EM3 iOn overview

EM3 iOn™ is content management software for large-scale intranet, extranet, and Internet Web sites.

iOn provides the following features out-of-box, all of which can be used by non-technical business communicators (no programming required):

• Access all management functions via the Web
• Create and assign contextual metadata to content
• Reorganize hierarchal site structure and content instantly and easily
• Separate data from presentation (template driven)
• Pre-publish content for future release
• Automatically expire or archive content
• Version content for timed release or rollback
• Preview content before release
• Build high-performance pages dynamically
• Create and customize workflows with notifications
• Easily manage administrative user and site visitor access
• Repurpose content across multiple sites
• Build content relationships manually or with rules

iOn delivers a full hierarchical site organization, while affording large corporations a truly distributed Web publishing system. Information Objects can be assigned directly to various areas (Context Pages) of the site, and can also be distributed dynamically through a layer of metadata properties.

Properties are assigned to Information Objects, defining in general terms the kind of information found within the object. Page templates contain areas known as "buckets" in which rules can be created using metadata properties and other object parameters for establishing dynamic links between context pages and Information Objects.

This methodology allows for complete distributed Web publishing throughout a large organization because content providers can work independently, submitting categorized objects into the Web publishing system.

Information Objects can be associated with any number of context pages without duplication of source data. Both context pages and information objects can contain any combination of text, graphics, Flash or Shockwave animations, Java applets, or anything else that can be viewed on the Web.