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Pedrera CMS™ - Enterprise Class Content Management

Pedrera CMS

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

Content Authoring and Editing

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

Workflow, Version Control and Content Review

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 it may be revised before appearing 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

Website Assembly and Display

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

Flexible Architecture

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

User Management and Security

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

Strategic Reporting

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
Sample Pedrera CMS™ Websites

Pedrera CMS™ has been used to develop many websites, including those shown below.

  • Air Liquide America Specialty Gases

    URL:

    alspecialtygases.com

    Client:

    Air Liquide

    Contractor:

    Matthew Schmidt Design

  • Arena Simulation - Rockwell Automation

    URL:

    arenasimulation.com

    Client:

    Arena Simulation - Rockwell Automation

  • Committee of Seventy

    URL:

    seventy.org

    Client:

    Committee of Seventy

    Contractor:

    Untuck Design

  • Danella Companies

    URL:

    danella.com

    Client:

    Danella Companies

    Contractor:

    Matthew Schmidt Design

  • Harcum College

    URL:

    harcum.edu

    Client:

    Harcum College

    Contractor:

    Untuck Design

  • Premier Research

    URL:

    premier-research.com

    Client:

    Premier Research

    Contractor:

    Matthew Schmidt Design

  • Premier Research Clinical Trial Recruitment

    URL:

    volunteerwithpremier.com

    Client:

    Premier Research Recruitment

    Contractor:

    Matthew Schmidt Design

  • Registrat-MAPI

    URL:

    registratmapi.com

    Client:

    Registrat-MAPI

    Contractor:

    Matthew Schmidt Design