Web Effectiveness Blog
A recent post by Eric Brown on CMSWire about multi-site management in leading open source Web CMS platforms made me realize we’ve done a poor job of explaining this functionality in SiteExecutive. According to Eric,
“Most organizations are looking for a single solution to manage multiple sites – whether they be microsites for marketing campaigns or fully fledged Websites. This means multi-site management capabilities are becoming a critical differentiator for Web CMS solutions...”
Enabling multi-site management with the open source CMS products highlighted in Eric’s article: Plone, Joomla and Drupal, requires a collection of third-party plug-ins. Surprise, these third-party apps are not always free or easy to implement – and sometimes they don't deliver a secure, complete solution.
SiteExecutive enables multi-site management out of the box. Key features and capabilities include:
- Ability to spawn and manage multiple sites from a single SiteExecutive instance
- User permissioning and isolation down to the object level on any individual site
- Workflow applied to the object level on any individual site
- Content syndication across one or multiple sites
- Replicate entire sites for development testing
- Manage all modules and applications from a single interface
- Integration with Active Directory or LDAP for easier management of large user communities
Bottom line: If you’re a developer and have plenty of time, resources and a patient user community, delivering multi-site management with an open source CMS might be a good idea. If you’re looking for a secure, proven approach to multi-site management that works out of the box, we think you’ll find SiteExecutive the way to go.
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