CommonSpot Content Server

PaperThin's award-winning technology enables our customers to meet their business objectives. With CommonSpot Content Server, organisations can quickly build and easily maintain dynamic, personalised and sophisticated sites. CommonSpot scales to meet the Web publishing and content management needs of the most demanding sites, and is used by more than 150 organizations of all sizes worldwide.

Why Choose CommonSpot?

• Experience

Since 1998, organisations of all sizes worldwide in the corporate, government, education, health care, association and non-profit sectors have been relying on CommonSpot Content Server - our award-winning content management solution - to manage their Web initiatives. Organisations like City of Westminster Council, Connexions Staffordshire, Youth Access, Connexions Norfolk, Voice of America, Mayo Clinic, Northrop Grumman, Turner Sports and many others are leveraging CommonSpot’s powerful, easy-to-use technology.

• Rapid Implementation

CommonSpot’s out-of-the-box Web content management functionality and flexible architecture dramatically shorten the time to market, allowing you to implement and deploy your site in weeks, not months. You'll be up and running quickly with a robust, tested application. Business users can be productive immediately, saving time and money.

• Easy to Use

Using CommonSpot’s intuitive, wizards-driven interface, contributors can create new content right within the Web page, or incorporate existing content directly from Microsoft Office applications. No special technical skills are required. CommonSpot is a completely browser-based solution – there’s no need to navigate to a separate application to create or publish content.

• Easy to Customize

With CommonSpot’s open architecture, you can seamlessly extend and enhance functionality, and also integrate external data sources and other applications. CommonSpot imposes no limitations on the look and feel of your site, so you can design and build exactly what you need.

• Scalable

Whether you are a small-to-mid-size organization or a large enterprise, CommonSpot is a great content management solution that scales to meet your needs. CommonSpot can be configured to run on a single production server, or can reliably scale to handle multiple sites and several load-balanced, high-availability servers.

• Affordable

With a starting price under £12,000, CommonSpot offers the sophisticated feature set of high-end content management solutions, at a fraction of the price. And you’ll save in other ways, too. Utilizing CommonSpot’s out-of-the-box capabilities reduces implementation costs, since there’s no need for expensive consulting or development services. With business users empowered to manage the publishing process, your developers are freed to focus on technical tasks, ensuring more efficient staff utilization. Your total cost of ownership (TCO) will be lower with CommonSpot.

• Industry Standards

Built on Macromedia ColdFusion, CommonSpot leverages the power of the Java platform, without the complexity. CommonSpot integrates with major Internet standards including J2EE, XML and Web Services, and can be deployed on a number of highly scalable and reliable J2EE Application Servers including IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic and Sun ONE.

Click here for a copy of the CommonSpot White Paper which gives a technical description of the product.