Cascade Server Web Content Management

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Cascade Server WCM Features

Cascade Server's flexible, open standards architecture provides many advanced features to aid in content management, collaboration, and site administration.

Collaboration, Approvals, & Security

  • Benefits
    Personalized Dashboard

    • 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.

    Provide each user with a personalized start page.

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  • Benefits
    Flexible 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.

    Give everyone the right amount of access by assigning customized permissions, roles, and options to individual users and groups.

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    Content Access Rights

    • 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.

    Select read and write access rights at the folder or asset level and assign permissions at the page or region level.

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  • Benefits
    Check-in/Check-out 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.

    Aid collaboration by preventing multiple edits to the same content.

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  • Benefits
    Workflow Management

    • 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.

    Workflows manage everything from content creation to archival.

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    Notifications & Messaging

    • 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.

    Receive system notifications and send messages to other users with Cascade Server messaging tools.

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    Audits & Reporting

    • See who is using the system.
    • View any actions relating to any particular asset.
    • Filter action records according to action type.

    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.

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  • Benefits
    Version Control

    • Automatic content archival.
    • Stores date, time, user, and version comments.
    • Compare versions inline.
    • Easily revert to older or newer versions of content.

    Cascade Server automatically saves versions of content, so nothing is ever lost.

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  • Benefits
    Enterprise Search

    • 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.

    Search through all pages and files by metadata or date range for specific words and phrases within the system.

    Enterprise Search  
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Creating & Editing

  • Benefits
    Browser-based for Mac and PC

    • 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.

    Access Cascade Server anywhere any time using a zero-footprint client. No client downloads or applets required.

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    Single-click Content Creation

    • 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.

    Business users can create new pages easily using Cascade Server’s Asset Factories.

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  • Benefits
    WYSIWYG Editing

    • 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.

    Just like a standard word-processor, Cascade Server's WYSIWYG allows users to manipulate the arrangement, size, and layout of their content.

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  • Benefits
    Upload and Manage any File Type

    • 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.

    Cascade Server allows you to manage any file type, right within the same interface.

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  • Benefits
    Multilingual Capable

    • 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.

    Cascade Server supports all major international languages and offers specialized workflows to facilitate human translation for multilingual sites.

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    Structured Authoring

    • 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.

    Cascade Server’s Data Definitions allow for even quicker content creation using structured form fields for specialized pages.

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  • Benefits
    Spell Checker

    • Never miss a typo.
    • Checks spelling for all content and metadata.
    • Suggests alternate spellings.
    • Custom dictionary for each user.

    Check your spelling as you edit.

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  • Benefits
    Site Preview

    • Navigate your site inside the CMS.
    • Acts as its own staging server.
    • Design and scripting elements are fully rendered.

    View your site before going live – right within the Cascade Server interface.

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Publishing

Site Flexibility

  • Benefits
    Multi-site Management

    • 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.

    Cascade Server’s flexible architecture and licensing model allows unlimited Sites to be managed within the same interface.

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  • Benefits
    Separation of Content and Design

    • Ensure presentation consistency.
    • Cleaner HTML for search engine optimization and assistive technologies.
    • Reuse content while changing styles.

    Let your content writers and layout designers focus on what they do best.

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    Content Reuse Across Sites

    • Ensure consistency throughout your site.
    • Save time with a single update.
    • Provide added efficiency for footers, copyrights, privacy policies, and other organization-wide content.

    Centrally manage common content and automatically propagate content changes throughout your site.

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    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.

    Improve site flexibility and automatically generate navigation with custom metadata.

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    Multiple Format Conversion

    • 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

    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.

    Multiple Format Conversion  
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  • Benefits
    Automatic Navigation

    • 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.

    Dynamic generation of bread crumbs, site maps, and context sensitive navigation menus based on content.

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    Automatic Link Checking

    • 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.

    Checks for broken links when creating, editing, or publishing content.

    Automatic Link Checking  
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Standards Support


Benefits

Cascade Server offers many benefits over traditional methods of website management.

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