ACM Product Benefits

Alterian Content Manager - Smart ClientAvailable in functionally equal Professional and Enterprise editions, you can now enjoy a world class CMS solution in a configuration appropriate to your requirements and budget - ranging from a single server to run 1 site - up to advanced global staging-live server setups.

Alterian Content Manager is as easy to work with as any other desktop application. You can choose between using:

Whatever you prefer, you will feel immediately comfortable with its style and the powerful business focused features.

By empowering business users, ACM helps IT departments to focus on their core competencies again, adding value to the business through increased agility and a lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for web properties.


  • It's Easy

    The choice is up to you: do you prefer using our Web Client in the browser of your choice, or the Smart Client or Microsoft Word & Outlook on your desktop? In all cases our product is built with the business user in mind.

  • Use Microsoft Office

    Alterian Content Manager uniquely integrates tightly with Microsoft Word & Outlook, the two most ubiquitous office tools out there. As a result, managing and content has never been easier.

  • Manage Multiple Sites to Act Globally

    Some of our customers, like global multi-product corporates or central government, need to run a lot of sites. When we say "a lot" we mean hundreds - find out how you Alterian Content Manager helps you to deliver those.

  • Make it Personalized

    Engagement over the web is all about moving away from the "one size fits all" brochureware experience for visitors. If a visitor is telling you something, you really ought to listen and personalize the web experience for that person.

  • Apply Good Governance

    Engaging with your audience means getting everyone involved in publishing content. Good governance allows you to do that. ACM supports this through powerful features such as workflow, versioning, audit trails and an Accessibility Checker.

  • Manage SEO and Metadata

    Classifying and tagging content is vital in being found by Search Engines (SEO) and in delivering a compelling visitor experience. Alterian Content Manager gives you full control over all these aspects.

  • Translate Content to Act Locally

    As a global enterprise, keen to engage with individual markets, you need to build global sites that act local - not only managing content in multiple languages, but manage sites that adhere to the local customs and laws.

  • Be Consistent Across Channels

    People move easily between touch points to your organization, from email, web, social media, mobile, digital TV and SMS. You need to stay consistent, manage once and publish often to keep pace.

  • Connect to SharePoint

    ACM's SharePoint Connector enables organizations to reap the benefits of letting users create content quickly and easily with Microsoft SharePoint, whilst delivering that content through ACM's enterprise web delivery infrastructure to one or more websites.

  • Manage your Digital Assets

    Alterian Content Manager (ACM) is a Web Content Management System that has extensive built-in Digital Asset Management capabilities. This document provides the reader with a clear understanding its DAM functionality.