Full name of the product:

The current version or release of the product:

First year this product had its introduction:

Commercial off the shelf (COTS), toolkit or tailor made:

Full name of the vendor:

General phone number of the vendor:

Website of vendor or community (please include http://):

Website of product (please include http://):

Full name of the vendor contact person:

Total amount of employees:

Cooperation with other vendors, partners, etc.:

Revenues and/or market cap, etc.:

Origin of the vendor:

Number of installs:

References where the product is installed and operational:

Short description of the product:

Short description of the vendor:

The areas in which the product has its installed base:

Sales and/or distribution method for the product:

Editor is home made, or third party:

Clean up tool for MS Word and other text editors:

Content can be previewed before publishing:

Support for uploading images from a web browser straight into the editor:

Automatically resizing images by both measures and file size:

Support for uploading files (e.g. Office document, .pdf) from a web browser straight into the editor:

Editor supports generating electronic forms:

Form editor supports automatic form validation:

Support of a spell checker:

Support of a thesaurus:

User dictionaries for adding custom words:

Type of editing: whole page, text area, context sensitive, form wizard, inline editing:

Editor presents WYSIWYG and/or HTML, XHTML or XML:

Supported editors:

Transformation of files to content repository from desktop applications e.g. MS Word:

Supported file formats:

Support for inserting links:

Supported lay-out scripting:

Supported validations:

Technology used (ActiveX, JavaScript, DHTML, other):

System is home made, or third party:

System stores relevant information about the content including name, folder, creation time, creation user, time last modified, user last modified by, workflow status, lock status, last published time, and user last published by:

Support of automatically classification of content (based on e.g. a thesaurus or taxonomy):

Emails automatically triggered at specified intervals notifying a user when content is about to expire:

Ability to do a full-text search of content in the system:

Ability to separate pure content from presentation elements allowing the user to focus on specific information:

Support for navigation menus to be automatically generated based on the current folder of the page:

Ability to organise and repurpose digital assets (e.g. streaming video):

Ability to secure the distribution, and disable the illegal distribution, of paid information items:

Support for creating any type of template with no limitations:

Ability to have custom JavaScript and DHTML pop-up menus created automatically:

Automatically checking for broken links with a warning for each broken link:

Ability to automatically translate both interface and content to different languages and/or cultures:

Ability to do a full-text search of metadata in the system:

Ability to publish the same content to multiple servers for load-balanced and mirror server environments:

Support for managing content for multiple domain names from a single content repository:

Support for automatically generating links to the available page formats (e.g. to a 'printer friendly version'):

Ability to match content to the individual:

Ability to publish data from a database and/or backoffice application through portlets:

Support for links to be automatically generated to the previous and next page as ordered in the system folder:

Ability to generate a publishing report detailing what content was published, length of the publishing process, etc.:

Support for a complete sitemap to be generated automatically:

Content can be published through a staging server:

Support for scheduling a specific start and end (expiration) date and time for content:

Supply of content for reuse and integration with other material:

Templates can be made with industry standard tools lijke Macromedia Dreamweaver and Adobe GoLive:

Ability to set-up predefined content defaults:

Support for a visual layout of the template with different regions and page content differentiated:

Ability to define regions in a template whereby content can be plugged in through a visual interface:

Track changes between content updates with highlights of content differences:

The extent to which a system contains separate components (like granules):

Supported protocols of publishing content:

Support for templates to generate HTML, XML, WML, and PDF content:

System is home made, or third party:

Ability to lock content to a specific user while it is being edited or otherwise being modified by another user (mostly the editor):

Ability to store documents into 'virtual maps' similar to network (user) directories:

Ability to create ad-hoc dossiers for documents:

Ability to print document independent from the original application:

Ability to view the document independent from the original application:

Ability to modify the document independent from the original application:

Ability to automatically digitalise paper documents (e.g. through HCR, OCR, ICR):

Ability to create an image from a paper document by scanning:

Support of document security (watermark, electronic signature, etc.):

System stores relevant information about the document including name, folder, creation time, creation user, time last modified, user last modified by, workflow status, and lock status:

Availability of a secure and common web environment in which multiple users can work on the same content:

Support of automatically classification of documents (based on e.g. a thesaurus or taxonomy):

System is home made, or third party:

Ability to archive email attachments as a separate entity:

Ability to read emails independent from the original email client:

Ability to store emails independent from the original email client:

Ability to retrieve emails independent from the original email client:

Ability to print emails independent from the original email client:

Ability to send emails independent from a email client:

Ability to send emails to multiple individuals (e.g. subscribers to a news letter):

Support of e-mail clients:

System is home made, or third party:

Ability to search for information items (webpages, documents, etc.):

Ability to search for any (combination of) word or number:

