Collaboration, Approvals, & Security
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Personalized Dashboard
Provide each user with a personalized start page.
- Customize viewing preferences and manage workflow more efficiently in a workspace environment best suited to the individual user.
- Create new content with one click.
- Easy access to recently viewed content.
- View messages and workflows.
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Flexible Users and Groups
Give everyone the right amount of access by assigning customized permissions, roles, and options to individual users and groups.
- Allows for complete customization of access rights to users and groups within the system.
- Puts the control over who can view and edit specific areas of the site in the hands of the system administrator.
- Users and groups can be activated and deactivated as needed.
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Content Access Rights
Select read and write access rights at the folder or asset level and assign permissions at the page or region level.
- Make sure the right people have access to the right content.
- Simplify interface for business users by disallowing read access to irrelevant sections.
- Protect headers, footers, and navigation regions from unauthorized changes.
- Delegate multi-site administration.
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Check-in/Check-out Content
Aid collaboration by preventing multiple edits to the same content.
- Avoid multiple simultaneous edits to the same content by locking assets during edits.
- Manually check out pages under review.
- Send messages to users to request unlock.
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- Ensure only approved content goes live with custom workflows.
- Reduce confusion and streamline workloads by letting users know exactly what their tasks are and when they are due.
- Steps can be assigned to specific users or groups.
- Fully customizable to allow for the simplest to most complex business processes.
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Notifications & Messaging
Receive system notifications and send messages to other users with Cascade Server messaging tools.
- Send a message to a user regarding locked content or workflow steps.
- Notifications can be received via email, within the system interface, or by RSS feed.
- Set alerts and review dates for expiring content.
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Audits & Reporting
Cascade Server offers a comprehensive audit trail for system administrators viewable by user, group, or assets as well as the ability to generate summary reports on system data.
- See who is using the system.
- View any actions relating to any particular asset.
- Filter action records according to action type.
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Version Control
Cascade Server automatically saves versions of content, so nothing is ever lost.
- Automatic content archival.
- Stores date, time, user, and version comments.
- Compare versions inline.
- Easily revert to older or newer versions of content.
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Enterprise Search
Search through all pages and files by metadata or date range for specific words and phrases within the system.
- Allows users to quickly find assets in the system that are associated with specific words or phrases.
- Simple and advanced search options.
- Results are ranked by relevance.
Creating & Editing
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Browser-based for Mac and PC
Access Cascade Server anywhere any time using a zero-footprint client. No client downloads or applets required.
- Access Cascade any time from any place.
- Upload and download files from within your web browser.
- Works on Mac and PC.
- No applications to install on client machines.
- Compatible with Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari.
- Ajax-enhanced interface.
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Single-click Content Creation
Business users can create new pages easily using Cascade Server’s Asset Factories.
- Asset Factories are fully customizable.
- Frequently added pages such as press releases or blog entries are created quickly with auto-populating fields.
- Most common page types are included on the dashboard.
- New pages are automatically named and placed in the appropriate folder.
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WYSIWYG Editing
Just like a standard word-processor, Cascade Server's WYSIWYG allows users to manipulate the arrangement, size, and layout of their content.
- Copy and paste content from Microsoft Word.
- Full font formatting to change font size, boldface, italics, etc.
- Select pre-specified CSS classes from a drop-down list.
- Easily upload and insert images into your page directly from the WYSIWYG.
- Insert/edit tables inline.
- Hyperlink to internal and external pages.
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Upload and Manage any File Type
Cascade Server allows you to manage any file type, right within the same interface.
- Upload files individually or as a zip archive.
- Files can be stored in any folder, according to your organizational needs.
- Dublin-core and custom metadata available for files.
- File types and sizes can be limited by an administrator.
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Multilingual Capable
Cascade Server supports all major international languages and offers specialized workflows to facilitate human translation for multilingual sites.
- Provides a time-saving advantage over the traditional method of supporting and maintaining multiple sites in various languages.
- Unicode (UTF-8) compliant.
- Enter content in any language.
- Publish sites with any extension (.de, .jp, .sp, etc).
- Custom workflows enable multi-national teams to collaborate on multilingual sites.
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Structured Authoring
Cascade Server’s Data Definitions allow for even quicker content creation using structured form fields for specialized pages.
- Easy non-technical creation for structured pages.
- Custom fields can include text, WYSIWYG, dropdowns, check boxes and radio buttons.
- Full design-control for custom pages.
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Spell Checker
Check your spelling as you edit.
- Never miss a typo.
- Checks spelling for all content and metadata.
