What is StageOne?
StageOne is a rapid-development toolkit for creating rich, interactive web sites, portals, extranets, microsites, and eMarketing applications. Sometimes knows as 'the web development Swiss Army Knife' it is made up of over 100 pre-built and fully-integrated modules, each highly customizable, that can be used to create virtually any kind of interactive web solution. ClarityBridge modules are grouped into the following application areas:

• web content management
• online document and asset libraries
• email campaign management
• extranet/intranet management
• project management and task-tracking

StageOne supports virtually any information architecture with powerful content classification tools, search keywords, navigation hierarchies, and virtual foldering.

Who makes StageOne and how long has it been in production?
StageOne was originally developed by Specific Impulse Inc., the ClarityBridge parent company, a Silicon Valley information architecture firm. It has been in production since 2000, with an outstanding 100% customer satisfaction rating.

Who uses it, and for what?
Enterprises, including Applied Materials, BEA, Cisco, Harmonic, Juniper Networks, McAfee, McKesson, Seagate SMB's: dozens of startups and small to mid-size businesses in the US and Ireland Enterprises use ClarityBridge Solutions for microsites, portals, extranets, online libraries, and email campaigns. Experienced users tend to use it to manage their entire web marketing operations.

How easy is it to set up and configure?
The ClarityBridge technology was designed to allow marketing and business professionals to configure and use the system with little or no training--it's that easy to use. Developers can extend the system with their own modules or easily integrate other systems and components with the ClarityBridge modules. The whole system is hosted, making it virtually 'IT Free'. It can also be brought in-house with little expense or effort by your IT staff.

Is it based on proprietary technology?
ClarityBridge solutions are based on an open architecture built on the inexpensive and well-supported JRun/ColdFusion application server from Adobe, and is easily customized and extended using standard CFML markup language. It can also call .NET frameworks, and is a J2EE compliant solution. It works with virtually any standard relational database, from MS-Access though MS-SQLServer and Oracle. Content is stored in standard file structures and ClarityBridge will even convert all interfaces to plain HTML. None of your files or data are ever held hostage by ClarityBridge!

Are there restrictions on look-and-feel and branding?
ClarityBridgesolutions are designed to support any graphic design or information architecture. There are essentially no restrictions as long as the design can be rendered in HTML or Flash.