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Question:
What is Web Content Management?
Answer:
It is the controlled separation of technology (the structure of the Web Pages look and feel) and content (up-to-date information).
By separating technology and content, the roles of the Web Developer and the non-technical Content Owner can be separated. This enables Web Sites to be updated more timely and efficiently..
Question:
Why do I need a Web Content Management System?
Answer:
The power of the Web is in its ability to get the right information to the right audience at the right time. Potential customers need to make informed decisions and existing customers need relationship. Business partners want information and employees want to be empowered. A fully functioning, up-to-date Web Site will help you specifically target your audiences with the information they need when they need it. And make no mistake; the way your Web Site looks and operates is how everyone perceives your organization operates.
Question:
What expertise does Revize Software Systems have in the area of Web Content Management?
Answer:
Unlike most of our competitors, Revize Software Systems has been immersed in managing "content" before the Internet took off - since 1995. Our focus early on was "content" in multi-media applications as we provided services to our clients helping them create and maintain "content" on CDs for marketing, training and employee information requirements.
Then came the Internet explosion. Importantly, we built tools to help ourselves do a more timely and cost-effective job adding and editing content.
The evolutionary result is Revize®. Its legacy has been borne out of a "pragmatic need", not conceived in a marketing meeting "deciding" what the world needed. This gives us a healthy focus and results in our continual relationship with our customers, that is, were always listening to their practical needs.
Question:
What is Revize?
Answer:
The Revize Web Content Management System is a software product that enables clients to easily update and quickly deploy their Web Pages, improve management and control of their Web Sites, and reduce costs associated with development and ongoing maintenance.
Specifically, Revize is a platform-independent "Commercial-Off-The-Shelf" (COTS) software product that:
Installs in less than one (1) hour
Stores Web Page Templates (structure) separately from Web Page Content (text, images, files and documents).
Enables non-technical Content Editors to quickly update their Web Page (or sections thereof) using "Contextual Edit Forms" -- Edit Forms that look like the Web Pages they are trying to update; also, Revize supports Global Objects, that is, you can change certain content "once" and have it replicated throughout your Web Site with automatic publishing of the affected Web Pages.
Enables Web Developers to quickly build Templates that control the "look and feel" of the Web Site "where they want it controlled" while giving sophisticated Content Editors the ability to control sections of a Web Page.
Has tremendous "extensibility" through powerful APIs allowing dynamic, visitor-driven functions and access to legacy/production systems and databases; Revize is a JAVA-based product that supports any programming language including .NET.
Comes complete with its own embedded Relational Database and Application/Web Server software resulting in the lowest "Total Cost of Ownership" (TCO) on the market today.
Best of all, Revize is priced as a Server Software License with Unlimited Users, Unlimited Developers, Unlimited Administrators, Unlimited Web Sites and Unlimited Web Pages.
Question:
How does Revize help me?
Answer:
There are two kinds of users that benefit from Revize:
Content Contributors:
Changes information through the use of Revize, using a Web Browser. Instead of pushing content changes through another person (usually a Web Developer), they are empowered to make these changes themselves, without having to learn anything about HTML!
Web Developers:
Creates Web Sites, including the look and feel, decides which parts of the site will be editable, and who will have access to them.
Additionally, by building sites incorporating Revize, Web Developers are no longer a bottle neck to content changes. Even a Web Developer that depends on content changes for income can perform those changes faster and more efficiently. And management can control the quality of changes via Revizes Workflow Manager that allows customers to implement a review and approval process prior to critical information being published to their Internet Web Site or Intranet/Extranet Web Sites.
Question:
Is Revize really easy for a non-technical person to use?
Answer:
Revize was designed to be used by non-technical people. Content owners from a variety of disciplines including Marketing, Human Resources, or other operating areas of the company have found that the Revize editing process, that is, Content Editors use the Web Site to "navigate" to the Web Page they want to change, particularly effective - no need to learn another "user interface". Using Revize's uniquely intuitive Contextual Edit Forms, the non-technical Content Editor feels very comfortable "editing" their Web Page.
Our clients have told us that Revize is very intuitive and easier to use than any other Web Content Management System they have seen demonstrated.
Question:
Why choose Revize?
Answer:
One reason why companies of all sizes are choosing Revize is that it is the simple common sense solution that installs quickly and easily, runs reliably and empowers non-technical people to update their own content through intuitive "Contextual Edit Forms". Additionally, Revize is a practical COTS software product that reduces hardware costs (Revize can easily run on a low-end server), software costs (you don't need to purchase a database such as SQL Server or ORACLE, nor do you have to purchase an Application/Web Server such as Websphere or Tomcat. And Revize supports operating system alternatives such as LINUX and UNIX.
