Ephox WebRadar Tool for the Lotus Web Content Management

WebRadar tool provides dashboard where you can analyze your web content processes (which content is expiring, which content will be publishing…etc) and generates the different out of box Lotus WCM reports.

WebRadar is designed for a wide variety of users including content administrators, authors, reviewers, approvers and marketers

WebRadar is Tightly integrated with IBM Lotus Web Content Management and WebSphere Portal to pull all required data. Using WebRadar, Content administrators and marketers can monitor web projects at every stage of development through powerful reporting capabilities and metrics that focus on the content. In addition, WebRadar can determine which author is assigned to content, find outdated content, and expose publishing bottlenecks.

Ephox WebRadar Vs WebAnalytics tool

1. WebAnalytics (core metrics, web treands):  To identify external site performance and activity
2. WebRadar : For content analysis (can analyze the process of content managent.)

While there are many tools in the market that are focused on producing external web performance metrics, WebRadar provide insight into the state of the content.

WebRadar improves the productivity of content authors and administrators by providing them insight into the state of their content.

Out-of-the-box and customized reports can be easily produced to find information based on content. In addition, WebRadar can determine which author is assigned to content, find outdated content, and expose publishing bottlenecks. WebRadar is designed for a wide variety of users including content administrators, authors, reviewers, approvers and marketers

Some major advantages of WebRadar

a). Out of box reports (like find content that gets publish /expire in next month …)

b). Filter reports based on metadata of content

c). Editing multiple contents directly from the WebRadar

d). Easy to find out the content and identify problems (why content is not published …etc)

WebRadar 2.1 Demos on youtube

Licensing model :

Requires separate license from Ephox and it is based on PVU(processor value unit). Generally only authoring systems requires license (you mayn’t required in production). And it costs about around 100$ / PVU and support cost 25$ / PVU per year.