DotNetNuke (DNN) is the global leading open source website CMS and application development platform for Microsoft .NET.
DotNetNuke enables users to leverage their existing Microsoft software and training investments to create rich, highly interactive websites and web applications.
The DotNetNuke Professional Edition CMS provides an advanced Web Content Management and Application Development Framework that is extensible, highly scalable and most importantly, easy to use.
The key benefits of this system and approach are:
- A tested and verified version of the Professional Edition content management system (CMS) including the DotNetNuke open source core framework
- Full product documentation
- Email notifications of security patches and product updates
- Access to the Professional Edition online Knowledge Base
- Unlimited online and email product support with second level support from DotNetNuke Corp architects and engineers
- Product copyright indemnification
The Professional Edition platform includes features which are not available in the Community Edition including:
- Advanced Content Approval Process – Administrators can create custom workflows with an unlimited number of states and reviewers
- Google Analytics for Marketing – Support for advanced Google Analytics functionality such as visitor type, landing page, role, or referrer segmentation
- Granular Permissions – Page, module and folder level extended permissions provide more granular security rights
- File Integrity Checking – Checks files in the installation and reports any inconsistencies which may impact website reliability
- Web Server Farm Support – New caching provider delivers more efficient resource usage in web farms
- Health Monitoring – Pings the website periodically to identify failures and will notify the site owner. Also ensures the site stays in web server memory for faster user accessibility
- Vulnerability Database – Maintains a vulnerability database for each product version to easily identify potential issues
CDAA is a Gold Partner of DotNetNuke (DNN) and part of the DotNetNuke ‘Ecosystem’ incorporating more than 600,000 users, developers and software vendors worldwide. Our company has been actively integrating and developing upon this framework for the past six years and also develops custom module products which sell to other DNN users world wide.
A further noteworthy benefit of the DotNetNuke open source CMS is its low upfront costs and its ability to centrally manage multiple websites using the one installation. This provides substantial cost savings in ongoing maintenance and support services such as website hosting.