Bottom line: Revize is simple, practical, effective, scalable and affordable.
Question:
Who are your clients?
Answer:
Revize Software Systems has produced positive economic results for a diverse group of clients in a variety of markets including Business, Government (Federal, State, County and City), Colleges and Universities and Non-profit organizations (Hospitals, Research, Associations).
For additional information, we invite you to look at our partial client list and our case study reports in our Customers Section.
Question:
Can I build my own Content Management System?
Answer:
Yes you can, but why would you? You have better things to do.
And it is a lot of work - and nobody knows this as well as Revize Software Systems. Revize Software Systems created Revize with a complete set of practical features in response to real customer requirements including Global Updates, Workflow Management, Scheduled Publishing, Archiving/Roll-back, Audit Reports, etc.
And on-going maintenance needs can be a nightmare of costs and disruption of priorities as Users will always want more capabilities and new versions of server software will always require modifications and testing.
Question:
Does Revize work on our public sector Web Site?
Answer:
Revize is currently used by many local, state, regional and federal organizations. The Revize eGov - Portal for County & City Governments was especially designed to meet their needs (i.e., provide information and services) in serving their constituents.
Question:
Can I keep a custom look and feel with Revize?
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Absolutely. Revize totally supports your existing investment into your current Web Site. Youll be able to carry that look and feel to new pages in a quick and easy manner with the Revize Template approach. And by creating standard templates, you will be able to enforce your desired "image" across the whole organization or individual departments.
Our Government customers have even taken our Portal Templates and quickly (in a few hours) implemented their own "look and feel" stamp on the Portal.
Question:
What limitations are there in the creation of any look and feel?
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None.
Question:
Is Revize simple to install and use?
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Thats an important question. Because Revize is a complete, self-contained, out-of-the-box solution (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf), it is installed and ready to go in less than an hour, saving your organization precious time and expense. Nor will Revize training drain your IT staffs schedule. The Revize Administrator is trained in 2-4 hours, the Revize Web Developer is trained in 8-12 hours, and non-technical content editors require the least training of all: one half hour to one hour depending on the number and complexity of the Web Pages they need to update.
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Can I install Revize on more than one computer?
Answer:
Revize is licensed by Server with Unlimited Users, Unlimited Developers, Unlimited Administrators, Unlimited Web Sites (URLs) and Unlimited Web Pages. And since Revize is totally browser-based (it supports IE 5.5 and above, Netscape 6.2 and above), NO CLIENT WORKSTATION SOFTWARE IS REQUIRED.
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Does Revize work on Internet, Intranet and Extranet Web Sites?
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Absolutely. Revize has been proven in all three applications. In fact, one (1) Revize Server Software License can publish to virtually an unlimited number of Web Servers, Internet, Intranet, Extranet and Web-enabled Wireless Devices - simultaneously. We can't imagine trying to deploy an Internet, Intranet or Extranet Web Site without the advantages of Revize!
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How many Web Sites can I support with one copy of Revize?
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Unlimited - You can run as many Web Sites on one copy of Revize as you'd like.
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Can I control what content contributors can change? Can I make it vary with the content contributor?
Answer:
Revize ensures that IT retains control of Web Pages and Web Sites via the construction of Templates. It also allows IT personnel to easily designate areas on each Web Page for non-technical Content Editors to change. For example, one of five images on a page might be designated for one Content Editor, two for another and two will never be changed by a Content Editor these will be controlled within the Template maintained by the Web Developer. Likewise, five paragraphs of text might be likewise designated. And IT can use Revize to give Content Editors as much power as desired. Content Editors can be permitted to create new Web Pages (using pre-developed Templates) as well as the "navigation" (the links) to the new Web Pages.
Question:
Can I import copy or graphics from my database to change content?
Answer:
Revize has the ability to copy and paste content from WORD documents retaining WORD formatting. Additionally, Revize Templates can be developed to update text using style sheets and update images, graphics, sound, video, documents, PDFs, etc. from your computer or elsewhere on your network. Lists and links can be easily added, updated and deleted.
A common use of Revize is to quickly and easily create phone/contact lists and add, preview and update "Global Objects" (i.e., objects used by many Web Pages).
Question:
Does Revize have security and workflow controls?
Answer:
Revize has a customizable Workflow Management feature that provides an automated review and approval process (with multiple reviewers and approvers) prior to publishing Web Pages to your Web Server including check in/out, approval, versioning and email notification. You also have the ability to define multiple workflows with concurrent review/approval activities. That includes Audit Trail Report of all changes.
