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Why Plone?

Plone is a robust and user-friendly Content Management System that includes Dublin Core meta-data and work-flow tools for automating the publishing of content. Plone is ideal as an Intranet and Extranet server, as a document publishing system, a portal server and as a groupware tool for collaboration between separately located entities.

Easy to Use, Easy to Manage

Plone provides a consistent and user friendly interface that allows the users to organise content, deploy applications and generate custom saved searches without the need to learn HTML or programming interface.

It's single user management and permissions system for content server and database that makes easy to manage for web administrators. No more worrying about setting up databases, file system permissions and so on. Administrators can easily deploy additional sites and add-ons though web interface.

File and folder based content management

Content in Plone is organised as files and folders. This makes it easy for new users to get started and use Plone to manage their contents and resources. Its just like managing files on your desktop!

Workflow system and framework

Plone contents may have workflows assigned to them. Plone provides various workflow policies which can be chosen for content. You can also have custom workflows.

List contents by search criterias

The powerful collection tool allows you to dynamically list contents by search criteria. Create collections to list documents related to projects , departments, or topics

Large collection of extensions

Plone has a large repository of addons which can be installed for extending the functionalities of your site. Add calendar displays, LDAP integration, document preview, geo-location and social media integration to make your site more useful.

Secure

Plone offers superior security without sacrificing power or extensibility.

As an open source product, a large number of developers frequently scrutinize the code for any potential security issues. This proactive approach is better than the wait-and-see approach in proprietary software that relies on keeping security issues a secret instead of resolving them outright.
Built on Python and Zope, which are highly secure platforms, Plone has a technological edge that has helped it attain the best security track record of any major CMS (Source: CVE).

And because of its object-oriented backend, Plone isn't vulnerable to SQL Injection attacks, which are one of the most common security problems that affect PHP/MySQL-based systems.  Plone's flexible ACL system for user permissions also helps ensures that users only see the content that they're supposed to.

Proven Track Record

Thousands of organisations including large and small businesses, educational institutions, government agencies, nonprofits, science organisations, media outlets and publishers are using Plone to power their websites.

Organisations as diverse as NASA, Oxfam, Amnesty International, Nokia, eBay, Novell, the FBI, the State Universities of Pennsylvania and Utah, as well as many governments round the world such as the UK, Belgian, Brazilian, Australian and New Zealand governments have chosen Plone to power both public-facing and internal websites.