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Yes, Centralpoint supports clustering, please be sure to download our 2024 Cluster Diagram Environment, which provides a layout of how this is generally set up. This configuration can be customized but is a good diagram to use as a guide.
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Yes, Centralpoint has a Pre Installation Checklist, which includes all necessary steps and settings for your server environment. It is highly recommended to read this prior to installing Centralpoint to ensure a quick and smooth installation.
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Yes, Centralpoint offers minimum and suggested (maximum) server requirements. Please feel free to download our guide on preparing your server for Centralpoint here
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Yes, Centralpoint load balancing distributes client traffic to servers to ensure consistent, high-performance application delivery. Centralpoint load balancing ensures application delivery, scalability, reliability and high availability. Please download our white paper and how to guide on load balancing here
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Yes, Centralpoint integrates with a variety of NLS/NLP providers such as Kendra (AWS), Algolia, Type Sense and others. Should NLS/NLP be required, as often is not due to our own Data Mining, Auto Suggestions and Synonym matching we will recommend the appropriate provider to use for your project.
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Yes, Centralpoint provides an easy to use Drag and Drop Toolbox for site administrators to maximize re use, breadth and repeatability of any content, static, html or even scripts serving dynamic content.
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Yes, local customization is encouraged. Any localized customization (which includes completely new code, foreign to Centralpoint) is managed within a directory UNDER 'MY_MODULES'. This allows you to create your own code, which is immune (segregated) from our bi-weekly product updates.
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Oxcyon uses a variety of tools to 'simulate' performance load test (response) in a variety of conditions. To do this, we use tools like LoadImpact, Paessler, and even tools built in within SQL to test scenarios. Your team will be able to access this portal and simulate any performance test that you would like to at any time. We also offer built in 'trace' tools within (any template or page within Centralpoint) so that the results of any performance load test (if unfavorable) can unwravel and demystify the incremental (load or demand) on each data call within any particular record or page (which is very helpful).
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No, all development is in the US, and from Oxcyon directly. We do not trust any 'outside' developers to contribute to our core general release.
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Due to the evergreen stream of bi weekly updates, our documentation changes just as quickly. Centralpoint documentation is found within the Client Console (relative to each tool or module) and is fed remotely from Oxcyon. The Pre-Release notes, and help files for each bi weekly update becomes part of that documentation 'live stream'. For more on this please see: http://oxcyon.com/centralpoint-dxp/release-qa-testing
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Due to our bi weekly updates, we have enjoyed nearly 24 updates in the last 12 months, which include many features, enhancements and new modules. 2017 was banner year for our new release of modules, including DITA, Email integration, Social Media Integration and more. To see a list of each one of the 24 release notes, please click here: http://oxcyon.com/centralpoint-dxp/update-timeline
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Oxcyon does not like to outline our roadmap beyond a one year period. This isn't because we lack vision to see beyond, but rather we possess the experience to know that new changes in technology can 'skew' any timeline beyond 12 months. Here you can see our proposed changes for the next 12 months, planned for future enhancements, which are 'subject to change' at any time. ADDITIONAL NOTE: At a high level, in the next three years we see "Nougat, Microservices, AJAX, Angular JS, AI and sensor based (IoT) to be the general (directional) trends....ultimately anything which better serves the 'end user experience' making their digital experience with you (more) automated, and more convenient. http://oxcyon.com/centralpoint-dxp/centralpointfutureenhancements
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Oxcyon warranties the product for the entirety of the lifespan that you are an active maintenance client. Due to Centralpoint's 16 year history (of updates) we must warranty that the application work according to our claims, and how it is presented to the client (pre sale), for as long as you are an 'active' maintenance client. Uptime guarantees (down to the percentage and/or charge back fees if not met, are included in our Hosting agreement terms), and general 'expectations' for any response times are found in our Service Level Agreement found here: http://oxcyon.com/centralpoint-dxp/supportfaqs. We would consider any service which interferes with your 'collection of payments' (the most important feature of the portal, likely) to be a Level 1-Critical Issue in terms of severity.
