Plone - flexible, secure, globally supported.

What is Plone?

Plone is an open source content management system providing powerful web solutions for business and organisations. In addition to websites that are easy to update, Plone’s flexibility allows for the development of intranet and extranet servers, document publishing systems, portal servers and as a tool for collaboration between separately located users. Plone is built on the powerful and free Zope application server.

Why Plone?

Plone is a ready to run content management system. While most content management systems will let any employee edit a page, Plone can do much more – it’s unique object oriented database combined with advanced workflow allows for enormous flexible solutions ranging from document repositories, knowledge bases, wikis, CRM,  online communities, mashups and semi structured data.

Special features give Plone the edge:

• Plone is easy to use. The Global Plone Team includes usability experts who have made Plone easy and attractive for non-technical content managers to add, update, and maintain content.
• Plone is international. The Plone interface has more than 35 translations, and tools exist for managing multilingual content.
• Plone is standard. Plone carefully follows standards for usability and accessibility. This is an essential part of search engine optimisation thus increasing your chance of higher rankings.

What does Plone offer?

Content Management

• Manage content from any web browser (even mobile phone browsers).

Editing

• Edit the site using a web browser interface, no HTML knowledge needed.

Workflow

• Built in workflow for editorial approval before publication of content.

Content Types

• Comes with content types for common cases: news items, events, links, documentations, and more.

Searching

• Built-in fast, flexible search engine
• General search or specific searches (only on title, category, author, etc.)
• New search indexes can easily be added

Membership

• Authorised users can access private members areas.

Search engine optimised out of the box

• Key features of Plone make it search engine friendly

Data Storage for Intranets

• Data is stored in built-in object database
• Users add content, managers manage. Letting users edit and add content lets them feel ownership towards the intranet, and encourages content production.
• Content is all fully searchable including stored PDFs, Word, Excel files.

Security

• Rich security model to provide flexibility and simplicity for common cases.

Multilingual

• Plone provides tools for managing multilingual content.

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No Licensing Costs

• Plone is open Source software, this means the code is free to use. There are no licence fees for using Plone. This makes the development of intranet systems, and complex web applications significantly less expensive  then using closed source or proprietary software packages.

But open source is much more than just saving you license fees……

Reliability & security
It protects your business through better security as flaws, when existing, are transparent. They are then identified and rectified quickly by global teams of developers. Similarly bugs are addressed with rapid fixes.

Flexibility
A whole ecosystem of plug-ins future-proof you from outgrowing a limited proprietary platform.

Freedom
With open source you are not locked in with a particular vendor leading to over-dependency. It protects your investment by giving you a worldwide network of developers to choose from.

Innovation
Open source collaboration means improvements come from those who actually use the product, resulting in faster, more efficient innovation.

PretaWeb is a proud member of Open Source Industry Australia.