August 21, 2007; 01:29 AM
San Francisco, Calif. (PRWEB) August 21, 2007 --The Plone Foundation today announced the launch of Plone 3.0, the
new major release of its leading open source Content Management System.
The newest release focuses on increasing productivity, automating
processes and enabling a richer, more intuitive user experience for the
enterprise.
Plone 3.0 provides a simple to use, scalable and accessible system for
enterprises to organize and disseminate content. Features include
automatic versioning, ajax-powered editing, comprehensive search,
greater visibility into who authored and changed what, and the
automatic management of relational information. A host of other
enhancements include easy collaboration and information sharing for
individuals or groups, powerful workflow, a lightweight automatic
locking and unlocking system for editing and specialized search engine
support.
"Initially we purchased a top-tier commercial CMS for managing our
websites, but found that customizing it to our needs was overly
complex. We ended up replacing the proprietary system and other
solutions with Plone,” says Kim Eaves, Director of Electronic Marketing
at Novell, Inc. “Plone’s out-of-the-box functionality and add-on
modules enabled us to create a user-friendly solution that has the
features we need, including handling content in multiple languages.”
New in Plone 3.0:
Full Versioning Support:
- Automatically keeps track of changes and makes it easy to see who has done what.
- See
a full history of edits, compare revisions and roll "back to the past"
without doing multiple manual saves – the ultimate undo.
Inline Ajax Editing and Wiki Functionality:
- Makes content creation, production and editing faster and more efficient.
- Creates the ability to quickly link information within documents to create connections in unstructured content.
Live Search For All Files:
- "As-you-type"
search function automatically combs through PDFs, Images, Word, Excel,
PowerPoint, web pages and additional add-ons to find the content users
are looking for.
Automatic Integrity Checks:
- Automatically
keeps track of document movement from one location to another so old
links never break — they are transparently redirected to the new
location instead.
- Notifies users of dependent relationships so they know if they delete an image or document that is used in other documents.
Strengthened Security:
- Plone
did a comprehensive security assessment and strengthened systems
security, building on its reputation of having the best security among
other competing systems.
- Improvements on the usability side
makes it easier to avoid security accidents by content authors and
publishers. The visibility increases transparency to information trails
and authors.
“Content management for media companies has become extraordinarily
complex,” says Amos Kenigsberg, Discover Magazine’s Web Editor. “We
chose Plone over other solutions because of its ease-of-use, strong
open source community and robust feature set including multimedia
capabilities with videos, blogs, podcasts, photo galleries and RSS
feeds.”
“Plone 3.0 is the most anticipated and substantive release of Plone
yet,” says Alexander Limi, Plone co-founder. “Our momentum has grown
tremendously over the past few years, and we recently reached one
million downloads. This release marks the tipping point of Plone in
both the mainstream as well as the enterprise.”
For more information about features included in Plone 3.0 visit: http://plone.org/products/plone/features/3.0
About Plone
Plone, the leading open source Content Management System since 2000,
allows users to install websites in a day and manage content throughout
the years. Thousands of organizations around the world including
Akamai, eBay, the CIA, and Oxfam use Plone to customize and develop
websites that mature with their organizations’ changing needs. Plone is
available in over 35 languages, can be deployed on all platforms and is
not locked to a single vendor. The Plone ecosystem is composed of
thousands of developers, over 150 consulting companies in 43 countries,
user groups all over the world, several books and 24-hour support
forums and commercial support channels. Take control of your content,
visit www.plone.org.