| Enhanced Business User Productivity
Business users are empowered to create, publish, and manage their own Web content by means of an Internet browser or even Microsoft Word. This enables your employees to realize the full potential of the corporate Web sites by using them as business tools for communication with customers, partners, and coworkers. |
| Increased Customer and Partner Satisfaction
Managed workflow, content scheduling, archiving, and centralized control over publishing standards through page templates result in Web sites that are richer with more accurate, timely, and easy-to-find content. |
| Reduced Operating Costs
By empowering business users to manage their own content, your expensive developer resources are freed from being ad hoc content managers. This results in reduced support costs for Web sites and enables you to redeploy those resources to work on new projects that address the most critical business needs. |
| Enhanced Developer Productivity
Tight integration with Microsoft Visual StudioŽ .NET and support for the Microsoft .NET Framework result in a next-generation Web development environment that enables developers to build powerful Web applications faster than ever before. |
| Reduced Time to Value
With a high level of functionality, a new rapid application development (RAD) environment, production quality solutions sites, and prescriptive best practices, your organization can build and deploy powerful e-business Web sites in record time. |
| Improved Scalability and Reliability
The Content Management Server 2002 architecture enables you to scale up and scale out to meet the needs of even the largest global Web sites. |
| Increased Integration with Microsoft Products and Technologies
By integrating with Microsoft's knowledge worker tools, developer tools, and Microsoft Windows Server System products, Content Management Server 2002 enables you to focus your development efforts on your most critical business needs and rely on Microsoft software to power your solutions. Content Management Server 2002 integrates with a number of Microsoft products, technologies, and services including: | • | Visual Studio .NET for Web site development. | | • | Microsoft SQL Server™ for content storage. | | • | Microsoft Commerce Server for content profiling, personalization, product catalog, and Web analytics. | | • | Microsoft SharePoint™ Portal Server for document management, search, and construction of knowledge work portals. | | • | Microsoft Word for content authoring and publishing. |
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| Greater Interoperability
Support for XML Web services and the Microsoft .NET common language runtime enables your Content Management Server 2002 applications to achieve seamless interoperability with the rest of your business systems regardless of operating environment and development language barriers. |
| Based on Industry Standards
With industry-leading support for standards like XML and SOAP, Content Management Server 2002 ensures flexibility and interoperability with any business partner regardless of their choice of application, platform, or transport. |
| Integrated Management of Code and Content
Manage your content in Content Management Server 2002 and code in Microsoft Visual SourceSafeŽ or other source code management system. Content Management Server 2002 integrates the source code management system of your choice into the Web site by means of Template Objects and Visual Studio .NET, enabling you to provide your business users and developers with the appropriate user interface. |
