Go Live Today -- Magnolia Reduces Enterprise Content Management's Turnaround Time to Zero

November 16, 2006; 03:10 AM

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 International celebrates Magnolia's third anniversary with the release of Magnolia Enterprise Edition, a major upgrade to the leading JSR-170-based Enterprise Content Management system.

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

Magnolia Enterprise Edition is available for download today from http://www.magnolia.info

Sitedesigner(TM)
In addition to Magnolia's powerful custom template abilities Magnolia Enterprise Edition introduces Sitedesigner to create complete web site layouts directly in the browser. Unlike standard template-based approaches that simply let a user pick between a couple of predefined layouts, Sitedesigner completely replaces traditional client-based web design tools. This has significant benefits:

* fully working prototypes can be build within hours
* new ideas can immediately be realized online
* layout (as well as content) is versioned and changes can easily be undone
* updates are painless, since no custom templates are involved

Sitedesigner produces valid XHTML, generates and consumes RSS, provides functionality for news items, glossaries, FAQ's, podcasting, multimedia, mp3's, navigation, sitemaps, imagemaps, custom CSS, analytics and statistics integration, content inheritance and seamlessly integrates into the Magnolia document management system. In addition it can easily be extended with custom functionality without breaking the upgrade path.

JSR-168 Portal Support
Magnolia EE is delivered with Portal integration that allows you to publish content to any JSR-168 Portal with Magnolia's renown ease-of-use.

Magnolia's distributed architecture provides unique benefits for large-scale portal deployments. Each portal can contain its own copy of Magnolia as a subscriber to the Magnolia author environment. This eliminates the traditional communication bottleneck between a portal and its content delivery system and allows for unlimited scalability and speed.

LDAP/ADS Directory Support
Magnolia Enterprise Edition uses JAAS, a standard for authentication and authorization. This standard allows to use JAAS modules to implement single-sign-on requirements or connect to existing directory servers. Magnolia contains functionality to connect to ADS and LDAP servers for user authentication. This makes it easy to deploy Magnolia in large scale intranet settings where user management infrastructure already exists.

Package Manager
The Package Manager allows anybody to bundle arbitrary content, including templates, files and static resources, into a single entity. This makes the Package Manager an ideal tool for custom backups, delivery of updates and multi-staging scenarios.

Magnolia Enterprise Edition is available for download today from http://www.magnolia.info

About Magnolia International
Magnolia International Ltd. is the creator of Magnolia - Simple Enterprise Content Management, a leading commercial open-source Enterprise Content Management System.

Magnolia is a registered trademark of Magnolia International Ltd.

Sitedesigner is a trademark of Magnolia International Ltd.