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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,…

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CoreMedia is a versatile content management platform that is widely used across organizations to streamline content creation and …
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Consistency is key

8 out of 10
August 31, 2014
Incentivized
CoreMedia was used at my previous organization to update the website for the entire organization. I used it specifically for two …
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Works for me!

5 out of 10
April 19, 2014
I work for an advertising agency. We use Core Media to source traffic for our spots, input media buys, to update reports on our clients, …
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4 out of 10
April 11, 2014
The product is to restricted when our team wants to make custom changes over layouts and content
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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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Score 8 out of 10
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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.
I think this CMS is best suited as an enterprise level system. For small, or simple sites, there are better options, but for large high-traffic sites, this is a great CMS.
  • The overhead of maintaining a 16,000+ page site is minimal now where it was entirely unmanageable previously.
CoreMedia continues to refine and deliver new features. They also explore new technologies and trends, like social media integration. The platform is solid and growing. We are also slightly locked into using CoreMedia. Migrating such a large amount of content to another system would likely not be feasible or prudent.
  • Vendor implemented
  • Implemented in-house
Yes
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.
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.
Set aside more time than you think you need to migrate content. That is the hard part. Implementing the technology is easy.
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