Open Text Releases Web Site Management 10.1

Open Text Corporation, the provider of enterprise content management (ECM) software, announced the availability of Web Site Management 10.1, featuring usability enhancements to accelerate common tasks and make it easier for website managers to integrate with corporate information and resources along with a sample project that speeds up delivery of new websites. It also offers integration points to many consumer social applications including Facebook and Twitter as well as enhanced native social capabilities with Open Text Social Communities. A key member of Open Text’s portfolio of Web Content Management (WCM) products, Web Site Management is a Web site application that helps keep content fresh and relevant and offers extensive multiple-language support and social tools. One of the focus points for Web Site Management 10.1 was to make it easier for editors and administrators to complete website management tasks, as well as accelerate daily editorial work. On the back-end, Web Site Management 10.1 features a number of enhancements to servers for management and delivery of content, including a new graphical user interface that aligns the different server components.  A new online help for administrators offers advanced search functionality and a clearer navigation structure so information can be found more quickly and easily. Also contributing to usage training is a new best practice project that provides an extensive set of pre-defined content classes and templates, along with SAP Portal examples. On the integration front, Web Site Management 10.1 allows users to tap the social capabilities in Open Text Social Communities (formerly Vignette Social Media) and lets them take advantage of Open Text Media Management 7 for managing digital media assets from across an enterprise. It also enhances third-party application integration with extended portlet connectors. Using a new HTTP connector, various types of social media components, such as Facebook or Twitter, can be added and administered. Behind the scenes, Web Site Management 10.1 incorporates more than two dozen smaller feature enhancements and fixes, along with improved cluster performance for larger websites. http://www.opentext.com/