TYPO3: The Enterprise CMS

TYPO3 ships with a long list of core features, whereas other CMS solutions require add-ons and plug-ins to accomplish the same functionality.

Unlike more lightweight open source content management systems, such as Drupal or Wordpress, TYPO3 contains core features that are aimed at enterprise markets. Localization and internationalization, content versioning, multi-site functionality, static file publishing and caching, fine-grained access controls, and content editing workflows are all included as components in the TYPO3 core, not as add-ons or extensions. In addition, TYPO3 features:

• Ease of Use: TYPO3 succeeds in offering users advanced content management functionality without sacrificing an easy-to-use interface for editors.
• Total Design Flexibility: TYPO3's advanced templating system ensures complete design freedom while maintaining a scalable separation between presentation and business logic.
• Multisite: TYPO3 supports multiple independently designed sites and microsites within a single installation.
• Service-based Architecture: Key components, such as user authentication, are abstracted into "services", allowing them to be integrated into existing IT architecture.
• Digital Assets Manager (DAM): TYPO3's DAM tracks important documents and media assets on a site-wide basis.
• Intuitive Plug-in Architecture: If a required feature is not present in the TYPO3 core, TYPO3 includes interfaces for implementing it in the form of an extension.
• Social Networking: TYPO3 provides numerous options for incorporating social networking tools into a site, including twitter, facebook, and various syndication and aggregation tools.
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO): TYPO3 provides developers with complete control over the shape and structure of the site's HTML, which allows our team to always follow SEO best practices.

Security, scalability, and backwards compatibility are core values in the TYPO3 project, which ensures easy-upgrade paths and frequent releases.

Since its inception, the TYPO3 project has emphasized the importance of transparency in relation to security issues. The TYPO3 association regularly publicizes patches following the CVSS standard. The TYPO3 core development team also understands the importance of an easy upgrade path and, consequently, all TYPO3 releases ensure backwards compatibility. As your site grows, TYPO3 will grow with it and it is possible to run TYPO3 in a cloud computing environment with common performance tools such as memcache, database replication, and load balancing.

TYPO3 is 100% open source with no licensing fees. By shifting the costs from licensing to development, we are able to deliver a more targeted CMS solution at a lower cost than is possible with proprietary solutions.

Proprietary content management solutions generally require regular licensing fees. TYPO3 is 100% open source and is released under the GPL. Choosing TYPO3 gives you complete access to the site's underlying source code. Moreover, you will be able to take advantage of the regular updates released by the TYPO3 core development team, and the 4,000+ extensions in the TYPO3 extension repository. Should you need to integrate TYPO3 with existing systems in your organization's IT architecture, TYPO3's open architecture and well-documented APIs will reduce the associated development costs. Finally, by choosing TYPO3, you will avoid being locked in with a single vendor, as there are over 1,000 TYPO3 development agencies world-wide.