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Crown Peak’s Content Management System (CMS) can give users greater control over their web presence.


Content Management

Advantage Content Management System (CMS) is designed for the non-technical "subject matter expert", thereby allowing greater access and control over the web presence. In an era of tight budgets, the system enables marketing and communications professionals to control costs and lighten the IT burden that often accompanies traditional content management systems. CrownPeak provides powerful features, such as user administration, workflow configuration, and template management through our administrative interface for non-technical users to control.

As a service to the Commonwealth of Virginia, Virginia.gov offers Virginia government entities the CrownPeak Advantage CMS at a substantial discount.

  • 100% Browser based (IE 5.0 or higher)
    Mac compatibility is possible with some combinations of O/Ss and Browsers, and via PC emulators.

  • Easy to use for non-technical business authors.
    Interface can be configured with as much control as is needed by each group of users. If you have an IT staff that can help, a high level administrative account can be established.

  • High level of personalization and individual user preferences
    Users can manage their contact information, avatars, and very detailed notifications for events and asset state changes at the folder or asset level. In addition, visual annotation styles, login page and many other system aspects can be tuned by each user to match their own individual style.
    Every aspect of the system is covered by a hierarchical permissions system where asset visibility and management is controlled by combining group, workflow, and asset permissions. Users will not see content in other groups.

  • No installation
    All functionality is provided by the basic Internet Explorer installation.

  • Interface gracefully scales from beginners to administrators
    The hierarchical permissions allow capabilities to be finely tuned. Users can only use and assign permissions that they have been granted. This approach allows several administrative levels if desired, or parallel administration (department administration, agency administration etc.).

  • Multiple navigating modes
    Different modes are available to facilitate different user experiences depending on users experience, preferences and access levels to the system:

  • Administrative Interface can be localized to any language
    8-bit and UNICODE are supported. Current translations include several common European languages, but other language translations are available.

  • Collaboration Features
    Collaboration is an important part of Advantage CMS, and many collaborative features are built right in to the system. These features help ensure a robust user experience, and make the system friendlier to use.

  • Full Task management (assign, receive, track and search)
    The task management system also includes email notifications to draw occasional users into the system when required.

  • Page annotations for image and text highlights
    The visual page annotation system allows users to collaborate by marking up documents with notes. Notes can be attached to text and graphics. The text annotations follow the text even when it is edited, and the graphical notations can be dragged to any location. This feature is ideal for environments with heavy workflow, such as healthcare legal and regulatory approval chains.

  • Comments available for all assets
    Comments are maintained and displayed in chronological order. In addition, all visual page annotations are logged in the comments. When a document is rejected, checked out or checked in, the user is prompted to add comments to help improve communication about these important asset control activities.

  • Alerts with very fine granularity
    Each user can configure his or her own email notifications for any state change on any asset or folder. This is an incredible degree of granularity for any CMS, and allows some powerful capabilities. For example, an editor can choose to be notified on any new press release requiring approval, or a manager can choose to be notified when any changes are made to the live site. Similarly and author can opt to be notified when their article is finally approved. All of these notifications are easily configured by the users themselves so they can add as much or as little notification as they need over time.