Understanding the platform architecture

You work across a few connected applications, each with a distinct role in the system. What the product’s modules do is covered in What is Storyteq CMP?.

Content Portal is the front end, where you browse and download assets and use portals. Understanding Content Portal and the DAM explains how it relates to the DAM.

Adaptation Studio is the application for building templates and producing adaptations. You reach it from Content Portal through the app switcher.

Platform Administration is the single interface for administering the platform, including users, assets, taxonomy, and configuration.

The platform uses single sign-on, so you log in once and reach everything you are permissioned for, without signing in to each application separately. Sign-in supports both Storyteq credentials and your organisation’s single sign-on provider.

The parts are integrated, so an action in one place is reflected in the others automatically.

User management is the clearest example. You create and manage users in Platform Administration, and they are made available across the rest of the platform automatically, so you never add the same user separately in each application. Always manage users from Platform Administration, since the synchronisation flows outward from there.

Templates behave the same way: they are created in Adaptation Studio but surface in Content Portal through integration, for the relevant users on the relevant pages.

Each task has one home in the platform. The dashboard’s quick links and the main menu take you to each application. The table lists which application to use for each task.