Adobe cq5 overview

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Adobe CQ5 and You

November 2011

Presented by Tom MotleyAdobe CQ5 Practice Lead

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In July of 2010 Adobe acquired Day Software as part of their strategy to deliver a full suite of Enterprise Web solutions. Combined with their acquisition of Omniture, Adobe has assembled all the components to deliver a world-class stack for businesses that want to maximize the value of their customer interactions across all digital touchpoints

At ThoughtMatrix, we work with numerous different Content Management Platforms, and Adobe has some unique differentiators, however everything comes with challenges and drawbacks in the world of Enterprise software.

What follows is a high-level overview and some insights from our work with CQ5. If you want to learn more, please contact us at:

cms@thought-matrix.com or

http://thought-matrix.com/contact/

Overview

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It is a full-service Enterprise Java WCMS with easy-to-use authoring tool (in same category as Vignette, Fatwire, SDL Tridion).

It is built to Java CMS open standards and built to scale.

It has deep integration with Adobe Livecycle tools which creates an end-to-end customer engagement suite

What CQ5 Is

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It’s not a lightweight CMS. CQ5 is designed for authoring geographically dispersed websites and/or sites

that need to scale to 10,000s of users. Don’t use it when a WordPress site would do (or Magnolia CMS if you want

Java/JCR)

The current brand position is still evolving and can be confusing What is the actual name and exactly how does it fit in to the Adobe stack…

WEM? ADEP? CQ5? WTH?

It is quite expensive – although everything is negotiable

What CQ5 Isn’t

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Day CQ5 Application

The Stack

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Java Content Repository (JCR) Database

Site Content

CMS System Files

Application 1 Data

Application 1 Data

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The Author-Publish Model

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Best-in-class usability. The user interface consistently outpaces their competition with regard to ease-of-use by authors/editors and other non-technical users

In-place content editing. Author can click a page, add text, pictures, etc. (this is controlled by the ‘template’ which the developer/designer created)

Superb mobile site support. In-context edit the same page for each smart phone device (because it’s a truly RESTful architecture, the same content can be rendered in many different ways including location and medium)

Highly scalable architecture. Due to its ‘share-nothing’ architecture and no-DB solution (it is highly coupled to the local file system, and stateless, so no session or DB sync issues)

Extremely portable. Easy to import/export both bundles and repository content makes it very portable (you can zip up whole sites and send them to a friend)

The Good Stuff

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Its ‘pure’ architecture looks fantastic on paper, but the real-time experience is somewhat complex (the authoring tool is feature-rich but a little clunky in action)

The OSGI deployment framework is complex and not that widely accepted/supported in the industry yet

It is not trivial to port to EC2 or VM-based environments (it makes large demands on the local OS resources)

The Developer API is three layers of JCR Implementations (hence, three ways to retrieve a content node, and you get different interfaces with each – Sling/CRX/JCR).

Scripting is JSP by default

The Bad Stuff

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Numerous Content Connectors for Integration

OpenText LiveLink Connector Vignette Connector Interwoven Connector MS Sharepoint Connector EMX Documentum Connector FileNet P8 Connector IBM Lous Notes Domino Connector Fast to JCR Adapter Database Connector

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The Dashboard View

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Page Navigation and Management

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In-Context Page Editing

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Authoring for Mobile

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Strong Internationalization and Localization Support

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Page Translation In Context

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Thank You!

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