Merant Collage

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Merant Collage enables customers to rapidly design, create, deploy and manage their website code and content, ensuring technical quality and control while preserving creative freedom for contributors. Fast ROI with Merant Collage, both in terms of time saved and costs reduced, is assured by its unparalleled ease of implementation, accountability via collaboration, workflow, security and permission, and rapid adaptability - enabling customers to manage content their way.

Product Highlights

Website Content Contributors – Merant Collage enables direct content contribution from all types of business users, such as web designers and graphic artists, eliminating bottlenecks that arise when one centralized group is responsible for posting all web content. Collage maintains the balance between preserving creative freedom for contributors and providing quality control and adherence to corporate style guidelines through flexible user-defined security, permissions, and style rules.

Website Administrators – Merant Collage makes it easy for web site administrators to maintain and deploy higher quality, lower cost web sites. Through its standard administrative features, Collage simplifies user administration, content access control, site maintenance, and regular content backup and recovery. A powerful deployment engine makes deployment of both content and application code efficient and repeatable.

Web Project Managers – Merant Collage enables the people who manage web programs and initiatives to easily track and report on all changes to a website. To facilitate collaboration among content contributors in an organized and secure environment, these managers can also implement task management and workflow control, ensuring the visibility of process and accountability for change.

IT Services – Merant Collage allows IT departments to leverage existing infrastructure and knowledge through its open standard-based architecture and support for multiple application and database server platforms. Collage grows with your organization, with powerful multiple server implementation options. Collage integrates seamlessly with Merant SCM products, in order to merge content management with web application change processes, and support joint code and content deployment.

-- PatrickEgan? - 29 Dec 2002