WordPress is Ready for Enterprise Content Management

It seems interesting for everybody, right ?. It is not joke, WordPress completed its first milestone of 50 million users. There are huge followers for the WordPress, it is the world’s top CMS community. A CMS that powers roughly 13% of all the major websites today, and whose latest version (3.0) has been downloaded over 32.5 million times (as of February 2011).

One might wonder how WordPress, a platform that is known mainly as a blogging tool and not a content Management System, will suffice to be a fully functional CMS for an enterprise! The answer lies in WordPress Enterprise Edition. The best example for one of the famous sites which built on WordPress is IZEA. It is a social advertising and publisher network, see the rich and enterprise look of it.

The talks of an Enterprise Edition of WordPress have been in the air ever since 2006, with numerous blogs and websites speculating the release of a version of WordPress custom-built for enterprise usage. But serious words about WP Enterprise Edition came into existence when Automatic (WP’s parent firm) announced, “The new WordPress Enterprise Edition will offer enterprises a comprehensive authoring solution that includes a powerful new platform for open communications and information management. With the addition of WordPress, enterprises will now get a platform to build their customer-facing presence in the blogosphere, or an internal platform behind their own firewall to support interactive employee communication.

The solution enables authoring of content that leverages the RSS format, meaning enterprises can speed the delivery of critical information to employees, partners, or customers.” (See http://goo.gl/OSv8D).

How WordPress ready for Enterprise CMS needs :

The benefits of running WordPress as the CMS for enterprises shall be many; the most notable ones being as follows:

1. Search engine optimization: WordPress dominates other CMS options when it comes to SEO, and this is not an exaggerated claim “WordPress is, by its architecture, made to do SEO well,” in words of Google’s Matt Cutts. (video: http://wwwyoutube.com/watch?v=gscFgaMTm48)
2. Easy to create: If you often post rich content (such as conference videos and tools for users/members)on your website, WP Enterprise Edition will surly make life easier for you, to say the least. The WYSIWYG editor is just one of the many tools, the  main prowess of content creation via WordPress lies in its plugins that make podcasts and other related jobs easier.
3. Easier to extend: If nothing else, it is expected that WordPress Enterprise Edition will serve as a major cost-cutter in terms of web development. With hundreds of ready-to-use premium themes and other extensibility options, WP may very well make web design for enterprise just another walk in the park.
4. Portability: WordPress supports import/ export to and from several platforms like Text pattern, Movable Type, Nucleus, Concrete5, etc.

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