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What is Web Content Management (WCM)?
A web content management system (WCMS) is a software system that provides website authoring,
collaboration, and administration tools designed to allow users with little knowledge of web
programming languages or markup languages to create and manage website content with relative
ease. A robust WCMS provides the foundation for collaboration, offering users the ability to manage
documents and output for multiple author editing and participation.
What is EPiServer?
EPiServer is the world’s fastest growing provider of Web Content Management (WCM), online social
community and ecommerce platforms which we deliver through our very competent partner network
of more than 460 competent partner companies in 30 countries.
Products available in EPiServer
Following products are available under EPiServer roof
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Content Management System
E-Commerce
Social Media and community
Campaign and e-mail marketing
Personalized marketing
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Hosting (Host and run your website)
EPiServer Cloud
Connectivity with .NET based products (Integration)
1. Content Management System
EPiServer CMS is a fast, flexible and robust Web Content Management solution where editors
find it very intuitive to manage content online. It delivers extended functionality for business
users to create their web presence, manage content and engage and collaborate with their

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target audiences. You can easily update your website via iPhone or iPad using the EPiServer
Mobile Center.
The guiding principle in working with EPiServer CMS is “Power through Simplicity”. Powerful
for the business owner and the editor with just a single sign-on to access the full range of
EPiServer marketing tools or third party components, yet simple to ensure that organizations’
digital initiatives can be brought to market rapidly.
2. E-Commerce
EPiServer Commerce you can personalize your web content depending on who your visitors
are and deliver what they consider most relevant to them. Define different visitor groups you
expect on your site based on their geo-IP, pages visited, numbers of visits, time of day,
referring search word from Google, user profile, recent orders, customer spend, products in
basket, landing page or create your own with what you already know about your customers. It
helps to increase engagement level with your visitors and the chance of a purchase.
3. Social Media And Community
EPiSever provides an easy way to launch Branded Community by means of their product called
“Relate”
EPiSever let your website turn into Social Hub with Relate public edition.
Some striking features of Relate Public Edition
a. Get closer to your target audience
b. Turn your website into a powerful sales and marketing platform that is optimized for each visitor
c. Share your content
d. Manage your social activities and track your results
e. Create a branded community
One can increase organization efficiency with EPiServer Intranet edition
Some striking features of Relate Intranet edition
a. Improve organizational efficiency
b. Engage a new generation of employees
c. Quickly locate all of your organization’s social content
d. Strengthen your brand
4. Campaign and e-mail marketing

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Through EPiServer CMO EPiServer provides Campaign Management with lot of ease. It
includes two new dashboards designed by marketers for marketers.
Email marketing is there in EPiServer Mail Product. There is a provision of customized message
using which business owners can reach to their target audiences very quickly.
5. Personalized Marketing
EPiServer CMS provides way to personalize content based on audience. With EPiServer CMS one
can create personalized content for different audiences and deliver what they’d consider most relevant
to them.
Using personalization one can build a more intimate relationship with one’s visitors to the point where
they feel it’s ‘my’ brand which helps improve your conversion rates.
6. Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization is extremely important in ensuring the visibility of your website in organic
search results. SEO is there in EPiServer and it provides simplification of day-to-day SEO works
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Instant SEO status through a pre-check of your digital visibility after each adjustment
Search Scorecard: your action plan for SEO improvement
Prioritized action lists where most important items are clearly listed for editors
Key top line SEO figures with drilldown details
Click mapping and heat maps to show your website’s hotspots
Thorough understanding of your site through the Robot view: you see what the search spiders
see
g. Daily SEO-friendly web editing – based on best practices
7. Hosting (Host and Run your website)
EPiServer provides various packages which suits from small business to enterprise level
business as per user needs.
Some striking features in Hosting facilities provided by EPiServer
a. All Inclusive
b. Monitoring and support
c. Test environment
d. Fast delivery
e. High availability
f. Security

