Plone

For the past 6 years, ifPeople has used Plone as the backbone of client web sites because Plone is:

• User friendly: the intuitive user interface has you editing content in the same way that users see it - no strange database interface. The editing features are easy-to-use, and anyone who can use a Word processor can create interesting content with no technical knowledge!
• Flexible: Customizable in many ways so you can adapt the technology to your business processes and workflow, integrate with other technologies, add specific templates for organizing your information, and create new functionalities for your site that integrate seamlessly.  
• Secure: Plone has a robust security, permissions and user management system. Additionally, systems administrators will be relieved at the reduced exposure to the security issues prevelant in most PHP-based systems.
• Built on best practices: With a foundation on Web Standards, Accessibility, and Test Driven Development, Plone is a robust and quality framework.
  
• Robust technology: Plone is built on leading object oriented technologies, including the enterprise scripting language, Python, used extensively by Google, Yahoo, NASA, and many others. It uses the Zope application server, one of the longest thriving and most innovative open source projects.
  
• Strong Open Source Community: Not only in Plone Open Source, it has a vibrant community. There are many conferences, books, and social events that keep the community working together to further Plone. There is extensive documentation as well as commercial and community support, which has led to thousands of Plone sites in nonprofits, businesses, universities and governments around the world.
  

• Winner of Best Open Source CMS award from Packt Publishing. Read more...
  
• The most popular CMS for universities. Read more...
  
• Accolades from eWeek about social networking: "Plone is easily one of the most flexible and extensible of any Web platform available today, and has been used for everything from enterprise portal systems to project management to Web 2.0 deployments.". Read more...

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