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What is CoreMedia?
CoreMedia is a global provider of web content management software headquartered in San Francisco and Hamburg, Germany, with offices in Singapore and London. CoreMedia CMS, or CoreMedia 7, is a Java-based web content management and publishing system supporting high traffic, multi-language, multi-channel publishing. As it is targeted at global-oriented businesses and enterprises, CoreMedia touts Multi-site management with regionalization / localization via centralized control and preservation of brand for maintaining a uniform global image. CoreMedia uses object-oriented content modeling and provides security and separation of editorial and delivery environments. That is, it possesses a decoupled architecture. It contains inbuilt integration with SAP and IBM e-commerce platforms.
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CoreMedia is a versatile content management platform that is widely used across organizations to streamline content creation and governance. With over 100 users from different departments, CoreMedia has proven to be an effective tool for centrally managing content. Software engineers in IT and web developers in Electronic Communications have successfully implemented the product to deliver various content-driven applications, including a public website, peer-reviewed publications site, and a career advising content application.
One of the key strengths of CoreMedia is its ability to quickly and flexibly meet the needs of colleagues, making it an ideal choice for training purposes. Approximately 200 contributors utilize CoreMedia to build, manage, and maintain subsites on the organization's main website. This facilitates collaboration among team members and ensures consistent formatting. Furthermore, CoreMedia has been employed by associations to efficiently manage website content, with a central team handling publishing and day-to-day usage. Individual content owners and contributors can easily submit their content as desired for program/initiative pages.
In addition to its widespread use in organizations, CoreMedia has also found application in other industries. For instance, an advertising agency leverages CoreMedia for tasks such as sourcing traffic, inputting media buys, and tracking post logs for TV campaigns. This helps the media and media operations department keep things organized and effectively track TV campaigns with clients.
While CoreMedia offers a range of functionality and benefits, it does have some limitations. Custom changes over layouts and content are limited in the product. Nonetheless, organizations continue to find value in its features and ease of use when managing their diverse content needs.
Seamless Integration: Users have praised the software for its ability to seamlessly integrate with existing infrastructure and software applications, including ActiveDirectory authentication, Solr search engine, Java/Spring, and Oracle. This has been mentioned by multiple reviewers.
Flexible Content Publishing Workflows: Reviewers appreciate the flexibility of the software in terms of content publishing workflows. They mention that different workflows can be set up based on user roles, allowing for efficient management of both managed and unmanaged content production. Several users have highlighted this feature.
Customizable Templating System: The customizable templating system of the software has been highly appreciated by users. They mention that developers can easily tailor content and presentation without worrying about performance. This flexibility allows for a personalized and unique look and feel for each site, as stated by multiple reviewers.
Steep and slow learning curve: Many users have found the learning curve for CoreMedia to be steep and slow within their company. They have mentioned that it takes a significant amount of time and effort to become proficient in using CoreMedia effectively.
Difficult user interface: Reviewers have expressed difficulty with navigating the user interface of CoreMedia, describing it as not user-friendly, particularly for contributors. They have encountered challenges in finding specific features and functions within the system, which hampers their productivity.
Confusing content structure: Users have mentioned experiencing confusion regarding where content is located within CoreMedia and how it is linked to other folders. This lack of clarity has caused difficulties in managing and organizing content effectively, leading to inefficiencies in their workflow.
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January 06, 2016
CoreMedia is fast, flexible and (yup, I'll say it) fun!
CoreMedia is the content application for the marketing pieces of our sites. I've used this now on 2 installations. It is quick, flexible, easily understood by my colleagues - and since I am responsible for training in the Americas, this is a huge plus. I've even successfully trained colleagues in Asia via screen sharing with great success.
- Shows what you're going to see immediately in a side-by-side screen.
- Allows for easy standardization of content look/feel.
- Permissions are easy to maintain.
- Early learning within the company was slow.
- We elected a customized version of CoreMedia - which in the end may not have been the best decision.
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- Once trained, users really ramp up, but getting them to switch mindsets has not been easy or painless.
- We can easily show ROI with add-ons and increasingly do so.
- Since it's a very large site, we have to go a bit slower than everyone would like in terms of the roll-out.
