One Ring to Rule Them All

One piece of software, one set of tools, one support team, and every feature you'll ever need for your online presence.

Having everything under one roof can be a significant advantage. It drastically simplifies a great many things. You only need to get comfortable with a single set of tools because they are used consistently throughout the entire application. If you need more functionality, just install the required plug in. Last but definetely not least is support. No matter the issue - call us. One support team is all you need.

The benefits go beyond the site owner as well. Think of your most valuable asset, your online users. While visitors are important, I'm talking about users. Users are the people who sign up and interact with your online presence. They buy stuff. They post on your blog and your community forum. They are the raison d'etre for most interactive online applications.

Now imagine if your site evolved over time, as many do, and uses three different pieces of software to create a blog, a store, a digital asset management system, an online calendar, and a contact form. Will they play nicely together? Or will you be facing a tough choice where you can either struggle with single signon APIs or force your users to manage more than one account. I have run into so many site owners that are managing multiple redundant data sources because they are struggling to overcome the result of a pieced together solution.

Alternatively you could use one complete solution. Once a client signs in they can add issues to your issue tracker, post on your blog and community forum, buy stuff from your store, mange their personal information, change their online calendar info, and even change their password. Once they have signed on to your site, no matter where they go your application will know who they are. Your application will be able to greet them with friendly personalized content. If you wanted you could have every page greet your user by their first name.

Managing your user accounts is much more simple with a single application as well because they are all contained within a single account manager. Never again will you have to change the same information in more than one location. Just find the person by searching by name, email, group, etc., them edit their details.

One ring to rule them all. With OpenEdit one account is all you will ever need because OpenEdit has all the features you will ever need. Don't take my word for it either, check out cmsmatrix.org and compare. No other CMS has a more complete list of features to make sure you'll never need to invest in another Content Management System, ever.