CommonSpot

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CommonSpot is a content management system developed by PaperThin^[1] in Quincy, Massachusetts, U.S. CommonSpot is a flexible Web content management solution that provides organizations with simple and sophisticated tools for creating, publishing and managing Web content. CommonSpot powers Internet, intranet and extranet sites worldwide for organizations of all sizes.

CommonSpot customers span multiple industries including: government, healthcare, higher education, and association/non-profit sectors; and include organizations such as the City of St. Louis, Cornell University, Santa Clara University, ESAB Welding & Cutting, Mayo Clinic, National Park Service, Orlando/Orange County Convention & Visitors Bureau, Stanford University, T-Mobile, University of Wisconsin, US Senate, United Way, and Voice of America in the US; and Westminster City Council and The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in the UK.^[2]

1 Technology Overview
2 Features
3 Latest version
4 External Links
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Technology Overview

CommonSpot is a 100% browser-based Web content management application built on top of Adobe's ColdFusion application server. All of the application components, except the browser, reside on the server, allowing for cost effective and wide scale deployment. As a ColdFusion-based application, CommonSpot is composed of a large number of CFM script modules, along with several custom ColdFusion tags.^[3]

[edit] Features

PaperThin's CommonSpot is a flexible, easy to use content management system. Advance features such as metadata, taxonomy, tiered templating, content reuse, and personalization deliver significant value, and and enable content to be created, classified and organized very efficiently. Additionally, CommonSpot's distributed team-based Web authoring, extensible feature set, and granular access control, allow functionality to be extended to the appropriate users organization-wide. ^[4] ^[5]

[edit] Latest version

In October 2007 PaperThin, Inc. announced the release of CommonSpot Version 5.0, ^[6] which is being widely embraced for its inherent ease-of-use and improved flexibility.^[7] This latest release introduces a new authoring interface; RSS feeds, Blogs, Wikis; and XML publishing and rendering capabilities.^[8]