Enterprise Content Management Systems - Web CMS

Background

CentricMinds is an Australian software company specializing in the development of Content Management and Mobile software products.

In 2001 CentricMinds released its first CMS product, CentricMinds Unify. Over the past 10 years the company has worked with more than 500 organizations in the planning, development and implementation of Internet, Intranet and Document Management solutions covering Industry and Government.

In 2009 CentricMinds identified the growing proliferation of Mobile and what would quickly become evident as the post-PC era. The MobileNation mobile publishing platform was launched at DEMO Spring on March 1st 2011.

CentricMinds is a privately owned company with teams based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and San Francisco. Contact us today.

Client Studies

solutions:

content management

CentricMinds has been developing Enterprise Web Content Management technologies since 2001. Spanning hundreds of projects covering every industry vertical, we know Content Management.

Overview

CentricMinds develops Enterprise Web Content Management Systems (WCMS).

Uniquely placed in the market offering both a J2SE and Microsoft .NET version of the product, our customers cover every industry vertical including all levels of Government.

CentricMinds has been commercially developing the products since early 2001, and provides competitive solutions for:

Web Content Management
Document Management
Intranet Management
Learning Management

The CentricMinds Advantage

With over 10 years of product development, the CentricMinds WCMS has been refined through user feedback and responding to market demand. Following are key aspects of the offering.

Non-technical User Interface

Intuitive WYSIWYG authoring and management. Designed by business users for business users
In-context authoring environment. Authors create and publish content as it is presented to the end audience
Drag and drop Form Building and Workflow creation

Administrator Simplicity

Straight forward server installation
Built-in security model based on Users, Groups and Roles
100% web-based CMS configuration tool
LDAP integration support Microsoft Active Directory & Novell eDirectory

Advanced Search

Index Web Content and Documents including highlighting, category browsing and more
Based on the Apache Lucene Search project for J2EE and C#.NET
Verity Search support
Google Search Appliance (GSA) integration

Dual Architecture

Choose from either CentricMinds Enterprise (J2SE & .NET) or Convurge (.NET)
Deploy CentricMinds Enterprise Java with Apache Tomcat, Sun Glassfish, Oracle OC4J or BEA WebLogic
Manage content using either Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL or an Oracle database
Scale CentricMinds Enterprise Java from a single server to a web farm

Web Content Management

The CentricMinds Enterprise Web Content Management System (WCMS) empowers non-technical authors with an intuitive and powerful in-context publishing environment that has been designed from the ground up to enable authors to take back control of their web assets.

Easily create and manage Internet, Intranet and Extranet sites.

A quick overview of the Web Content Management offering:

Over 100+ point and click controls for embedding within your web page
Powerful What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) authoring
Integrated Metadata management (create Thesauri, Elements and Schemes)
Advanced Search (Apache Lucene or Google Search Appliance)
Point and click Workflow creation
Drag and drop form building (create Polls, Surveys, Membership registration and more)
Event Management
Wiki creation and management
Social Media integration (Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn)
Manage single or multiple sites from one environment
SEO Friendly

Clients using CentricMinds Web Content Management include:

James Hardie Industries
Macquarie University
Hardys Wines

Document Management

The CentricMinds Enterprise Web Content Management System (WCMS) provides Document Management enabling organizations to manage the document creation, publishing and management process.

Providing integration with Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat and SharePoint, as well as providing a collection of Windows desktop client tools, CentricMinds Document Management is a comprehensive DMS for any organization.

A quick overview of the Document Management offering:

Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 & 2010 integration
Windows Desktop Browse client (drag and drop documents from the desktop directly into the DMS Repository)
Windows File System integration
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 integration
Adobe Acrobat 9.0+ integration
Workflow Management
Forms integration
Advanced Search (Apache Lucene or Google Search Appliance)
Active Directory integration
Single Sign-on (SSO) agent

Clients using CentricMinds Document Management include:

South Australia Police
PharmaCare Laboratories
Cavpower

Intranet Management

The CentricMinds Enterprise Web Content Management System (WCMS) provides a powerful Intranet Management solution that has been selected by industry and government.

An easy-to-use platform that provides one interface for Document Management, Collaboration, Workflow and integrated Search. Providing more than 100+ controls for embedding within Intranet pages, authors can configure a wide range of business processes and functions including granular content delivery, rich media management, personalization and more.

Developers can create their own custom controls for interfacing with third party systems, and the existing connectors provide access to Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat and SharePoint.

