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One CMS, Multiple Sites

27-May-2003

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, , Universal Content Management

Many organizations have multiple websites. But nearly everyone is trying to consolidate their content management infrastructure. How do you balance centralized facilities with distributed rights? Stellent has come out with a new add-on module called Site Studio, which is designed to devolve a lot of typical system administration tasks out to business users while maintaining a central library of corporate code objects and content assets. Most enterprise-level CMS packages allow you to do this now, albeit in different ways. We think Stellent's offering needs a lot more work (e.g. it lacks any meaningful object dependency reports, so the cascading impact across multiple sites of changes to a shared piece of content or code cannot be foreseen. Ugh.) There is one thing Stellent got right, however, that a few of its competitors still have wrong: with Site Studio, department directors can manage all user rights for their team without having to rely on a central SysAdmin...
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