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MySource Matrix

 Download the MySource Matrix Spec Sheet (.pdf format)

 Download the MySource Matrix Features Overview Sheet (.pdf format)

Squiz’s flagship CMS is MySource Matrix.  MySource Matrix is an enterprise-class ‘asset’ based Content Management System that’s specifically designed for medium to large-sized organisations. 

MySource Matrix helps you control the content that drives your business - it runs some of the world’s largest intranet, web, e-commerce and publishing platforms. It is also available under an open source licence (see the MySource Matrix website for further info), and it currently powers the web sites of leading organisations such as Future Publishing, Warner Music, The National Health Service, the Australian Federal Government and Oxford University.

MySource Matrix is a significantly more advanced system than its predecessor, MySource Classic v2 (which was independently rated by Gartner as one of the most advanced content management systems in the world). MySource Matrix is easy to use  and highly functional, offering everything you would expect from an enterprise-class CMS.

For example, MySource Matrix includes:

• A What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get (WYSIWYG) simple editor interface for use by people with little or no training
  
  
• Flexible workflow (with the ability to create as many steps as are required)
  
  
• Flexible permissions structure for distributed authoring and system management
  
  
• Full audit trails
  
  
• Transparent versioning and full system roll back
  
  
• Flexible metadata
  
  
• Standards compliance (capable of publishing web accessible sites up to Priority AAA)
  
  
• Separation of design from content
  
  
• Asset based structure for easy content re-use

MySource Matrix is browser-based (in other words, all editing interfaces may be operated through a Java enabled web browser without installing additional software on your machine). To use MySource Matrix you will need a recent version of Sun Microsystems' Java Runtime Environment (1.4.2 or higher).

MySource Matrix is written in PHP and uses the PEAR database abstraction layer to manage database communication. Commercial implementations of MySource Matrix currently use MySQL, PostgreSQL and Oracle, however using an abstraction layer means it is possible to add support for many other databases including Microsoft SQL Server, Sybase and ODBC connections.

For more information, read the detailed functional overview of MySource Matrix.