Developers

SilkRoad Eprise is more than a distributed web-based content management application. Eprise is a toolset to facilitate an accurate, timely, robust and consistent web site as an end deliverable.

The Eprise toolset includes extensible web security, targeted, multifaceted and easy to use content contribution tools, accessible methods for integrating Eprise content and content management features with external applications, built in scalability and performance features, and a wide variety of integration and availability of other complementary products.

SilkRoad technology is proud of the 98% approval rating by the developers who use Eprise. 

In summary Eprise is:

Extensible Web Security
Eprise protects your content and delivers a personalized user experience through network and application level security. At a network level, Eprise supports Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to insure the privacy of your content over the Internet.   At an application level, Eprise supports a robust and extensible security model. 

Eprise application security has a dual purpose of determining who a user is (authentication) and  what the user's privileges to the content are (authorization). Who is determined by validating the user's credentials against an established account. What privileges are granted drives the access to the content.

Site Management
The Eprise development environment to the Eprise content management engine is a complete toolset for the web developer to structure, maintain, and tune a web site.  An Eprise developer uses building blocks or "page blocks"  to create a basic page structure.  The page blocks enable a variety of useful content creation and publication features.  Robust content types, page styles, inherited permissions structures, built in scalability, and mature performance algorithms are all assets of Eprise content management.

Content Empowerment

An Eprise developer creates the various groups ("roles") of content managers in an organization.  A developer creates style pages and assigns roles to view, update, and publish ("permissions") to the sections of the page.  The content managers can create, submit, and publish content using the very pages that will be used to view a page.

Eprise provides multiple features for the Eprise developer to enable content managers to easily and accurately populate a page. 

     Features that are easy for a developer to implement
+   Features are easy for the business user to use
=   Prompt, accurate, appealing content

Each Eprise web page is structured from building blocks called Eprise "page blocks".  The page blocks are made of content elements.  Content elements can include features that allow the business users to click into a web page, edit text, and publish content without ever having to enter into a separate editing window or application, or even the "look" of the website.

Web Site Integration

The Eprise Application Programming Interface (API) is multi-facited and flexible.  The Eprise API provides a solution for incorporating Eprise content into an external Web site as well as incorporating an external application’s information into an Eprise Web site.  In addition to exposing content managment features and calling external functions, the Eprise API provides a way automate tasks and repetitively interact with the Eprise CMS engine.

At large, the Eprise API is both open and standard.

Web Site Extensions

The power of Eprise doesn't stop at content management, SilkRoad technology provides tools that work with Eprise and your web applications so you don't have to write them yourself, or worse yet deal with yet another vendor. SilkRoad offers:

• Online Survey Management
• Chat and Instant Messaging
• Eprise Discussion Forums
• Powerful web analytics
• Calendar and Event Management
• EpriseDocs for document management
• InstantEngage for live interaction with prospects and customers on your website