• User friendly: elevateIT allows the creation and editing of contents without any programming skills; speedy input directly over the Web-Frontend. Integrated WYSIWYG editor allows creation and maintenance of content for non technical personnel.
• ROI: License fee exemption allows any number of users, content managers and administrators to use the system. The system is Open Source and may be used on any number of servers or sites.
• Independency: elevateIT is vendor independent. Due to its open source licensing agreement, the users are free to use and improve on elevateIT. Due to its open standards there is no need to be bound to a single vendor or service provider.
• Technology neutral: Benefit from the open architecture of open source technology. The system can be tethered to many authentication mechanisms like LDAP or Microsoft's Active Directory. The system facilitates communication with databases like MySQL, PostgreSQL or Oracle and enables the usage of Web mail via an IMAP-connection. Content syndication is supported by the integrated RSS/XML interfaces.
• Inter server communication: elevateIT servers can communicate with each other on an automated basis. Distributed information can be consistently accessed.
• Classification of information: The entire content of an elevateIT server can be classified through the assignment of categories and metadata. The classification of content makes it easy to search and retrieve information.
• Personalisation: elevateIT has an extensive line of personalisation functions. Thus, every user gets individual login hence the user is able to save personal settings in the profile. This facilitates user specified and target group specific information distribution.
• Workflow: Workflow can be customized to each company's unique business practices & processes. elevateIT supports state and activity based workflows using a unified and simple to understand interface.
• Expandable: elevateIT supports voluminous sites with vast amounts of content and is integrated with load balancing function. Growing demand for performance can be met by simply adding a new front end server, thanks to the high scalabity of elevateIT. No substantial reconfiguration is required.
• Security: Thru its easy to define and delegate authority mechanism, elevateIT facilitates inter-departmental accessibility without compromising security.
• Version Control: Documents can be versioned to keep old versions accessible. Old versions can be restored and a change history keeps track of all the changes undertaken in a document.
• Assignment of responsibilities: elevateIT allows delegation of content creation, information refreshment and publication of the same, to designated users, augmenting safety and the reliability of information.
• Groupware: The requirements of workgroups can particularly be taken into consideration.
• Notification service: Users can regularly receive notification about special events
• Multilingual support: The system design of elevateIT is consistently aiming at multiligual sites. Framework, content objects and navigation objects support multiligualism out of the box - for any number of languages you want to offer. Translation of content can be controlled by the workflow system - so you can ensure your site being always up to date.

Plone Highlights

See http://plone.org/about/features/summary for the Plone Featurelist

ZOPE Platform

• Interoperable: ZOPE contains built-in HTTP and FTP servers. ZOPE can also run with an existing Web server for e.g. Apache, Microsoft IIS etc. Client programs can get or set data with HTTP, WebDAV, FTP, or XML-RPC. Existing content creation tools like Adobe GoLive, Macromedia, DreamWeaver, or Microsoft Office can store content directly in Zope.
• Vast Plug-in leeway: ZOPE has a vast array of plug-ins, called "Products". Existing products can communicate with relational databases, authenticate via LDAP, and perform custom calculations or summarise custom data. The ZOPE community is continuously developing new plug-in products.

• Community capacity: ZOPE community consists of thousands of users world wide, who develop, test and implement ZOPE objects. This community set up is of a great advantage; members help each other in problem solving and contribute developed objects back to the community at large.