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Oxcyon maintains a 'Security Incident Policy' (published on our website), which outlines the timeline, process and our responsibility to notify clients in the vevent of any breach. It can be found here: http://oxcyon.com/centralpoint-dxp/security-incident-procedures
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Oxcyon uses .NET 4.5, C# to develop all code for Centralpoint, employing an internal Agile Development methodology
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Due to the evergreen stream of bi weekly updates, our documentation changes just as quickly. Centralpoint documentation is found within the Client Console (relative to each tool or module) and is fed remotely from Oxcyon. The Pre-Release notes, and help files for each bi weekly update becomes part of that documentation 'live stream'
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A variety of cross browser scripting, penetration testing, are used to monitor and repair any (potential) security vulnerability. Please see our CAIQ Compliance policies on these many steps. http://oxcyon.com/centralpoint-dxp/caiq-3-0-1-cloud-compliance
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Oxcyon simulates stress (and performance testing) on it's internal QC Portal simulating high growth projections
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Assuming that Oxcyon is providing hosting or Cloud based services for our clients, our data centers belong to Rackspace. The rackspace data centers are found throughout the world (and US), but we tend to favor two (one in Texas, and NY), for dedicated servers. The complete list of Rackspace Data Centers are found here, and you can select whichever data center you would like (if important to you), should we provide hosting or cloud services. https://www.rackspace.com/en-us/about/datacenters
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Oxcyon's Maintenance Support Staff is located in three locations, 1.) NE Ohio (Eastern timezone), 2.) South West Ohio (also Eastern Time Zone), and 3.) Los Angeles (Pacific Time Zone). They all manage the same issues, but depend on resources in our Pacific Time Zone to pick up any issues from 6pm-10pm Eastern, if there are any.
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Centralpoint is a .NET C# Platform, and as such supports any .NET web appliation development enviornments (it can also support non-.net in some cases)
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Centralpoint supports a WYWIWYG Visual (Drag-N-Drop) Page builder, which allows for the 'template' of the page to be created, and also the 'dynamic content' references (if any) to be dropped within the page (or template).
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Yes, users may belong to multiple roles (Example: 'Agent' AND 'Top Secret', vs. 'Agent' AND 'Classified'. There is not limit to the amount of roles that any one user can belong to.
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Centralpoint's unique Data Transfer and Transformation tools allow for migrations to occur ad hoc (when you want them) or via automated means (example, once you map to a migration data set (point of origin) you may wish to have imports run every hour, or every day. The data transfer tools are intelligent to know how to do 'incremental' updates (after the first, initial migration) to enable lightweight 'Incremental updates or what we call 'Upserts' (In essence we are able to (sometimes) update 'existing' records, with specific field level data)
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Centralpoint upgrades (or updates) are provided bi-weekly via a remote (pull) update (from Oxcyon). These new features and functions are released after careful (Agile & Waterfall Pre Release testing by Oxcyon), but even then they are distributed to clients with a default setting of 'OFF' allowing the client to activate or invoke any new feature/function, given a tiered 'Development, QA testing process interally, prior to activating on the live (client) production site. These update notes are provided to the the client in advance of each new release, and we often provide some 'dialogue' around it should there need to be some, or if there are questions.
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Centralpoint is cross browser compatible, rendering responsive output for the users (including Mobile and 508/ADA compliance). Cross browser compatibility includes (but is not limted to Edge, IE, Chrom, Windows, MAC)
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Yes, and (if allowed) any content or data related to their specific agency. You can distribute as much control to these lower level 'Adminstrators' as you like, with the granularity over what types of information they can administer. Here you can also set any 'Editorial Review' for that administrator (if applicable).
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Yes, this is set up (reporting/data sources/alerts) custom for each client we service
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Yes, content may be authored from any platform, on any device, and also cross browser compatible.
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Yes, Centralpoint supports editing in Microsoft Word, including the ability to 'SAVE TO CENTRALPOINT' from MS/Word. This 'plug in' would need to be installed at the local computer for anyone seeking this functionality (individually), but the plug in is free of charge, and available to any editor to install. Once it is installed, MS/Word "Knows" who opened the document (to edit) and then can track all edits, and even save 'back' to Centralpoint, including this user's information.
