Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

CMS Watch, an industry portal for independent analysis and evaluations of Web Content Management Systems announced the release of Version 6 of “The CMS Report,” with updated analysis and product surveys. The report is available for purchase online from CMS Watch.

“Despite some recent vendor consolidation at the enterprise level, the web content management software industry still supports a plethora of healthy, growing players, in North America, Europe, as well as Asia-Pac,” reports Tony Byrne, the report's author and CMS Watch founder.

For those of you who like to build not buy, here's a [large] list of browser-based “through the web” rich text editors. The list is maintained by Paul Browning from the University of Bristol and looks to be updated on a fairly regular basis.

TTW WYSIWYG Editors - The List

[Thanks to Mark Thomas for pointing this out.]

SilkRoad's Eprise 2004 Web Content Management solution has recently been treated to a brief and positive review by InfoWeek's Mike Heck.

The review highlights dramatic performance enhancements, web services support, a hosted (software as a service) option, and fault tolerance. Mike claims Eprise should now be a strong candidate for the Web CMS shortlist.

This is possibly true. SilkRoad has certainly become a bit more interesting with their recent noise around enterprise blogging. Though I have to ask, with version control and workflow, are SilkBlogs really “blogs”, or are they just CMS rebranded?

SilkBlogs are in fact built on top of Eprise, so I'd say they are not in fact blogs per say. But who's to say what a blog actually is these days. Ah well, these days seems like everyone's got to get lined-up behind the Internet meme of the day. It sounds cool anyways.

Read the review.   |   Learn about Eprise.

Learn about Enterprise Blogging.

Interwoven today announced OpenDeploy 6 a significantly enhanced code and content deployment product that plays a vital role within Interwoven's integrated Enterprise Content Management Platform and Interwoven's Web Change Management Solution.

OpenDeploy 6 Distribution Server software provides an automated solution for streamlining and securing code and content deployment processes, while ensuring the accuracy and version management of sites and applications.

Czech Republic-based Kentico recently announced an upcoming web content management product — Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The product is positioned for web developers building custom solutions and is targeted at becoming the lowest price ASP.NET CMS in the market.

Vasont Systems of Emigsville Pennsylvania today announced its new subscription option for the Vasont Content Management System. This new payment option provides organizations with an affordable way to take advantage of the company's Vasont Content Management System while avoiding the difficult budget decisions.

Organizations pay a monthly fee to use Vasont over a 24-month period.

Latest release offers an improved user experience, Web-based form capabilities and enhanced calendar features.

Ektron Inc., an innovator in Web content management and authoring software, today announced Ektron CMS300 Version 4.5, a content management solution that answers real-world business and Web site needs. The new version offers a more intuitive user experience, Web-based form capabilities and enhanced calendar features. CMS300 Version 4.5 advances the Web strategies of marketing, HR, sales and other business groups.

XyEnterprise, the leading developer of XML content management and enterprise publishing solutions, announced today the availability of two new toolkits for its Content@ content management and workflow software application.

These feature-rich toolkits enhance the capabilities in Content@ by providing a collaborative editorial and publishing review environment, as well as enabling broader sets of users to interact with the system with standard Microsoft(R) Office(TM) applications.

An article by Gerry McGovern

There are two roles in web content management that matter: editors and writers. Editors decide what should get published. Writers create the content. Most websites started off with administrators-webmasters-who had lots of responsibility and little authority. Today, we see the emergence of the web editor, a position that will become increasingly important.

This qualifies as alter-world news in my book, but perhaps its just flown over my head.

Computer Associates and Zope have announced a partnership to provide open source content management solutions that are compatible with relational database technology and meet enterprise demands for performance, data persistence and manageability.

The short story is that an organization centered around a niche programming language (Python) who have a content management solution (Plone) that drives off of a flat-file database, have partnered with “the world's largest management software company” to enhance their solution to support a niche relational database.

And on top of all this, Zope is now describing itself as a “leading provider of Enterprise Content Management solutions”.

Has someone been nibbling on too much nepeta cataria?

An enterprising young Neil Turner of York, United Kingdom has posted a review of the recently released Movable Type 3.0 Developers Edition.

