Standard & Poor’s Embarks on New Global Web Strategy with dotCMS
Feb 01, 2012
Miami, Florida and Boston, Massachusetts – January 12, 2012 – dotCMS, an open source, Java-based platform for content driven web applications, today announced that Standard & Poor’s, the world’s leading index provider, has chosen dotCMS as its web content management system (WCM). dotCMS will be the centerpiece of Standard & Poor’s content strategy for web and mobile applications -- providing a single global platform for managing the content and functionality of S&P’s Ratings, Indices and Capital IQ web properties.
Standard & Poor’s will be launching a revamped Index site on the new dotCMS 2.0 series which provides a significant upgrade in efficiency and time-to-market for staff deploying web content and functionality. “What attracted Standard & Poor’s to dotCMS was the ease of integrating a user friendly web CMS with Standard & Poor’s institutional indices and data ” said Will Ezell, Chief Technology Officer of dotCMS. “Our web content management platform not only enables a rapid deployment model, but it also provides business users the capability to do more of the critical and time sensitive tasks – taking some of the dependency off the application developer and other IT staff.”
About Standard & Poor’s
Standard & Poor's (McGraw Hill Financial), a part of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), is the world's foremost provider of credit ratings. With offices in 23 countries, Standard & Poor's is an important part of the world's financial infrastructure and has played a leading role for 150 years in providing investors with information and independent benchmarks for their investment and financial decisions. For more information, visit http://www.standardandpoors.com.
About dotCMS
dotCMS is a content management system that helps global enterprises with multiple brands, subsidiaries, and franchises manage, optimize, and scale content across languages and channels. Brands such as Dairy Queen, Newell, Firstmac, Telus, and Comcast have chosen dotCMS for its unique ability to manage thousands of sites and consolidate multiple CMSs onto a single, unified instance of dotCMS to streamline content management across teams while saving money on platform costs.
dotCMS’ universal approach to content management also means that companies have the choice to deliver content traditionally or headlessly. Headless developers can work within the front-end framework of choice while still providing marketers with visual editing tools so they can go to market with their business-critical content and decrease their dependency on technical teams.
