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K3CMS PRO


  
 
Product

  
 Product name: K3CMS PRO

  
 Version / release: 3.0

  
 Introduction year: 2005

  
 Product type: Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS)

  
 Vendor name: K3 Innovationen GmbH

  
 Phone number: +49 2421 505 990

  
 Vendor website: http://www.k3-innovationen.de
  
 Product website: http://www.k3cms.de
  
 Vendor contact: Christoph Kruppa

  
 Employees: 6 to 25 employees

  
 Partners: http://www.k3multimedia.de/neue/K3Network/partner.php
  
 Revenues: EUR 500.000

  
 Origin vendor: Germany

  
 Number of installs: None

  
 References: K3CMS PRO 3.0 was realeased in May 2005. There are no new references with this CMS yet. Please visit our website htttp://www.k3-innovationen.de for updated references.

  
 Product description: K3CMS PRO 3.0 is a Enterprise Content-Management-System developed on a Open Source Framework. Its functionality helps easy to create and edit content, has an advanced workflow system, content versioning, multilanguage possibilities, collaboration, e-commerce functionality, a revolutionary content class system, role based access control, discussion forums and much more you can create all kinds of websites.

  
 Vendor description: K3 Innovationen GmbH is the creator of K3CMS PRO, one of the leading open source enterprise content management systems.

K3 Innovationen GmbH was founded in 1997 on the idea to realize innovative solutions in online media.

  
 Sales methods: Other

  
 Installed base: Agriculture and forestry, Manufacturing and engineering, Agriculture, forestry, Financial services, banking, insurance, real estate and legal, Professional services, Church and foundations, Telecommunications, energy and utilities, Manufacturing, Healthcare and pharmaceuticals, IT companies (software, hardware and services), Electronics, Aerospace, automotive, Public sector (local and national/federal government), Consumer packaged goods, Education, Printing, publishing, media and entertainment, Transportation, distribution and logistics, Travel, hospitality and leisure, Retail, trade and wholesale, Oil, gas, mining, natural resources, Business and/or IT consulting, legal employment and miscellaneous services, Marketing, communication, media, pr, creative and web agencies
  
 
Editing

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Clean-up: yes
  
 Preview: yes
  
 Uploading images: yes
  
 Resizing images: yes
  
 Uploading files: yes
  
 Form editor: yes
  
 Form validation: yes
  
 Spell checker: no
  
 Thesaurus: no
  
 User dictionaries: no
  
 Editing type: Text area replacement, Context sensitive
  
 WYSIWYG or HTML: WYSIWYG, XML
  
 Editor support: Open Office

  
 Edit features: Tables, Bullets, Font size, Font colour, Copy/paste, Alignment
  
 Content transformation: Copy/paste, Import, Plug-in, WebDAV, Other
  
 Formats: HTML, XHTML, XML, Other
  
 Insert links: Internal links, External links
  
 Lay-out: CSS, Other
  
 Validation: HTML

  
 Technology: JavaScript, Other
  
 
Content Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Automatic metadata: yes
  
 Classification: no
  
 Content expiration notice: yes
  
 Content search and retrieval: yes
  
 Content vs. presentation: yes
  
 Context sensitive navigation: yes
  
 Digital asset management: yes
  
 Digital rights management: yes
  
 Flexible templates: yes
  
 JavaScript navigation: yes
  
 Link checker: yes
  
 Localisation: yes
  
 Metadata search and retrieval: yes
  
 Multi server publishing: yes
  
 Multiple domain names: yes
  
 Page formats: yes
  
 Personalisation: yes
  
 Portal integration: yes
  
 Previous and next page: yes
  
 Publishing reports: yes
  
 Sitemap generation: yes
  
 Staging server: no
  
 Start and end date: yes
  
 Syndication: yes
  
 Template development: yes
  
 Template gallery: yes
  
 Template layout: yes
  
 Template regions: yes
  
 Track content changes: yes
  
 Granularity: Documents, Pages, Paragraphs, Sentences, No limitations
  
 Publishing protocols: FTP, SFTP, Mapped network drive
  
 Template output: HTML, PDF, WML, XHTML, XML, Other
  
 
Document Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Check in/ check out: yes
  
 Virtual maps: yes
  
 Files (dossiers): no
  
 Printing: no
  
 Viewer: yes
  
 Modifying: yes
  
 Paper digitalisation: no
  
 Imaging: no
  
 Document security: no
  
 Automatic metadata: yes
  
 Collaboration: yes
  
 Classification: no
  
 Formats: Audio, Adobe .pdf, AutoCAD .dwf, Excel .xls, Flash, .gif, .jpg, Other
  
 
Email Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Archiving attachments: no
  
