SYNTAGS ContentBase

SYNTAG ContentBase as a central information platform on a Lotus Domino basis turns all employees into editors who rapidly create and maintain contents for their specialized departments, without recourse to programming functions. Strict separation between design, content and administration provides for an optimal division of labor: responsible and quality-oriented teamwork as a precondition for efficiency and quality. Only thus can detailed information be presented in a way that's factually correct, technically sophisticated yet timely.

The bridging of pure Web Content Management and Enterprise Content Management brings up the subject of integration: if back-end systems are integrated, data can be exchanged and administered over a central hub--preserving all user authorizations and data formats.

Page design--whether for the Internet, intranet, extranet, WAP or PDA--is carried out by classical Web designers. The contents are maintained by specialists or taken over from central word-processing systems; responsibility for the administration of authorizations and the underlying data-processing landscape lies with the administrator. Now, a new press release or a new job posting are only a few mouse-clicks away, and HTML skills are neither necessary nor an advantage. The Web becomes an efficient communication vector for all employees.

The content pillars of SYNTAGS ContentBase

Layout constitutes one of the two main pillars of a Web Content Management System. Here, SYNTAGS ContentBase stands on very firm ground: use native HTML code, generated and administered with your favorite HTML editor, and employ this layout for your site--without worrying about the limits of dominos, without designer client and authorizations, without domino skills. Generally, contents are not invented for the Web but arise on a daily basis in the existing IT systems, which correctly require the older authorizations. With SYNTAGS ContentBase, you integrate data from third-party systems in part with fewer mouse-clicks, optionally live or via cache, thus generating dynamic added value on the site without additional complexity. Whether it's information systems for employees, suppliers, management or potential customers--an information advantage also means a service advantage, what may turn out to be that decisive step closer to the customer. To mix content and layout is the task of a Web Content Management System, and application logic is the answer: starting with "intelligent layout", down to complex applications such as online shops, SYNTAGS ContentBase allows free programing on the basis of different scripting languages. Free instancing also on distributed systems and platform independence (every Domino platform) allow unlimited adaptability--from department intranet to group extranet, whether individual system or server cluster. The ball & chain for every good Internet/intranet design is a software system which can't keep up with success.
Optimized data management ensures high performance even on low-priced hardware--up to a 14 times higher than with classic Notes Web applications. Thus, an important factor, which up to then had often weighed against the use of a Domino server as a productive Web server, is eliminated: if your Domino server provides insufficient performance on your hardware, then just host your SYNTAGS ContentBase-administered site on an Apache--for the best of both worlds...