The SAM Difference
Why use a blogging platform to power your website? SAM is purpose-built for managing web pages, not posts.
Industry-Leading Web Content Management
SAM (Site Authoring and Maintenance) web content management system was created by and for communications professionals to put your website back in the hands of your marketing team.
SAM has powered some of our clients' websites for more than a decade. It's seen those sites through multiple generations of site designs and business changes. And with continuous upgrades and improvements under the hood, nothing is more powerful.
See why everyone from non-profits to Fortune 100 companies choose SAM to power their sites.
Easy to Learn, Easy to Master
Lots of Web content managers claim a "What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get" editing experience. SAM works so much better that we had to think of a new name for it — True WYSIWYG. Forget navigational "tree" structures; formidable forms; annoying "widgets" and bewildering back-ends. Navigate to the page you want to edit, and make your changes in the context of the whole page, and see the results in real-time.
Unrivaled Flexibility for Developers
SAM takes a totally hands-off approach to code, allowing developers to work in their preferred language and their favorite environment. Simply cut and paste final code into SAM, and it will just work. Yep, just like that. No matter if it's ASP, ASP.NET, PHP, ColdFusion, Flash, Silverlight, JavaScript — you name it. If the application works in the dev environment, it will work in SAM. There isn't a more flexible content manager on the face of the planet.
High Security Standards
We know security is important to you, and we are committed to keeping SAM up-to-date on the latest security protocols. Our developers work hard to ensure there are no backdoors or other system vulnerabilities.
Unmatched Performance
SAM combines the best features of static site generators and database-driven platforms to deliver high-performance websites with lightning-fast load times and none of the drawbacks of dynamically generated sites.
“Swiss Army Knife” Adaptability
SAM plays nice with the best-in-class third party data aggregators and platforms that you're already using, including NASDAQ, BizWire, Salesforce, Marketo, Hubspot, Success Factors, Taleo, Silk Road and SharePoint, just to name a few.
Exceptional Value
SAM provides a more robust feature set and a superior user experience compared to other products in its class. View our pricing packages or inquire about your company’s custom needs.
Industrial-strength Managed Hosting
With powerful hosting and scalable storage solutions, SAM effortlessly handles even large websites with demanding content needs. Transfer and manage massive content libraries with ease.
No Traps
SAM publishes out clean HTML files, which means you can always take your site with you to another editor. The transfer is as easy as mapping the old site to the new and importing the traffic. You’re never locked in with SAM.
Built-in SEO Enhancement
Because of SAM Entities, a data set format for inserting your content, search engines can find your content easier. We’re making it easier to meet the ever-changing Google standards.
Efficiently Generate Content
Our SAM Entities are customizable to your site’s needs, and can be set up quickly and easily. Use entity properties across multiple pages, which makes setting up employee bio pages, events and articles even easier.
But wait — there's more!
Take a closer look under the hood and learn more about how we're creating a better experience for content managers and end-users.
Tools Designed to Make Your Job Easier
Best-in-Class Content Editing Interface
SAM uses familiar editing tools that will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever worked in a word processor.
Powerful Architecture Tools
Easily add, edit, delete and reorganize pages and content “chunks.” Move a single page — or entire branches of your site — with the click of a button.
A True “Team Player”
Assign user roles, groups and permissions to help streamline the authoring, approval and publishing process. Easily add outside contributors, such as contract copywriters, to help collaborate on your content.
Global Ready Framework
SAM handles many languages with equal aplomb — we’ve produced websites in French, Spanish, Norwegian, German, Portuguese, Mandarin, and Russian.
Everything You Need, Nothing You Don’t
Every SAM site is engineered with your specific needs and requirements in mind. Forget paying for extra “features” that offer no value.
Unlimited Design Options
SAM gives you 100% control over your website — anything that can be rendered in a browser can be achieved in SAM.
A CMS Customized for Your Business
SAM Entities has the power to transform the entire CMS to fit your business’ needs, not the other way around. Save time populating dozens of employee, news and product pages with SAM Entities, our all-new, powerful, structured-data feature.
Boost Your SEO Strategy
SAM Entities put your site’s content into a structured-data format, which makes it easier for search engines to crawl and understand the purpose of your site’s pages. By incorporating structured-data into your SEO strategy, you can increase your search engine visibility and meet Google’s standards without extra work.
Upload Videos with Ease
With the rise of video content appearing on websites, SAM 3.1 is making it even easier to upload and share your YouTube and Vimeo content.
Guide Users with Google Maps Integration
Insert maps directly onto your site with the SAM 3.1 Google Maps tool to easily provide directions for your customers.
SAM vs Other Platforms
| Features and Benefits | SAM | Drupal | Joomla | Wordpress |
| Any design, including custom unique designs |  |
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| Foreign language support | |
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| Search engine-friendly URLs | |
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| One-button publishing for mobile and desktop | |
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| Responsive designs | |
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| Public and private forums | |
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| Purpose-built for managing websites (pages) | |
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| Platform support | PHP, ASP, ASP.NET, Cold Fusion, JSP | PHP | PHP | PHP |
| Optional dynamic serving | |
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| Separate staging environment | |
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| Many-to-many relationship between content and pages | |
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| Mirrored content chunks | |
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| Easy integration with 3rd-party services | |
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| True "What You See Is What You Get" Editing | |
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| Faster load times with static HTML | |
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| Built on Microsoft Technologies | |
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| Cascading content chunks | |
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| Default content chunks | |
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| User and groups permissions model | |
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| User-defined publishing roles | |
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| Granular permissions | |
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