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8. EPiServer Cloud
EPiServer Cloud includes both EPiServer CMS and EPiServer Composer, hosted on a virtual server that
is fully provisioned with all the software you need to operate your site. EPiServer Cloud uses the
recently released EPiServer R2 platform and is available immediately for purchase at a competitive
monthly rate.
Some striking features in Cloud computing provided by EPiServer
a. Cost effective
b. Easy to implement
c. Scalable
d. Global Distribution
e. Performance and durability
f. Flexibility
9. Connectivity with .NET based products
EPiServer has an open architecture philosophy and a product strategy which ensures that it is easy to
integrate external system with the EPiServer core platform.
a. EPiServer Connect for SharePoint
b. Connect to Microsoft CRM and Salesforce

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EPiServer Management Functions
1. OnlineCenter for site management and gadgets
2. Global navigation
3. Access anywhere
4. Personalization
5. Dynamic Content
6. Localization and globalization
7. Document Management
8. Multisite management support
9. Friendly URLs
10. Global search
11. Page bank
12. Office publishing
13. Report center
1. OnlineCenter for site management and gadgets
OnlineCenter is a unified workspace that you won’t find in any other CMS. It is presented as a
dashboard for easy navigation and integration of different products – EPiServer products or
third party products. The dashboard can be personalized to a user’s preferences and
requirements, so they can access functions relevant to their daily work all from one place,
wherever the function or product module resides.
The OnlineCenter dashboard aggregates site information and exposes important functions to
the user via tabs, zones and gadgets. New gadgets can be easily created and plugged into the
dashboard so that users can access the ones they most frequently refer to and use.
2. Global Navigation
It makes easier to navigate and manage your complete online presence. All products can be
navigate through one place
3. Access anywhere

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EPiServer CMS includes a WYSIWYG XHTML Editor with more than 60 editor tools and functions
benefitting both editors and developers. One of the main advantages of this Editor is its browserfriendliness, with support for all browsers including, for example, Internet Explorer or Firefox on both
Mac and PC. Editors anywhere will have access to manage a website, from a number of different
browsers. The Editor is also extremely easy to customize, configure and extend.