Additionally, Revize has a mature security model encompassing Users and customer-specific Roles and Permissions. And Revize supports LDAP.
Question:
How does Revize work with FrontPage or Dreamweaver, or my editor of choice?
Answer:
Web Developers can utilize any Web Page development tool including native HTML to define their Web Pages. However, Revize has a Dreamweaver Extension that extends the power of this prominent tool and encompasses the entire Revize Web Developers Template creation processes.
Regardless of the tool used, the Web Developer identifies which content will be changed by Content Editors -- from simple paragraph text to complex indexes of links -- and then establishes "placeholders" for the content that will be added/maintained by the Content Editor as assigned in Revizes security model.
Question:
Does Revize work on MacIntosh?
Answer:
Yes, Revize has been successfully implemented in the Mac environment.
Question:
Why shouldn't content contributors just use an HTML editor, or Save As HTML' from other applications?
Answer:
If your Web Site is just used as a repository for flat pages of text, "hypertext" features are not being leveraged. Not only must the design reflect the layout, but also the structure of information. Instead of a page, perhaps there is a set of links in an index. How does someone with limited technical knowledge extend the structure of a site in a controlled manner? They can't!
Question:
How is Revize priced?
Answer:
Revize has the lowest Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for a full sized Web Content Management System. Period!
Whether you are a Fortune 100 corporation, a Federal Government agency, or a small NPO, Revize is scaled to meet your needs at a budget that makes sense for you.
There are two primary reasons why Revize has the lowest TCO on the market today:
Revize's COTS architecture combines into one software product a Web Content Management System, a Relational Database, an Application/Web Server and a Publishing Engine. No need to purchase additional licenses (which license by processor and can exceed $20,000) for 3rd Party databases (e.g., SQL Server, ORACLE) nor 3rd Party Application/Web Servers. ITS ALL INTEGRATED WITH REVIZE - one vendor to call!!! And one more important feature Revizes Intelligent Publishing Process. This innovative technology provides quick publishing requiring only a "low end server".
Revize's pricing is based on a Server Software License with UNLIMITED USERS, UNLIMITED DEVELOPERS, UNLIMITED ADMINISTRATORS, UNLIMITED WEB SITES (e.g., URLs) and UNLIMITED WEB PAGES!!! Annual Maintenance (including upgrades) and Customer Support is included in the license price for the first year!!.
Question:
What is Revize's Architecture?
Answer:
Revize is an "open architecture" product based upon industry standards and built in pure JAVA providing Cross-platform Support.
Revize comes complete, integrating its Web Content Management functionality with an embedded Relational Database and Application/Web Server.
Question:
Can I use Revize with other server software products?
Answer:
Yes you can use Revize with SQL Server or ORACLE instead of its embedded database. Revize is SQL, ODBC and JDBC compliant. Additionally, you can run Revize on any Application/Web Server such as Microsoft IIS,IBMs Websphere, TOMCAT, etc. Also Revize can run with any kind of server side scripting
Question:
Does Revize separate templates from content?
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Yes while both Templates and Content are stored in Revizes embedded database (or 3rd Party database if the customer chooses) they are separated. This enables both to be easily updated.
Question:
Does Revize support any popular Web Development tools?
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Yes - Revize has a special Dreamweaver Extension that greatly extends this market leading Web Development tool (over 75% of market share).
Question:
Does Revize require any special Client Workstation software?
Answer:
No - Revize only requires a standard browser for ALL interfaces - Developers, Content Editors, Administrators and Visitors. Specifically, Revize supports IE 5.5 and above and Netscape 6.2 and above.
Question:
Does Revize have internal security?
Answer:
Yes - Revize has a sophisticated security model enabling customers to control Users and define custom Roles and Permissions. Revize supports both LDAP and the JAVA 2 Security Model.
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Does Revize support pre-generated pages?
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Yes - Revize will generate (or re-generate) Web Pages whenever Templates or Content changes. Additionally, if the Template needs to perform any visitor-initiated "dynamic" functions (e.g., log-in, search, access databases, etc.), the Templates will contain the code (in HTML, .JSP, .ASP, .NET, etc.) to perform that processing.
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What platforms does Revize work on?
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Revize is platform independent and is certified on Windows NT/2000/XP, Red Hat Linux 6.2/7.2, Solaris 8.
Question:
How difficult is to integrate Revize with other applications?
Answer:
With its APIs, Revize is exceptionally extensible. Templates can easily be created to interface with other applications/databases or perform sophisticated dynamic processing.
Question:
What about wireless?
Answer:
Revize can publish to any Web-enabled Wireless Device.
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