An overview of Crafter Rivet
Crafter Rivet provides enterprises with an open source framework for building and managing the dynamic Web experience for all types of content-rich applications, including next-generation enterprise websites, mobile applications, intranets, social community platforms, and more. Crafter Rivet provides both an authoring and publishing application (Crafter Studio), and a high-performance content delivery system (Crafter Engine). Crafter Studio provides a comprehensive set of a user-friendly yet powerful features for marketers and other content editors that include dashboards, WYSIWYG authoring, in-context preview, workflow, analytics, and multi-channel publishing, among others. Crafter Engine consumes content published from Crafter Studio and provides developers with the foundation for quickly building high-performance, flexible Web and mobile applications. Built as an enterprise-grade JEE platform using Spring, Crafter Rivet provides a solid infrastructure that not only integrates well with enterprise systems and deployment infrastructure, but also supports a full-range of presentation-tier technologies including lightweight scripting and REST-based APIs. Built on Alfresco, the leading open platform for content management, Crafter Rivet offers not only a rich application feature-set, but also the robust set of content management services and extensible framework that only Alfresco provides.
Why Crafter Rivet?
In true open source fashion, Rivet Logic built Crafter Rivet to "scratch an itch" - that is, to fill a void in the open source enterprise-grade Web Experience Management (WEM) landscape. In the past four years and over the course of numerous real-world implementations, Rivet Logic built Crafter Rivet to address the need for a powerful, flexible, high-performance, and truly enterprise-grade open source WEM system. Some of Crafter Rivet's features include:
- User-Friendly Authoring
- In-Context Preview and Content Editing
- Multi-Channel Publishing
- Integrated Marketing Analytics
- Mobile Application Support
- Social Media Integration
- Configurable Workflow and Scheduled Publishing
- Multi-site Management, including International Support
- Built from the ground up for high-performance, high-reliability, and scalability
Based on the success we've had building production systems with Crafter Rivet and extending our heritage as an open source innovator, Rivet Logic provides a fully-featured Community Edition under an open source license. Rivet Logic also offers an Enterprise Edition with a commercial license and support for a low-cost, annual subscription price.
Who's using Crafter Rivet?
Crafter Rivet is currently in production and powering enterprise Web properties, intranets, and social applications for leading enterprises that include:
- Kaplan (division of the Washington Post Co.) - visit http://kaptest.com
- Harvard Business Review - visit http://hbr.org
- Harvard Business Publishing E-Commerce Site - visit http://store.hbr.org
- TaylorMade Golf - visit http://taylormadegolf.com
- Full Sail University - visit http://fullsail.edu
- National Academy of Sciences - visit http://dels.nas.edu
Hundreds of sites are now running Crafter Rivet in production and several others are under development for companies that span a variety of vertical markets including consumer services, financial services, consumer product goods, manufacturing, telecom, technology, and media/publishing. Just recently, Alfresco selected Crafter Rivet as a Solution of the Year Award winner.
Licensing
Crafter Rivet is free and open source software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 3.0.
To Learn More...
Visit our FAQ and feel free to contact us with any questions by email - info at rivetlogic dot com.
