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CS EMMS Suite


  
 
Product

  
 Product name: CS EMMS Suite

  
 Version / release: 4.1

  
 Introduction year: 2005

  
 Product type: Tailor Made

  
 Vendor name: ContentServ

  
 Phone number: +49 8442 9253 -861

  
 Vendor website: http://www.contentserv.com
  
 Product website: http://www.contentserv.com/3.1/contentserv.com/index.php?StoryID=2727
  
 Vendor contact: Veronica Lipthay

  
 Employees: 26 to 100 employees

  
 Partners: About 30 active partners worldwide

  
 Revenues: n.a.

  
 Origin vendor: Germany

  
 Number of installs: 101-500

  
 References: www.tele5.de
www.wbv.de
www.kath-akademie-bayern.de
www.tiba-academy.de
www.quadriga-news.de
www.merz.de
www.mpr.de
www.sparkassenverband.de
www.verischerungsdienste.de
www.ilsemedia.nl
BMW Group
VoestAlpine
And many more...

  
 Product description: The ContentServ EMMS Suite envelops more than simple Content Management. It stands for Enterprise Marketing Management Solutions and a holistic approach, aimed at providing full-scale support of all marketing activities. Thus, it also includes Cross Media Publishing, Customer Relationship Management, Catalog and Product Information Management, and also Media Asset Management, to name a few. The EMMS Suite provides a highly professional solution for the creation and maintenance of content, regardless of whether it is to be published in web, print, or other forms of media. Particularly attractive are the numerous possibilities to steer and control all processes concerning content. Among these are a detailed Workflow Management, intelligent definition of user rights, Version Management, and many more.

  
 Vendor description: ContentServ GmbH produces innovative software products for professional business solutions specializing in the areas of marketing, sales and communication. A special focus lies in process optimization both for editing and in the cross media publication of content. With this basic orientation ContentServ GmbH can offer a large range of fully integrated marketing and business solutions - for medium-sized businesses and also for large corporations. As a spin off company of the media house Kastner AG, ContentServ has the backing of more than a century of experience in media management and handling publishing processes. With its sister and partner enterprises, ContentServ covers the complete product and service spectrum in marketing, sales and enterprise communication.

  
 Sales methods: Online, Implementation partners, Resellers, Sales force, Other
  
 Installed base: Agriculture and forestry, Manufacturing and engineering, Agriculture, forestry, Financial services, banking, insurance, real estate and legal, Professional services, Telecommunications, energy and utilities, Manufacturing, Healthcare and pharmaceuticals, IT companies (software, hardware and services), Electronics, Aerospace, automotive, Public sector (local and national/federal government), Education, Printing, publishing, media and entertainment, Transportation, distribution and logistics, Travel, hospitality and leisure, Retail, trade and wholesale, Business and/or IT consulting, legal employment and miscellaneous services, Marketing, communication, media, pr, creative and web agencies, Utility, Other
  
 
Editing

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Clean-up: yes
  
 Preview: yes
  
 Uploading images: yes
  
 Resizing images: yes
  
 Uploading files: yes
  
 Form editor: no
  
 Form validation: no
  
 Spell checker: yes
  
 Thesaurus: yes
  
 User dictionaries: no
  
 Editing type: Whole page, Text area replacement, Context sensitive, In line editing
  
 WYSIWYG or HTML: WYSIWYG, HTML, XHTML, XML
  
 Editor support: MS Word, WordPerfect, StarOffice, Open Office, Quark, MS Fontpage, Dreamweaver, Other
  
 Edit features: Tables, Bullets, Font size, Font type, 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, None
  
 Lay-out: CSS, XSLT, XSLFO, Other
  
 Validation: HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, XSD (XML Schema), DTD, Other
  
 Technology: ActiveX, JavaScript, DHTML, Other
  
 
Content Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Automatic metadata: yes
  
