Web Content Management System
Web Content Management Systems allow nearly anyone to edit web pages as easily as they can edit other documents. WCMS is the next generation of tools for empowering distributed management of web site information. Unlike desktop software suites like Dreamweaver and Contribute, these systems are centrally run and provided—there is no computer setup necessary to begin using these systems and no software versions or upgrades to worry about. For the end user, they run entirely within the web browser and provide an intuitive interface for finding, editing, and publishing web pages.
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Latest Announcements:
March 5, 2012 - Happy 3rd Birthday to Cascade Server at Northwestern!
Happy 3rd Birthday to Cascade Server!
Our license for Cascade Server just rolled into its 4th year. Cascade Server now manages 222 sites and 764 NetIDs have connected to the system to edit content. Over last year, this is an increase of 87 sites and 320 NetIDs. This year we continued to support upgrades as they were released from the vendor and provided feedback at every opportunity on the direction of the product. We filed approximately 70 bug reports over the course of the year that resulted in fixes to both the user interface and the back-end components of the system. We are presently are testing the new 7 series of Cascade Server that should drastically improve performance and provide some great new user interface improvements -- it should be available some time this summer. Many of you also know that we undertook a major infrastructure upgrade to support the expanding use of Cascade on campus, which increased our capacity by a factor of more than eight and provides more efficient service for users on each campus.
In no particular order, our new partners are joined together with the following groups around campus who are using Cascade Server in some capacity:
- University Relations
- Northwestern University Information Technology/Communications
- Northwestern Law
- Feinberg School of Medicine
- McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- The School of Education and Social Policy
- The Graduate School
- The Bienen School of Music
- Northwestern University in Qatar
- Student Affairs IT
- Weinberg College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- The School of Continuing Studies (training and testing)
December 4, 2011 - Cascade Server Capacity Expansion
Today we launched the new Cascade Server architecture at Northwestern University after weeks of planning and testing. The new systems were tested thoroughly by several web development teams throughout the University and are made available today to users. All users logging in to Cascade Server will now use these systems automatically. Each of the new servers acting in this cluster has approximately four times the resources as the single server that we have been using (and upgrading) for the past three years. We think you'll notice the improvement right away. If you encounter any unusual issues, especially related to login or publishing, please let your web content management support person or web developer team know.
March 3, 2011 - Happy Birthday to Cascade @ NU! Momentary outage tonight (3/3)
April 10, 2010 - WCMS Quarter 1 2010 Project Update
Developers in Cascade Server can now access a repository of course descriptions for every course entered and maintained in SES/CAESAR. Please contact Web Communications for more information on how you can access this information and query it to build web pages.
Cascade Server adoption continues to grow. To date, 220 NetIDs have connected to the system to edit and publish pages.
April 8, 2010 - Cascade Server 6.4.4 installed
January 29, 2010 - WCMS Quarter 4 2009 Project Update
- Cascade 6.4 has been installed to the production server after some testing
- The production Cascade installation manages 65 sites
- 185 NetIDs have connected to the system to edit pages
- 6,113 content pages are managed in the system
- The NUIT Communications team and University Relations/Web Communications have launched the NUIT site in Cascade
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