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Q1: Describe Content Management Server 2002 in ONE sentence?

Dramatically reduce the time, cost, and complexity associated with building, deploying, and maintaining mission-critical, content-rich Web sites by using Content Management Server 2002.

Q2: Reason 1 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

1) ENHANCED BUSINESS USER PRODUCTIVITY:
Business users are empowered to create, publish, and manage their own Web content by means of an Internet browser or even MS Word. This enables your employees to realize the full potential of the corporate Web sites by using them as business tools for communication with customers, partners, and coworkers.

Q3: Reason 2 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

2) INCREASED CUSTOMER and PARTNER SATISFACTION:
Managed workflow, content scheduling, archiving, and centralized control over publishing standards through page templates result in Web sites that are richer with more accurate, timely, and easy-to-find content.

Q4: Reason 3 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

3) REDUCED OPERATING COSTS:
By empowering business users to manage their own content, your expensive developer resources are freed from being ad hoc content managers. This results in reduced support costs for Web sites and enables you to redeploy those resources to work on new projects that address the most critical business needs.

Q5: Reason 4 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

4) ENHANCED DEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITY:
Tight integration with MS Visual StudioŽ .NET and support for the MS .NET Framework result in a next-generation Web development environment that enables developers to build powerful Web applications faster than ever before.

Q6: Reason 5 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

5) REDUCED TIME TO VALUE:
With a high level of functionality, a new rapid application development (RAD) environment, production quality solutions sites, and prescriptive best practices, your organization can build and deploy powerful e-business Web sites in record time.

Q7: Reason 6 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

6) IMPROVED SCALABILITY and RELIABILITY:
The Content Management Server 2002 architecture enables you to scale up and scale out to meet the needs of even the largest global Web sites.

Q8: Reason 7 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

7) INCREASED INTEGRATION with Microsoft Products and Technologies:
By integrating with MS's knowledge worker tools, developer tools, and MS .NET Enterprise Servers, Content Management Server 2002 enables you to focus your development efforts on your most critical business needs and rely on MS software to power your solutions. Content Management Server 2002 integrates with a number of MS products, technologies, and services including:
Visual Studio .NET for Web site development.

MS SQL Server™ for content storage.

MS Commerce Server for content profiling, personalization, product catalog, and Web analytics.

MS SharePoint™ Portal Server for document management, search, and construction of knowledge work portals.

MS Word for content authoring and publishing.

Q9: Reason 8 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

8) GREATER INTEROPERABILITY:
Support for XML Web services and the MS .NET common language runtime enables your Content Management Server 2002 applications to achieve seamless interoperability with the rest of your business systems regardless of operating environment and development language barriers.

Q10: Reason 9 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

9) BASED ON INDUSTRY STANDARDS:
With industry-leading support for standards like XML and SOAP, Content Management Server 2002 ensures flexibility and interoperability with any business partner regardless of their choice of application, platform, or transport.

Q11: Reason 10 of Top 10 Reasons to Deploy Content Management Server 2002

10) INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT of CODE and CONTENT:
Manage your content in Content Management Server 2002 and code in MS Visual SourceSafeŽ or other source code management system. Content Management Server 2002 integrates the source code management system of your choice into the Web site by means of Template Objects and Visual Studio .NET, enabling you to provide your business users and developers with the appropriate user interface.


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