Cascade Server: The Road Ahead…

1. Cascade Server: The Road Ahead… Bradley Wagner

2. …But First Let’s Review 4 Themes for the Cascade 5 series in 2008: • User Experience enhancements • Enterprise Deployment features • Popular Issues • Distinct Feature vs. Patch Releases Bradley Wagner

3. User Experience Enhancements • Quick Links for Fast Access (5.1) • Drag and Drop Folder Re-Ordering (5.2) • Drag and Drop Publish Queue Re-Ordering (5.2) Bradley Wagner

4. Enterprise Deployment Features • Database Publishing (5.0) • Load Balancing Support with Tomcat/Hibernate (5.0) • Content Types for Pages (5.5) Bradley Wagner

5. Popular Issues • Content Drafting “Save as Draft” (5.0) – 16 votes • Editable Roles (5.5) – 12 votes • 30+ voted on features, improvements, bug-fixes included up to 5.7 Bradley Wagner

6. Release Strategy:Feature vs. Patch Releases Goal • To release new functionality in scheduled quarterly releases and provide timely patch releases in the interim. By the Numbers • 5 Features Releases – Since Last September (5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.5, 5.7) • 10 Patch Releases – Averaging 2-3 between major releases Bradley Wagner

7. Cascade Server 5 Series Adoption • About 66% of our 150+ customers are using Cascade 5 series in production • Test licenses available on request. Get yours today! Bradley Wagner

8. Want to learn more? • Database Publishing • Syl Turner, Software Engineer, Tomorrow 8:15-9:00am • Exploring Cascade 5 • Kevin Works, Services Director, Tomorrow 10:30-11:00am • Cascade Server Knowledge Base • Morgan Griffith, Marketing Directory, Today 2:30-3:00pm • Ask Hannon Hillians! Bradley Wagner

9. The Here and Now: Cascade 5.7 Bradley Wagner

10. User Experience Enhancements • AJAX Left Hand Navigation • Type Ahead Search with Relevancy Sorting • Scrolling “New” Menu – 10 votes Bradley Wagner

11. Content Types Indexes • Great for pulling only the content you need from folders across your website – “Most Recent…” Bradley Wagner

12. Link Anchors • Anchor insertion/editing – 21 votes • Supports Clicking Links with Anchors Bradley Wagner

13. WYSIWYG Upgrade • Full-Screen Edit Mode • Full Safari 3 support • TinyMCE 3 provides fixes for lots of bugs Cascade in our own issue tracker Bradley Wagner

14. Script Formats • Stylesheets -> XSLT Formats • Script Formats: When XSL is too much • Backed by Apache Velocity templating engine • Procedural style familiar to PHP, Python, Perl developers • Content Type Indexes + Script Formats = Simper, More Efficient Dynamic Content Regions Bradley Wagner

15. Cascade Server in 2009 Bradley Wagner

16. (A Few) Themes for 2009 • Scaling Cascade Server deployments • Lowering the learning curve • Providing solutions for the social Web Bradley Wagner

17. Scaling Cascade Scenario: We’re adding 50 new micro-sites to Cascade in next 6 months Questions: • How can we empower our site managers and alleviate strain on our CMS administrators? • How can we easily link between sites being deployed to totally separate web servers? • How can we allow content contributors on on site to….? Bradley Wagner

18. New Roles Bradley Wagner

19. Previous Innovations • Introduced editable Roles in Cascade 5.5 • Allowed for enabling/disabling a wide-range of abilities for the 5 existing roles: Contributor, Approver, Publisher, Manager, and Administrator Bradley Wagner

20. One Step Further • Allow creation of totally new custom roles • Add permissions to access control lists to control who can access them • Tailor new Roles to “allow content contributors” to do whatever you want Bradley Wagner

21. “Sites” as New Components Bradley Wagner

22. Previous Innovation • We’ve been laying the groundwork: • Administration Component Containers • Lastly, Transport Containers in Cascade 5.7 Bradley Wagner