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CoreMedia is used across the organization. Governance is done centrally by the Communications Department while content creation is done by 100+ users across all departments. Product implementation is done by software engineers in IT and by web developers in Electronic Communications. CoreMedia is used to deliver our content-driven public website, a peer-reviewed publications site, and a career advising content application.
- Integrates well with existing infrastructure and software applications. We leveraged ActiveDirectory authentication, a Solr search engine, Java/Spring, Oracle, and other technologies.
- Allows for multiple workflows for content publishing based on user roles. Each of our sites has separate workflows and allow for managed and unmanaged content production.
- Templating system is extremely customizable without being unmanageable. This allows developers to custom tailor content and presentation without worry about performance.
- Some technical concepts require quite a bit of learning. There is very good training and documentation available, but you will need a strong team of developers to leverage all the features of CoreMedia.
- The overhead of maintaining a 16,000+ page site is minimal now where it was entirely unmanageable previously.
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We had two tracks of tasks for the project. One was a set of tasks for developing the design then implementing the software based on those designs. This work was done by a team of in-house developers and a few consultants from CoreMedia.
The other track was a set of tasks for migrating content from our previous system (aka, HTML files). These were content analysis, information architecture, and data entry tasks.
The other track was a set of tasks for migrating content from our previous system (aka, HTML files). These were content analysis, information architecture, and data entry tasks.
Change management was a big part of the implementation and was well-handled
- Content migration took significantly longer than anticipated due to the complexity of analyzing static HTML files. We attempted to hire a 3rd party to automate the migration which turned out to be a waste of time and money. In the end, content experts migrated content manually.
April 11, 2014
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Score 4 out of 10
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The product is to restricted when our team wants to make custom changes over layouts and content
- Good tool for collaboration
- Queries in Coremedia compared to other tools are more robust
- Responsive Design ready
- Content customization by type of user (i.e. facebook style)
- Better Collaboration,
- Restriction of content to certain users decreases the amount of changes over restricted content
- Support price is really high - I would suggest you look into this area
- Joomla!,TeamViewer,Drupal
I think Drupal is way far better CMS than Coremedia, unfortunately some companies prefer to have support over open source products
April 11, 2014
Not the Biggest Fan of CoreMedia... At Times
Score 5 out of 10
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CoreMedia is being used at our Association to manage content for our website. We have a central team within Communications that manages the publishing and day-to-day use or CoreMedia, but staff across all departments at our organization contribute content and work within CoreMedia. It allows individual content owners and contributors to submit their content as they would like it/or need it to appear on their program/initiative page.
- Allows many staff members to contribute content to various portions of our website, and allows our Electronic-Communications staff to delegate tasks to these various staff (diffusing the work-load).
- CoreMedia allows for easy creation of different types of content (like teasers, articles, download objects, links, etc). Permission levels can be set, so only certain staff can upload content such as photos, videos, or audio files.
- The CoreMedia workflow process is easy to understand and follow. Once a staff member has submitted content for publishing to the web, they can then see who it's been assigned to for review, and at what time. You're able to leave detailed notes and stay abreast of where the workflow is at any given time.
- Where content lives within CoreMedia can often be confusing (i.e. you have created an article, but are linking to content in another folder that might be completely unrelated). Navigating to and from different content folders can be frustrating and often confusing on where the content "lives" versus where it is posted on the website.
- Formatting is CoreMedia is less than desirable. You have minimal options for headings and other formatting options, resulting in a dull, or boring website. Several of the formatting functions don't work across different browsers, for example, bullet points.
- Because some users are granted different permissions levels, staff often have to wait in order for an admin user to assist with certain aspects of their workflow. There should be a button, or option to submit an urgent request on an item from within CoreMedia, rather than having to email colleagues via Outlook. Additionally, there could be an added level of permissions for basic users, more advanced users, and then the admins of the system who ultimately publish content.
- Increased employee efficiency
- Sometimes unsatisfactory reviews from users because our site is hard to navigate or it looks "old"
- Increased organization of content. Although this is still an issue we're working to fix, there is the potential to be more organized in CoreMedia.
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CoreMedia is slightly better. I was not a part of the original team to select CoreMedia for our web content management tool. It was already in place when I came to my organization, but it's certainly presented challenges along the way as well as solutions to certain problems. I think at this point, we're going to continue using CoreMedia, although we're investigated ways to enhance our use of it.