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Pedrera CMS - Website Content Management System
Pedrera CMS™, our enterprise-class content management system, allows organizations of all sizes to quickly and inexpensively deploy a reliable platform for growing websites. This integrated solution facilitates content updating by non-technical staff, while delivering the robust capabilities that IT personnel demand.


Content Authoring and Editing

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Pedrera CMS™ makes creating and updating web content incredibly easy - even for non-technical users. Through a simple, easy-to-use interface, users may directly edit the content of the website.
  • Richly-formatted, fully-compliant HTML code may be created through an intuitive WYSIWYG tool bar
  • Site content is delivered through data-driven templates, ensuring consistent display of branding standards and site design elements
  • Content items may be safely previewed before they are made publicly available, in the exact context that they would be displayed
Workflow, Version Control and Content Review

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Pedrera CMS™ makes it easy to coordinate the efforts of various team members. With robust workflow and process control features, website administrators have the resources they need to keep their sites on-track.
  • Content may be created and previewed in a "draft" state, where they may be revised before they appear on the live site
  • Content may be recovered and restored from a "recycling bin” safeguard for easy roll-back
  • Whenever a content item is updated, a change log stores who made the change and when it was made
Website Assembly and Display

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Through the effective use of .NET "master pages" and "web parts", the display engine offers excellent control and performance.
  • Web pages may be designed with absolute flexibility, there's no requirement to adhere to predefined templates
  • Sites may be deployed with multiple templates, giving certain pages a unique aesthetic or enabling different languages
  • The display engine generates actual web pages with search engine optimized file names, meta tags, HTML, etc.
Flexible Architecture

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As your website grows, Pedrera CMS™ grows with it. All the content is stored in an extensible data model, which allows unrestricted growth over time.
  • Each content item may have any number of subordinate content items (sub-pages), which means that site growth can be completely organic and unlimited
  • Beyond merely displaying text content as HTML, Pedrera CMS™ allows users to post any type of file (e.g. - PDF, Microsoft Word, Excel, etc.), or even links to other websites
  • Content modules like news, events and job boards allow for specialized display and functionality
User Management and Security

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Within the Control Panel, website managers may securely administrate access rights for their websites.
  • Role-based permissions make rights management quick and intuitive
  • User roles may be assigned on a content basis (e.g. - "Content Provider" for "Products"), offering unlimited flexibility
  • The system adheres to security best practices and is highly dependable
Strategic Reporting

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More than just a content management tool, Pedrera CMS is a complete web management platform with powerful reporting capabilities for marketers.
  • Native support for Google Analytics with AdWords integration
  • Capacity for custom reporting modules to fulfill special requirements
  • Support for log analysis tools (i.e. – WebTrends) via meaningful log files with true filenames