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Centralpoint's Forms allow for any form to be submitted (workflow optional) and once approved (or submitted) it can generate email notifications.
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Yes.... After releasing our Blog module many years ago, we realized that 'Commentary/Threaded Dicussion or Collaboration' could be applicable to any record, so we made a major addition to Centralpoint to (optionally) support Blogs relative to any record in the site.
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Yes, Centralpoint support comments, commentary (blogs and ratings) for any record managed within the system.
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Yes, Centralpoint provides 'suggested matches', relevance 'scoring' and even the ability to control when users search 'x', to redirect them right to the record you want them to, (which could be an individual record, or a collection of suggested options). We call this tool 'Search Redirect', which allows you to customize beyond the customization of the the 'search relevance weighting'. So here we see two types of conditions to control 'relevance' (as we like to say, search 'relevance' is 'relative' (to 'who' is searching 'where' (in which microsite). This means that you can set up 'presumptious' relevance weighting rules, and then 'highly specific search term suggestions and redirections' based on what users search. Most importantly is the abilty for us to TRACK everything searched (by hits, popularity (rating), and 'NO RESULTS FOUND' (our favorite). If you think about it, tracking the dead ends, and automatically prompting you to 'take action to redirect those deadends' solves any search complaints from anyone.
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That is really dependent on where the marketers feel there 'should be' more content. All we can do is set up the analytics and traffic pattern behaivor reports (and more importantly those search results which yielded 'No Results'), and from there they will have to use their best judgement to add new content in those areas.
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Yes,and further supports 'MULTIPLE' filters, (otherwise known as 'or', 'and') meaning that a user could search for all records 'Construction', AND 'Between these dates', AND 'within a 10 mile radius of their zip code' OR 'Building'….basically the ability to filter (leveraging 'or' 'and' allows them to control exactly what they are honing in on every time. We believe the more control you give to your users to 'filter their search' ultimately results in greater efficiency for all (cutting down on customer service 'hand holding required to the client to guide them, and enhanced client (even if employee) satisfaction).
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Centralpoint collects ALL user activity, and is able to report, and/or compare it against other users, to show patterns, trends, and even Gamification (allowing user to earn points or 'level up' and/or competing with other users.
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Yes, this can be done via email, text, and we can welcome any user, and show them everything in their queue, awaiting their workflow (approval or review)
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Yes, Centralpoint can support public (responsive) websites (as well as private ones)
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Yes, this is based on how the content is tagged by (Which Website(s), Start date, end date, audience, and the roles of user it reaches)
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Yes, Centralpoint can display External Social Content, via our Social Media Integration Module. This tool allows for full cale integration with (Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Jive, Pinterest, Youtube, Google, Vimeo and others) so that Centralpoint can 'keep the user on your site' whilst monitoring all social media (activity or 'chatter' without having to leave). This feature also has the ability to 'cascade' to your many microsites, so that it can filter only 'X Site Chatter while on X Site, and 'YSite Chatter while on Y Site'.
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Yes, this also include the option for 'Header, and all relevant SEO (Tagging H1,H2, H3, etc., which are defined in the actual template and CSS. This means that once it is set on the template, no one has to worry about apply the right information to attain maximized SEO, they simply post content, and the right fields (Title, Summary, etc.) will appear within the right 'Structured Content' area of the page, and with the appropriate SEO tags (ex. H1, H2) wrapped around those fields (within the source)
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Centralpoint is highly scalable, from a top down Centralpoint MASTER Server architecutre (supporting multiple intitiatives) and build for high performance, allowing for lightweight modules, and high throughout of any data. Additionally, Centralpoint employs 'incremental cache' controls, which allow for the throttle of throughput speed, invoking server side cache.
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Centralpoint search includes metadata (or taxonomy) as one of many options. (Example: One may search only by metadata to get results, or by metadata AND date range, AND proximity). In essence, the more search input, the less results, and higher relevance.
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Centralpoint has been developed and maintained for 16 years, updated bi-weekly. Although our roadmap extends 3 years, it is only reliable for a 12 month period. On our website, we offer a link showing future enhancements planned for the next 12 month period. Due to the rapid changes in technology, this is why we can never 'look beyond' one year in our development efforts, as even these items tend to get re-prioritized with the advent of new 'items'. To Summarize our roadmap for the next 12 months includes more: Ajax, Angular JS, Microservices, MVVM and CORE. For more information please see future updates.
