Web Content Management Improved in SharePoint 2010

SharePoint 2010 updates Microsoft’s premier Web content management product (for creating and managing pages and content on a Web site) with greater browser compatibility, accessibility, better use of metadata, and more granular controls for enforcing visual standards while simplifying tasks for content creators. The product will be welcomed by existing customers who want to move past previous constraints on site size and need more powerful content management tools to do so. However, SharePoint’s Web management tools are not as mature as its collaboration capabilities, and customers with very large sites will likely find the remaining constraints problematic.

Web Content Management

Even small Web sites face content management challenges, as content producers generate new or refreshed content and try to fit it into a site’s navigation menus and visual standards. For large corporate sites, the problems are multiplied, as design is usually delegated to one group while others generate the content. Content creators often need access to corporate logos and other design elements that give the site a consistent look and feel. Organizations also want to maximize reuse by converting print to Web content and vice versa.