1. Welcome to Site Manager 7
David Miller
Paul Kelly
Piero Tintori
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2. Market & Product Vision
1. Build World Class WCM product
– Provide One offering on Multiple technical platforms &
browers
– Increase End User reach for “Occasional Users”
– Increase productivity for accessibility, security, SEO, link
checking
– Integrate data from other systems as required
2. Support growth in current install base
– Grow community and contributions
– Module Sharing among clients via Extranet
– Support developers and partners
3. Provide basis for expansion into new markets
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3. Sources of requirements…
• Strategic
– Strategic goals
– Market review
• Customers
– Current clients
– Joint development with selected clients
• New Sales
– From specific tenders & new sales
• Internal
– Professional Services
– Client Support
– R&D
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4. Main Functional Themes & Measures
Four functional areas:
1. Revised User Interface & Editor
2. Content Creation Enhancements
3. Developer & Partner Productivity
4. Enhanced Community via Extranet
Four key measures:
– Ease Of Use, Value, Productivity, Community
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5. Revised UI and Editor
• User Interface
– Ease of Access (and accessibility)
– Improved Look & Feel using AJAX, web2.0
– Focus on Occasional User for larger rollout
– Roles based dashboard & gadgets
– Build using new Web Services API
• Revised Editor & Editable Areas
– Direct edit support for all supported browsers
– Simpler navigation to editable areas
– Customisable based on client configuration
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6. Content Creation Productivity
• Content Checking within UI
– Content Link validation
– Content Accessibility checking
– SEO checking
• Media Library
– Ease of use (drag & drop)
– Media manipulation (images etc.)
– Improved Media Management
– Multilingual support
• WebDav
– Expose Site Manager content store as file system
– Drag and Drop media and content
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7. Developer & Partner Productivity
• Web Services API
– Wraps current Java API
– Greater support for .NET, C# etc.
– Extend Site Manager UI
– Callable from published sites
– Shipped examples
• Third party Integration
– Access to data from external systems
– Integrated SharePoint support
– External WebDav Connector
– Selected 3rd party & partner products
• Content Packaging & Delivery: Bundles
– Mechanism to package styles, templates
– Deliver as single entity for reuse
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8. Functionality continued
• Security
– Shibboleth authentication support
– Improved LDAP support
– Pluggable authentication modules
• Multiple File Extensions
– Publish to mixed output types in single site (Cold Fusion,
PHP) RSS, etc.
• Cache Clustering
– Shared instances of Site Manager
– Increased scalability for user groups
• Shipped Data
– Up and running with examples in minutes
• Customer Suggestions
– Many already added
– Continual small improvements (especially for beta3)
– Ongoing exercise – keep them coming!
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9. Timescales
Project Start
Jan/Feb 2009
Project Plan Available
April 2009
UI & Other Prototypes
July 2009
Beta Testing Starts
Sep 2009
Launch @ t44u’09
Nov 2009
General Availability
Early 2010
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10. Where we are now
• Beta 1
– New User Interface, New TinyMCE Editor, Multiple Files
Extensions, Cache clustering, WebDav, Widgets, Reports,
Multiple client suggestions
– Released 28 September
• Beta 2
– New Direct Edit, Enhanced Media Library & new UI, SEO
Checking, Web Services, External WebDav Connector,
More client suggestions
– Release post t44u
• Beta 3
– Date to be confirmed (ideally pre Christmas)
• General Availability
– To be confirmed (January / February 2010)
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11. Testing Site Manager 7 and the
QA Beta Programme
David Connolly
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12. Site Manager and Quality Assurance
• A new approach to QA started in 2009
• 6.2 Started process
– Nightly build system & automated tests
– Test plans & Ship Criteria
• Further development for 7.0
– Dedicated QA team
– Address key quality areas (e.g. HTML Area)
– More comprehensive & reusable Test Plans
– Introduce & co-ordinate a Beta Feedback Programme
– Continued Quality Assurance for Site Manager
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13. The Death of HTML Area
• HTML Area has many bugs
– No longer actively supported
• Selected TinyMCE as
replacement
– Easier to integrate & use
– EXACTLY the same for end users
• TinyMCE sole editor in 7.0
TinyMCE is available &
supported TODAY in 6.2
(revision 23 onwards)
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14. Comparison: TinyMCE As An End User
• 6.2
• 7.0
• A more confident and solid editor. Progressing steadily.
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15. Beta 1 Testing
• User Interface, WebDAV and Tiny MCE Testing
– Heavy testing of the “Big Three”
– Handled internally by QA Dept in conjunction with R&D
• Sandbox Testing
– Snapshot of T4 Intranet and Extranet
– Upgraded to 7.0 B1
– Two days of intense in-office testing.
– 76 issues found and logged. All critical fixes implemented
• Other Testing
– Simulated Client Upgrades
– Enterprise DB Testing
– Multiple File Extensions
– Test Scripts as required
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16. Project Pizza
• Project Pizza
– Fresh install of 7.0 with T4’s Intranet data
– Made a brand new Intranet in one day
– “Is this usable in a production environment”
– The final big test before Beta 1 Launch
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17. Beta 1 Launch
• Launched September 28th 2009
– 12 clients mirror installs upgraded to 7.0
– Active feedback from many in the Beta Feedback
Programme
• Cloud Installation
– TERMINALFOUR cloud demo running 7.0 Beta 1
• Beta Feedback
– Our biggest advantage from the Beta releases.
– Here are our Top 3...
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18. Beta Feedback – 3rd Highest
• University of Strathclyde
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19. Beta Feedback – 2nd Highest
• University College Dublin
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20. Beta Feedback – 1st Place
• University of York
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21. Beta Feedback Overview
• Massive amounts of feedback
• Escalation process developed
– Client Feedback processed and all possible issues logged
– Issues escalated to QA/R+D as Bugs, Changes, Features etc.
• Accurate reports and overview of key areas
• Beta 2 Testing currently in progress
– Building on all our Beta 1 experience
– Adapting to future needs taking on board client suggestions and
feedback
• Beta 2 available end of November for clients and cloud
• Beta 3 to follow
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22. Time to Show it in Action
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23. ….. The Laura & Raewyn show
With a “bit” of help from Piero….
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24. What do you think?
Questions?
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25. We hope you enjoy Version 7
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