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8iris CMS Best Practice Investor Relations Websites for public listed companies Features Fact Sheet Turn-key investor relations website solution
Easy to use and real-time publishing
Best practice investor websites
8iris CMS is a turn-key solution for creating, maintaining and updating corporate and investor relations websites. Our innovative solution incorporates cloud based hosting, real-time failovers, server redundancies and automatic backups. 8iris CMS is suitable for companies of all sizes.
Our solution is driven by a content management system (CMS) specifically designed for ease of use and speed. We have removed the complexity so you can focus on having a website that is constantly updated. You will have full control over pages and sections.
8iris CMS is the choice for best practice online corporate reporting and disclosure. Our content checklist along with a navigation structure based on research makes finding information easy and quick.
Integration with social networks
Comprehensive tools for disclosure
Built-in features to update investors
8iris CMS has built-in integration to popular social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Slideshare. These features help your company stay in touch with your investors and also drive traffic to your IR website. Our solution is compatible with over 200 social networks.
Every 8iris CMS site comes with a dedicated information center and newsroom. Up to 10 years of information, press releases, earnings results, announcements, documents, presentations, and annual reports are made available to investors. The built-in smart filters ensure that information is easy to find and quickly accessible.
The 8iris CMS solution has a myriad of ways to keep investor updated. Apart from email alerts, visitors can choose from multiple RSS feeds, twitter or Facebook updates.
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Eight Iris Communications LLP
cms@8iris.com | cms.8iris.com | Tel: +65 3108 0069
Content Management System CMS Driven All 8iris Investor Relations website solutions are driven by our customized content management system (CMS). The CMS has been simplified to remove the complexity of updating and creating content for the IR website. 8iris CMS will allow you to create/delete new pages or section, and edit existing pages in your website.
Revisions
The revisioning module in 8iris CMS keeps copies of all the changes and updates made on webpages and uploads. This allows you to quickly “roll back” to a previous version of a page if required.
One-click upload of documents & reports
Information that is frequently update on the Investor Relations website such as announcements, press releases, presentations, earning results and annual reports can be quickly and easily uploaded to the website with the “One-click” feature. The system will intelligently know where the information should reside and insert it into the right webpage.
Attachments to webpages Our solution allows you to attach as many documents as you wish to individual pages. We support a wide range of document types which include MS Office documents, PDFs, multimedia and images files.
Dynamic Blocks for highlighted items
Multilingual Content Management
The dynamic block module allows key information to be highlighted anywhere in the website. These dynamic blocks automatically update when new information is available.
Our solution allows you to easily toggle between languages and allow you to have a multilingual site.
“MS Word” like interface
Tables are automatically formated in 8iris CMS. This feature is well suited for financial figures.
The editor of 8iris CMS is similar to Word and easy to use. This also applies to the formatting and functionality of the editor too. Your users will be able to immediately use the 8iris CMS editor with no prior training.
Previews and drafts 8iris CMS allows you to preview changes before their are published live on the website. Pages can also be saved as drafts and worked on at a later time.
Being totally web-based, our solution just requires a computer, a browser and an Internet connection. No additional software is required for 8iris CMS to work. You will be able to work anywhere, anytime.
This built-in functionality allows content to be copied and pasted directly into 8iris CMS’ editor from MS Word or Excel.
Set publishing time in the future
Media & Investor Kits This feature allow you to compile and manage documents as a media or investor kit for your visitors to download in one simple step.
Workflow management
Web-based Solution
Copy and paste from MS Word & Excel
Automatic table formatting
The workflow process management feature allows control over how webpages or content is published to the Investor Relations website. With workflow management, users may be permitted to review, edit or create new webpages. However, any additions or changes will need to be authorized by another user prior to publishing. The Eight Iris system allows for an unlimited hierarchy of workflow levels.
Investor & Corporate Calendars 8iris CMS allows you to have separate calendars for investor and corporate activities. The events can be created and managed via the CMS.
