IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.1 delivers enhanced professional editing capability

Using IBM Lotus Web Content Management, customers can create and implement Web sites that support globalization and multi-language support. The benefits of creating Web sites that support multiple languages are as follows:

• Increases productivity of authors and business users
• Non-technical users can easily create and manage content
• Automation of manual processes eliminates bottlenecks
• Delivers powerful multilingual and multi-site capabilities
• Easy creation and maintenance of static and dynamic Web sites
• Fast creation and publication of “template” sites in minutes, with ability to translate over time
• Provides easy to create and maintain static and dynamic Web sites
• Delivers personalized content
• Increases speed and efficiency of site and content deployment
• Provides a scalable platform for high-value On Demand Business applications
• Scales with your growth – from pilot project to enterprise-wide deployments
• Uses and integrates with current business infrastructure
• Delivers an offering — an OEM partnership with Ephox where an OEM version of EditLive| (EditLive| for IBM Web Content Management has been on the market since 2005 and is in use with over 110 IBM Lotus Web Content Management customers) will ship alongside the current HTML editor in IBM Lotus Web Content Management which is also known as the ODC editor. The new news in this announcement is that IBM has not only recognized the value but via this offering, is providing customers what they are asking for. It shows IBM willingness to provide additional features in its products that not only satisfies current IBM customers using Web Content Management V6.1, but also position IBM Lotus Web Content Management as a leading vendor in the Web Content Management marketplace.
• Offers the following benefits:
• A feature-rich and easy-to-use interface helps business and content editors to quickly create content – increasing user adoption and helping the organization leverage their investment in Lotus Web Content Management throughout the business to realize a higher return on investment.
• By enabling less technical staff to create rich Web documents without reliance on technical staff – this new offering allows users to get content online faster while helping to ensure that content is rendered correctly on all browsers with centralized style sheet controls that reduce time previously wasted on formatting.
• Now line-of-business users can more easily improve the usability of their Web site with a range of powerful text editing features, including clean copy and paste from Microsoft Word.
• Notes

Shipments of an updated build of IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.1 will include the OEM version of EditLive| for IBM Web Content Management.
IBM Lotus Web Content Management customers using earlier versions of IBM Lotus Web Content Management will need to upgrade to this new build of IBM Lotus Web Content Management 6.1 or later versions
For details, refer to Software announcement ZP08-0283, dated June 24, 2020.

Planned availability dates

March 27, 2020 (electronic software delivery)
English, French, Danish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Chinese-Simplified, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese-Traditional, Hungarian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, Slovakian, Italian, Finnish, and Polish

April 17, 2020 (media and documentation)
English, French, Danish, Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, Korean, Chinese-Simplified, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, German, Swedish, Japanese, Chinese-Traditional, Hungarian, Norwegian Nynorsk, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Dutch, Czech, Slovakian, Italian, Finnish, and Polish

See the complete letter for globalization details.
 

Description

IBM Lotus Web Content Management V6.1 is a powerful and sophisticated browser-based application designed to accelerate the creation, maintenance, and delivery of critical business content across intranet, extranet, Internet, and portal sites.

With IBM Lotus Web Content Management, users you can keep site information up-to-date, accurate and in control. The application delivers faster time-to-value, lower costs of doing business, and a competitive advantage by consistently delivering personalized Web pages to site constituents so they get the right information, in the right context, at the right time. IBM Lotus Web Content Management integrates people with the information and business processes they need in a single, secure, reliable, and dynamic work environment.

IBM Lotus Web Content Management also seamlessly integrates users’ Web, front-end, legacy and back-end systems into a powerful unified content solution – without re-engineering or expensive upgrades. It is a proven, portable, and highly efficient way to drive greater business volume throughout your enterprise-wide on demand system.

Key enhancements of IBM Lotus Web Content Management V6.1

• Enhanced business user experience – Realize greater efficiencies, streamlined business processes, and uptake by the users’ content community
• Simpler authoring forms
• Improved rich text editor
• Updated dialog boxes
• Reduced click streams for simple actions
• Improved security model – Easily map application permissions to existing business structure
• Permission inheritance
• New user roles
• Additional virtual users
• Extended openness and flexibility for custom development – Developers can build custom applications on top of IBM Lotus Web Content Management to meet business needs not available out of the box.
• Library manipulation APIs
• Custom workflow actions
• Additional tasks through inline editing
• Accessibility by people with disabilities
• You can request a U.S. Section 508 Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) containing details on accessibility compliance at

http://www.ibm.com/able/product_accessibility/index.html
IPLA and Subscription and Support considerations

IPLA licenses can be transferred from one machine to another within, but not limited to an enterprise. You may aggregate the capacity for all the processors the product is operated on to achieve a more economic price. This will result in a single Proof of Entitlement (PoE). It is your responsibility to manage the distribution of Value Units within the limits of the entitlement of the product license.

Subscription and Support must cover the same capacity as the product license entitlement. Subscription and Support will be available in the country in which the agreement is made.