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FatWire has announced the release of FatWire Content Server 7.5, extending the company's core web content management solution with some notable features.

Within the past few months, FatWire has released upgrades to all its major products in anticipation of this release. Back in August, I wrote about the unveiling of their Content Integration Platform, which is a critical element in their ability to tap into some of the efficiencies now possible with Content Server 7.5.

FatWire offers products that span the range of web content management activities:

Content Server (core product and platform)

TeamUp (collaboration and community)

Engage (personalization and targeted marketing)

Analytics and content integration platform (integration with legacy systems)

Site preview and the business-user interface enhancements are the result of customer feedback, according to FatWire President and CEO Yogesh Gupta; "Business users keep saying, let us do more."

That is exactly what FatWire has done with Content Server 7.5. With business users wanting to do most of the content management themselves, they needed a user interface that could support their entire business process in a customized way. Business users now have a dashboard tailored specifically to their own content management process. Using the Content Integration Platform, business users can manage their process for the web across all existing legacy systems. So, wherever the content may be (Documentum, file servers, etc.), business users can control how and when that content is published with updates occurring automatically when new versions of that content are available.

The new business user interface ties directly into site preview capabilities. Using tags with a "go-live" date (as well as an expiration date) business users can preview the site as it will look on a given date. So, for example, if you can imagine a major product announcement that will happen on a certain date, there are a lot of changes that need to happen to the website -- updated content, changes in the templates for look and feel, etc. Based on the website's personalization features the view someone sees on the "go-live" date can also be different. Business users needed a way to answer the question "Show me what the site will look like on the "go-live" date". That is exactly what site preview allows them to do. Using time-based versions of the site, users can not only see what the site will look like on future dates but also be able to do a side-by-side preview of date based versions. This feature would come in very handy for business applications like a marketing campaign, product launches, site redesigns, or even internal communications.

It is important to note that site preview is not intended for historical viewing for audit or legal purposes. While the content management portion of the system can tell you what version of content was the production/approved version at a historical point in time, you cannot preview the historical website.

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