- Suggests alternate spellings.
- Custom dictionary for each user.
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Site Preview
View your site before going live – right within the Cascade Server interface.
- Navigate your site inside the CMS.
- Acts as its own staging server.
- Design and scripting elements are fully rendered.
Publishing
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Scheduled and Manual Publishing
Custom publishing options offer full control and ease of use.
- Allows for scheduled publishing of content on any timed schedule as well as manually or via a workflow trigger.
- Manual publishing provides full control at the folder or page level.
- Scheduled publishing offers hassle free updates – perfect for frequently changing content or third party feeds.
- Smart publishing ensures that only files that have been changed are published.
- Publish sets ensure related assets are published simultaneously.
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Automatic Archiving
Cascade Server lets you set expiration dates for time sensitive content.
- Change asset properties to no longer be indexed or published.
- Select automatic archive folder for expired content.
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Multiple Server Publishing
With Cascade Server, there is no limit to the number of publishing locations.
- Manage multiple websites on different servers.
- Use standard FTP or SFTP for secure transfers.
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Search Engine Friendly URLs (Article)
Improve Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) efforts with keyword-packed, relevant, human-readable URLs.
- Allow search engines to index your site effectively and improve SEO efforts/rankings.
- Provides easier site navigation.
- No query strings.
Site Flexibility
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Multi-site Management
Cascade Server’s flexible architecture and licensing model allows unlimited Sites to be managed within the same interface.
- Centrally manage internet, intranet, extranet, and portal content.
- Allows individual Sites to be organized and managed as their own entities in the system.
- Link across Sites and share templates between Sites.
- Manager role allows for independent administration for individual Sites.
- Add microsites as needed.
- Publish to multiple servers.
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Separation of Content and Design
Let your content writers and layout designers focus on what they do best.
- Ensure presentation consistency.
- Cleaner HTML for search engine optimization and assistive technologies.
- Reuse content while changing styles.
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Content Reuse Across Sites
Centrally manage common content and automatically propagate content changes throughout your site.
- Ensure consistency throughout your site.
- Save time with a single update.
- Provide added efficiency for footers, copyrights, privacy policies, and other organization-wide content.
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Custom Metadata
Improve site flexibility and automatically generate navigation with custom metadata.
- Improve search results by adding metadata to content.
- Wired metadata fields are compliant with the Dublin Core Metadata specification.
- Write your own custom metadata to meet organizational needs.
- Required fields ensure desired results.
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Multiple Format Conversion
Edit single source content to generate HTML, PDF, and XML automatically. Repurpose content for different devices including PCs (web browsers), PDAs, cell phones, and printed materials.
- Widen your audience by making content more accessible.
- Maintain consistency throughout the various outpus of a piece of content.
- Automatically repurpose new content for all desired outputs.
- Automatically propagate content changes throughout all formats.
- Unlimited number of formats for all content
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Automatic Navigation (Article)
Dynamic generation of bread crumbs, site maps, and context sensitive navigation menus based on content.
- Increase site flexibility and ensure new content is readily available to visitors on your site.
- Customize index blocks to create automatic navigation.
- Automatically propagate all navigational changes throughout the site.
- Sort navigation links alphabetically, by date, or by folder hierarchy.
- Edit metadata values to determine how navigation links appear.
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Automatic Link Checking
Checks for broken links when creating, editing, or publishing content.
- Reduce the potential for broken links on your live site.
- Internal links are automatically updated.
- Internal and external link checking.
- Link checking can be enforced for all content.
Standards Support
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LDAP Integration
Cascade Server integrates with LDAP servers for authentication and user lists.
- Allows you to import users into Cascade Server manually or on a schedule and actively authenticates users against the LDAP server.
- Manage users and groups in one central location.
- Active Directory and other LDAP protocols are fully supported.
- Custom authentication is also available.
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- Create feeds for press releases, blogs, and newsletters.
- Create podcasts for syndication on ITunes.
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Accessibility Compliance (Article)
Automatic checkers ensure that you are in compliance with 508 standards for accessibility.
- Ensure that all content managed with Cascade Server is valid HTML/XML.
- Widen your audience with accessible content.
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Tidy HTML/XML
Using Tidy HTML/XML and automatic checkers allows users to keep their pages lightweight and standards compliant
- Ensures W3C standards compliance.
- Improves browser compatibility and search rankings.
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Web Services
Cascade Server offers a SOAP-based API for Web Services integration.
- Integrate your CMS with third-party applications.
- Offers create, edit, read, delete, publish, and authenticate operations.
