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Alkacon OpenCms 7 Business

This document provides an overview of OpenCms 7, an open source content management system. It describes OpenCms' features such as direct editing, workflow management, search, and templates. The document also outlines reasons to use OpenCms like its maturity, ease of use, standards compliance, and cost savings compared to proprietary systems. Finally, it shares screenshots and lists references from companies using OpenCms.

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Alkacon OpenCms 7 Business

This document provides an overview of OpenCms 7, an open source content management system. It describes OpenCms' features such as direct editing, workflow management, search, and templates. The document also outlines reasons to use OpenCms like its maturity, ease of use, standards compliance, and cost savings compared to proprietary systems. Finally, it shares screenshots and lists references from companies using OpenCms.

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A non-technical, business

introduction to OpenCms 7

Alkacon Software GmbH


August, 2007
Index

• Alkacon OpenCms Overview


• Alkacon OpenCms 7 main features
• Screenshots of Highlights
• Reasons for using OpenCms
• Selected OpenCms References
Alkacon OpenCms overview

• OpenCms is a Website Content Management


System
• First public release in March 2000
• Version 5.0 (stable) released May 2003
• Version 6.0 (stable) released June 2005
• Current Version 7 released July 2007
• OpenCms is true Open Source Software
• OpenCms is available under the LGPL license
• No licensing costs
• OpenCms can be freely downloaded from the
project‘s website: http://www.opencms.org
Alkacon OpenCms overview (2)

• Especially suited to build company


websites and intranets
• Build for the needs of medium-large
enterprises with existing IT infrastructure
• Most features developed according to
“real world” customer requirements
• Highly flexible and customizable
• Written in 100% Java
• Uses many proven components from the
open source Java community
Alkacon OpenCms overview (3)

• Open source development effort for core


system lead by Alkacon Software GmbH
• Active development community
– 1000+ mailing list subscribers
• Widespread commercial support
– More than 100 official “Solution Providers”
– 200+ web companies offer support
• Fair amount of documentation available
– Book on OpenCms written/edited by community
members, revised edition under way
– Interactive documentation / examples
Alkacon OpenCms overview (4)

• Soft & Hardware requirements


– Software: Open Source to „High End“
• e.g. Linux + Tomcat + MySQL
• e.g. Win NT + IIS + Tomcat + MS SQL
• e.g. Solaris + BEA + Oracle
– Hardware: High flexibility
• Runs on a notebook computer
• Standard configuration:
Normal Intel PC, 2Ghz CPU, 1 GB Ram
• Other: SUN Sparc, cluster configuration possible
• Installation is wizard based for default
components (e.g. Tomcat, MySQL /
Oracle), takes just 5 minutes
OpenCms main features

• Direct Edit of content from the front end of the


website
• Automatic Online / Offline workflow
• Flexible content repository
• Integrated full text search engine
• WYSIWYG Editor for “unstructured” content
• Easy definition of XML based content items for
“structured content”
• Automatically built editor for "structured
content"
OpenCms 7 improvements

• Advanced link management with the


Content Relationship Engine
• WebDAV support
• Restore (undelete) operation for deleted
resources
• Publishing simplified with the publish
queue
• Improved internal system roles &
organizational units
OpenCms more features I

• Multiple selections and operations in the


Workplace Explorer
• Native image scaling and manipulation,
Photo album
• Visual comparison of document versions
• Integration of the popular FCKeditor for
WYSIWYG editing
• Manage multiple sites in one installation
• Full text search also in PDF, Word, Excel
documents in repository
OpenCms more features II

• Configurable meta information


(properties) for all repository resources
• Time based automatic content release /
expiration
• Full support for Unicode content
• ACL permission system
• Optional static export of HTML
• JSP based template mechanism
• Templates are version controlled
OpenCms other features

• Advanced multi language support


• Web browser based application
• Full control over the output layout
• Integrated user management
• Project based workflow
• All XML content is schema validated
• Task management
• Version control of content
• History of changes
• XML based content import / export
• Multi path resource access through siblings
• Dynamic page rendering
• Link checking
• Combination of static and dynamic content
• Fully database driven
• Non-GUI shell access to document repository
• Powerful log file configuration
• Open module API for extensions
• …
Screenshots of Highlights

Screenshots of Highlights
Demo Screenshot 1:
The Explorer - View
Demo Screenshot 2:
The structured content editor
Demo Screenshot 3:
Direct Editing of Contents
Demo Screenshot 4:
The WYSIWYG Page Editor
Demo Screenshot 5:
ACL permission screen
Demo Screenshot 6:
Full text search results
Demo Screenshot 7:
Photo album with scaled images
Reasons for using OpenCms

• Proven
– Used by organizations/companies large and small all
around the world
• Mature
– In open source development since 2000
– Current Version is 7.0
• Easy to use
– Both WYSIWYG and structured editing,
contents directly editable through the frontend
• Standards compliant
– Uses / implements mature API standards
• Support is available
– Currently more than 100 companies worldwide have
registered as official OpenCms Solution Provider
Reasons for using OpenCms

• Cost saving potential


– Compared to pricy licensing models of traditional closed
source vendor products
• Open Source
– Vendor independence especially important since
“consolidation” of CMS market continues
• Fits well into existing IT infrastructure
– Platform neutral because of Java
– Can usually use your existing DB (e.g. Oracle)
• Good base for “make” decision
– In case of “make or buy”
• Favorably reviewed by Analysts
– E.g. Gartner Group recognizes OpenCms as “one of the most
complete and mature of the [Open Source CMS] products
reviewed” (*)
(*) Source: Gartner Group report “Roundup of Open-Source Content Management Systems, 1H04” (April 2004)
Selected OpenCms references

• Banking & Insurance


LGT Bank in Liechtenstein - http://www.lgt.com
Banc Internacional d'Andorra i Banca Mora - http://www.bibm.ad
Debeka Insurance - http://www.debeka.de
Hypovereinsbank Group - http://www.hvbgroup.com
Virgin Money Australia - http://virginmoney.com.au

• Retail & Consumer goods


3M Pressnet Germany - http://www.3m-pressnet.info
INTERSPORT International - http://www.intersport.com
The North Face - http://www.thenorthface.com
BP South Africa Ltd. - http://www.bp.co.za
Renault (Swiss,Austria,Portugal, …) - http://www.renault.ch (.at, .pt)

• Tourism
The South Pacific Tourism Organisation - http://www.spto.org
Basel Tourismus - http://www.baseltourismus.ch
Verkehrsbetriebe Zürich - http://www.vbz.ch
Selected OpenCms references

• Government
DIMDI – http://www.dimdi.de
Bulgarian ministry of education- http://www.minedu.government.bg
Department of Corrections New Zealand -
http://www.corrections.govt.nz
• Non-Profit Organizations
Catholic Church of Cologne - http://www.erzbistum-koeln.de
International Paralympic Committee - http://www.paralympic.org

• University & Education


LeTourneau University - http://www.letu.edu
Wilberforce University - http://www.wilberforce.edu
Karlsruhe Institute for Information Processing Technology -
http://www.itiv.uni-karlsruhe.de
… and many, many more, see
http://www.opencms.org/en/support/references/
Contact Addresses

Alkacon OpenCms Contacts


Alkacon Software GmbH
An der Wachsfabrik 13
50996 Cologne
Germany

http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org

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