OpenCms is a website content management system (CMS) that allows to maintain a public website, an extranet or an intranet with little or no help by an external agency or internet professional. Departments and individual users can thus concentrate on creating the content for the website, and publish it in an easy and intuitive way. The build in 2 phase (4 eye) approval workflow allows optional quality assurance before contents go "live" to the website.
OpenCms provides a professional, cost effective Open Source alternative to high expensive and proprietary "commercial" solutions, ready to be deployed by organizations or enterprises of any size. When compared to other Open Source solutions, OpenCms stands out for it's rich feature set, it's maturity and the high level of adoption worldwide. For OpenCms, support is fully available by the active OpenCms development community and also by a number of companies around the world that offer consulting and project services, support agreements and training.
Using OpenCms is fully browser based. The OpenCms software is installed on a web server, content managers access the system from any location with their web browser. Security is ensured by using strong encryption https protocols for the login process if required.
All of the web server's software components are based on standard Java technology. Java is today the enterprise application development environment of choice, and has also attracted a large Open Source community. Using high quality Open Source Java components like OpenCms in the enterprise provides an appealing cost-saving opportunity.
Using quality Open Source software like OpenCms, enterprises can dramatically reduce licensing costs and total cost of ownership (TCO). With the current shift to Open Source operating systems like LINUX, the move to Open Source applications is the logical next step.
OpenCms helps to reduce IT costs because
An enterprise class website content management system like OpenCms is never a product used "out of the box", no matter what all the well trained sales people try to tell you. This is true for all commercial or Open Source products, as well as for OpenCms. The bottom line is, all CMS systems must be configured and setup by a professional consultancy, or by people trained in the product. Since OpenCms is available as Open Source and based on 100% Java, getting to know the system or finding a partner for OpenCms is easy, because Java knowledge is readily available. Using well known standard Java and XML, as well as related standards like e.g. Servlets, JSP, JDBC, also enables you to leverage existing know-how that might already be available in your enterprise or organization.
Apr 13, 2022 - OpenCms 13 features a new plugin system as a more flexible replacement of the "headincludes" functionality. Geo search functionality has been added to find contents by geo coordinates. Extensions to the template variant mechanism allow setting overrides and renaming of formatter keys. There are also refinements for the "Mercury" default template as well as security improvements.
Apr 13, 2022 - The OpenCms 13 release notes contain detailed information about the new features and fixes in this version.
Apr 13, 2022 - Alkacon OCEE 13 is the latest OCEE release for OpenCms 13. This version fixes a number of issues that have been detected in Alkacon OCEE 12 and improves the licensing mechanism.
Oct 12, 2021 - OpenCms 12 features a headless JSON API for REST content access, together with several JavaScript demo applications that show how to use it. The default "Mercury" template has been greatly improved. Template variants allow to completely switch the generated HTML of a website simply by configuration. The updated WebDAV implementation enables mounting the OpenCms virtual file system from any WebDAV client.
OpenCms Days 2016 will take place September 26 to 27 in Cologne, Germany.
Highlight of the international user conference and expo will be the introduction of OpenCms 10.5. OpenCms Days will be the perfect opportunity to exchange experiences around OpenCms with high profile participants and speakers from all over the world.
Visit this 2 day conference and expo to meet and mingle with leading OpenCms experts and other OpenCms users.
OpenCms Days 2016 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event and used for all presentations is English.
Do you want to take a quick test drive of OpenCms to get an impression of its great features? Try out the OpenCms Live Demo website available at http://demo.opencms.org
Our guided tour shows you the great features OpenCms offers.
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