eZ Publish CMS
High quality software and total product responsibility from 7x make eZ Publish the leading Open Source Enterprise Content Management System.
Thousands of enterprises, governmental offices, organizations and educational institutions trust eZ publish for running their web solutions.
- One platform for web publishing, webshops and e-commerce, intranets and extranets, document management, blogs, photo galleries, forums, portals, custom modules and more.
- Open Source: Both proprietary and GPL license options are available
- Easy to use: Administration from both the admin and user interfaces
- Accessible: Follows open and widely used standards
- Reliable: Solid and secure software with total product responsibility from eZ systems
- Flexible: A flexible development framework for high level customization
eZ Publish Open Source Enterprise CMS
Where Enterprise meets Open Source in perfect harmony
eZ Publish gives you control of your content. Create, handle, sort and store documents, files and images. Publish them in the format, channel or media you prefer.
eZ Publish provides one platform for web publishing, e-commerce, intranets/extranets, document management, blogs, photo galleries, forums, portals and more.
eZ Publish CMS is
- Dual Licensed: with free and proprietary license options
- Easy to use: direct front-end and advanced backend administration
- Standards compliant: follows open and widely used standards
- Reliable: solid and secure software with total product responsibility from eZ systems
- Flexible: a flexible development framework for high level customization
What eZ Publish Offers
eZ Publish lets you easily share your information. It includes powerful functionality right out of the box but can also be customized to suit your specific requirements.
Intuitive publishing processes | |||||
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Write, edit and publish content in an easy and intuitive way. All processes are done in the same way; you don't have to be an expert to work with eZ publish. The system includes ready-to-go functionality for the most common tasks. Additionally, the system can easily be customized for your spesific needs. |
Multimedia management | |||||
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eZ Publish can handle most types of media formats such as images, audio and video. It automatically converts images into the right format, size and quality to optimize your website. |
E-commerce ready | |||||
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eZ Publish treats e-commerce as a natural part of content management. The powerful built-in e-commerce engine makes selling goods, content and services as easy as publishing content. |
Open, easy and solid | |||
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eZ Publish is based on the philosophy that it should be open, easy and solid. The software is built and maintained by a company dedicated to help you share |
More information
- eZ Publish Features List
- Web publishing functionality
- e-commerce functionality
- Intranet functionality
- Core engines and the development framework
- The open philosophy of eZ publish
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Who are the users of eZ publish?
Thousands of enterprises, governmental offices, non-profit organizations, small and middle sized companies and educational institutions around the world trust eZ publish for running their web solutions. Among the users of eZ publish are Fast search & Transfer, United Nations, AstraZeneca, State of Florida, Copenhagen Business School and Sparkassen Informatik.
Why use eZ publish?
eZ publish gives you a unique return on investment, decreases risk and gives your business great opportunities. The benefits are many depending on your need and use. Look here for more benefits and the key features.
eZ Publish Benefits
eZ Publish gives you a unique return on investment, decreases risk and gives your business great opportunities. The benefits are many depending on your need and use.
The main/key features of eZ Publish
eZ publish 6 is a CMS and a development framework. With functionality like easy to create and edit content, an advanced workflow system, content versioning, multilanguage possibilities, collaboration, e-commerce functionality, a revolutionary content class system, role based access control, discussion forums and much more you can create all kinds of websites.
The history of eZ Publish
The eZ publish project was started in 1999. Since then, it has benefited from years of development and user input. In the early beginning it was a project that was under constant development and was only used by some Norwegian companies.
Differences between eZ publish 2.x and 3.x
eZ publish 2.2 and 3.x are two different systems. The 2.2 version was a fixed solution with a fixed set of functionality and modules while eZ publish 3 offers much more functionality, flexibility and scalability for the users. eZ publish 3 is also a powerful development framework that offers the users a wide range of possibilities in terms of usage. If you have tried both systems you will easily see the differences between the two systems. Sitepoint.com has written a good article about these issues here
What is eZ systems?
eZ systems was founded in May 1999, in Kongsberg, Norway, by a group of today's employees. eZ Systems Created eZ Publish in 1999.
The OPEN Philosophy of eZ Publish
eZ publish is built following an open philosophy; Open standards, open source code and open architecture.
eZ Publish Website publishing functionality
eZ publish is a web content management system. Publishing of content, documents, files and multimedia are core functionalities in eZ publish.
eZ Publish E-Commerce Functionality
eZ Publish comes with an integrated enterprise e-commerce platform as standard. The e-commerce engine is an integrated part of the eZ Publish kernel allowing you to seamlessly combine the e-commerce functionality with the other functionality of eZ Publish.
eZ Publish Portal Functionality
eZ publish has the functionality for running intranets, extranets and portals. You also have the possibility to run intra, extra and internet on the same installation and sharing content between them. eZ publish comes with core functionality that you can use to build custom enterprise solutions from the out of the box intranet functionality. Here is a list of some of the functionality:
eZ Publish Core engines and the development framework
The core of eZ publish consists of a collection of general, flexible engines and libraries. These build a very compact, open and flexible framework capable of making powerful web applications. It is with this framework all eZ publish functionality is built. The eZ publish distribution is an integrated solution, consisting of both the out of the box functionality and the flexible development framework, giving you a great room for extending and customizing your solutions and applications.