Introduction toPlone 4Tim Knapp

What Is Plone?

Enterprise Content Management System

Content Management System

Authoring of content

Management of the content lifecycle

Archiving, access management, metadata, indexing, search

Publication, localisation, aggregation, navigation

Enterprise CMS

Authentication

Reliability

Scalability

Integration

Import/Export

Open Source CMS

Open Source CMS

Same open source license as Linux

Avoid vendor lock-in and expensive licenses

Predictable future

Freedom to innovate

Owned and Protected

Owned and Protected

Plone Foundation owns and protects all intellectual property and trademarks

Standards Compliant

Standards Compliant

Outstanding search engine visibility

Works in all major browsers

Javascript gracefully degrades for browsers that don't have javascript

Supports OpenID for authentication

Works with them all— LDAP, SQL, SOAP, Web Services (WSDL) and WebDAV

Pluggable authentication — easy integration with LDAP, Active Directory, SQL databases, Salesforce and Gmail.

Accessibility Compliant

Accessibility Compliant

U.S. Government Section 508

W3C's WAI-AA

All JavaScript usage comes with fallback modes that work in any web browser

Secure

Secure

Granular role-based security model

Sandbox architecture ensures that intruders will not have access to your server or your network

Very few CVE entries

Easy To Get Started

Easy To Get Started

Point-and-click install

Great usability

Powerful rich-text editor

Built-in image resizing

Instant full-text indexing

Workflow

Speed & scalability

Syndicate & aggregate

International

International

Translated into 40 languages

Designed for multilingual content management

Handles Chinese, Japanese, and right-to-left languages such as Arabic and Hebrew

Stable and Growing

Stable and Growing

Around for over eight years

1 million downloads and counting

Active and healthy community

Documentation & Support

Documentation & Support

Hundreds of how-tos & tutorials on plone.org

Screencasts

10 published books

What You Can Do With Plone

Websites, Extranets, Intranets

E-Commerce

Project Management

Workflow Management

Blogs, Podcasting, Videocasting

Social Networking

Collaborative Workspaces

What's New in Plone 4

Faster

Large-file storage support

Simplified theming

Better rich-text editor

Some Organisations Using Plone

www.treasury.govt.nz

www.companies.govt.nz

www.auditnz.govt.nz

www.natlib.govt.nz

www.kordia.co.nz

www.sbs.net.nz

www.centreport.co.nz

For More Information

Plone.org

Plone.net

World Plone Day brochure