Neil steers far clear of the recent outcry (whining) about MT's new licensing model (What? Pay for software?). He also doesn't dig too far under the covers with regards to technical changes for MT 3.0.

What he does do is give a very nice overview of the new publishing interface and features. He also takes a little scare out of the prospect of upgrading.

Read the review.

James Robertson and the CMS gurus of Aussie services firm, Step Two, are offering a one-day seminar providing a vendor-neutral introduction to selecting a content management system (CMS) that is right for your organization. It offers a non-technical, no-nonsence, approach to identifying business needs, and evaluating vendor products.

The seminar takes place Wednesday, July 21st, 2004 at the Griffin Hotel in Canberra Australia.

Moshen Media, a Toronto-based multimedia organization, continues to raise the bar for content management web solutions, with WriteNow CMS. Moshen has developed a daringly low priced Web CMS, creating a critical level of incentive for mid-market companies to take the plunge into next generation website management. The company’s aggressive strategy is enticing some of Canada’s most prominent organizations to take a second look.

In the mix with a number of recent enhancement to the WebSphere development tools is one that targets less sophisticated Java programmers. Presumably with the two-fold intention of staying cutting edge and and fighting off the ASP.NET threat, IBM have added Java Server Faces (JSF) support to WebSphere Studio Application Developer and Site Developer versions 5.1.2.

JSF support will better enable developers to create complex J2EE applications in an environment similar to Microsoft's Visual Studio.

The two companies have teamed up to deliver Synkron's content management capabilities via the WebSphere Portal.

“This is not just a loose agreement, but a commercial and targeted partnership, where the two software solutions are “bundled” in order to offer customers tangible benefits straight away,” underlines CEO of Synkron, Thomas Marschall.

TYPO3 3.6.0 Focuses on Standards Compliance in Latest Release

Version 3.6.0 of TYPO3, an Open Source Content Management System based on PHP, was published April 30th, 2004. Major improvements include the implementation of XHTML compliant output of all standard content elements for creating Websites adhering to accessibility rules, complete UTF-8 support and a cleaned and documented core.

After 12 months, the new version 3.6.0 has been published by Kasper Skårhøj and the core team of developers of TYPO3, a leader among the Open Source Content Management Systems.

Stellent, Inc. today announced the release of the Stellent Content Portlet Suite. The Content Portlet Suite is designed to enable portal developers to provide access to Stellent Universal Content Management services, such as check-in, workflow and search, via JSR-168 compliant portal servers such as BEA, WebSphere, Plumtree, and Sun Enterprise Server.

“Content Portlet Suite supports content requests from portals in real-time, directly from the content management system, through JSR 168 portlets,” said Dan Ryan, executive vice president of marketing and business development for Stellent.

Mondosoft, a leading provider of enterprise search technology, today announced the availability of Mondosoft BehaviorTracking(TM) as a stand-alone search analytics tool.

Mondosoft offers tight integration with Microsoft Content Management Server and Microsoft SharePoint Portal, amoung other products.

Combines Open Text, IXOS and Gauss Technologies to Provide Tools For Any Content Management Challenge, Plus ECM Integration.

Open Text(TM) Corporation provider of Livelink, the leading collaboration and content management software for the global enterprise, said today it is launching the industry's broadest Web Content Management offering, along with IXOS Software and Gauss Interprise, to give customers a single platform to manage corporate websites, intranets and extranets. The solution, set for release in May, is integrated with Livelink, so customers can include Web content in their complete Enterprise Content Management (ECM) strategy to reduce costs, improve processes and better meet requirements for regulatory compliance.

Advanced Authoring Application Revolutionizes Web Publishing of Complex Content With Full Integration to BroadVision Portal.

BroadVision, Inc., a global provider of self-service web applications, today announced the release of BroadVision QuickSilver 2.0, a significant upgrade to the popular application that allows business users to create and publish lengthy, complex documents in multiple output formats (including HTML, PDF and Postscript). BroadVision QuickSilver 2.0 builds on the strengths of the legacy product by automating publication of complex content to BroadVision Portal environments. New features include automatic multi-file publishing to the web, intra- and inter-file links, and personalization based on qualifiers, categories and attributes established in the portal environment.