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Component Content Management Solution
The goal of any Content Management System (CMS) is to provide the organization with a repository of reusable content that can be used for information distribution and change management, while leveraging the assets already in place. Where CMS solutions differ is system architecture and implementation. When assessing your CMS needs, it is tempting to go with a one-stop, end-to-end solution, but with these solutions often come the challenges of proprietary languages and methods. Moreover, the proprietary end-to-end solution imposes its environmental needs on the organizations' Information Architecture making it extremely difficult to manipulate or extract your data outside of the proprietary method.
Design Principles for Refresh Software Component Content Management
The foundation of Refresh Software's component content management approach is based on some important design principles:
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Flexibility of choice
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The ability to select best-of-breed components as the underlying foundation for both your information architecture and for your content management system
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Focus on Web 2.0 and SOA-based standards
SR2 at the core is a J2EE enterprise application. SR2 ships with three standard API interfaces including content retrieval, workflow, and SOAP based web services APIs. SR2's APIs are open and configurable to mitigate costs and complexities of integrating with homegrown and 3rd party applications.
"Component content management systems provide truly flexible reuse, with components at any point in the content hierarchy easily created, updated, managed, combined, recombined, and linked." - Bill Trippe, Component Content Management in Practice, The Gilbane Report.
The Importance of XML and SOAP for Content Applications
XML is becoming a standard within enterprises to pass information back and forth between applications. The problem with most applications is that they store and pass XML as binary files restricting organizations from moving to Web 2.0. SR2 alternatively has the ability pull in and push out Native XML content, allowing SR2 to become a tool to help move enterprises to Web 2.0.
SR2's SOAP-based web services API provide information architects and developers the ability to create custom user interfaces on top of SR2's Content Repository. SR2's flexibility provides organizations a solution and a tool to manage very specific organizational tasks.
Benefits of Component Content Management
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Efficient content re-use enabling new ways to monetize and leverage the value of enterprise content
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Eliminates risk of proprietary, closed CMS systems
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Streamlines SOA adoption, and accelerates implementation of customer-facing applications
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Simplifies large, complex enterprise-wide publishing processes
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