First Web CMS-based solution providing simplicity and quick results for remote site editors with centralized control of brand and web strategy
San Francisco, February 5, 2008 - Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management System (CMS) and portal software, today announced Foundry, a centrally managed, multi-site solution that enables businesses to simultaneously create and manage individual affiliate websites. Foundry is the first Web CMS-based solution that enables large organizations to maintain brand integrity across thousands of websites, while enabling local site owners the ability create unique, compelling web properties.
Foundry is ideal for organizations such as enterprises, municipalities and unions which are responsible for campaign sites, chapter-based sites, school sites, etc. A typical customer faces the need to deploy and maintain hundreds to thousands of websites. With this integrated solution, organizations can support thousands of websites on a single server and can easily scale across multiple servers to handle the largest organizations around the globe.
With the Foundry Control Center, Sitecore provides centralized administrators with the ability to provision new sites in 3 clicks, and manage branding, features and content across the sites managed within Foundry, significantly reducing ongoing operations effort. Foundry maintains central branding control by providing configurable “skin packages” that can be selected and personalized by each local affiliate site, while those options are managed centrally by Foundry administrators. Foundry’s wizard driven controls and modules simplify configuration of new affiliate sites and supports multiple languages, making it especially appealing to international organizations that are spread throughout the world.
“Sitecore’s Foundry will revolutionize the way distributed organizations manage their affiliated websites,” said Darren Guarnaccia, VP of Product Marketing. “It is an indispensable tool which, for the first time, allows distributed organizations full control over how their network of affiliates and business partners communicate and brand themselves. At the same time, it allows these organizations to offer a single, manageable platform providing enhanced web capabilities normally out of reach to their smaller affiliates. Foundry unleashes the untapped power in distributed organizations for website communication.”
For each local site owner, Sitecore’s Foundry provides an array of ready to run functionality such as calendaring, forums, email and SMS communication, extranet security, photo galleries, and others. With these capabilities, along with Foundry’s Wizard-driven configuration screens, local site managers can have their new sites configured and running in as little as 10 minutes.
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 Web sites 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 Web sites. These organizations have created and now manage over 5000 dynamic Web sites with Sitecore including Microsoft, Sara Lee, Siemens, Toshiba, Omni Hotels, Computer Associates, WebTrends and Atlanta Falcons.
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