Content Management Systems (CMS)
Content is the life blood of any website, but as your website and business grows, managing all that content and keeping it fresh, accurate, and relevant can be a real challenge. Before long you've got megabytes of web pages, images, videos, and downloads, and no one on your staff knows what's up to date and what's not. That's when you've outgrown your basic Dreamweaver or GoLive system. You need a Content Management System or "CMS".
A CMS can do much more than just the basics of managing your content. It gives you a tool for keeping your brand and your customer experience fresh; for moving quickly and adapting to changing realities and opportunities; for marketing to new and existing customers more effectively.
Searchlight Group can help. We offer two industry leading CMS's - Sitecore and DotNetNuke - for enterprise, departmental, and small business applications.
Sitecore
Searchlight Group was contracted by one of our Fortune 1000 customers to research the best of breed enterprise scale content management systems. After evaluating the industry leaders, Sitecore came out a clear winner. We were so impressed with Sitecore we became a Sitecore Certified Partner and implemented our own website in Sitecore!
Sitecore A/S has produced the Sitecore content management system since 1999. They are a leading provider of innovative CMS software and associated products. Sitecore complies fully with the Worldwide Web Consortium's open Internet standards, for example SOAP (web services) and XML, and are committed to Microsoft's .NET technology. The result is one of the most versatile systems available on the market.
The Sitecore reach is global and they service a broad spectrum of successful businesses. The Sitecore CMS currently delivers millions of dynamic web pages to these organisations - in fact the world's largest .NET website is built on Sitecore.
DotNetNuke
If you prefer an open source solution, or your needs don't require more advanced features such as workflow, DotNetNuke may be right for you, and Searchlight Group can help.
DotNetNuke is an open-source Web Application Framework ideal for creating and deploying projects such as commercial websites, corporate intranets and extranets, online publishing portals, and custom vertical applications.
DotNetNuke is provided as open-source software, licensed under a BSD agreement. In general, this license grants the general public permission to obtain the software free-of-charge. It also allows individuals to do whatever they wish with the application framework, both commercially and non-commercially, with the simple requirement of giving credit back to the DotNetNuke project community.
DotNetNuke is built on a Microsoft ASP.NET (VB.NET) platform, and is easily installed and hosted. With a growing community of over 440,000 users, and a dedicated base of programming professionals, support for DotNetNuke is always close at hand.