- Features
Enterprise Web Content Management
Publishing Made Easy
Jahia is a business-grade Web Content Management solution developed specifically to manage large volume web sites in multiple languages while keeping a strong focus on making the experience as smooth as possible for non-technical users. The Jahia WCM is the ideal solution for all your corporate web initiatives, whether public-facing Web Sites, or internal-facing sites -such as intranets, Corporate Portals or extranets.
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Intuitive User Experience
One of the main focus of the Jahia WCM has always been to help non-technical users, marketers and information workers create, manage and publish their web content more easily. By providing inline editing capabilities, a WYSIWYG based approach, contextual operations and a rich AJAX interface, Jahia helps editors do their job with maximum efficiency and a minimal learning curve.
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Multilingual Support
Managing one or several large multilingual web sites is a key requirement for most of our customers. The Jahia WCM was designed for and developed with multilingual issues in mind.
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Multisite Capabilities
Are you planning to develop both your intranet and your public-facing web site using a single unified technology? Do you want to let your end-users quickly create dozens of microsites without bothering the IT department? Or do you have to manage a wide range of small web initiatives (per product, per region, per audience, per department, per event, etc.)? The Jahia WCM specifically targets organizations that need to manage and host multiple web initiatives on the same platform.
Built-In Workflow
- Built-in multi-step framework for validation workflow, allowing for content approval on a per-page or (if required) per-content-area-basis.
- Site, section, page or more granular content-based workflow capabilities
- Workflow manager with easy-to-use bulk-content validation
- Role-based workflow
- Distinct workflows possible on a per-language basis
- Inline visual workflow status facilitate detection of content awaiting for validation
- Customizable event-based notifications schemes (available by default inline and via e-mail)
- Content being validated is locked
- Quick update mode available for power reviewers
- Time-consuming workflow jobs can be run on a separate processing server
- Built-in workflow monitoring dashboard
Multi-Channel Publishing
- Render a site, page or list of content items on several devices
- Default examples are provided for browsing content with some custom iPhone templates
Template Sets, Themes and Skins
- Develop new templates or extend existing ones to fit your specific needs
- Regroup various templates and reuse them on multiple sites: a single change will then immediately affect all related sites
- Package various CSS themes in your template sets. The same template set can be used with different layouts and designs.
- Render your content items with different skins according to the context
Audit Trails and Web Analytics
- Built-in audit trails on every content item
- Log Analyzer rapidly extracts (CVS file) key metrics about performance or platform use for both anonymous readers and logged editors.
- Pre-integrated with Google Analytics: automatically obtain usage metrics on a per-site and per-language basis on the well-known free Google service.
- Built-in Google Analytics toolbar: get the most relevant traffic analysis data and graphs on the page you are currently editing without leaving your editing environment.
Maximize Search Engine Optimization mechanism
- Search-engine-friendly URLs: compose your URL's path yourself.
- New concept of vanity URLs which allows to explicitly add any number of URL aliases to any page
- New Jahia Link Checker feature extended internal integrity checks to detect all external broken or invalid links
Metadata and Category
- Default Dublin-core oriented metadata
- Page-based meta keywords and description for enhanced SEO
- Hierarchy based categories with multi-filing capabilities
- Built-in category manager
- Import/export taxonomies in XML format
- API available for developers to display content according to classification
Content Reuse
- Local or cross-site copy-paste capabilities
- Reuse a document (e.g. a file or image) on multiple pages
- Manage linked copies: content items are copied to help manage distinct workflows, skin or permission schemes but content is automatically replicated with the source.
- Extend the Linked Copies capability from a single content item to a full page or even an entire section for your site
Security
- Granular permissions on every content item and also on every template, category or mashup
- Powerful inheritance mechanism to facilitate management of permissions
- Role-based security on every operation: combine permissions and roles to get the exact level of rights you require
- Define permission schemes for your local user passwords (e.g: minimum length, force password change every 90 days, etc.)
- Generate captcha for member registration and comment posting to prevent spamming
Content Life-Cycle and Publishing Options
- Add, update, validate, publish, delete or restore any content
- Choose to publish your content directly or moderate it depending on your needs
- Add time-based publishing option: choose when your published content will be displayed or expire according to different rules (e.g every Monday from 8:00 am to 6:00 pm).
- Search-engine-friendly URLs: compose your URL's path yourself.
Social Modules and Marketing Engagement
- Blog Module that runs either as a standalone blogging site, or as a plugin for existing Jahia projects.
- Newsletter Module to help you create and customize professional-looking communication
- Form builder Module to quickly design and deploy a form to any page of any virtual site
