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Hello All,

 

Consider the following, and increasingl common, problem many large organisations face as their networks of related sites grow. In a nutshell many of the sites under a common corporate brand have been built ad hoc, as depatrments, franchisees, offices embraced the web at different times.

 

The result. Branding, management and administration nightmare, with multiple code bases, hosting environments, design agencies and site owners running semi-autonomously. Not to mention the marketing opportunities missed by not being able to publish common content globally, and consistently.

 

Don't even talk about development costs!

 

Smart organisations realise that all those services can be supplied in-house using Sitecore technology, and they can regain control over the brand and message, permanently.

 

Sitecore Foundry is a multi-site management application that has the ability to create entire new content managed, feature rich wesites in a few clicks. These sites can be deployed at no cost, and in a matter of seconds.

 

Lets take a look, below I've logged into Sitecore, and opened the Desktop, which now shows the Multi Site Control Centre:

 

Well well. First blog since taking the National Sales Manager spot at hot CMS developer and vendor Sitecore. Great software, great people, great company - you have to like a trifecta.

 

It's been a heck of a first 6 weeks, with some sales, some new partners and of course the Australian Partner Conference at Port Douglas.

 

Phil Heltewig (GM Sitecore Australia) and I manned the booth by day, then did the mandatory party thing by night. Needless to say it was a successful and enjoyable few days. In the sun. On a beach. Middle of winter. Oh Yeah!

 

Sitecore demos so well that we attracted excellent prospects - drawn by the combination of power, usability and sheer UI beauty. It's such a common comment - just how great it looks.

 

We also got a lot of traction from MOSS implementors, who see Sitecore as a valuable add-on to tame the challenges of internet facing MOSS. Sitecore has a MOSS connector that integrates with SharePoint security allowing MOSS assets to be published within the Sitecore ECM framework - providing the ability to publish synchronised content from MOSS across multiple domains. Easy to build, easy to deploy. Wrapped in an XHTML compliant publishing system with full versioning, strict standards compliance and 100% .Net scalability and extensibility.

 

The SharePoint Connector module works with both structured content managed in SharePoint lists and document-based content stored in SharePoint libraries.

When copying content from SharePoint, the module will literally duplicate the structured content or documents within the Sitecore repository. When synchronizing content, the module will reference the structured content or document within SharePoint’s repository.In either situation, whether the content is copied or synchronized, SharePoint structured content and documents will appear and behave as native Sitecore content. This enables content editors,web administrators and web developers to apply Sitecore’s tool-user security, extranet security, workflow, versioning and other attributes to this content. In addition, SharePoint-based content can now be web-enabled through Sitecore—allowing the quick and simple delivery of SharePoint content to any Sitecore managed web site.

 

Using the module, web administrators can map SharePoint lists to Sitecore structured content items and SharePoint document libraries to folders within the Sitecore Media Library. Once the mapping is complete, Sitecore will automatically copy or reference the specified content within SharePoint.

 

After all, MOSS is routinely extended by Nintext, K2 and any number of line of business applications - why not leverage the investment by using a fully featured WCM to surface the fruits of all that fantastic collaboration?

 

Anyway for the Sitecore Australia team Tech Ed is next, then Gartner, then regional domination.

 

Simple.