Macromedia has announced the Macromedia Web Publishing System, a new solution that provides everything an organisation needs to affordably build and manage Web sites and intranet sites.
The Macromedia Web Publishing System (WPS), available from Macromedia distributor Dax Data, enables tens, hundreds, or thousands of content contributors to publish Web sites for internal and external communications.
The WPS incorporates the market-leading Macromedia Studio MX 2004, Macromedia Contribute 3, Macromedia FlashPaper 2 and the new Contribute Publishing Services. For more information, or to download a preview release, visit www.macromedia.com/go/wps.
"Content management systems have historically been an expensive roll of the dice, with heavy set-up costs and user complexity limiting their adoption," says Jeremy Matthews, MD of Dax Data. "The WPS empowers anyone to publish without the pain and expense of traditional solutions."
Traditional content management systems primarily focus on the complex technical and back-end implementation of Web sites and intranets with little regard for content contributors or total cost of deployment projects that can extend for months. The WPS provides a flexible, affordable, scalable content management solution that empowers content providers while ensuring administrator safeguards to maintain site integrity. WPS deployments can be accomplished in days on existing Web sites without the need for extensive implementation projects and consulting services.
"Flexibility and ease of use are the keys to success for today`s content creation and management systems," says Matthews. "Solutions that extend existing infrastructure, embrace open standards, simplify workflows, and reduce the hoops that users have to jump through to share information at low price points are beginning to break a lot of market perceptions about this space."
The WPS is designed to address the three main constituencies of the Web publishing process: business users, Web professionals, and IT managers. Business users can publish Web content using Contribute 3. Web professionals can design and build Web sites and applications with the professional toolset in Studio MX 2004, which includes Macromedia Dreamweaver Web development software. The more than two million Web professionals who currently use Dreamweaver can now use the WPS to collaborate effectively with the non-technical business professionals who contribute content to the sites they build and manage.
The new Contribute Publishing Services server component included with the WPS allows Web and IT managers to centrally manage users, roles and Web site editing permissions. This new lightweight application is easily installed in minutes on Windows, Linux and Unix servers, or it can be deployed to standard J2EE application environments. It enables administrators to centrally manage access to Web sites, integrate with enterprise systems via LDAP and Active Directory user directories and track publishing activities across large numbers of Web sites and publishers.
"Macromedia Web Publishing System delivers the most important and necessary features found in large-scale content management systems at a fraction of the cost and complexity," concludes Matthews. "The out-of-the-box features, like notifications and hooking Contribute Publishing Services to a directory service, are extremely useful and, because the solution is extensible, it has the ability to build custom solutions."
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