Modern enterprise model requires that organization WEB presence is not
limited to just putting the static content on the Web and then contemplating it
stoned without having appropriate mechanisms to apply timely changes to it.
While this issue has never been totally disregarded, however the need for
changing Web content in the runtime while the main application runs in the
deployment environment has always been a daunting task that must be completed.
Why Content Management with IT4 Site Management system?
IT4 Site Management system is a template-driven solution for organizing and
deploying content to Web sites and Web-based applications. It is a solution for
companies that need to focus on creation and organization of site content
independent of the runtime environments where it is deployed. Currently the
IT4profit system supports four separate approaches to building an
enterprise–wide environment within the IT4profit model: Content Management,
Order management, Connectivity and Site Management. With the proposition of the
WebSite Management system, IT4profit accomplishes the offering of a completely
integrated, scalable and customizable enterprise environment built on the
IT4profit ASP model.
IT4 Site Management system is a synergistic solution that arms the companies
with instruments to effortlessly enhance their WEB identity while still
completely running their working environments on the IT4profit platform. So far
it firmly integrates with the IT4profit catalog and is conceived to integrate
with other IT4profit applications in the future.
The IT4 Site Management system is aimed at building corporate faces, customer
– facing web sites, entry points to international company sites (IT shops).
High-visibility sites, Corporate branding and maintaining corporate identity
tasks are the areas primarily addressed by the Site Management system. Pacy
company environments and non-technical approach to hiring personnel are the
major concerns in organizations and driving factors that push companies on to
using this solution. It enables different task-teams to manage how they update
the content components that appear within Web pages.
Benefits of using Site Management
Site Management simplifies the whole process of setting
up and running a site by eliminating the need to access technical experts such
as web site designers, HTML experts and programmers.
The main benefits of the system are:
- Site Management allows you to concentrate on your
marketing plans and the products you sell, without getting bogged down in
technical issues. It firmly integrates into IT4profit structure without the need to start a new
development environment.
- You can run one or more sites generated by the
WebSite Management system alongside your existing corporate web site. Just put
the appropriate links from or to your site where needed and your complete corporate web presence
is ensured.
- You can build multiple localized versions of your
site generated by Site Management so that the worldwide international presence of your company
will be carefully preserved.
- Site Management uses standard technologies. No
transaction charges are used, so that running costs are kept low.
- Site Management makes it easy to design, build and
install professional looking sites, enabling them to be up and running within
hours. Because it firmly integrates with the IT4profit system, it combines the
deployment and running schedules. Regardless of what time the deployment function has been scheduled the sites
will not stop running and updating in runtime.
- To use Site Management, you do not need specialized
technical knowledge. This ensures that you can keep your product lines
up-to-date and keep maintenance costs low. However it is extremely flexible providing all of
the latest functionality to edit it in the
Web browser in the run
time.
What does "Managing Your Corporate Site" mean?
The Web Content management solution delivers a
comprehensive framework for creating, editing, changing and deploying the site
content for various sites residing on the IT4profit platform. It provides a
template-driven environment that separates the instances of various site components (images, text content, links) from their
pure appearance within the WEB pages. This approach that does not require huge
technical resources allocated, will lead companies to new levels in achieving technical and market dominance.
Managing your Corporate Sites means having total control
of the structure and physical pool of HTML documents that compose your site.
Like any other web site would require, controlling the structure of your site
requires the same tasks. This means that each HTML document will have its unique
place within the site structure, the URL address that will call the required page and the
components (elements) it consists of.
Integration into the IT4profit ASP platform
Because the IT4profit system separates the development
and runtime processes, the basic message of the WebSite management system is to
decouple the user from developing the site components himself. The WebSite
Management system supports the so-called nesting paradigm, by means of which the user can build a site from
components specifically developed for him on request.
Individual companies or multilocational affiliates that
have built on the IT4profit structure and host their accounts on it, can easily
communicate with IT4profit system through the touchpoints, that are their
individual websites that lead their customers through the welcoming entry sites
to the core of the IT4profit functionality. This approach shapes the reliable
groundwork for communicating with the customer side. Companies Web initiatives
can be easily controlled and maintained not only for centralized but for every
geographical location. The IT4profit system organizes web applications
to reflect their relation to geographical locations by providing virtual hosts
for each application and location in one of the proposed ways
like shown in the table below. |