Liferay Portal Provides Open Source Content Management And Services To Major German Insurer
By CMS-Zone,
on 24-11-2006 16:38
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Liferay Specialists Create Large Consumer Site with Over 350 Pages of Content for Insurer HanseMerkur Under Tight Time Constraint; Search Engine Results Improved
Liferay, a leading provider of enterprise-class open source software products, announced today that its professional services group has implemented Liferay Portal 4.1.2 for the new public Web site of HanseMerkur, Germany’s second-oldest mutual insurance company and a major provider of health, life, travel and property insurance. The site brings new capabilities to both HanseMerkur and its customers, at a cost far below commercially available portal and Content Management System (CMS) alternatives.
Liferay Portal’s economical open source framework provides HanseMerkur with a superior platform for ongoing development, integration and maintenance. In addition to its improved CMS which supports over 350 pages of content, the site offers new customer features such as the ability to initiate an insurance contract online. An improved Search Engine Optimization (SEO) technology also leverages changes in content in real time, thereby increasing the incidence of search engine hits.
Time-to-market is ever more important in today's fast-paced world. While Magnolia is not the first Content Management System to realize this, its solution is unique: it cuts out the two most time-consuming bits of traditional CMS implementation - creating custom HTML and building templates - with an online tool that creates the desired result directly in the browser.
Magnolia Enterprise Edition introduces significant new features and is backed with unlimited support from Magnolia International.
Magnolia Enterprise Edition allows users to:
* create custom layout directly in the browser * display Magnolia content in JSR-168 portals * authenticate and authorize using directory servers (LDAP, ADS) * package content and resources into single entities to facilitate multi-stage deployments.
The Washington Times will integrate Saxotech's online publishing content-management system with its existing Saxotech Enterprise editorial system, giving the paper the ability to generate and stream content to print and Web channels.
Using the same vendor provides seamless integrations and eliminates the need to migrate data or write connection codes, which in turn make implementing the new system easier and less costly, according to WT Internet Director Bob Adkins.
When complete, the multifunction publishing solution will allow the paper to take advantage of multichannel distribution and at the same time permit greater interaction with readers.
Following a nomination round and eight weeks of voting, Packt are pleased to announce Joomla! as the winner of the 2006 Open Source Content Management System Award. Joomla! collects a first prize of $5,000 and the title of Packt Open Source CMS Award Winner for 2006.
The final result, as voted for by judges from The Open Source Collective, MySQL, the Eclipse Foundation, and 16,000 users on www.PacktPub.com saw a tie for first place between Joomla! and Drupal. In the event of a tie, a fourth independent judge would be brought in. This was Apoorv Durga who is a member of CM Pros and runs his own blog [http://apoorv.info/] on portals and content management. This crucial vote ended up with Joomla! triumphing over Drupal by one point. The final result was as follows:
Please note that in deciding the final positions judges were asked to give their top three, with their first choice receiving 3 points, second receiving two points and third place one point. Choosing the top three proved to be a difficult experience for the judges, due to the quality of the finalists and their ability to suit different tasks depending on the objective of the user. "All the CMS’s that made the top 5 are very good" declared Scott Goodwin, representing The Open Source Collective, "and I wouldn't hesitate to use any of them depending on what I'm trying to accomplish."
There has been a buzz lately on the mailing lists of the content management community about "Component Content Management." The discussion was provoked by a 2006 issue of the Forrester Wave on Content-Centric Applications.
During the discussion, information management expert JoAnn Hackos commented that many content management professionals are interested in topic-based authoring using DITA XML, which is not provided in a robust way by the major ECM companies that Forrester analyzed. Ann Rockley, president of the Rockley Group, pointed to a Content Management Technology white paper by Bill Trippe of the Gilbane Group called "Component Content Management in Practice."
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