 Classification: yes
  
 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: yes
  
 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, Local file system
  
 Template output: HTML, PDF, WML, XHTML, XML, Other
  
 
Document Management

  
 Tool status: Homemade

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

  
 Tool status: Not available

  
 Archiving attachments: no
  
 Reading email: no
  
 Storing email: no
  
 Retrieving email: no
  
 Print email: no
  
 Send email: no
  
 Send to subscribers: no
  
 Integration email application: no
  
 
Information Retrieval

  
 Tool status: Homemade

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

  
 Tool status: Homemade

  
 Classification: yes
  
 Permanent archive: yes
  
 Destroying archive: yes
  
 Authenticity: yes
  
 Protocol of clearance: yes
  
 Registration archive terms: no
  
 Registration destroy terms: no
  
 Batch destroying: no
  
 Ad-hoc destroying: yes
  
 Phases: Semi-static, Static
  
 Storage media: Cd-rom, Paper, Other
  
 
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: yes
  
 Encryption: yes
  
 Version control: yes
  
 History: yes
  
 Roll-back: yes
  
 To-do: yes
  
 Email triggers: yes
  
 Password encryption: yes
  
 Session cookies: yes
  
 Audit trail: yes
  
 Login logout audit: yes
  
 Extensible triggers: yes
  
 Network directory: Active Directory, LDAP, NDS, Other
  
 
Investment

  
 License cost (euro): 5,001 to 10,000

  
 License type: Proprietary

  
 Open source license: Other

  
 URL download: http://csnet.contentserv.com
  
 Total cost of ownership (TCO): Between 4.000 € and 60.000 € depending on requirements

  
 Typical installation time: 2 hours

  
 Implementation time: Depends. Tele 5 has been implemented in 8 days

  
 ASP: yes
  
 Price rent/lease: Depends on requirements

  
 License model: CPU, Domain, Amount documents, Named user, Concurrent user, Other, None
  
 
Standards

  
 Open standards: CSS, ECMA-262, FTP, Gzip, HTTP, IMAP, MIME, LDAP, MDA, SMTP, TXT, Other
  
 De facto standards: WinZip, .pdf, Other
  
 XML standards: DOM1, DOM2, DTD, RDF, RSS, Xforms, XHTML, Xlink, XML, XSD (XML schema), Xpath, Xquery, XSLT, XSLFO, Other
  
 Metadata standards: Dublin Core, EDIfact, GML
  
 Security standards: 3DES, HTTPS, SSL, XML Encryption, XML Signature
  
 Interface standards: JDBC, ODBC, SOAP, UTF-8, WebDAV, WSDL, Other
  
 Technical standards: TWAIN

  
 
Technology

  
 Adaptable user interface: no
  
 Back-up: yes
  
 Restore: yes
  
 Browser based: yes
  
 Caching: yes
  
 Import: yes
  
 Export: yes
  
 Load balancing: yes
  
 Native XML: yes
  
 URL white paper: http://csnet.contentserv.com
  
 Application server: MS. NET, SAP AS, Zope, Other
  
 Architecture: Client/server, Component based, N-tier, Object oriented, Relational, Other
  
 Browsers: IE 5.0, IE 5.5, IE 6.x, Other
  
 Databases: IBM DB/2, MS Access, MS SQL Server, MySQL, Oracle, PostGresQL, Other
  
 Framework: Midgard, MS .NET, Perl, PHP, Zope
  
 Platform: Linux, Windows 2000, Windows 9x, Windows NT, Other
  
 Programming language: Java, Perl, PHP, Python, VB, Other
  
 Scripting language: ActiveX, ASP, C++, COM+, Java, JavaScript, JSP, Perl, PHP, SSI, Visual Basic, Other
  
 Web server: Apache, Tomcat, Other
  
 
Support

  
 API: yes
  
 Datamodel: yes
  
 URL demo: http://www.contentserv.com/csg
  
 URL documentation: http://csnet.contentserv.com
  
 Fixes and updates: yes
  
 Helpdesk: yes
  
 Helpdesk hours: Normal working-hours. With special contract 24/7

  
 Context sensitive on line help: no
  
 Self explaining error messages: yes
  
 SDK: yes
  
 SLA: yes
  
 Support people: 6 to 25 employees

  
 User group: no
  
 URL developer group: No Developer Group

  
 URL user group: No User Group

  
 Demo: Demo, Prototype, Trial, Other
  
 Documentation: Users, Service people, Developers, Other
  
 Update frequency: 3 to 5 times a year

  
 Language: English, French, German, Spanish, Other language
  
 On line help: Users, Service people, Developers, Other
  
 Source code: Available

  
 Training classes: Users, Service people, Developers, Other
  
 
Components

  
 Free components: Other

  
 Additional components: Sign up for news, Forum/Discussion group, Chat, Faq, Questionnaire, Image convertor, Poll, Guest book, Mail a friend, Statistics, Ask a question, Shop, XML Convertor, Other
  
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