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• Find out how Luminis Content Management Suite (CMS) empowers those outside of IT to create and edit Web content easily while reducing the IT department's need to maintain web pages.
• Also learn how institutional web design standards can be balanced with varied departmental website needs.
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Introduction
Hi, my name is Roger Johnson
I will be your Avatar* for this session
*Avatar-representation of a human in a virtual environment
Please ignore the narrator behind the monitor and
please pay attention to me,
up here.
I’m the one who will be taking
you through this tour of Luminis
CMS
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Introduction
• This session is meant for a non-technical audience and will show the value and benefits of using the Luminis Content Management Suite (Luminis CMS) in higher education
• This session will explain how Luminis CMS:• Empowers those outside of the IT department and lowers the IT
burden of creating and maintaining Web content
• Helps departments add and update content easily on the institution’s external and internal Websites
• Establishes consistent look-and-feel, navigation, and branding throughout the institution’s internal and external websites
• Balances cross-institutional needs with support for individual departmental character on the web
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Agenda
• Problems Faced by Higher Education
• Solutions Provided by Web Content Management
• Overview of Web Content Management
• Benefits of the Luminis Content Management Suite
Source: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management, 2007, K. Shegda, K. Chin, M Gilbert, D. Logan, T. Bell21 September 2007
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Source: Magic Quadrant for Higher Education Administrative Suites, 2006, M. Harris, M. Zastrocky, J. Lowendahl,26 September 2007
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2006 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
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Overview: What is Luminis CMS?
SourceContent
www
Policies &Procedures
People(e.g. Authors & Approvers)
Internal(e.g. Staff
& Students)
Portal Channels/ Web Pages
LUMINIS CMS CONSUMERS
External(e.g. Future
Students& Alumni)
PUBLISHED CONTENT
Luminis CMS provides the tools and environment that enable your people to create, maintain, re-use, assemble and deliver timely and accurate web content.
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• Site Studio, the application created by SunGard Higher Education that sits on top of Documentum
• Easy to use interface• One location for
workgroups, templates, components and some system managementDocumentum - Core application,
provides management services for repository objects- version control - access control- rendition management - workflow
The Luminis CMS Architecture
Docbase – Comprised of Proprietary File Store and Relational Database• Content Server houses the directories• Database holds metadata tables & indicesDocumentum Admin configures LDAP
Import CMS users from Luminis Portal LDAPCMS users authenticate via LDAP at login
End Users access Public and/or Portal content published from the CMS
Site Caching Source transfers static, rendered pages to the Site Caching Target(s) on the destination Web server(s)
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XML Content Creation
• Separates content and formatting for consistency and efficient division of labor
• Supports multiple server technologies
JSP
(Format)
XMLXML
XMLXML
XML
(Content) XHTMLXHTML
StaticWeb Page
(xhtml, php,asp or jsp)
=+CSS
(Presentation)
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Authoring - In-Context EditingIn-context editing allows non-technical users to edit their content while protecting areas you don’t want changed
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Authoring - Site Studio Site Studio is the web-based application where users
create and manage their content from a browser
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Authoring - Site Studio (continued)
Actions Menu
Object Info Object Menu
Breadcrumb
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Acquire - Import
Imported items are added
• Images• Media (audio, video)• Office and PDF docs• Other formats
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Acquire - Import
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Aggregate & Process
Components are added
• Re-usable text content• Inserted into a page• Often created by someone else
Cool beans!
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Aggregate & Process
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Aggregate & Process
Page content can be linked• Content flows into another page
• Update in one place • Page linking allows multiple views of the same
content.• Template developers can create templates that
allow the content to be displayed in very different ways, but the content all comes from one source.
• Editing of content in one view affects all views of that content.
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Aggregate & Process
Original PageOriginal PageLinked Pages
Original Page
Time Saver!
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Aggregate & Process (Example)
Original PageOriginal PageOriginal Pagesin Browser mode
Original Page in Edit mode
English
English
Original PageOriginal PageLinked Pages in Browser mode
SpanishSpanish
Ole!
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Aggregate & Process
Dynamic Navigation Links
• Navigation scheme coded in the template• Set links for a whole site from one place• No more hand-coding links
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Aggregate & Process
Navigation Links are easily configurable
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Publish
Workflow
• Dept heads can require approval• Automates the lifecycle• Access to approval tasks in Luminis
Overview by Role of Luminis Content Management Suite
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Luminis CMS is a Role-Based Product
• Six user roles• Content Contributor• Content Manager• Workgroup Coordinator (New)• Workgroup Manager (formerly Site Manager)• Template Developer• System Administrator
• User roles are managed on a workgroup-by-workgroup basis
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Roles and Permissions in Luminis CMS
Create Web Pages/ChannelsEdit Web Pages/Channels/ComponentsImport images & PDFsSubmit content for publishingStart Quickflows
Note: Workgroup Manager can assign All user roles and set webview navigation. Workgroup Coordinator can only assign CC & CM users only and set webview navigation for a specific workgroup.
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Assigning Users and Role Management
*Switch between tabs to assign users to the appropriate role
• Increased Productivity: Luminis CMS empowers those outside of the IT department while lowering the IT department’s burden of creating and maintaining Web content
• Increased Usage: Luminis CMS allows departments to easily add and update content on the institution’s external and internal Websites; thus decreasing information rot and increasing Website usage
• Enhanced Reputation: Luminis CMS allows the IT department to establish a consistent look-and-feel, navigation, and branding throughout the institution’s internal and external Websites