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Yes, Centralpoint has a workflow module, which can be highly customized to serve each clients workflow needs. We also depend on our Reporting, Data Sources and Alerts to notify users of any record 'in workflow' and to notify appropriate resources when workflow 'slows or stalls'
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Oxcyon employs (internally) Agile Development Methodology, so that end, we (and our product) is built for change, and lifecycle management, allowing forCentralpoint to respond to market demands (new functions needed) faster than any other platform (bi-weekly). NOTE: The out of the box version of Centralpoint is 100% responsive design.
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There is no limitation to the amount of content and/or types of content created.
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Centralpoint provides performance reporting on page speed, throughput, and will report to you (and us) any excess in expected time for any task. Centralpoint also has testing for SQL injection attempts, IP (Denial of Service) attempts, and many other security functions. This runs automatically
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Centralpoint is highly scalable supported in a Virtual or VM enviornment and also supports multiple installations (of Centralpoint) for Disaster Recovery, failover and High Availability.
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Yes, each record within Centralpoint has the 'option' of being shared on a variety of social media outlets. NOTE: We like to discourage the use of sending chatter or discussion 'outside' to other sources, and believe we should 'keep the discussion, whilst on the site'. So, although we can, we like to advise to keep users on the site, using your tools to capture their thoughts, discussions, ratings, as it gives you greater insight into 'curating' your content moving forward. Of course, for those records you 'want' to be discussed via (outside) social media, we support that.
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Yes, we accel at that, in that our Taxonomy and metadata is N-tiered, allowing for MphC, of deep, granular taxonomy
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Yes, we offer an easy to use workflow module to set up those individuals, and their steps within (multiple) workflow(s) (plural).
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Yes, it does but we see chatting to be the same as instant messaging, and texting.
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Yes, Centralpoint can auto convert to multiple languages using plug ins (like Google Language Translation), but typically our clients will manage the actual content (in spanish, french, arabic) themselves per site, for more accurate messaging to these audiences.
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Yes, each page (and path) is served dynamically based on the (role) of the user(s)….
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Centralpoint has undergone a major re-architecture (to .NET 4.5, and to include major (global) search enhancments to allow for search in multiple languages).
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A report can be generated, which can spider all pages, to 'Audit' all necessary SEO features of any page. This would only be to identify any 'template' which might be missing a needed element (or to improve). FYI- Centralpoint supports the new Google prescribed 'Structured Content' 'output' to ensure each page is well optimized, and fully 'injested' by Google.
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Yes, Centralpoint Integrates with Social Media, allowing you to see any postings from these outlets in line with your content. We can also push content to these social media outlets (via the web api) should that also be necessary
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Centralpoint is authored and supported by Oxcyon, and has been for over 16 years. All code within Centralpoint is supported by Oxcyon, and includes no third party open source code or references.
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Centralpoint is commited to complete, agnostic 'interoperability' with any system. A cavalier answer, but one which is proven with our Centralpoint Web API. This 'interface' allows for any (Post/Get/Update/Delete) between any other system. (delivered via secure Restful web services). This allows for the 'plumbing' between any systems you have today, and/or any new systems you may introduce in the future. This is also possible because whether it is: Database connection, JSON, CSV, TXT, SQL Oracle, OLE DB, XLS, or raw files....they all support data, including the abiliy to 'field map' between them.
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Centralpoint supports SSL (again typically invoked for forms but also others). Here, you have the ability to apply an SLL to any Navigation page within the site. This means when you are applying a form to your site, one of the options is to 'Apply SSL', to that page, in which case, whatever is 'on' (or in the page, in this case the form), it inherits HTTPS, and requirement for digital certificate (automatically)
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Centralpont maintains a log in history of all users NOTE: In addition to the log in history, Centralpoint (by default, although it can be turned off) collects ALL user activity. We belive that it is better to be 'safe than sorry', and prefer to collect everything. In this way reporting requirements (in the future), are not after-thoughts, and we ALREADY have the information you need for data mining. This also helps your content authors better track user experience, including those users' searches, and the results of each search. ADDITIONAL NOTE: You may turn off any reporting which you may not want to collect (but remember, you may need it later in the future)
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Yes, we like to say "Content is a fancy word for data, which includes Text, Scripts, Video, Images, Documents, and more"….so it can support any 'data' which results in your content.
