability create a new site or copying an existing one in just a few minutes.

6. Template Wizard – A streamlined and simplified interface used to create new content templates or edit existing templates. The Template Wizard provides web developers with the ability to easily configure template security, metadata, layout, and design.

7. Style Manager – A component that provides intuitive management for CSS classes in a multiuser environment and applies classes to content across sites and users.

8. Content Reuse – A component that enables copying and linking of content across multiple web sites.  Content Reuse promotes efficiency and content sharing across the enterprise web content management system for a consistent look and feel. 

Whats New in SiteBuilder 6.2?

• Web Content Manager Enhancements
  
  • Check-out to local machine enhancement – This enhancement provides authors with the choice to export files for local editing upon checkout without the use of Java.  This eliminates the need for Java to be installed on a client machine to use Web Content Manager.
  • Check-in from file enhancement– This enhance provides authors with the ability to check a local file into the repository as a new version withut the use of Java.  This eliminates the need for Java to be installed on a client machine to use Web Content Manager.
• Web Composer Enhancements
  • Web Composer Copy File Plug-in – The copy plug-in provides authors with the ability to copy a file to another site.
  • Web Composer Save File As Plug-in – The save file as plug-in provides authors to save the object they are editing as a new file within the same site.
  • Web Composer Link File Plug-in – The link file plug-in provides authors with the ability to link a file between multiple sites.
  • Web Composer Version Comparison and Redlining Plug-in – The version comparison plug-in provides authors with the ability to compare different versions of content. Variations in the content is highlighted to easily view the differences between content.
  • Web Composer Spider Site Plug-in – The Spider Site plug-in provides site managers with the ability to produce a report of broken links for a site. The spider will crawl the site it is directed to and produced a report that is sent to the user’s inbox.
  • Web Composer Performance Improvements – Encoding and decoding of data has been moved from the client to the server side.  This improves processing speed on edit and save actions within Web Composer.
• SiteBuilder and Web Composer Enhancements
  • JavaScript and CSS compression - When a JavaScript or CSS file is checked-in a compressed rendition is attached to the primary object within the Documentum repository.  Compressed files are smaller in file size and there fore are downloaded to a browser much faster therefore improving the user experience.

Please refer to the release notes which are available on the software download site for more details on this release.

SiteBuilder supports the following Documentum Versions:

• Documentum 5.3 SP6
• Documentum 6.0
• Documentum 6.0 SP1
• Documentum 6.5
• Documentum 6.5 SP1

 

For additional details about the benefits and capabilities of Crown SiteBuilder, check out the following information:

Product Resources

• SiteBuilder Capability Profile
• SiteBuilder Recorded Demo

Case Studies

• Case Study - STMicroelectronics
• Case Study - Nationwide Insurance

Press Releases

• Crown Partners Announces New Version of SiteBuilder Software
• Crown SiteBuilder and Web Composer Maintain Prestigious "Designed for EMC" Accreditation

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