What's New?

At the heart of the Immediacy Web Content Management Suite is the Immediacy CMS, more specifically described as a Web Content Management System. Now at version 6.2, this system is acknowledged by industry observers and analysts as one of the UK’s leaders. It has wide UK adoption across both private and public sectors and an active and vibrant user community.

Content Management System (CMS)

 

New features include...

 

  • The core system and also the wide range of plug-ins have been upgraded to .NET 2
  • More flexible ASCX templates can now be created for Immediacy sites via Visual Studio
  • Membership capacity has been increased from 32 groups to unlimited
  • Improved plug-in registration using .NET2
  • Enhanced upgrade utility
  • Blogging capability 
  • OpenSearch™ plug-in
  • RSS (Really Simple Syndication) plug-in enhancement
  • Menu page plug-in
  • Robots.txt file administrator 

 

In addition to these new capabilities and features in the core CMS, the Immediacy Web Content Management Suite incorporates the following new developments...

Web Asset Manager (WAM)

Originally developed and described as a Document Management System, the Immediacy Web Asset Manager is now at version 2.1 and has been evolved to provide much greater repository support to the Immediacy CMS.

 

New features include...

 

  • Integration with the CMS Media plug-in to enable management of rich media assets
  • Combined CMS/WAM search plug-in
  • Performance boost
  • Integration with the Immediacy Taxonomy and Categorisation Manager (TCM) 

Taxonomy and Categorisation Manager (TCM)

Immediacy TCM is a new development that is integrated with the CMS and WAM to provide auto-categorisation of content in conjunction with a managed taxonomy.

SharePoint Connector (SPC)

Immediacy SPC is a new development designed to connect information residing in a SharePoint environment to Immediacy driven websites in intranet, extranet or public site scenario.

Deployment Server (DS)

Immediacy Deployment Server is now at version 4.2 and provides the capability to upload content to multiple servers.

 

New features include...

 

  • New transmission mechanism. Default HTTP on port 80. Encrypted by default
  • Improved logical analysis of documents to upload based on a log file that records changes
  • Selected live document upload from WAM
  • Selected live list upload from SharePoint as XML
  • Selected live file upload from ICE as XML
  • Bi-directional support for live site to staging
  • Improved log manager
  • Roll-back to previous version