A quick overview of the Intranet Management offering:

Out-of-the-box Intranet Templates (Personalized dashboard, Group Workspaces and more)
Microsoft Office 2003, 2007 & 2010 integration
Workflow Management
Drag and drop form building (create bespoke forms, e.g. HR forms, Financial Control forms, BPM forms and more)
Interactive Organizational Chart
Event & Task Management
Wiki creation and management
Active Directory integration
Single Sign-on (SSO) agent
Advanced Search (Apache Lucene or Google Search Appliance)

Clients using CentricMinds Intranet Management include:

Kmart Australia Ltd
Sparke Helmore Lawyers
Southern Adelaide Health Service (SAHS)

Learning Management

The CentricMinds Enterprise Web Content Management System (WCMS) provides a powerful Learning Management System (LMS) that leverages the Web Content and Document Management frameworks of the product.

Learning Management provides an integrated platform for designing and delivering staff training (induction, refreshing and testing). Monitor employee progress, track and manage scoring, design and create courses based on training taxonomies and more.

A quick overview of the Learning Management offering:

Easy setup of Course and student/employee registration
Customizable forms for course creation and testing
Student management (register, login and course completion)
Extranet Portal layer (manage external authentication)
Integration with HR & CRM Systems
Workflow integration
Report creation and management for administrators
Event Calendaring integration

solutions:

cloud

Streamline your infrastructure, cut costs and leverage what Virtualization has to offer.

CentricMinds has developed Cloud based applications with some of the world's leading Cloud providers.

Realize the benefits of architecting your next web app for the Cloud.

Developing Cloud based applications

CentricMinds has worked with organizations in the development of bespoke enterprise web applications designed to run in the Cloud.

Working with a range of Cloud providers including Amazon Web Services since 2008, our work covers an understanding of EC2, S3 and EBS and ranges from the setup and management of one server to a large cluster.

solutions:

mobility

Developing a mobile strategy is more than just creating an iPhone app.

Our unique blend of strategy, design and product innovation provide our customers with a device independent solution using a hybrid of native and HTML5.

Cross platform mobile solutions

CentricMinds has worked with a range of customers in the development of mobile applications. These mobile apps have been created using our own mobile publishing platform, MobileNation.

MobileNation provides a powerful drag-and-drop environment for designing bespoke mobile applications using a standards based web browser. Leveraging the power of HTML5, MobileNation enables organisations to design, build and publish mobile apps to iOS (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad), Android and BlackBerry devices.

products

Deliver an Internet, Intranet or Document Management solution using the CentricMinds Enterprise platform.

Priced from $995, Convurge is a powerful out-of-the-box Intranet solution you can download today.

MobileNationHQ

A powerful drag-and-drop environment for designing mobile apps for iPhone, iPad and Android.

The CentricMinds Enterprise Web Content Management System (WCMS) is available uniquely as either a J2SE or C#.NET web application. This strategy has enabled CentricMinds to be selected to work within any organization, no matter what the architecture of the environment.
Typically organisations have selected the CentricMinds Enterprise WCMS for its core strengths. These are:
With a rich and diverse customer base including some of Australia’s largest publicly listed companies as well as State and Federal Government agencies, CentricMinds has become a trusted platform for Internet, Intranet and Document Management delivery.
Convurge is an affordable Web Content Management System designed for quick and powerful Intranet deployment.

Built using Microsoft technologies (C#.NET), the out of the box Intranet tools cover Document Management, Forms, Workflow and an integrated Search that indexes all documents and web content.

The Control library provides business users with point and click simplicity for embedding rich content objects from Event Management to Social Collaboration covering peer to peer Chat, Commenting, Forums and more.

Convurge is designed to connect to your existing Active Directory environment enabling AD authentication with your new Convurge Intranet. If you're stuck with File Server issues relating to document duplication and zero document versioning, the Convurge MS Office and Outlook integration provides a easy to use Document Management and Versioning solution for small to medium business.
With the anticipated proliferation of mobile, CentricMinds begun the development of a mobile authoring solution in 2009. MobileNation is a Cloud based platform enabling non-technical users to design and build mobile apps using a standards based web browser (Chrome, Safari and Firefox).

Using an intuitive drag-and-drop visual environment, MobileNation leverages the power of HTML5 enabling users to design an app once and then deploy to multiple environments (iPhone, iPad and Android devices).

Enterprise data connectors enable organisations to connect to their existing data and repurpose it for mobile delivery. Supporting Google Map integration, Geolocation and Rich Media, MobileNation has been employed to deliver a range of apps.

CentricMinds launched MobileNation at the DEMO Spring 2011 conference in California. Since the consumer Cloud offering launched on March 1st 2011, more than 5,000 people have signed up and developed more than 15,000+ apps.