Spark
Portals Need Content...and Content Management

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By aggregating diverse applications, services, and content and securely delivering them to users in a personalized way, portals can save employees time, reduce the costs of sales and service, and improve customer and partner relations. Unfortunately, portal users often find that portals don't meet all of their needs as they lack timely, relevant, and up-to-date content. As a result, the usage and overall value delivered by the portal suffer.

To meet corporate business goals, portals must deliver the content that users need to do their job. This content must be fresh, relevant to the user, and timely. Portals that lack content management capabilities can be difficult to populate with new content, and ensuring that users have content that is personalized and up-to-date can become an onerous task. To meet these challenges, many companies quickly realize that they need a content management system. But purchasing an enterprise-scale content management system to work in conjunction with an enterprise portal product could break the budget of many portal initiatives.

FatWire Spark Portal Content Management (pCM):
The First Content Management System Purpose-built for Portals

FatWire Spark pCM is uniquely suited to providing comprehensive content management capabilities for a portal at a price that easily fits within the project budget. Built to the JSR 168 standard, Spark is an integrated portal content management system that provides a full range of content management functions that can be performed entirely within portlet windows. Spark is also pre-integrated with leading portal products.

Much more than just a low-cost content management system for composing and posting content, FatWire Spark pCM is a full-featured portal content management solution. It enables the three main content management processes:
  • Content Creation & Management - Spark lets business users create and manage content all from within the portal interface. It provides:
    • Content Authoring
    • Document Management
    • Workflow with or without review
    • Check-in / check-out with version control
    • WYSIWYG tool for content formatting
    • Search
    • Metadata tagging
    • Rollback
  • Content Delivery - Spark includes four pre-built reference portlets for content display. It also provides developer interfaces and documentation for rapidly building additional portlets.
  • Administration - Administrators work with Spark to manage asset types and publishing processes.

Easy Upgrade to the FatWire Content Server Product Family
FatWire Spark is intended specifically for use within a portal platform. As your portal content management needs grow, or you want to extend the benefits of FatWire content management to other content-centric applications and Web sites, you can seamlessly upgrade Spark to FatWire Content Server. With this quick and easy upgrade to our enterprise-scale content management solution, there is no need to migrate content or retrain Spark users.