Plone encourages and enforces best practices from a variety of projects, and helps you work in the most effective way possible. It has a low threshold and is easily understood by people from widely different backgrounds and with very different skills, and exposes a rich feature set without becoming intimidating or confusing.
Here are some of the benefits it brings to the process of content management:
Manage your content from anywhere
You can access all your information from a normal web browser - Plone is viewable in all kinds of browsers, even mobile phone browsers. This means that you can manage your intranet and public web site from a web browser anywhere in the world.
Live editing
The web site is updated from within the site itself - no specialised tools are needed, just a web browser. It even works with older browsers, so even if your organization do not use the latest in web technology, Plone is still usable.
Designed by usability professionals
Because much care and thought has gone into the user interface, employees will be able to utilize it with minimal training. Plone aims to be self-documenting, so even new add-ons to Plone use the standard paradigms for working with and controlling content.
Limited use of graphics
A main goal is minimal use of graphics - adding to the content instead of detracting from it, focusing on the information - not irrelevant elements.
Facilitates collaboration
When editing and publishing content, you can assign other participants local roles within projects, and Plone also supports versioning and staging of content.
Easy management and configuration
The administration and configuration of Plone is done through the web, and no access to the file system is needed after the system is set up. This makes for a very secure system - even in the worst case scenario where somebody gains access to the Zope instance, they can't access anything outside the sandbox Zope and Plone runs inside.
Single sign-on
Plone has a centralized sign-on mechanism, which prevents users from having to log on to each area separately. Security is controlled centrally. This is also easily integrated with the existing user authentication mechanisms in the company - be it LDAP, Active Directory, Novell, Windows, UNIX/Linux or other database-based authentication systems.
Accessibility
Special care has been taken to let the web design adjust flexibly to users with impaired eyesight and/or motor skill challenges.
Encourages ownership
Users add content, managers manage. Letting users edit and add content lets them feel ownership towards the intranet, and encourages content production. This in turn leads more people to use the intranet actively.
