Some reasons for choosing Platinum

It is easy to use

Why does the user like it?

User-friendly: it has been designed and developed for a non-technical user. It does not require knowledge of programming languages or complex technologies.
WYSIWYG: a visual page editor
No technicalities: the interface is visual, with a drag-&-drop function for the contents to be managed.

Why does the technician like it?

One Step installation: the current licensed version is distributed in bundle with Tomcat and doesn't require any special installation procedure.
Easy to configure: configuration is managed in a centralised manner.
Maximun Bandwidth optimisation: the user interface is a RIA (Rich Internet Application) developed with Laszlo technology. Part of the workload is demanded to client (browser) with a consequent reduction in web traffic.
Multiple virtual instances: several hosts can be managed with only one instance of the platform.

Why does the user like it?

Tailor-made: the contents can be displayed on-line in any graphical layout, with a look & feel which can be different from section to section.
It doesn't put limits on imagination: the graphics layouts can be produced in a completely free way, without placing specific restirictions on the web designer.
Extendible: the basic objects of the site structure (types of nodes, graphics components and documents) can be easily extended with other ad-hoc objects, to manage specific navigation functions or specific types of content.
Expandible: Platinum can also be enhanced with other applications developed ad-hoc and integrated into the same user interface.

Why does the technician like it?

Powerful templating engine: there is maximum flexibility in the mounting of graphics templates of all types without limits of any kind.
Easily extendible: a number of finalised APIs is available to allow the maximum integration between built-in backend modules and the functions available on the frontend.
Plugins based architecture: a set of predefined APIs allows anybody to extend the platform adding new customised modules and functions.
SSO: user authentication can be expanded and integrated with an LDAP server, as well as implementing SSO (Single Sign-On) mechanisms.

Why does the user like it?

Darwinian evolution: this platform is the result of the capitalization of the expertise gained by Omnys in 10 years in highly complex projects on several platforms.
Mature: it's reached its fourth release and counts installations in the most diverse sectors (both in Italy and abroad).

Why does the technician like it?

Install and forget: once installed it does not require any specific maintenance.
High performance: The platinum engine has been maximally optimised thanks to the use of advanced caching in order to increase performance and, as a result, reduce the hardware needed.

Why does the user like it?

Open-mind: if you need to access external data sources (ERP, company DB, etc.) via your Internet or Intranet site, Platinum is able to import or access such data.
Unique access point: thanks to integration, you will have a unique access point towards company data and information, thus giving uniformity to the company web channel.

Why does the technician like it?

ESB/SOA ready: Platinum can be easily integrated with any ERP or legacy system, either using a standard system integration software and open source such as Mule or alternatively making use of custom service oriented integration systems developed in J2EE technology and frameworks.
ECM ready: Platinum integrates natively with Alfresco.

Why does the user like it?

SEO embedded: the content optimization for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) purpose is highly important for a website to be well-indexed by online search engine spiders. To provide such a feature, Platinum offers a number of functions to optimise website contents in order to be well-indexed by the most well-known search engines (Google, Yahoo, etc.).

Why does the technician like it?

Platinum allows you:

to manage automatically or let the operator specify the page friendly URL: it is known that search engines give a higher rank to pages whose URL does not contain query string parameters, but only descriptive text which improves user-friendliness;
to manage URL rewriting through the back-end, a useful feature when you want to make a correspondence between the old website URLs and the new website ones (so that your website rank does not get lost);
to specify the page Title (displayed on top of the browser window);
to specify the meta-description and meta-keywords for each page;
to automatically generate the XML sitemap (used especially by Google to index a website);
to autonomously include the Google Analytics javascript code (or similar tools).

Management of on-line comments on articles and content in general (with a moderator function).
Arbitrary definition of categories and subcategories, with which the editors can then tag the contents they manage.
RSS Feed: to distribute your RSS channels.
Management of content generated by users (User Generated Content).
A Guestbook function to gather and share user feedback.

It does not require expensive hardware on which to install it (in case of ASP, the annual fee already includes hosting on the server).
It does not require basic Software licenses (it can run on commercial as well as Open Source platforms).
Customization can be inexistent, since Platinum already provides a number of features.
Any eventual customization requires a development time worth to 50% - 70% less with respect to other WCM/CMS platforms.
It requires very low operational costs, since operators do not need specific technical skills and the training only requires from 4 to 8 hours.