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Description

WORKSsitebuilder is a commercial content management system (CMS) developed in two main versions:

• Professional and corporate, using a PHP and MySQL platform;
• Enterprise, built on a .NET platform and SQL Server or Oracle 9i.

The vendor, eShopworks, tries to assure a quality application, increase the agility and the value of the client's business, reduce the risks when investing in a web application and save money by reducing the costs of providing, acquiring and sharing information across the organization.

System requirements

Professional and corporate version

• Server prerequisites: Apache or IIS & PHP 4.3
• Supported webserver: any web server supporting PHP
• Database: MySQL or MSSQL2000
• For secure transactions: SSL encryption
• Email notifications: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

Enterprise version

• Server prerequisites: Windows 2K, IIS and .net framework version 1.1 or Windows 2K3.
• Supported webserver: IIS 5.x or 6.x
• Database: MSSQL 2000 or Oracle 8i or 9i
• For secure transactions: SSL encryption
• Email notifications: SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

Features

Key Features

Many types of websites can be created:

• multiple sites
• microsites
• subsites
• intranets
• extranets

using a single WORKSsitebuilder implementation.

EasyEdit Content Publishing

• Authoring: The application includes a WYSIWYG editor with full authoring and editing capabilities.

• Preview mode: Users can view their content in a preview mode before actually publishing it.
• Microsoft office integration: The editor permits Microsoft Word or other HTML-based texts to be pasted directly into the editor without loosing any formatting.
• Articles: Articles (such commentaries, discussion papers, reviews or interviews) can be easily created. This articles can be organized into sections displayed as different pages and can be available to download as PDF documents.

• Templates: Multiple templates for a single website are supported.

Content delivery

• Content scheduling: The application allows to set the time the a content is published or when it expires.

• Multi-lingual delivery: It allows content to be published in more than one language and multiple character sets. A easy-to-use translation workflow is available too.
• Content syndication: RSS and XML feeds of the articles are automatically created.

Library services

• Media asset management: Many types of media files are supported (images, office docs, audio and video files).
• Link validation: An inbuilt link validator checks all the links added in the content to make sure there are no broken ones.

Search

The built in search in made by associating metadata to content, this making possible to bring back more accurate and relevant results.

Workflow

• Workflows: The administrators of the website can define workflows for content approval.
• Tasking: Logs the tasks to user groups or individual users for creating or publishing the material. It also generates automatic reminders in advance of due dates.

Security

• Password protection: Every user has his own password to loin into the system.
• Granularity: The security permissions are granular, users with the appropriate permissions can specify viewing or publishing rights at both group and user levels.

* LDAP integration: The user accounts can be synchronized with a directory server simplifying user management.

Personalization

• Online marketing and mailing management: It allows the webmaster to manage online marketing campaigns.

• On-line polling: Polls and questionnaires can be created and scheduled. The results are also centralized.
• Discussion forums: Forums can be created.
• Subscription modeling: A subscriber management allows article or page content to be viewed on a pay-per-view basis.

Communities

• CMPros - Content Management Professionals Community
• Discussions about CMS on CMSMatrix

See also

• Official Website
• Compare Content Management systems