All Features

Overview

Infomaxim Aurora is an ecommerce software platform for

• Content  Management
• Ecommerce
• Email Marketing
• Web Analytics
• Business Intelligence
• Database Publishing
• Custom Web Applications

Applications

• Content authoring, publishing, staging, versioning and delivery
• Web applications requiring flexible database publishing
• Transactional ecommerce stores, complete with loyalty programs, product catalogues with variants, user generated content, multiple category taxonomies and search.
• Intranet, Extranets, Directories and Membership Sites.

Content Editing

• Cut and paste, or drag and drop content from most desktop applications including Microsoft Word and Excel, or directly from a web browser.
• Full WYSIWYG in-browser content editing
• Easily apply CSS styles to text
• Insert images with text flow-around
• Image library
• Formats Supported
• Text
• Rich Text
• HTML Text  
• Graphics; (GIF, JPG, PNG)
• Downloadable files such as Word, PDF, RTF and EXCEL files, etc
• Browse or Search items by type, search keyword or navigation
• Link to other URLs
• Built-in Spell Checker
• Every SAVE is versioned so you can roll-back at any time
• Audit Trail – see who changed what and when.
• Standards Compliant / Clean xHTML – so you’re content always looks good.
• Insert Flash or Video

Information Management

• Manage all kinds of information – database records, products, lists, rich formatted text, images, documents, customer information or completely custom details.
• Easily managed database information – completely configurable.
• Audit trail tracks and who created, changed or published a record.
• Optional full versioning of each record SAVE, with History and Rollback
• Store as many different kinds of content as you need in forms containing text, select lists, dates, money, checkboxes, rich content, memo and lookups.
• Create multiple taxonomies for your websites – such as categories, brands, and types.

 

Information Linking/ Relationships

• Relate unlimited numbers of taxonomy items to any other item – for example a product can be in many categories, or linked to many other products or articles.
• Relate one or many images to an item; Ideal for products which have many images; or you can place an image directly within rich content.

Image Management

• Search by keyword or category
• Browse by folder
• Direct image upload through a browser or drag and drop directly into content editor
• Standard image viewer; see any image at its actual size instantly
• Supports GIF, JPG or PNG
• Auto-sizing when published

 

Publishing

• Publish items to many pages at one time
• Publish items to many web sites at one time
• Published items can be versioned, so you can work on one version while another is live
• Publish roll-back - switch back to an older version in two clicks.
• Publish audit-trail – track exactly what was published, when.
• Preview items on stage prior to publishing on live
• Full text indexing for site-wide search

 

Content Scheduling

• Specify when a page or content should be made available
• Specify when a page or content should be removed
• Specify the lifespan of a page or content by setting the Expiry Date and Publish Date

 

Languages

• Supports multiple languages for the same site
• Use different URLs for each language or reuse the same URL
• Each language can have its own set of pages
• Create the site in one language and add additional languages at any time

 

Architecture

• Context: “Breadcrumbs” allow users to easily retrace when drilling into hierarchical content
• Dynamic navigation control – easily alter navigation structure to resolve usability issues
• Page hooks – top / bottom / next / previous – up/down/sideways navigation at template level
• One click print button at template level
• One click bookmark button at template level
• Web Standards Compliant / Work best with xHTML & CSS 2.0
• Automated image alt-tagging

Site Search

• Scoring by relevance
• Phrase matching
• Scheduled re-indexing
• PDF indexing

Search Engine Optimization

• Generates human-readable URLS (e.g. www.yourcompany.com/aboutus/corporate.aspx rather than www.yourcompany.com/content.php?pageID=55)
• Keyword and description fields on each page
• Title fields on each page
• Supports alt text for images and flash files

Security & User Management

• Multiple users
• Multiple groups
• Permissions by role
• Permissions by group or users
• Permissions by Organisation
• Organisations can be stored in any table; ideal for custom Directory applications
• Permissions can be applied to Information Types, Items of Fields