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4. Personalization
EPiServer provides great deal of personalization too meet audience’s requirement. Using
visitor groups, you can define different audiences you expect on your site by dragging and
dropping various criteria into the group. Included out-of-the-box in EPiServer CMS are criteria
such as geo-IP, visited pages, numbers of visits, time of day, referring search word, user profile,
landing page and much more, in addition you can also create your own.
5. Dynamic Content
The CMS Editor is an intelligent authoring interface where web editors can reuse content,
design pages and integrate dynamic content in a page.
Using the WYSIWYG editor, users can quickly add dynamic content to a page whenever and
wherever they want on their website. They create placeholders for content to be ‘fetched’
from elsewhere straight onto that page. This is a time saving feature, as if and when the
content needs updating, it need only happen once and then it will appear wherever that
Dynamic Content is published on the site.
6. Localization and Globalization
EPiServer has facility of managing multilingual website with great deal of ease and keep in
mind of audiences with different cultures and languages while communicating consistent
brand
7. Document Management
Not just web content but EPiServer can manage different document file formats with ease and
employees can fetch record whenever they want.
The EPiServer CMS file system is makes it easy to integrate with any file repository and
integrating with Microsoft SharePoint is extremely easy using the additional add-on product
EPiServer Connect for SharePoint.
8. Multisite management support
With EPiServer CMS, enterprises can manage separate sites from the same user environment.
Users can share content and functionality, such as templates, files, categories and images
across multiple sites. Another benefit is that system administrators can have a full overview of
all sites in one place while local editors can only access their sites they have permission to edit
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9. Friendly URLs
URLs can be the single barrier that prevents visitors from coming to your site. Query strings,
numbers and symbols can be quite unintelligible to most website visitors. EPiServer CMS
creates plain language URLs that not only lend elegance and clarity to a site but improve
usability and the user experience. And it is very important aspect for marketing purpose as
well as SEO
10. Global Search
Global search not only helps web editors easily find the content they are looking for so that
they can find and edit pages with specified content it also speeds up the process of finding that
content and to get it edited and published.
11. Page Bank
EPiServer CMS provides a page bank of templates. The package includes best practice features
and lets web editors and developers to get a head start in their website project and
concentrate on the content. Pre-populated with some content and functionality, these demo
pages can be customized in design and functionality to incorporate brand identity, house
colors, and look and feel.
12. Office Publishing
From Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint you can publish pages
and list documents directly to EPiServer CMS and even add them to the File Management
Library. The Office Integration Client has a built-in toolbar and is installed on the user’s
desktop to enable ease-of-use while producing content for websites.
13. Report center
EPiServer CMS Report Center makes it easy for you to quickly find information about your
website to help you with your everyday work. EPiServer CMS includes six built-in reports:
Changed Pages so you can follow which pages have been changed and when.
Expired Pages shows which pages are soon to be archived or disabled.
Not Published Pages displays pages not yet published with a last changed date in a certain
time span
d. Published Pages displays published pages within a specified time period
e. Simple Addresses overview all the simple addresses used in the system
f. Link Status report identifies broken links. EPiServer CMS will periodically check all links
created inside the CMS system (internal and external) to see if they are still valid and
reachable. Editors can see which pages or site sections contain broken links.
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EPiServer CMS Functions
CONTENT MANAGEMENT
• Site Management
• Site Search
• Global Navigation
• Dashboard with gadget support
• Dynamic content
• Content categorizing
• Multilingual support
• Form management
• Image editing
• Friendly URLs
• Content archiving
• Rich text editing
• Version management
• Multi-link property
• Editor collaboration
• Autosave
• Full on-page edit mode
• Preview of dynamic content
• Support for Internet Explorer and Firefox on
both Mac and PC
PUBLISHING
• Scheduled publishing
• Workflow and process management
• Microsoft Office integration and publishing
• Page management
• Statistics
• Tasks
• Blog, support for MetaWebLog API
• Content channel
• Report Center
FILE AND DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT
• File management
• File versioning
• Uniform file system
• Document Management
• Document check-in and check-out
• File metadata
• WebDAV support
OPERATIONS AND DEVELOPMENT
• Powerful API
• .NET based
• Visual Studio integration
• SQL Server support
• EPiServer Deployment Center
• EPiServer Page Bank
• Full set of sample pages, including
templates for: Forms, Search, Site map,
RSS, Subscription, Registration,
Documents, Login and File listing.
ENTERPRISE
• Load balancing
• Staging using high performance mirroring
• Oracle Support
• Custom Page Provider
• Multi Site management
SECURITY
• User management
• Access rights for Content and files
• Functionality access rights
• Role and membership provider
• Virtual groups

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• Custom Page Provider
• WSRP support
PERSONALIZATION
• Visitor segmentation
• Segmentation statistics
• Portal solutions
• User preferences
• Language preferences
• User and member registration
• Subscription services
Number Game
1. More than 3,500 customers worldwide and leading brands like Small Luxury Hotels, Assa
Abloy, Bauer, Scandinavian Airlines, Electrolux and Mazda use EPiServer CMS platform
2. EPiServer CMS is the foundation of more than 10,000 websites.
3. EPiServer CMS is used on a daily basis by over 130,000 web editors.
4. More than 1,000 websites use hosting services from EPiServer Everweb.
5. EPiServer delivers its platform through a network of more than 500 competent partner
companies in 30 countries.
EPiServer Demo sites
http://world.episerver.com/Documentation/Items/Release-Notes/EPiServer-CMS/EPiServer-CMS60/Release-Notes---Demo-Site-EPiServer-CMS-6/
http://world.episerver.com/Download/Categories/Open-Source/Demo-Sites/
http://cmsdemo.episerver.net/en/Demonstration1/