Cms News & Articles

The start of summer seems an odd choice to start doling out awards (isn't that usually January/February?) but it hasn't stopped asp.netPRO from counting the votes in its 2009 Readers' Choice awards. It was the winner of the Best CMS that made us stop and pay attention.

Anyone working in marketing will know that while your customers won’t love you for offering poor service, your competitors definitely will. Perhaps with that in mind, SaaS web content management solutions provider CrownPeak (news, site) has really been pushing the customer service side of their business over the past year with at least one notable success.

The success this time comes as a finalist – for the second year running – in the Best Customer Service Department category of the American Business Awards 2009 (the ‘Stevies”). The awards ceremony next month will be the culmination of a judging process that began in March and only finished recently.

EPiServer (news, site) is offering a new free addition to its wide range of content management add-ons for its EPiServer CMS 5 product. EventX offers meeting and event management to help wrangle the herds of invitees to your company's latest shindig.

Having added to their content management offering with a SaaS edition late last year, CNG  (news, site) is reaping the rewards of their success from Microsoft with a Certified Partnership.

This should help to highlight CNG's intuitive and secure electronic filing approach to documents. The product is aimed at smaller enterprises and provides businesses with an affordable way to run a paperless office.

Running under Windows Server or business editions of Windows XP and Vista. CNG software offers file and workflow management, document security and retention with format independence via a range of linked packages. The API is also available for in-house developers to link CNG's apps into other systems.

With industry-specific install configurations to help vertical businesses create a paperless environment, CNG says that companies can be up and running in a matter of minutes, rather than months.

Learn more about this new Microsoft Partner.

 CrownPeak (news, site) is joining the many companies adding social publishing features to their web content managment packages. They allow a company's message to be spread far and wide -- and more importantly, consistently -- across the social Web.

SilverStripe (news, site) is using this year's J. Boye Conference to boost awareness of its open source CMS product by taking part in the Web Idol competition that adds some speed and humor to the event.

When you look at the open source content management systems out there today, you'll find a ton written in PHP, some written in Perl and Java, and a small collection written in Python.

There is also another small OS CMS market -- those written in Ruby on Rails (RoR).

Though we haven’t covered them in quite a while, Asbru has been nothing short of ridiculously active in their endeavors. The company released a grand total of nineteen updated versions of their content management system in 2008 alone. This year they’re already at number two.

The most recent version, Asbru Web Content Management  v7.0, keeps with the company’s aim to be simple and easy enough for anyone with web browsing and word processing skills to use.

Minerva is largely a services company providing a variety of web design and development solutions. Based in India, the organization is now moving in a product direction, targeting new ways to develop income sources and retain client relationships.

Now for the sake of our credibility, we're not convinved that their latest project,  Minerva Infotech CMS 1.0, is going to make ripples in the web cms pond, but perhaps it will sprout some legs. So on a slow news day in early January we've decided it's worth noting.

Retailers are an extremely lucky bunch right now — the stock market crash really isn’t good for the bottom line, but the Christmas holiday season might just keep them in the black, assuming that people are feeling cheery enough to part ways with their hard-earned cash this winter season.

A recently conducted survey by Aberdeen, a Harte-Hanks company, of 100 enterprises has determined that 55% of leading retailers are feeling the need to counter the selling strategies of competition amidst holiday pressure. Furthermore, 50% of these companies think that advanced online tools are part of the solution — dynamic Web content management is believed to play a significant role.

Fact: Open source business models can be profitable and consistent. eZ Systems’ open source Web CMS — eZ Publish — has raked up an impressive triple-digit growth and double-digit renewal rates for the first half of 2008.

This is the first time eZ Systems achieved a profitable bottom line. It took 8 years and more than $US 10 million of investments.

Summer’s getting into full swing…and that means more web awards getting moving as well. With open source being such hot topics lately in tech news, this year promises to be a good one. The 2008 Open Source CMS Awards from PacktPub are coming.

Plone, the sometimes enigmatic open source CMS, has been working hard and planning big changes. The recent wrap up of the 2008 Plone Strategic Planning Summit is proof positive that they are serious about competing in the big world of open source CMS and not getting lost in the mix that is growing rapidly as others pull ahead of the field.

San Francisco-based Six Apart — makers of Movable Type, sellers of Live Journal — have just unwrapped a lovely new piece of technology. Some call it blog fire-hosing, but we’ll go with rather heavier metaphors and say their new Blog It FaceBook app is double barrel publishing fun. It’s buckshot blogging. It’s strafing the blogosphere. It’s like going hunting with Cheney — you know, pull the trigger once and you get two birds and all your friends, right in the face.

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