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Stellent offers website management

19-May-2006

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Marketplace at Large, Universal Content Management

We've been following a kind of rebirth in website management capabilities across the CMS product spectrum (see previous notes on Ektron and Interwoven as representative indicators). Content managers frequently want to control more than just text in the "well" of a web page; they want to control which elements appear and how visitors interact with that information. Now Stellent joins the ranks of CMS vendors offering these sorts of capabilities through a content management interface, with its latest version of Site Studio. For a variety of reasons, I think Stellent's approach will (perhaps predictably) be better suited for Intranet use-cases. In any case, I don't think the marketplace has offered up a significant amount of operational experience here. In general, it's a good thing to give managers capabilities to control applications in ways that previously required developer intercession, but you'll want to think through the implications very carefully -- configuration management being one big issue, I'd think -- and note that products differ in how they enable you to restrict controls.

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