8iris CMS allow you to work on webpages and set the publishing times in the future.
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Eight Iris Communications LLP
cms@8iris.com | cms.8iris.com | Tel: +65 3108 0069
Design and Navigational Structure Eight Iris Investor Relations websites are designed to easily provide timely information to investors and stakeholders.
Best practice navigational structure
The navigation structure is designed to ensure information can be easily and quickly found. The design is based on research and focus group studies on how investors use IR websites.
Navigational breadcrumbs The breadcrumbs feature allows users to quickly determine exactly where they vare in a website and quickly navigate back and forth between pages.
Speed
Integrated Newsroom andInfo Center
Bearing in mind that website visitors have little patience, our websites are designed to load as quickly as possible.
All 8iris CMS websites have a dedicated newsroom and info center for news, announcements, press releases, regulatory filings, multimedia, presentations, annual reports, earnings and other financial report. It is designed so that information is easy to find. Smart real-time filters help narrow down the content for the user to quickly find information.
10 Year Document Archive The 8iris CMS solution is capable of storing up to 10 years of information such as annual reports, financial presentations, earnings results, news releases and announcements.
WC3 Standards Compliant
Our websites are compliant to the WC3 standards to make sure investors have accessibility to the website.
Updating the Investors The main purpose of the Investor Relations website is to keep investors and stakeholders updated. Apart from visitors viewing information on the website, we give visitors the ability to receive updates via in numerous ways.
Multiple RSS Feeds
Email Alerts
Our websites give you the ability to have not just one RSS feed but multiple RSS feeds. Visitors can choose to subscribe to feeds pertaining to IR related news, financial reports or general corporate news.
8iris CMS automatically manages the subscription and the sending of email alerts. Both text and HTML emails are supported.
Our solution’s integration to Twitter allows any changes or post to the website to be automatically posted to your corporate Twitter account.
Facebook 8iris CMS’ RSS feeds can be integrated to Facebook seamlessly and updates on the IR website are automatically synced with Facebook.
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Eight Iris Communications LLP
cms@8iris.com | cms.8iris.com | Tel: +65 3108 0069
8iris CMS Security SSL and certificate authentication system while in edit mode
Works on any corporate network
Optional 3 factor authentication
All our sites utilize 256 bit SSL encryption for connections while in editing mode. How safe is it? As safe as Internet banking. We also employ a certificate authentication system which locks the editing mode to assigned computers and users.
Unlike traditional software solutions, Eight Iris websites will work in any corporate network. No configuration to firewalls or routers, it just works!
Available as an optional upgrade, our websites can provide 3 factor authentication. Not only will users be required to have their usernames and password, an additional hardware device is required to login.
Automatic logout A built-in feature that automatically logs out users after a preset time of inactivity.
World Class Enterprise Hosting Solution Dedicated server hosting
Cloud based solution for reliability and load balancing
Backups, failovers and redundancies
Every 8iris CMS website is hosted on its own dedicated server for performance, security and privacy. Unlike shared hosting solutions, this guarantees that your website is not bogged down by traffic of other websites hosted on the same server.
8iris CMS employs the latest in cloud computing technology which ensures maximum reliability and the ability for load balancing. Currently, we are hosting Malaysia’s highest traffic website, Maybank (www.maybank.com).
Your data is safe with 8iris CMS. Apart from internal backups, optional backup and failover schemes are available. For high traffic sites, mirroring on different continents and redundancies are also available as an option.
Multiple domains
Unlimited Hosting Space
Creation of Micro-sites
8iris CMS allows you to point multiple domains to your main site.
Our solution provides you with unlimited hosting space for your website, documents, multimedia files and disclosure material.
With 8iris CMS, you can create temporary micro-sites which are part of your corporate or IR website.
