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Key CMS Features

  • Fast, concise and easy to learn user interface
  • Create, edit, move, delete documents, content elements and meta data
  • Manage all content with any web browser (recommended: Firefox or Microsoft Internet Explorer)
  • No HTML knowledge required
  • WYSIWYG editing capabilities
  • Automatically generates navigation, menus, teasers, features, sitemaps
  • Time-based publishing and expiring of content
  • Support for secure servers (SSL)
  • Asset management (binary data, e.g. graphical elements, PDFs, Microsoft Word documents, etc.) via the graphical user interface
  • Search engine friendly, human readable URLs
  • Multi-layered role based authentication for editors and administrators
  • Support for virtual servers (centrally manage multiple domains)
  • Unrestricted flexibility with the built in, highly optimized script language


Performance

  • Top performance and minimal hardware requirements even for high traffic websites (up to 5 million requests/day on common one way server hardware)
  • Stability, reliability and security
  • Scalability: Perfect for enterprise use
  • Loadbalancing ready


Databases

Lighthouse supports:
  • PostgreSQL version 7.4 or higher
  • MySQL version 4.1 or higher
  • Oracle version 9 or higher
Database connections in Lighthouse make use of the system's plugin interface, so additional databases can be easily supported.

Operating systems

Lighthouse supports:
  • Linux Kernel 2.4 or higher
  • Windows 2000/XP/2003
  • SUN Solaris 9/10
  • Mac OS X


Web servers

Lighthouse can integrate with these web servers:
  • Apache 1.3.x (Linux only)
  • Apache 2.0.x
  • Microsoft IIS (Windows only)


Interfaces

  • Import from XML
  • Export to XML
  • Generates PDFs
  • Import from Microsoft Word and Microsoft Excel
  • Integrate data from external sources via http/https/ftp/sftp/scp/WebDAV/SOAP
  • CORBA-API


Caching

Lighthouse offers state of the art performance and unrestricted flexibility with its intelligent caching technology:
  • Multi-level caching for optimal performance and minimal database load
  • Multiple version of a document can be cached seperately
  • Caching intelligence: Automatic recalculation of modified content
  • Caching of assets (graphical elements, PDFs, binary data)


Modules

  • Full text search
  • Session management: Easily personalize web applications with user- and meta-data management (no cookies required)
  • User tracking
  • Newsletter management and dispatch via the user interface
  • Image processing: Edit graphical elements online (enlarge, shrink, generate thumbnails, etc.)