CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 April 2005
Product News
Serena Streamlines Web Content Management; Integration of Macromedia Contribute with Serena Collage Provides Customers with a Powerful Way to Manage and Update Website Content
SERENA Software, Inc. announced that the next release of Serena® Collage®, the company's web content and change management solution will integrate with Macromedia Contribute 3.1, a rapid web authoring environment enabling customers to easily contribute, manage and update website content with minimal support from IT.
The new integration combines the authoring environment of Contribute 3.1 with the content management capabilities inherent in Serena Collage to help customers streamline the web content management process, ensure website integrity and improve overall efficiency. It enables users to make changes to site content within the familiar Contribute interface and save to Collage once changes are complete. In Collage, the content is automatically routed for further editing and approval, merged with other content and design elements and published to multiple destinations.
Collage customers are able to take advantage of the web page authoring, offline editing and native support for Mac OS X that Contribute offers. Similarly, Contribute customers can extend their existing investment by employing Collage-and as a result, reap the additional benefits of enterprise-class versioning, workflow, tracking, content categorization, page generation and site deployment capabilities.
"Contribute is the preferred choice of many enterprise organizations that need to publish and share information using the web," said Craig Barberich, senior product manager, Macromedia. "For companies that require an enterprise content management system, the integration of Contribute with Serena Collage combines the elegance and simplicity of an outstanding end-user experience with the power of database-drive content management features."
"The combination of Macromedia Contribute and Serena Collage is an intuitive, efficient way to manage ongoing changes to web content," said Nathan Rawlins, Senior Product Manager at Serena. "Content contributors can continue using the familiar Contribute interface while taking advantage of the enterprise-class content management capabilities of Collage-all at a fraction of the cost of comparable solutions."
Availability
Serena Collage v4.6 will be available in late April 2005 and will work with Macromedia Contribute 3.1.
Serena's products and services automate process and control change for teams managing development, web content, and IT infrastructure. Based on 25 years of innovation in process and configuration management, Serena's SAFET solutions enable customers at more than 15,000 sites worldwide, including 98 of the Fortune 100, to improve IT governance, mitigate risks, support regulatory compliance, and boost productivity and quality. For more information, please visit http://www.serena.com .
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