Micha,
Hopefully we can entice you to help out and make FarCry everything you want it to be :)
Micha Schopman wrote:
With features I am looking at smarter ways to use - tagging on content with extensive metadata rules
Well farcry does have its own categorisation system but there is no concept of a "metadata rules engine". Can you give some examples of business scenarios where this is import and how you've seen these addressed?
- maintain content integrity
Not sure how this is a feature? I would assume that all CMS maintain the integrity of their data.
- manage interface usability
Again not sure what this means. It's worth noting that the FarCry user interface is very configurable. But obviously not in the way you want.
- variable roles, groups and departments
Actually FarCry has a very sophisticated Roles based security model that accommodates multiple user directories from odbc/jdbc, Active Directory and LDAP.
- webdav support
webdav? You mean in the sense of file transfer? I'm not sure how webdav support would benefit the average FarCry application. How do you envisage this being used?
- business connectors with SAP, Siebel, Microsoft CRM, etc.
Generally I find these things to be marketing glibness. Forgive me if I'm wrong about your solution -- typically a "connector" requires a lot of additional integration work to get going. Namely because most of the solutions described are non-standard. We do a lot of systems integration work at Daemon (not necessarily in connection with FarCry) and that's been my general experience.
- versioning with track changes
FarCry has versioning. We don't track changes. I'd be very interested to see how you'd approach this. I've looked at a variety of difference engines; I find that text based differencing is easy, its the HTML differencing I can't get a handle on ;)
- personalization based on culture, behaviour, and or profiles
Well FarCry has user profiles, and any part of the system from templates to publishing rules can respond to their contents. In that reqgard personalisation is actually a very easy part of FarCry solutions.
- manage templates in a web based environment
We've never found this to be useful. In some areas FarCry concentrates on providing simple and effective developer oriented approaches to management. Templating is one of these. I'd be interested to know what you mean by "template management" and what you've found effective with web interfaces.
- give design agencies the ability to create template themselves by a simple markup language
Well templating in FarCry is very straightforward. The simple markup language we use is HTML and CFML :) You could dumb this down a lot more by providing a more comprehensive library of custom tags, but generally that hasn't been our market of late.
- customer self support options
Not sure what this means.
- smart search capabilities, with metaphone or soundex capabilities
We integrate the Verity search solution by default. It's pretty sophisticated and it keeps costs down (note: SOUNDEX can in fact be turned on in CFMX). We've integrated the Verity Enterprise product before which has I don't know how many "search features" -- but generally I don't see search as being the responsibility of the CMS framework. That is, if CFMX Verity search is not enough then you might as well go to the market and buy a dedicated solution that specifically meets your requirements.
I work a lot with publishers of magazines, as well on the web as on paper, and you see a different approach in those sectors towards managing content. It is more in a document management fashioned way. They focus heavily on categorizing, tagging, workflow, and extensive roll based security.
More and more we find workflow being bypassed on web based CMS. But we have a whole series of new workflow features documented -- just no corporate sponsors willing to fund them. Again it would be very interesting to hear what approaches you have found to be successful.
But honestly it depends on which market a CMS is targeting. Each market has it's own needed feature set. I just happen to know a lot about content management systems and business processes with them, just because it is become a specialization during the years.
Well it would be great to harness that knowledge and use it to make FarCry an even better solution :)
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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