 Reading email: no
  
 Storing email: no
  
 Retrieving email: no
  
 Print email: no
  
 Send email: yes
  
 Send to subscribers: yes
  
 Integration email application: no
  
 Output formats: HTML, Plain text, XHTML
  
 Email clients: Eudora, Groupwise, Mozilla Mail, MS Outlook, MS Outlook Expres, Netscape Mail, Pegasus
  
 
Information Retrieval

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Searching content: yes
  
 Full text search: yes
  
 Booleans: yes
  
 Wild cards: yes
  
 Range operators: yes
  
 Refine search result: no
  
 Searching metadata: yes
  
 Marking of search keys: yes
  
 Language recognition: yes
  
 Indexing: yes
  
 Spidering: no
  
 Fuzzy search: no
  
 Semantic search: yes
  
 Sorting search result: yes
  
 Storing search result: no
  
 Relational taxonomy: no
  
 
Records Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Classification: yes
  
 Permanent archive: yes
  
 Destroying archive: yes
  
 Authenticity: no
  
 Protocol of clearance: no
  
 Registration archive terms: no
  
 Registration destroy terms: no
  
 Batch destroying: no
  
 Ad-hoc destroying: no
  
 Phases: Dynamic

  
 
Workflow Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Workflow: yes
  
 Configurable workflow: yes
  
 Unlimited workflow: yes
  
 User management: yes
  
 Ad-hoc modification: yes
  
 Roles: yes
  
 Roles configuration: yes
  
 Workflow filters: yes
  
 Document security: yes
  
 Security levels: yes
  
 Authorisation: yes
  
 Status change: yes
  
 Electronic signature: no
  
 Encryption: no
  
 Version control: yes
  
 History: yes
  
 Roll-back: yes
  
 To-do: no
  
 Email triggers: yes
  
 Password encryption: no
  
 Session cookies: no
  
 Audit trail: no
  
 Login logout audit: no
  
 Extensible triggers: yes
  
 Network directory: LDAP

  
 
Investment

  
 License cost (euro): 0 to 5,000

  
 License type:

  
 Open source license:

  
 URL download: htttp://www.k3cms.de

  
 Total cost of ownership (TCO): n/a

  
 Typical installation time: Less than 15 minutes

  
 Implementation time: From 1 day, to months

  
 ASP: yes
  
 Price rent/lease: Depends on the project

  
 License model: CPU, Domain, Other
  
 
Standards

  
 Open standards: CSS, ECMA-262, Gzip, HTTP, MIME, LDAP, TXT, Other
  
 De facto standards: .pdf

  
 XML standards: DOM1, DOM2, RSS, XHTML, XML
  
 Metadata standards: None

  
 Security standards: HTTPS

  
 Interface standards: SOAP, UTF-8, WAI, WebDAV, Other
  
 Technical standards: Other

  
 Product certificates: Other

  
 
Technology

  
 Adaptable user interface: yes
  
 Back-up: yes
  
 Restore: yes
  
 Browser based: yes
  
 Caching: yes
  
 Import: yes
  
 Export: yes
  
 Load balancing: yes
  
 Native XML: yes
  
 URL white paper: http://www.k3cms.de
  
 Application server: Other

  
 Architecture: Client/server, Component based, Object oriented
  
 Browsers: IE 5.0, IE 5.5, IE 6.x, NS 4, NS 6, Lynx, Mozilla, Opera, Other
  
 Databases: MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostGresQL
  
 Framework: PHP

  
 Platform: IBM AIX, Linux, MacOS, Sun Solaris, UNIX, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Other
  
 Programming language: PHP, Other
  
 Scripting language: PHP

  
 Web server: Apache

  
 
Support

  
 API: yes
  
 Datamodel: yes
  
 URL demo: http://www.k3cms.de
  
 URL documentation: http://www.k3cms.de
  
 Fixes and updates: yes
  
 Helpdesk: yes
  
 Helpdesk hours: 9.00 - 18.00

  
 Context sensitive on line help: yes
  
 Self explaining error messages: no
  
 SDK: yes
  
 SLA: yes
  
 Support people: Less than 5 employees

  
 User group: no
  
 URL developer group: http://www.k3cms.de
  
 URL user group: http://www.k3cms.de
  
 Demo: Demo

  
 Documentation: Users, Service people
  
 Update frequency: More than 5 times a year

  
 Language: English, German
  
 On line help: Service people, Developers
  
 Source code: Not available

  
 Training classes: Users, Service people
  
 
Components

  
 Free components: Other

  
 Additional components: Other

  
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