Web Content Management System (CMS) News & Articles

Eloqua Ltd., a privately held provider of marketing automation software, became a publicly traded company today on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol ELOQ.

The company’s IPO offered 8 million common shares at $11.50 each, which at the time of publishing were up 13% to $13.08. Eloqua is challenged in the marketing automation space by the likes of Act-On, Aprimo, Marketo, Net-Results, SilverPop and others.

It's here, the public preview of SharePoint 2013 and guess what? Microsoft has made some significant enhancements to its web content management capabilities. But is it enough? Is SharePoint really a serious WCM contender? That's our question for this discussion point. Here's what the experts said.

August belongs to SharePoint at CMSWire. This month, we’ll examine SharePoint from many different perspectives. But before we do, what is SharePoint? If you had to conceptualize it, what would it look like? What characteristics would be highlighted?

Web CMS vendor Telerik is adding enhancements including support for ASP.NET MVC (model view controller) and the Razor rendering engine, as well as a redesigned email campaign management tool, to the new version 5.1 of the ASP.NET-based Sitefinity CMS.

Welcome to the July 2012 installment of our what's coming from the open source projects in the next month. If you feel that your project was left out, we invite you to email us at pr@cmswire.com to have a project representative added to the list of people we contact for updates.

Vendors are always a little bit reluctant to give too much away about up coming releases, especially when that release is to be the cornerstone of its annual get together. Magnolia is no different. But with its conference set for the beginning of September, they have offered some details about Magnolia CMS 5.0, which will be previewed then.

Web content management system (CMS) technology has evolved to the point where it has become relatively simple for users to create and deploy content for Web pages without technical knowledge. However, in addition to a number of “must haves” any Web CMS must offer, there is an emerging trend for Web CMS to also offer customer engagement functionality.

DotCMS, an open source, Java-based Web content management system, has released version 2.1. The latest upgrade to dotCMS includes improvements to site search, workflow task automation, administration and content.

If you haven’t optimized your website for mobile traffic yet, you are likely missing a big opportunity to market to prospects and strengthen engagement with your current customer base. So the question becomes, what are you doing to optimize your mobile website?

For the past two weeks we’ve taken a closer look at the different ways life inside the Federal government is changing, thanks to more investments in social collaboration and usability. This week, we examine the next frontier of the Federal web — mobility.

A special, cloud-based version of eZ Systems web content management system will be offered through a new partnership with Deutsche Telekom.

Visually rich Web pages that scale to any size, created in the browser by anyone. That’s the central feature of Squarespace’s website creation platform, and today the company announced a “complete overhaul” that offers over 50 new features.

Sourcefabric, makers of the open source Newscoop CMS designed expressly for working journalists, has released version 4.02, so here's what to expect. 

Microsoft has been taking Web Content Management (WCM) seriously since it integrated Microsoft CMS 2002 into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007. SharePoint 2010 saw improvements to the Web CMS feature set including better content management through an improved rich-text editor, better Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) support as well as an improved analytics engine.

Semantic web technology provider Calais plans to commence beta testing for the next version of its OpenCalais Web Service in August 2012. New features will include behind-the-scenes improvements to the processing pipeline as well as end-user facing features that include new entities, facts and events, and enhanced social tagging.

Site managers and marketers everywhere are challenged by the tidal wave of mobile devices currently in circulation.

How do you deliver consistent, high quality digital experiences across desktop and mobile channels? This article recaps our recent Mobile Customer Experience webinar and includes a full video recording of the event. Dive on in.

There are quite a few examples of quickly growing adoption in the content management systems/framework world, but it’s particularly fascinating to see how Drupal is uniquely changing the direction of how an organization will look at its content delivery strategy and the tools used to support it.

The game is changing in Drupal’s favor.

Your organization has grown to the point where it's finally time for someone, likely you, to propose a Web Content Management System (Web CMS) and that usually means building a case for it.

Customers are getting tired of organizations lying to them. So, it's time to stop lying.

Tools provider Telerik is adding support for tablets in its new release of Kendo UI Complete. The updated suite of Web, DataViz and management tools for developers now also offers server-side wrappers for ASP.NET MVC, supporting development of HTML5 and Javascript mobile apps and sites.