Business Intelligence

• Build reports to query your Infomaxim database using a simple point & click interface
• Powerful drag and drop tabular reports, with full pivot table support (up to 3 dimensions in x and y axis)
• Quick detail columnar reports, with 3 levels of grouping, count, sum and averaging.
• Create complex filters with multiple conditions
• Export raw data to Excel, CSV, XML and more
• Spreadsheet style full screen view with wild card search of every column, drag and drop column ordering, one click sorting.
• Render to PDF or Screen
• Create pie, bar, column, line, area and multi-series charts
• Combine multiple reports into a dashboard view
• Create multiple dashboards and grant to specific users
• Organise reports using drag and drop folders
• Create derived data columns containing formulas
• Automatic drill-down through tabular reports and charts to detail view
• Link report columns to other reports
• Apply formatting per column or per pivot dimension
• Use reporting to profile customers and build lists for email broadcasting
• Combine customer information with website analytics for targetting marketing based on behavioural profiling

Workflow

• Multiple work flow roles
• Changes can be viewed on the staging environment before being published to live site
• Use automatic or manual workflow
• Automatic workflow forces content through the approval and publish process
• Set up multiple users for each role
• Generates emails and tasks for each stage in the workflow

Shared Content

• Set up content to be shared across multiple pages
• The same content can by repurposed and reformatted on different areas of the site
• Set up users that have access to shared content only
• Minimizes data entry time and data replication
• Share content between multiple sites

Dynamic Menu Generation and Styling

• Menu items are generated automatically when you create a page
• Modify the menu text and style for each menu item
• Hide a page from the menu
• Use text or images for menu items
• Have menu item links open up in a new window
• Supports multiple menus 

Email Broadcasting

• Bulk email broadcasting with full send, view and click tracking.
• Live broadcast dashboard.
• Add recipients from multiple sources
• Choose recipients based on explicit profile information
• Post Code, Age, Country, Total Orders, Total Spend, Products Ordered etc...
• Choose recipients based on implicit profile information
• Product or services where interest was shown by virtue of a page visit

Ecommerce

• AJAX powered shopping cart
• Freight Calculator by method, weight, fixed cost or combination
• Integrated with Australia Post’s freight calculator
• Standard usability factored Checkout Engine
• Order Processing and Fulfilment, with automated customer notifications
• Sales reporting, trends and querying

Payment Gateways

• NAB
• NAB Multi-Currency
• eWay
• eMatters
• PayGate (SA)
• St George
• Westpac

Freight

• Australia Post real time freight cost calculation
• Create unlimited number of freight methods
• Freight cost can combine one or more:-
  • Weight
  • Item
  • Post Code
  • Country
  • Exclude products
• Free over certain spend
• Maximum freight cost

Booking Engine

• Availability by date range
• Availability by venue by product
• Availability by number of persons
• Rank by price, yield, full text search, star rating or user review
• Customer login
• Customer lost password
• Full booking history
• Change booking
• Notification Email / Confirmations
• Reporting & Analytics
• Payment Integration

Web Analytics

• Click-stream view of live visitors
• Tracks visitors from end-to-end through the customer life cycle
• Uses client-side JavaScript for accurate tracking of user behaviour
• Integrated with content to provide contextual reporting
• Tracks clicks on download, links to other sites and internal links
• Live dashboard reports
• Supports 3^rd part analytics code including Google Analytics, WebTrends, HitBox, ClickTracks and other script or log based analytics tools
• Set up analytics in a matter of minutes
• Upgrade or change analytics providers in minutes

Templates and Views

• Uses standard ASP or ASP.NET files for page templates
• Does not present restrictions on page designs
• Set up as many editable content sections as you want
• Define content as general HTML, or as specific fields with specific data types
• Easily configure the input form that content editors use to enter content with no need to program new fields
• Define reusable ‘modules’ which can contain any business logic supported by Microsoft IIS
• Unlimited number of modules on the page
• Place modules anywhere on the page

 

Error Handling, Logging, and Tracing

• Automatically handles Web page errors and generates friendly messages for visitors
• Emails error alerts to a pre-defined system administrator

Configuration

• Manage many website, each with separate profile settings and versioning
• Manage global settings, with versioning

System Requirements

• For admin users only:-
• Internet Explorer 7.x, Firefox 2.x or Safari
• Windows or Apple Macintosh
• Optional xStandard Browser Plug-In / Also supports ckEditor

Server

• Internet Information Server 6.x or higher
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005