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Yes, and the page layout can serve uniquely for each user (based on the roles of those elements within the layout)
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Centralpoint is the centralized 'governance' over the quality control and strategy of the web for any organization. Oxcyon has coined the term 'Centralized Autonomy' which relates to the needs (authoring, demands) of local business units, and the need to centrally 'govern' these rules (whilst giving them the autonomy they need , each individually).
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Yes, preview is available for all mdoules.
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Yes, Centralpoint supports single and/or multi step workflow approval processes. Centralpoint also supports Electronic signature, should you need to sign off on each step of workflow.
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Oxcyon provides a structured (Development->QC(QA)->Live Client environment, which allows for cascaded testing to occur, prior to releasing any new function to the live site in (proper) staging.
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Yes, each revision, view, change, approval is recorded, by virtue of Version History. This means that we can show you any record (or requests) full historical activity, including 'who, edited what, and when', showing you the start date, and final approval date, and every step in between. We can also show you the file in each step of its workflow approval process (should you need to click to see it progress incrementally)
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Yes, files may be bulk uploaded or individually selected (for the bulk (singular) upload)
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Centralpoint is recognized by GARTNER as a Leading DIGITAL EXPERIENCE PLATFORM, and supports Global Login/SSO, which means the experience of each user is personalized….based up a range of criteria (their membership in your system (AD/LDAP/SQL/Oracle/Oauth/OpenID or other), or based upon their traffic pattern (or history within your site) (Example: Anonymous user who frequents certain types of records more than others). In either case, Centralpoint is designed to serve the 'right' content to the 'right user' based on their 'role', with your organizaiton. NOTE: Typically with most vendors this means 'one' major categoy (Employees, or Clients). With Centralpoint you can serve multiple Audiences (like Employees, Clients, Partners, Brokers, Auditors) and Additionally (within each of those) service different 'roles' of users who belong (like a Sales Representative (within Employees) or a VIP Customer (within Clients). Centralpoint provides you MphC, which supports a much deeper level of granularity than most.
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Yes, Centralpoint provides a 'drag-n-drop' of functional 'objects or elements' into a webpage (or a template - design template to manage all records of a particular type)
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Centralpoint provides both the back end authoring tools, and the presentation layer of the website, including all of the self service 'applications' (web based applications, and/or web services) which enable users to interact with centralpoint (and other third party systems vis-a-vis (through) centralpoint).
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Yes, Centralpoint integrates (and mashes up) data from any back office or third party (web based) solution, via it's Web API (Web Services to either post or get remote data in order to serve 'in line' with your content)
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Yes, Centralpoint employes a 'System Name' AND a 'Page or Link Name'. This means that you can change the name of any page, and the corresponding hyperlinks (to or from that page) will not be hindered at all. Additionally, you could change the naming convention of your URL Query, and/or how it is configured, and all pages (previously added) will remain in tact. IMPORTANT NOTE: Our Data Transfer tool is typically used when migrating old content, in unison with our DNS/URL, and Errors module, in order to maintain all previous 'old google indexed' links, into centralpoint, so that they may reroute to the old links. This helps to prevent the many years of indexing (with Google) from going to waste, and also helps to preserve any users 'old' bookmarks, so that they will still be functional.
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Each record within Centralpoint tracks the 'Version History' of the record, including creator, creator date, and then any other user who has edited or suggested (draft) changes to the record over time. Finally, it tracks the approval of suggested changes, and even supports RESTORE (or ROLLBACK) controls, to allow you to restore a record to any date (in it's past history). NOTE: Most systems only provide this functionality for 'Documents' (as this is typically what separates 'Document Management' from 'Content Management'. Centralpoint employs this Version Control, Version History feature for ALL content managed, including webpages, images, assets, videos, events, and documents.
