The growing number of packaged applications also compete with homegrown solutions for managing Web workflow and handling content creation, staging and publishing. Forrester Research estimates that the average number of Web pages on a corporate site grew 280 percent in the past year, up to 19,114 pages. One early Raveler user, the Social Security Administration, is using the tool to manage a Web site of more than 10,000 pages with a staff of 35 distributed developers. To serve such users, Raveler eases Web workflow, supporting Web managers, content creators and IT staff as they build Web sites. Content creators can use the tool to automatically distribute and test content from their desktops.
Managers can see an overview of the status of Web projects.
And IT staffers get tools to view server performance as well as consolidate data for Web analysis and reporting. All contributors can work from multiple graphical views. A data repository comes into play to enable users to store and track old page elements, essentially keeping copies of past versions of the site intact. Raveler runs as a client-server application, automatically uploading and distributing content to standard Web servers. Reprinted from the July 13 issue of InternetWeek with permission.