Sophora Highlights
Fast. Powerful. Flexible. Easy to use. Comfortable. We built Sophora with these key challenges in mind. To be quicker and easier. To not sacrifice function for form. And with respect of the need for a straight forward and useable content management system so that every day tasks are simplified. Take a look at Sophora's unique combination of features and see for yourself.
Find it Fast
Scan your database. With Sophora, you can identify the precise content you are looking for from among millions of documents. For ease of use, the search function is fully integrated into your working process and provides results in fractions of a second in a readable form.
Of course, search results can be further filtered according to specific users, document types, keywords or publishing states.
You can then edit search results in Sophora directly by rapidly opening documents, adding articles to home pages via drag & drop or placing images in texts. Naturally, Sophora saves your favorite searches and history.
Easy Writer
Sophora's editor offers exactly what you need, no more and no less. Copy & paste, paragraph and text formatting, lists, links to other sites and an integrated, upgradeable global spell check are standard features with Sophora.
Our table editor ensures barrier-free table generation. You can simply drag & drop other Sophora content into your text, no matter whether images, picture galleries, video or audio.
All commands can be initiated via a menu or by using familiar shortcuts.
Mark Text: Language, Abbreviation, Quote
Mark text and provide an explanation to an abbreviated form or mark text in a document as being in another language.
Integrated Image Editing
Editing images in Sophora is child’s play. Sophora automatically extracts the IPTC metadata from an uploaded image and generates all image versions required from large banners to small teasers. In addition, you can select the appropriate detail, image quality, and sharpness for each version.
A Sharper Image
Sharpen any image and set the JPEG compression level.
Multiple Image Upload
Creating image documents just got faster: Now you can upload as many images as you want.
Lightbox
Collect images and save them to your personal lightboxes. Once in a lightbox, images are ready to be added to stories and slide shows by drag & drop.
Image Placement, Simplified
No time lost while adding and positioning images into texts. With Sophora, you can simply combine the two. Each image can be dragged and dropped to the selected paragraph; the document structure is retained. With Sophora, the shortcomings of conventional CMS and word processing programs are a thing of the past.
DIY! Creating Pages with Drag & Drop
With an innovated drag & drop function, Sophora allows you to compile a home page from available documents faster than ever before.
The process is streamlined: open an article, start a search and drag the relevant contents to the “Components” section. Finished!
You can also use this method to create slide shows or add related content to your articles.
Sophora ensures that all changes to a source document are passed on to each reference – no matter whether you have reworked the teaser text or completely removed the document. Leads and news in Sophora are always up to date and “dead” links are a thing of the past.
Homepages, Automated
Not enough time to manually compile a home page? Don’t worry; you can create a filter in Sophora with a range of search parameters. This filter is then used to find the latest relevant articles and to display them on a home or feature page.
Time Scheduling: The Perfect Plan
With a time scheduling tool, Sophora allows you to schedule content to go live or offline automatically.
Time scheduling enables you to announce upcoming events, to rotate teasers on your home page, to control the publication of banners and to compile web TV channels, all while they are still relevant. Sophora offers the possibility to automatically publish new content on weekends and on public holidays.
You can even check how your site will look at a given time with the ‘what if’ preview function.
Overwrite: The Perfect Fit
Can your content be adapted to the context? Of course it can – with Sophora..
Shorten a teaser for a specific home page, customize its tone with a few changes for a different target group… you decide which fields of the original document to overwrite.
Sophora helps by highlighting the altered content, keeping everything clear and simple. Of course, you can reset to the original content at any time.
Ultimate Flexibility – Dynamic Tables
With Sophora’s dynamic tables you can manage data tables with speed and flexibility. Producing interactive features, including saving elections results and systematizing sales figures has never been this straight-forward. Even processing data sheets and displaying poll findings are quick and easy processes. Sophora simplifies your work by offering mandatory fields, values for selection, validations and link creation via drag & drop
Structured saving of table data allows information to be flexibly evaluated and dynamically displayed. All tables are of course fully compatible with imports so you can also use content from external sources.
Teamwork: A More Intelligent Way to Work
Sophora's innovative task view facilitates your workflow. Drag & drop content to the appropriate section.
Your document – with or without a brief comment – can then be reviewed by all editors who have access to the particular task section. They can then integrate the document into their pages using drag & drop, or reply with a comment.
The Sophora task view is flexible. It allows you to pitch stories to your editors-in-chief, map internal workflows and to monitor news feeds and imports.
Breaking New Ground! Intuitive Web Site Configuration
Sophora’s “Structure” view makes configuring structure and navigation for your Web site effortless.
Start by identifying the menu items before linking them to the corresponding pages via drag & drop.
You can also assign a document to entire sections of your Web site – the document' s content can then be used each time any page in the section is displayed. This allows you to adapt section banners, boxes and layouts.
Another plus is that the structure and filename also define your Web site’s search engine friendly URLs. Nothing could be easier.
Feedback and Interaction
Comments and other forms of UGC can now be pulled into your Sophora content repository to provide a unified view of editorial and user content.
Publish Faster
Content must now be published faster than ever. Online readers expect immediate information. Sophora ensures your Web pages are always up to date.
The ergonomic Sophora editor has no unnecessary details to slow you down. Your documents are created without delay and posted by clicking “Publish” – and our state-of-the-art technology ensures their immediate online availability.
Nor do we waste time in generating pages. Each participating Sophora server uses an internal database to access all live content locally. Additionally, only those Web page fragments that have actually been changed are generated.
Sophora’s efficient caching then ensures pages can be accessed immediately.
Even static Web pages don’t get faster than this!