Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™

Effective knowledge and information sharing is vital to any organization. Content management solutions are intended to help businesses manage and distribute information faster and more efficiently.

Whether it is a corporate website to communicate with your clients and general public, an intranet knowledgebase system for employees or a multi-level extranet for your partners, Lock Media will provide you with a robust and easy-to-use solution to communicate over the Web. Understanding clients' processes and taking into consideration their immediate and future needs we provide the "right-scale" solutions:

Types of Content Management Solutions

Web Content Management
Document Management
Knowledge Management
Media and Digital Asset Management
Business Process Management
Collaboration

Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™

Your website is often the very first place a person learns about your organization. Your employees use your intranet to find corporate resources and to tap into the collective brain trust of your enterprise. Partners use your Extranet to gain knowledge and understand of your offerings. Managing a consistent flow of information to all these online domains is vital to the health of your organization. Placing the ability to update the content published within your domains into the hands of those who know it best is a fundamental key to your organizations success.

But how can you publish up-to-the minute news and information about your organization consistently on your website, intranet and extranet when your IT staff is already stretched to the limit?

Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™ provides the power and flexibility to change the way you communicate throughout your enterprise. Extend the reach and effectiveness of your corporate information, without taxing your IT resources. Make all of your information highly available and actionable for your employees, customers and partners.

Content-driven Application Features of Web Manager CMS™

Integrated Editing Tools
Powerful authoring tools to create, edit and publish web content, including an easy "Edit this page" interface and WYSIWYG editing.
Non-technical Content Creation and Publishing
Authors require no programming skills or technical knowledge.
Multi-user Editing
Simultaneous users with different editing rights and password protected access.
Content Re-use
Single-sourcing option enabling to use the same content in different contexts or for different user groups.

File and Image Manager
Manage images, files, PDF Documents, Video and Audio.
Version Control
Strict version control ensuring that clashing changes are prevented.
Archiving and Document Lifecycle
Automatic and manual content archiving to reserve and protect information.
Built-in Security
Security and access rights for different types of user: content approvals and go-live authorization.

Indepth Look at Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™

Developing and managing your website, intranet and extranet has never been easier. Through Lock Media's web based content management solution, Web Manager CMS™ you can ensure that your website is cohesive, and easy to navigate. Create page templates, edit content, define workflows and assign levels of content approval all from a browser window. With Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™ all your graphics, photos, video and documents that are published on your web site, intranet and extranet are stored in a secure, central location. You use one repository to feed all of your online domains streamlining your storage and retrieval processes.

Through a fully deployed install of Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™, you can provide a constant flow of information and news items from almost any structured text-based source. Update content automatically from any ODBC compliant database. This will allow you to control such services as RSS feeds, Podcasts, and other published streams of information. With the Web Manager CMS™, you can easily import your information from legacy systems, external databases or text-based formats.

Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™ helps you manage all of your information in a central and secure way. Web Manager CMS™ lets you introduce online collaboration and business process automation securely to foster innovation and add new value to your enterprise. Web Manager CMS™ supports your organization as it changes, offering a suite of tools that introduce a new level of control over your information. You select only the tools you need, and add others as your business evolves. Through the Web Manager CMS™, you are free from the usual IT overloads and costs associated with programming, now your subject matter experts and key stakeholders can easily manage your published information.

Through the added value of Lock Media's Application Service Provider (ASP) Hosting Services coupled with the Web Manager CMS™ solution you can take your enterprise domain IT administration to the next level.

Benefits of Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™

Easy to Use

Imagine placing the ability to change specific areas of your website into the hands of the people who know the information the best. Doing so might mean expensive training and a lengthy learning curve, right? Not with Lock Media's Web Manager CMS™.

Users can now edit each area on a page. Access for each page, and the individual page areas are granted through the Lock Media Web Manager CMS™ permissions-based security model. Users can edit the page area through the standard text publisher.

Web content changes are instantaneous, and users see the page while they work exactly as it will appear on the website to your visitors. Web Manager can even enforce your content approval processes automatically through email notification and content flagging for publishing.

Easy to Deploy

There's no expensive client software to install for each user. Through a browser window, editing your site with Web Manager CMS™ is as easy as clicking on the content you wish to modify. The interface is so intuitive users can be ready in hours – even for those with little or no technical expertise.

Easy to Administer

With Web Manager CMS™, your users change only the specific areas that you allow. Grant any user access to a specific page area through the administrative interface. Web Manager CMS™ supports your authentication structure, and supports your LDAP implementation. Web Content Management with Web Manager CMS™ can enforce your content approval processes automatically, by ensuring every update follows an individual workflow process that you define.

Web pages, made simple

Building a website, intranet or extranet couldn't be any easier. You simple use the Web Manager's intuitive tree-structure interface to build page templates for your entire site with a uniform look and feel. Construct individual pages in minutes, with minimal skill. Determine the navigation between pages, and see the page hierarchy of your site as it's developed without the need for hiring a senior level programmer.

Create and update your sitemap automatically

Generate a map of your site automatically as you build it, and understand how visitors will navigate from page to page. See the structure of your entire site in an intuitive "tree" interface. Increase the efficiency of your site structure before you publish to the web, by reducing the number of clicks needed by web site visitors to reach important information. You can even display the sitemap visually in HTML, XML or XSL(T).

Make your site intuitive for your visitors

Anyone visiting your website will always know where they are with Web Manager's Breadcrumb Navigation capability. At a glance, users will see the page hierarchy above at the top of the current page. Each page shown in the navigation is an active hyperlink that can take them directly to any page in the navigation path.

Global Stylesheet

Create cascading stylesheets that can be used across all of your online channels. Web Manager offers an intuitive stylesheet administrator that includes a visual editor. With minimal skill, anyone can develop CSS elements true to your corporate styles and employ them across your website, intranet and extranet.