Support of boolean values (AND, OR, NOT):

Support of wild cards (*) :

Support of range operators (e.g. >):

Ability to refine the search within a search result:

Ability to search for metadata:

All search keys are automatically marked within the selected information item:

Automatic language recognition:

Support of indexing:

Ability to built an index of external information sources (e.g. websites):

Ability to ignore misspelled words etc.:

Support of semantic search:

Ability to sort the search results:

Ability to store search result for reuse:

Support of relational taxonomies:

System is home made, or third party:

Support of automatically classification of documents (based on e.g. a thesaurus or taxonomy):

Ability to create a permanent archive:

Ability to destroy archives:

Information items that are once stored cannot be modified in any way:

Ability to automatically generate a protocol of clearance:

Ability to registrate storage terms:

Ability to registrate destroying terms:

Ability to destroy (parts of) an archive batch wise:

Ability to destroy archives ad-hoc:

System is home made, or third party:

Ability to manage the workflow of digital information items:

Ability to create custom workflows:

Ability to create unlimited workflow steps:

User management system that scales for organisations of all sizes:

Support for users to modify the person responsible for each workflow step in an ad-hoc manner:

Support of multiple roles within the workflow:

Ability to create custom roles:

Ability to filter certain steps based on a specific group or role of user:

Ability to prevent individual users (or groups) from access to (parts of) documents:

Ability to generate security levels to documents or information items:

Ability to generate access rights to individual users (e.g. read, write, modify, delete):

Ability to change the status of a document or information item:

Ability of adding an electronic signature to a document or information item:

Ability to make information unrecognisable for non authorised individuals:

Automatically creating retrievable backups of information items with the ability to purge old backups:

Ability to register and store the complete history of any document or information item:

Ability to restore a document or information item in a controlled way:

User-specific dashboard outlining the tasks to-do:

Support for email triggers at each step in the workflow process to notify the next applicable user of their requested input:

Password encryption in the database to prevent access to the product through a compromised database:

After authenticating a user, a cookie is instored in the browser with only one session value to prevent malicious users from accessing private information in the cookie:

All changes to content in the system are logged to the specific user including the date/time, type of content, and content action:

Everytime a user logs into or out of the system, the IP address is logged in the database:

Support for developing custom triggers to talk to legacy systems or third-party applications:

Support of integration with individual users and/or user groups within a network directory:

Indication of the average license cost (in euro):

Open source, proprietary or other:

GNU, Mozilla, other, none:

Download page (please include http://):

Indication of the average investment needed (in euro) e.g. license, installation, implementation and maintenance:

Hours and/or days for a typical install of the product:

Indication of the average implementation time needed (from installation to acceptation):

Ability to rent/lease the product at an Application Service Provider (ASP):

Indication of the average cost for rent/lease per year (in euro):

Entity the license price is based on (CPU, domain, number of records, users, etc.):

Supported open standards:

Supported de facto standards:

Supported XML standards:

Supported metadata standards:

Supported security standards:

Supported interface standards:

Supported technical standards:

Ability to configurate the user interface without interference from the vendor:

Ability to automatically backup the repository :

Ability to restore (parts of) the backup :

Full program functionality available from a standard web browser :

Ability to store certain frequently generated information items in cache:

Ability to import information items and/or their metadata:

Ability to export information items and/or their metadata:

Ability to balance the work load of the system:

Entry, processing and storage of XML in an XML-database:

Web page with technical white paper(s):

Supported application server(s):

System architecture (n-tier, object oriented vs. Relational, component based, etc.):

Supported browsers when operating the system:

Supported native connections (no ODBC or JDBC) with databases:

Supported framework(s):

Supported operating system(s) on client and/or server:

Supported programming languages:

Supported server side scripting languages:

Supported web server(s) the application runs on:

Documented Application Programming Interface (API) available:

Documented datamodel available:

Web page (please include http://) with the demo, trial, sandbox or prototype download:

Web page with documentation (please include http://):

Fixes and updates are available:

Helpdesk for 1st and/or 2nd line support:

Available helpdesk hours:

Availability of specific on line help within the give context:

All error messages describe the problem, the cause and the solution or work-around in a user friendly way:

System Developers Kit (SDK) available:

Service Level Agreement (SLA) or maintenance contract possible:

Total number of employees that are involved in support and/or implementation of the system:

Availability of a user group or community:

Web page of the developer group or developer community (please include http://):

Web page of the user group or user community (please include http://):

Ability of demo, trial, sandbox or prototype:

Available documentation:

Frequency of releasing updates:

Available languages for both interface and documentation (Please press Ctrl to select more than one language):

Available on line help:

Source code available:

Training possibilities:

Components that are included with the product at no additional cost (please press Ctrl to select more than one component):