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Centralpoint DITA tools (namely Document Shells) allow for your staff to generate any output (like Safety posters, brochures, powerpoints) which pull your infomration (dynamically). This means that not only can you create (dynamically) a Safety Poster for others to download, their download of 'that' safety poster could show a unique (logo, message, and information) based upon their role (Example: A Chemical manufacturer's poster may show their logo, encouraging their employees to wash their eyes, if they get chemicals in their eyes, wherein a Construction firm may encourage users to always wear a hardhat. These 'two' saftey posters could be managed from a central record (should you want to), where the 'Appropriate Message' is managed within a module, so that anyone can request their 'own poster' and get something personalized just for their industry. (including anything down to local emergency contact numbers to call, just in case)
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Yes, very granular permissions (by role or by user) can be applied. Centralpoint also offers unique 'Personalization' tools for adminstrators and developers, who 'prefer' to see their out put or interface in a different way than others.
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Yes, this was answered earlier in this spreadsheet. Centralpoint integrates out of the box with Google Analytics
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Yes, but these 'reports' for KPIs are typically set up unique for each client, based on their objectives, and success metrics (which can differ per client)
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Yes, we leverage many of our modules like: Data Sources, Google Analytics, Roles, Audiences, Forms and Email Broadcasts in order to 'automate' the events happening and trigger activity reports to those in charge.
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Yes, Centralpoint handshakes directly with Google Analytics. It can also handshake with Google 'Tag Manager' (to extract all reporting of form submission activity into charts within Google should you want). Our approach to Google Analytics is 'agnostic' meaning that should you want to integrate with other providers (later), or perhaps have one site use one tracking vendor (visitstats, for an example) and another site use Google Analytics, you will be able to. In other words the 'definition' of tracking for analytics can be global, or set up unique per (micro) website...giving you greater options.
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Yes, Centralpoint an out of the box module 'template' for each of it's modules, but the client can create new ones (or we can for the client)….additionally, any of the out of the box templates can be changed by the client (via the WYSIWYG Drag-And-Drop tools)
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Yes, Centralpoint stores all data which relates to the website (and/or the user activity around the website, forms submitted, etc.). This is stored in SQL (as the database, and within the Centralpoint (or other) designated file stores as it relates to the media attachments, (images, videos, documents) which have been indexed by SQL.
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Centralpoint provides "Top-Down" Centralized management of multiple Portals, (each portal in turn may support multiple 'ancestor' (sub or micro) sites, empowering you with a very industrial strength 'digital strategy' which can grow over time. (Important: Within a singular portal, you can have unlimited microsites, but the ability to support multiple 'portals' within your organization give you tremendous (scalable) growth potential.
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Yes, but only once the report is set up. These reports are not available out of the box, only because the rules over SEO tend to change, and addtionally, each client may opt to set up their templates differently…but once the report is set up (which is a live/dynamic report) it will be able to detect, and alert, any non conforming SEO feature to your team (and ours) to remedy.
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Any record within Centralpoint can be tagged to it's respective (Website, Metadata, and/or Roles (security of private users, if any) to access. This allows for a full inventory of all records of 'x' type, and also allows for automatic 'Cross References' to any (disparate) conent of similar type(s). (Example: Pull up an Article of 'x' type, and (optionally) see related 'x' type (Events, Staff, Documents, anything) in line with that record. So, in addition to granular tagging, it allows for the 'relationship' of all similar records (enabling a knowledge base, or knowledge management system to be delivered).
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Yes, Centralpoint supports single question 'Polls' and multiple question 'Surveys', including the ability to control (If email alerts should be handled, per user taking them, and/or if the results are able to be seen by others or not (per poll or survey question).
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Yes, Centralpoint offers a Data Transfer module which allows for not only bulk upload of data, but even scheduled 'pick up and import' of records from any source (file drive, oracle, SQL, excel, IBM, others)
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Centralpoint has been continuously updated for 24 years representing over 458 updates, which is quest a release history.
