Content Management Solutions
Interwoven's approach to content management creates the kind of problems that Pervasent's CMS solves by design.

The approach a CMS vendor takes to structuring content can have a profound effect on the day-to-day functionality of a system.  Pervasent's unique topic-based approach to content management provides real-world benefits, offering the kind of flexibility and ease-of-use that file-based systems like TeamSite can't deliver.

Real World Stories:

Problem Missing images, broken links
Cause Interwoven doesn’t track dependencies between assets
You’ve spent days coordinating the release of a series of articles on new video game. Dozens of pages and images are involved. Your content is part of a larger deployment involving the work of many other content producers, and your articles require images that depend on the work of others. You push all your content out to the staging instance for deployment. Unfortunately, one of the other producers had to delay release of the content he was working on, forgetting that your pages needed some of the images he was responsible for. Your content gets deployed, but with broken image links.

Solution

Pervasent’s CMS explicitly tracks content dependencies, including images and links, ensuring assets are in place before content is published.

Problem You can't add links to your new content from other website pages
Cause Links in Interwoven are part of page content
Your IT staff has created a new TeamSite template so you can add press releases to your company's Web site.  Everything goes well, and you've produced two new press release pages that have been approved.  Now you want to add links to these new pages from the "Product" pages and the press release summary page.  Unfortunately, you're not authorized to modify those pages, so you'll have to wait for other people to get around to adding the links for you.

Solution

With Pervasent’s CMS, links are stored as their own content type, separate from other page content.  Users can add links to their content from a web page, without having modification access to any other content on that page.

Problem You can't create or modify TeamSite workflow templates
Cause TeamSite workflow templates are written in Perl
You use the default TeamSite workflow tool to track the production of articles for your site. You’ve hired an editor, and want to add a new approval step to the default workflow. However, in order to make this simple change, you have to change TeamSite’s default workflow script, which was written in Perl. Not being a programmer, you have to call in your TeamSite consultant to make the change.
Solution Using our Workflow Template Builder, no programming skills are required to create workflow templates.  From a graphical user interface, users can select from a palette of tasks and dependencies.  Pervasent’s CMS also offers project management tools to track resources, such as staff currently working on particular content.

Problem You're "locked out" from changing content
Cause Pages must be checked out before they can be modified
Your product manager checks out the site’s product overview page to add a new product description, but leaves the office before she finishes. You want to add some text to a product description on the same page describing a promotion starting tomorrow, but your product manager still has the page checked out. You must find an Interwoven administrator to break the lock on the page, or delay updating the page until your product manager returns.
Solution Content is stored in Pervasent’s CMS as discrete objects; e.g. a "blurb," a quote or a headline; so conflicts over modifying content are all but eliminated.  You never have to check out an asset in order to modify it, while "optimistic locking" protects against any potential database conflicts

Problem You have to do search and replaces on your very large website
Cause With TeamSite, content has to be replicated to be reused
Your company's product suite has received a glowing review in a trade journal.  You extract a killer quote from the review and send it to all your product managers to post on their product's web pages.  You ask your marketing people to post it elsewhere on the site.  A week later while looking on your site, you realize you attributed the quote to "Internet Weekly" instead of "Online Weekly."  Now, someone will need to do a "search and replace" on your 1000 page site.
Solution Because content is stored "logically" in Pervasent’s CMS, it never has to be replicated to be reused. Change text, a headline, a link or an image in one location, and it's changed everywhere on the site.

Problem You need an enterprise-level CMS solution, but budgets are tight
Cause A typical Interwoven implementation costs $250,000
Your company's web initiatives are playing an increasingly important role in your company's success, in which you as the web content manager take particular pride.  That hasn't stopped you from losing staff that you haven't been able to replace, while your budget is under a microscope.  You know the right CMS will allow you to do more with less, but six figure solutions are out of the question.
Solution Often for less than a TeamSite upgrade, Pervasent's CMS can provide an enterprise-level solution tailored to your particular content.  Typical implementations take one month and cost under $50K including licensing and consulting services.