1. www.mcmsrapid.com Accelerating Content Management Server solutions with MCMS.RAPID Mark Harrison – Microsoft http://markharrison.co.uk/blog Tony Sloggett – ArtemisCorp http://www.artemiscorp.com

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3. www.mcmsrapid.com Agenda 6:30 to 7:30 –Portal strategy and why MCMS.Rapid –MCMS.Rapid overview and demo 7:30 to 7:50 –Break – beer and pizza 7:50 to 8:50 –MCMS.Rapid Developer drilldown

4. www.mcmsrapid.com Deliver a unified portal offering that delivers best of breed Portal, Collaboration and Content Management services Collaboration Content Management Portal Microsoft Portal Solution Strategy

5. www.mcmsrapid.com Collaboration Content Management Portal Unified Portal Offering CMS Connector for SharePoint

6. www.mcmsrapid.com Breath and scalability of services across Individual, Team, Division and Enterprise Sites Moving towards a unified architecture Enterprise For Employee, Partner and Customer Sites Division Team Individual

7. www.mcmsrapid.com CMS 2002 Content creation Content approval Scheduling Revisions Publishing Business Users / Content Creators Business Managers Workflow Internet Sites Intranet Sites Extranet Sites Site Designers Site structure Site design Templates Permissions Web Developers.NET support / Visual Studio Integration / XML Very flexible / extensible Lots of community and ISV addons http://www.gotdotnet.com http://www.mcmsplus.com http://www.mcmsfaq.com

8. www.mcmsrapid.com But … Why do we need to keep developing core site functionality Some things are not so easy, for example: –Accessibility –Rich Metadata –Multi-language Some frequently required functionality is missing from CMS –Auditing –A to Z –Taxonomies

9. www.mcmsrapid.com Wouldn't it be great if … There was a proven / production quality / rich functionality solution site: –that addressed the vast majority of peoples requirements out of the box –provided a framework that enabled extensibility - Free of charge - Source code available under a licence agreement

10. www.mcmsrapid.com Momentum / Community Over 250 beta registrations Over 75 customer organisations across the world Over 100 partner organisations across the world We know of at least 5 projects underway using beta code, going live soon UK Vertical solutions e.g. Local Authority, Health Authority, Emergency Services, others

11. www.mcmsrapid.com MCMS.Rapid overview and demo

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