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Knowing how quickly things change in the Web 2.0 world, Bitrix needed only six months after the release of Bitrix Site Manager version 5.1 to make the next full version of its flagship web content management system available to the public.

Just when you thought the knowledge management space could not possibly get anymore crowded, Egnyte bursts into the market with a hybrid storage/collaboration/content management solution.

As more companies jostle to take advantage of the white-hot Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution space (also known as “on-demand software”), SpringCM hopes to strengthen their leadership position by releasing an updated version of their SaaS Enterprise CMS.

SF-based Weebly, a fruit from the YCombinator tree, just joined the hosted blogging world, pitting itself against TypePad, WordPress and Movable Type.

Hoping to capitalize on the trend of moving enterprise applications to web-based, hosted solutions, Instancy has expanded their Enterprise 2.0 presence with the release of the Knowledge and Learning 2.0 Community Platform and the On-Demand Global Portal.

Regardless of whether you like or are revolted by the term Web 2.0, most people can at least agree that the Web is a continually evolving place and that significant changes in both the underlying technologies and in the human interaction patterns have taken place over the past few years.

In the first article in this series we discussed in practical terms our take on meaning of Web 2.0 as it relates to content technologies. In this article, we describe the three key constituencies of Web 2.0 Content Management Systems and the functionalities needed to serve them well.

A simple website charges you less time. A complex website charges you more time. Time is your most precious resource.

Salesforce.com has long been a major force in customer relationship management, but can the company known for automating customer contact buy its way into the realm of content management systems?

Ontario-based Hot Banana Software, a strong contender in the Web CMS and Website Operations space recently unveiled their latest software update. The company claims that version 5.5, “takes Web CMS to the next level by integrating website optimization and marketing automation features.

Notably the company has made changes to both its software as a service (SaaS) and licensed pricing. Their new tiered pricing structure targets small web teams, making the full set of Hot Banana tools more affordable for these smaller groups and organizations.

As the software as a service (SaaS) field heats up, some vendors and customers are finding creative ways to implement SaaS projects.

Adding to their portfolio of hosted Microsoft software as a service offerings, Massachusetts-based groupSPARK has announced the availability of on-demand SharePoint Services (WSS) v3.0. WSS is the free version of Microsoft's SharePoint 2007 document management, web content management, and collaboration platform.

Guess there's nothing wrong with making a little dosh with your open source sweat 'n tears. eZ Systems, recent winner of the cmf2006 Web Idol Award, has announced that it will bundle its original Open Source CMS software, eZ Publish, with a plethora of new setup and maintenance services for a tidy fixed price. The result is eZ Publish Now, an harmonious marriage between the familiar eZ Publish tools and the convenience of a bunch of helping hands.

“Nothing!”..if you are to believe statements made by both companies, following Bezos Expedition's, a personal investment company of Jeff Bezos, investment in the Chicago-based startup.

37signals created Ruby on Rails (RoR). Amazon is branching into hosted data and services. They've been saying nothing much is going on, but you and I, dear reader, know better and the first fruit of this friendship has appeared.

CrownPeak, a hosted Web CMS vendor, have released a study of IT and Content Management professionals that (surprisingly) finds that most people want and need Web CMS solutions for managing web content, and, that customers using hosted/on-demand solutions tend to be happier.

Google has taken a few more steps forwards with its burgeoning enterprise offering with two notable additions to its “Apps” suite. In typical Google fashion, the latest enhancements to Google Apps for Your Domain arrived with little fanfare — users simply noticed that they had an “Enterprise Start Page” in their options window and some new Google Page Creator tools at their finger tips.

Hot on the heels of Intel's SuiteTwo announcement, Blogtronix has unveiled an update of their enterprise collaboration and communication platform. This release boasts expanded features for blogging, wikis, document management, extensive personal and corporate profiling, and social networking.

Described as “blogging for rest of us” by some and a “social networking site” by others, Vox brings together a number of Web 2.0 services, provides easy-to-manage access permissions, and gives non-techies the ability to personalize their little web world with a nicely designed library of 150+ themes.

Lifting the bar a notch recently acquired Web Content Management and website analytics player Hot Banana has teamed with a winner for more horizontal add-on modules. This time its integrated forums, blogging, and collaboration from fellow ColdFusion fan, FuseTalk, Inc.

Practical and functional websites rarely win prizes for design but they do win sales and make profits.

As we fast become a Google Nation, it's apparent that the fundamental tenets of Search (with a capital 'S'!) are the things that will turn your web site into all-powerful revenue-generating machine. And at the heart of this evolutionary process is the humble librarian.