Intranet module provides out-of-the box capability with full-featured web content management
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – August 21, 2007 – Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management (WCM) and portal software, today announced the launch of their intranet portal that enables businesses to leverage their existing web content management system (WCMS) to provide their employees with a highly visual, connected, contextual information workplace. By providing organizations with easy to use tools and rich content capabilities, enterprises and governments can now offer intranets with the same compelling user experience as their website.
Sitecore is the first Content Management System to build out solution packages on top of their WCMS core infrastructure to combine out-of-the box usability with full feature web content. Intranet Portal, the first of these solution packages, is designed to solve commonly required internal communications needs, and directly drives business performance for tangible, measurable results. The Intranet module also is fully customizable, enabling choice of features including global calendaring, discussion forums, opinion polling, canteens and weblogs and blends the best of social computing technologies with structured content management.
“Visually compelling Intranet portals that deliver the right information to its users create an important communications and messaging opportunity that help organizations achieve the high performance workplace,” said Vice President of Product Marketing, Darren Guarnaccia. “Sitecore embraces this challenge by giving businesses the tools to improve internal communications and make Intranets interesting and interactive. This both increases productivity and strengthens employees’ bond with the company.”
Sitecore’s intranet portal solution helps customers decrease IT deployment and operations costs, improve operational efficiency, and provide for faster flexibility to respond-to-market changes. This creative, communications-oriented solution is comprised of hundreds of developed modules, downloadable and ready-to-use. It includes an easy-to-use, unified interface for business users, fast implementation times, 98% retention rate, and high user adoption rates. Marketers highly regard the usability in viewing and sharing information, while IT clients praise the strong development architecture, pure .NET, and time-saving flexibility features.
Sitecore has combined native .NET technologies, worldwide industry standards, and powerful pre-built CMS functionality into the most powerful web management and delivery technology on the market. Sitecore’s .NET based WCM platform provides unlimited flexibility and scalability. Its broad range of business user friendly features combined with strong development architecture enables clients to rapidly implement their online business strategy for both internal and external communication.
About Sitecore
Sitecore’s Web Content Management System (CMS) and portal software solutions enable companies to deliver compelling web experiences. Sitecore’s award-winning CMS software makes it easy for businesses to create and keep up-to-date dynamic, full featured websites of all types. Sitecore’s industry leading flexibility and scalability allows companies to better leverage their content to improve customer experience and drive business growth.
Thousands of public and private organizations, including national governments and Fortune 500 companies utilize Sitecore solutions for their websites. These organizations have created and now manage over 5000 dynamic websites with Sitecore including Sara Lee, Siemens, Toshiba, Dollar Rent a Car/Thrifty, Omni Hotels, Computer Associates, WebTrends and Atlanta Falcons.
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