23. Site Features • Formal Site Component • Site contains its own set of Folders and Administration Area components • Only the assets relevant to the Site are visible • Users can belong to multiple sites and can switch between them • Contextual, site-specific Roles • Allows “contributors on one site to…” • Site Specific Settings Bradley Wagner

24. Some Site Specific Settings • Site Level URL • Allows for robust “linking between sites” deployed to possibly • Site Specific Content Preferences • WYSWIYG toolbar configuration (currently in Groups) • CSS File and CSS Classes (currently in Targets, Groups, Global) • Tidy, Spell Check, Link Check, Accessibility (currently Global) • Allows for more fine-grained control to “empower site managers” Bradley Wagner

25. Long Term Site Goal • Sites supplant Targets as the object that binds Home area assets and Administration components together • Allows for decoupling of Templates (presentation) from Targets (publish destination) Bradley Wagner

26. Lowering the Learning Curve Bradley Wagner

27. Menu Blocks • Combine common Index Blocks and Formats (XSLT or Script) • Create Menus with no XSLT and minimal number of options in a simple User Interface • Breadcrumbs • Next/Previous • Selected Objects • Context Navigation Bradley Wagner

28. Providing Solutions for the Social Web Bradley Wagner

29. Social Web Sites Sites are interactive web applications: • Personalization • Favorites • Watchers • Community Features • User Comments, Discussions • Ratings • Idea Exchanges • Blogs • Tags • Wikis Bradley Wagner

30. Cascade Delivery Server Bradley Wagner

31. What is a Delivery Server? • Push CMS: Cascade Server 5 is strictly Push CMS that bakes and pushes files to a third-party Delivery Server (Apache, IIS Web Server) • Push/Pull CMS: Cascade’s Delivery Server will provide ability to directly serve up site content to browser • Imagine the Preview pane in Cascade 5 in a window by itself Bradley Wagner

32. Cascade Delivery Server • Optional product • Simple enabling of Cascade Delivery Server from within Cascade • Content served up by Cascade with the same URL as would appear on your web server • Can be enabled for specific sites and micro-sites Bradley Wagner

33. Why incorporate Pull CMS? • Pull model has gained a lot more traction in the last few years as CMS applications have become more stable • Allows for instantaneous updating of site content for sites that require it: • Events Calendar • Allows for easy incorporation of Personalization and Community features • Blog with User Comments Bradley Wagner

34. Future Delivery Server Innovations:Live Site Modules Inject easily pluggable, configurable modules for: • Dynamic Content Harvesting – Calendars, Search • Personalization – Favorites, Watchers • Community – Comments/Discussions, Ratings, Ideas Exchanges right into existing page managed in Cascade Server. • Currently achieved with custom scripting code (PHP, .NET) Bradley Wagner

35. Push and Pull • Cascade Server will still be a great Push CMS for maintaining organization controlled content: • Main corporate site (e.g. hannonhill.com) • Course Catalogs • News and Press Releases • Cascade Delivery Server will be great for interactive, community sites: • Cascade Knowledge Base with Favorites, Ratings, and Comments Bradley Wagner

36. Benefits for All • Delivery engine requires a consolidated rendered content cache to deliver the speed • All users will benefit from faster load page times for in-application viewing and during publishing Bradley Wagner

37. Customer Influenced Roadmap:Your Ideas Matter! Bradley Wagner

38. Voicing Your Opinions • Growing JIRA Features Project • Over 150 new features, improvements suggested since beginning of 2008 • Over 30 voted on features, improvements, bug-fixes implemented in 5 series to date • Feature Idea Exchange on Customer Success Community • Need to talk? • Enter Chris Armistead, Client Advocate (product surveys, quarterly check-ins) • Remember our Support Staff headed by Tim Reilly and Joel Baxter is there to listen Bradley Wagner

39. Q & A Bring your questions for me to our Open Q&A, Tomorrow 12:30-1:30pm Bradley Wagner