CommonSpot's powerful application development framework makes it easy to develop applications and move them into production using the system's out-of-the-box APIs and UI components. Once completed, CommonSpot users can share new applications with others in the CommonSpot community in an open source-like fashion.
CommonSpot Offers the Value of the Open Source Community and Culture Combined with All the Advantages of a Tested WCM Solution
While CommonSpot is a commercial solution, PaperThin loves and embraces open source. CommonSpot's application development framework (ADF) offers a unique approach that delivers open source capabilities to customers within the PaperThin community ensuring everyone benefits from the best of both worlds.
CommonSpot is Developer-Friendly
CommonSpot's ADF provides developers with an easy-to-use framework to develop new applications, customize existing applications, or leverage open source applications developed by the PaperThin community. Applications developed by PaperThin are vetted by PaperThin, and those applications developed by the PaperThin community are governed by PaperThin's evolving standards guidelines.
CommonSpot Helps Developers Accelerate Time to Market
The ADF jumpstarts application development initiatives by shaving time off of projects that would otherwise take months to code. Developers can complete projects in the ADF in mere days or weeks saving organizations time and money, and helping achieve faster time to market. Marketers similarly benefit from an improved time to solution that helps organizations achieve better business results, faster.
CommonSpot Helps Organizations Get Functionality—When and How They Want It
Rather than leaving customers at the mercy of product release schedules and rigid applications, PaperThin's promise to customers is a CMS solution that provides robust features out-of-the-box, combined with the ability to create new or leverage existing applications. This ensures that organizations have the flexibility to download or tailor applications to their specific needs, when needed.
CommonSpot Helps Business Users Achieve Faster Time to Value
Marketers can easily download applications developed in the ADF without the need to involve IT. PaperThin provides easy-to-use guidelines for downloading open source applications that marketers and developers alike can quickly and easily take advantage of, avoiding the need for technical involvement and making the entire organization more productive.
CommonSpot Helps Organizations Create More Powerful Applications
Unlike typical out-of-the-box applications (such as blogs, wikis, etc), CommonSpot enables developers to augment applications through the use of mashups. Developers can easily combine many applications (such as a wiki + comments + links + voting + forms) to create more powerful applications that suit their exact needs and provide end users with the richest experience possible.
CommonSpot Grows with Your Changing Business Requirements
CommonSpot provides a flexible and scalable foundation upon which to grow your organization. In addition, the ADF allows you to incrementally grow your CMS, extending the life of the CMS and ensuring that CommonSpot is the last CMS solution you will ever need to buy.
