About the Rhythmyx Content Management System

The Rhythmyx Content Management System (CMS) manages content through the automation of content creation, maintenance, and delivery, enhanced with features such as content reuse, delivery to multiple sites, intelligent relationships between content, and simple content assembly for business users.

One of Rhythmyx's key features is content reuse, which it achieves by separating content and formatting, enabling users to create a variety of outputs using the same data. Business users can assemble the same Content Items multiple times using different formats and include the Content Items in the output formats of other content. This enables Rhythmyx output pages to contain many Content Items assembled together.

Another key feature of Rhythmyx is its ability to publish content to multiple sites. Rhythmyx allows any number of applications to be used to present published content to consumers since the content delivery mechanism (a portal, Web server, or other application) is not connected or "coupled" to Rhythmyx. This "decoupled delivery" not only offers companies flexibility in choosing delivery applications, but also simplifies the process of delivering content to multiple media.

The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences web site migrated into the CMS during the summer of 2008. Currently, four departments have either moved their sites in completely, or they are in the process.

The CMS is flexible enough to be hosted either on AgriLife Information Technology's web server, or on the department's server. The decision which server the department's site will be hosted on is left to the department; however, the Web Corps team will need to be made aware of this decision, as there is an initial set up period that must be performed by our Software Engineer.