Lotus Web Content Management

IBM Lotus Web Content Management 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 Lotus Web Content Management you can interact with customers, partners, and employees in more relevant ways.

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

• 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