Umbraco CMS is free
It means that you are not bound and locked to the licensing
rules about the number of content items / processors / web /
domains, etc. Many products are very expensive as the license cost
escalates with the number of websites. In many cases, one is soon
up in the 500' before one can even start to implement the
solution.
Umbraco is Open Source
In an Open Source product one has at any time full access to
source code. This provides insight and leads to better quality, as
"shortcuts" and bad code can easily be penetrated. Moreover, one
has the ability to influence and further develop the product.
Umbraco is based on open source and is therefore not
lisence-plated or subject to an enterprise's ownership. The Umbraco
publishing tool places great emphasis on simplicity, standards,
flexibility and integration. Umbraco was launched in 2005 and has
had a tremendous growth since that time. Umbraco is today among the
most popular systems based on open source for Microsoft. NET
platform.
100% Microsoft .NET
Umbraco is built 100% on the Microsoft. NET 2.0. This means that
you can use 3rd party .NET components directly in Umbraco.
Moreover, integration with other .NET-based solutions is well
adapted from Umbracos part. Umbraco won an award for the
Integration possibilities on BNP Awards 2006.
Fast results
Umbraco is a powerful tool with a focus on core functionality
and openness. This efficiently allows you to achieve exactly what
you want - rather than be restricted to a "finished" module, which
makes only half of what you really wanted.
Easy-to-use
Umbraco has a focus on content and facilitate rapid and
intuitive content management. The system strives to be elegant,
usable and effective.
Based on standards
Umbraco is based on standards from the W3C as XHTML, CSS, XML
and XSLT. This gives a greater flexibility and independence, which
in turn provides more value for the money.
Integration
Umbraco is known to be among the best CMS on integration. Much
of the reason for this is the way to expose Microsoft ASP.NET
components as elements of, or so-called "macro's" for use in
templates, as well as in the WYSIWYG editor that writers and
editors use. Elements is also possible to "cache" on several levels
and is based on standard Microsoft .NET technology. Below are some
examples:
- External XML sources (ex RSS) can be directly implemented via
XSLT elements (macros).
- ASP.NET controls that retrieve data from external or internal
posterior systems via standard Web Services.