Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

 Digital marketers have a strong interest in tuning and optimizing the search experience, which is why Sitecore has given search a front row seat in Sitecore 7.

Traditional media companies are attempting to transform themselves into digital media companies, but for those who still publish newspapers and print magazines, Atex has updated its OneView advertising system for ads online and on paper.

Web stat geeks will be stoked about Google Analytics updates that include real time widgets and interactive insights that help define how customers really decide to finally make a purchase.

Bridgeline Digital, maker of the .NET based iAPPS Web content management system has provided its second quarter 2013 financial results, and iAPPS is giving the company a boost of cash and new customers.

Leading marketing automation vendor Marketo floated its initial public offering this week and raised nearly US $80 million as its shares were traded on the NASDAQ exchange.

53% of IT and marketing directors and executives expect data, apps and technology enabled processes to impact enterprise results in a moderate way in the next 12 months.

We've witnessed the remarkable growth of technology since the beginning of the dot com era, and the digital divide we've heard mostly about has to do with those who have access to that technology and those who don't. The digital divide is as much of a social problem as it is an economic problem, but there's also a growing divide in business between the companies who best take advantage of data and those who don't, an Apigee Institute survey has found.

Voice search in Google's Chrome browser now features hands free search by saying the phrase, "Okay, Google."

Once a year, Google throws its I/O developers conference, and day one in 2013 featured plenty of updates about the company's most popular search, mobile and cloud products including a hands free voice search feature for laptops and desktops.

Marketing automation vendor Silverpop has announced a real time campaign buider called Universal Behaviors at the Amplify 2013 conference this week.

Sharing files in the cloud is now possible in the Salesforce Chatter Mobile app for iOS, and a new day has dawned for mobile teams using iPads and iPhones to get work done away from their offices.

Several years ago, I was evaluating Content Management Systems for a local tech company. As you surely already know, the Web CMS market is highly fragmented. There are literally hundreds of options available.

After a couple of weeks of research, it became apparent to me that no two Web CMSs are the same. 

Windows and Windows Phone 8 customers are hearing some details about Microsoft's plan for updating each system in the coming months, and it starts with a public preview of Windows Blue by the end of June.

Content delivery vendor Limelight hosts video, provides content management, delivery, performance and cloud storage with Orchestrate 2.0.

Providing multiple format content to various devices in real time is a feature many technology providers are striving for in a mobile world, and Limelight Orchestrate 2.0 has been released for doing just that.

Launch a Gchat session right from an Outlook.com email message with the Google contacts integration.

Google's instant messaging service has been integrated into the Microsoft universe, at least when it comes to the Web based Outlook.com and the cloud based SkyDrive storage app.

We came across another simple web content management system you might be interested in. Let's have a look at Webpop.

Crafter Rivet is now Crafter CMS as Rivet Logic has spun off a company called Crafter Software to promote its the Web content and Web experience management system.

Personalization with content targeting feature in Crafter CMS.
 

Open source CMS provider dotCMS released version 2.3 this week with a clear eye towards mobile devices. This update includes the very popular responsive themeing, and added tools like a link checker (just like what it sounds like) and a feature called time machine that shows what older site designs or even future site designs look like.

Responsive themes allow for an all in one design across websites or across devices.
 

Of course you've heard of the coveted Aragon Research Hot Vendors report, and only the most compelling new technologies or those leveraging cloud, mobile, content or video can pass muster. This year, Alfresco, MZinga, Accellion and SpringCM, among others, have been named in the second annual report.

.NET based CMS Orchard has reached the 4,000,000 download mark for modules and themes (the CMS itself has 480,000 downloads), and is now readying its next release, version 1.7, for a June 2013 launch. It's a major release, and it will debut features like drag and drop multiple image imports, image processing and integrated slideshows.

Considering WordPress as a Web content management system is something hundreds, and maybe thousands of website owners likely do on a daily basis, and we've got a ready-made short list of alternatives that we think are viable alternatives.

Every month we like to serve up a little open source CMS roundup, and like most months in this busy segment, May is packed with interesting tidbits.