Vision

Web pubilshing software systems help people to communicate on the world wide web. Not having to queue for a "webmaster" eliminates bottlenecks, letting subject area experts to directly update their words and pictures on the website. That's great!

However, web software ("CMS") systems are typically asked to do much more than that, growing to Byzantine levels of complexity. They become difficult to use, expensive to maintain, a burden to keep secure, and require continual on-site training and re-acclimation with the system.

Excelsis has been architected for a new pace. Software has always been changing at a fast clip; and now society & organizations are changing faster than ever before. We have the need to have information systems which are flexible enough to adapt to our needs and requirements by design, not afterthought.

This software is engineered with a strong aversion to complexity at any level. Quality, beauty and simplicity, in even the most basic building blocks, is essential to a composite system which is flexible and extensible.

Is Excelsis a CMS? It fulfills many of the needs which a Web CMS does, but its blueprint is higher. A CMS met the needs of a business unit in 2009. The web—and the way people use the web—has fundamentally changed since then (in ways which are consistent with the W3's architecture and intentions) and Excelsis is delivering on the needs of 2012 far better than a CMS can.

Excelsis is built with web 2.5 technology, in a departure from the way web software was built previously. For example, it stores information in an indexed document archive, instead of fitting its data into rigidly-defined table structures of a DBMS. Excelsis technology borrows from the cloud computing architecture of web systems managing hundreds of millions of active daily users.