Multi dimensional CMS pages for an Intranet
Some time ago content management system controlled pages in Claromentis, like many CMS systems, used to be largely flat. You created content, you built links to other version controlled information – for example in documents within the document management system – and you tried to make sure that over time the page stayed fresh and helpful to users – and of course that the links didn’t get broken because someone deleted the document without telling you.
With good templates they were still effective – but they were, I think, kind of flat.
I just want to outline some of the CMS changes in the post 5.5 Claromentis platform that make content managed pages much more multi-dimensional.
They have made a real difference not just to our clients but also our own intranet so I am going to use that as an example:
Smart Objects
Smart objects take some other part of Claromentis – the document management system for example – and produce a dynamic permission based view of it from within the content managed page.
So for example on our own sales page we produce a view of document folders- sales collateral and information for our partners. These are truly dynamic views – the objects are seen through the visitors eyes and so look different according to your permissions in the DMS – no links are needed, nothing is static.
Components
These can be included on templates to include equally dynamic views of a business process that is set up and configured using Process Manager.
So on our sale departmental home page there is a real time view of people accessing our demo site, and we can dynamically click on any of these sales leads to automatically, for example, create a company Opportunity and contact record in our sales manager CRM system.
We can also of course include permission sensitive menus within the template for such a departmental home page – again a dynamically changing set of resources that makes perfect sense for that department and reacts according to the permissions of the user.
When we describe these changes they are probably hard to imagine, but the difference in the freshness and deep functionality that can now be presented using CMS is absolutely massive.