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Eight Iris Communications LLP
cms@8iris.com | cms.8iris.com | Tel: +65 3108 0069
Stock Information Flexible stock charts
Historical data
Dynamic stock information blocks
The stock charts on 8iris Investor Relations websites are automatically updated at the end of each trading day. Stock data can also be updated manually. If you have your own data feed, our stock charts can be configured to use the feed and updated as frequently as you wish.
Our stock chart module can provide investors with historical stock data.
The dynamic stock information feature allows stock information blocks to be placed anywhere in the website. These blocks automatically update when new data is available.
Social Network Integration Companies should use all available means to keep investors and stakeholders up-to-date. We make that easy via 8iris CMS’ integration to popular social networks.
Automatic posting to Twitter & Facebook
View presentations in the browser
Other popular social networks
Our solution has the ability to automatically post to your company’s corporate Twitter and Facebook account. We also give you the ability to manually choose whether to post to these social networks if needed. The integration works for all financial report updates, post, updates, announcements or new webpages.
The 8iris CMS solution integrates with Slideshare to display Powerpoint (and other popular formats) presentations right in the browser without the user downloading the presentation or the need of additional software.
Apart from Twitter and Facebook, 8iris websites are social networks ready and friendly. This built-in feature allows compatibility with over 200 popular social networks.
Feedback and Usability Features Customizable user feedback forms Our solution provides you with unlimited number of forms which can be placed anywhere in the website. Feedback forms on Eight Iris sites are fully customizable to cater for survey taking, access restriction to certain content, or general feedback.
User changeable font sizes We give website visitors the ability to change the size of the fonts on our Investor Relations website.
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Exportable data from froms
Captcha 2 on forms
Data collected from our form are exportable in Microsoft friendly Excel format or in CSV.
To prevent wanted SPAM emails, Eight Iris employs Captcha 2 technology on our forms.
XML Sitemaps
Browser compatibility
As a standard feature and a best practice to make information easy to locate, Eight Iris websites have dynamic XML sitemaps that update automatically when content is added or removed. This also ensures that search engines properly index the website.
To ensure that the Investor Relations website has maximum visibility on the Internet, all Eight Iris websites are compatible with all modern browsers.
Sitewide Search
All Eight Iris websites have built in search capability.
Eight Iris Communications LLP
cms@8iris.com | cms.8iris.com | Tel: +65 3108 0069
Tools for Printing, Emailing and PDF Conversion Printer friendly
Emailable webpages
Automatic PDF conversion
All webpages can be printed out in a clean, easy to read format with just a click on the “Print� icon.
A built in feature that allows visitors to email the webpage to themself or others.
All webpages can be automatically converted to the PDF format and are downloadable.
Visitor Tracking Google Analytics
Track downloads
8iris websites utilize Google Analytics to track and analyze your Investor Relations websites. With Google Analytics, you can see where your investors are coming from and analyze traffic data to make improvements to your website.
Our integration into Google Analytics also allow you to track events and downloads from your corporate or investor website.
User Training and Support Training for Users
Support
Optional on-site training, training videos and online help is available so you can immediately start using your website.
We provide both technical and customer support via telephone, email and a dedicated ticketing system.
Pricing Software as a Service 8iris CMS is a Software as a Service solution. It is an annual subscription with no purchase of licenses, software, or hardware required. Our SaaS model allows you to have the best possible solution at the most cost effective price and without expensive infrastructure investment.
No charges on feature upgrades
Corporate and IR website packages
We are constantly adding new features and upgrades to our solution. With 8iris CMS and our SaaS model, you will not be charged for any new features to the system.
8iris CMS can power both corporate websites and dedicated investor websites. Contact us for more details.
For more information To see 8iris CMS in action or to find out how 8iris CMS will give you the ability to deliver what investors want, contact us today.
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Andrew Sloan WCT Co. Ltd Tel: +66 2 512 2957 andrew.sloan@wctcoltd.com
Eight Iris Communications LLP
cms@8iris.com | cms.8iris.com | Tel: +65 3108 0069