eZ publish
eZ Publish is an award-winning, enterprise-grade open source content management system (CMS) and development framework. It includes advanced functionality suitable for web publishing, media portals, intranets, e-commerce and extranets, and is used worldwide by organizations including multinational corporations, humanitarian organizations and educational institutions. While much of eZ Publish's functionality comes out-of-the-box, its real power lies in its award-winning customisation capabilities. eZ Publish simplifies user interaction and user-generated content, enabling powerful, customised websites to be built quickly.
eZ Publish is a leading global open source CMS for the media, publishing and entertainment industries. Media groups around the world use eZ Publish for their digital publications, including Groupe Edipresse, Schibstedt, Lagardere Group, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation and Prisma Presse. Among eZ Publish's advanced features are the functions required for enterprise level scalability and performance, including load balancing, clustering and caching. eZ Publish also features a content reuse model suitable for multiple international sites hosted using a single instance of the CMS.
features
- Content model: flexible and customizable content model that enables you to define a content structure that is instantly available for publishing.
- Website Interface: quick and easy for editors browsing the front-end of the website to edit content without specialist IT skills.
- Administration Interface: powerful back-end interface enables you to edit site content and settings.
- Online Editor: integrated WYSIWYG editor providing formatting functions similar to word processing applications (no HTML coding required).
- Web 2.0 features: tagging, blogs, forums and polls are all built-in eZ Publish features.
- Content syndication: content can be published in multiple formats including PDF, RSS, print, email.
- E-commerce: fully-featured webshop.
- Search engine optimization: sitemaps, friendly URLs, and easy management of key XHTML tags are all built-in.
- Scalability and performance: eZ Publish is cluster-ready and has a four-tier cache system, making it capable of running enterprise-size websites.
- OpenOffice and MS Word import/export: create or edit site content in your favorite word processor when you are offline, then upload the document through either a WebDAV client or the front-end of your site to generate or update articles, documentation pages and so on.
- WebDAV import/export: import and export batches of site content with a WebDAV client.
- Multi-language management: all content can be translated to multiple languages, making it easy to maintain a consistent brand across languages and countries by having to administer only one website.
- Version management and auditing: access to older versions of content enables editors to check for inconsistencies or errors in the content and optionally revert to earlier versions, and all content changes are automatically tracked and logged.
- Cross publishing: content can be re-used throughout the site, avoiding inconsistent duplicates that are difficult to maintain.
- Security: multi-level, role-based user access and permissions system, with SSL support.
- External integration: LDAP support, ERP integration and the extension system enable eZ Publish sites to interface with external systems.
- Web accessibility: W3C WAI and Section 508 compliant.
More information: http://ez.no