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Centralpoint provides Data Sources and multiple reporting options (some even scheduled to send to you via email at your election). Since Centralpoint is tracking all users, against all content (or forms submitted) ANY reports can be rendered from Centralpoint (Data Sources) to allow these reports to reflect live activity. Additionally, once these reports are generated, we may schedule the report (to be delivered) to certain parties (via email, securely) Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly or Annually. The emails which deliver these reports, ALSO offer reports, to show 'Who Opened Which Report When', allowing you to prove that the report or results were delivered, and 'Read'.
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Centralpoint supports Blogging (and commentary) in a variety of ways. First, our Blogger/Bloggin modules, allows for 'Bloggers' (approved thought leaders to 'Start the Discussion' with a Blog 'Topic or Article'. This starts the discussion. Those who have the rights to respond, may do so, and the options as to whether these comments are sent to only the blogger (for direct response) or others for their (mutual review) are up to you. Additionally, the rules governing whether their comments are 'publishing worthy', and 'when and if' they should be published or shown to others, is again up to you. Typically these are Business Rules, that are set up in the Blogs Configuration module, which set these rules. NOTE: Although we support 'blogs' in the traditional form (as explained above), Centralpoint can also welcome 'commentary, thoughts, collaboration' from any (authorized user type) in line with ANY record in Centralpoint.
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Centralpoint supports in line editing, allowing you to select any page, and easily edit it's contents, including a drag-n-drop menu to pull from 'centrally' managed (content, image and video elements)….as you would expect from a digital asset management system. This means that any duplication of reference to an item (an image or paragraph used in multiple pages), can still be centrally updated (retroactively). If that element is later revised or updated, ALL 'constiuent' webpages which (previously) referenced that item, will be (retroactively) updated with the new element (content, image, video, document)
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Centralpoint offers CAPTCHA (out of the box) and may be invoked on any form which you want to use captcha on. Captcha functionality can literally be 'dragged and dropped' onto any page (normaly a form) and be inherited for (re)use.
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Yes, any metadata or taxonomy can be easily selected (including an entire ancestral tree with one click (all children of a particular type, should you want to)
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Centralpoint supports a full audit trail of each user's activity over a period of time (per each session they maintain, including the ability to visit any given session, and show all activity from each specific session)
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Yes, each record is managed based upon a start date, and an end date. Any record in excess of their end date (or prior to start date) is considered an archive record. NOTE: Additionally, retention policies may be managed within the platfrom (per content type). Example: All 'X' records >7 years from start date, will auto (archive or delete).
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Centralpoint supports Rich Text HTML (WYSIWYG Editing) as well as CSS Enforcment. The CSS (of each site's design) is managed within the Design module, and in turn the 'templates' work with these CSS 'classes', allowing for global site wide design changes (should you want to at any time) from the 'top down'. Additionally, because of the multiple (ancestor) website management, Design/CSS may be invoked across one, some or all sites (top down). This allows you to share CSS/Design for any multi site environment in any way that you may want to. The Design also supports (start and end date) suggesting that if you wanted to have designs automatically change over a period of time, you could. (Note: Certain items like images (uploaded) or content entered (of any type) will be enforced by the CSS to support approprirate output not only for Desktop view (but also "Responsively" for Mobile (iphone/droid/potrait/landscape). This means that the Design & CSS consider 'all devices'. The Design/CSS will also factor in such things as ADA Compliance, SEO Optimization, and optimized 'Page Insights' (from Google).
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Yes, Centralpoint supports metadata, including 'N-Tiered' metadata (what we call 'Taxonomy') this allows you to tag a record with multiple terms (sometimes disparate terms), so that each record has greater 'Classification' (Example: One record may be tagged to certain government Codes (x,y and z), but may also be tagged to industry (Construction), or to Saftey Type (Hardhat). The more tagging the better the search results, and/or cross references to other records (while accessing 'that' record). NOTE: Taxonomy or metadata may be automatically inherited or 'INGESTED' into Centralpoint during our Data Transfer and Migration. This tool has the ability to pull in your records, AND the metadata associated with your records. ADDTIONAL NOTE: Sometimes (old metadata) needs revisiting (to make it more modern), for those records who need 'metadata upgrades' it is easy to do in Centralpoint, because after your data is ingested by data transfer, we then have tools which will managed the Data Scrubbing (or ability to rename, change, alter append) with new metadata or taxonomy, should you need to.