Many organizations have multiple websites. But nearly everyone is trying to consolidate their content management infrastructure. How do you balance centralized facilities with distributed rights? Stellent has come out with a new add-on module called Site Studio, which is designed to devolve a lot of typical system administration tasks out to business users while maintaining a central library of corporate code objects and content assets. Most enterprise-level CMS packages allow you to do this now, albeit in different ways. We think Stellent's offering needs a lot more work (e.g. it lacks any meaningful object dependency reports, so the cascading impact across multiple sites of changes to a shared piece of content or code cannot be foreseen. Ugh.) There is one thing Stellent got right, however, that a few of its competitors still have wrong: with Site Studio, department directors can manage all user rights for their team without having to rely on a central SysAdmin...
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