Crownpeak News & Articles

CrownPeak (news, site), a provider of SaaS web content management solutions, now has a home in the heart of New York City. The newly opened East Coast office will be run by Scott Samios, who used to work for Omniture as a regional director.

Samios is a seasoned executive with more than 15 years of experience with expertise in business development and online marketing.

The new Manhattan office in the epicenter of interactive marketing will focus on CrownPeak's roster of East Coast creative and interactive agency partners, including Molecular and The Berndt Group.

Location, location, location… CrownPeak has, certainly, picked the right city to work their agency magic.

Samios said that digital agencies "need to take control of the visitor experience from the ad through the on-site success metric." How do you achieve this in the best way possible? By using the marketing-centric and SaaS-based CrownPeak CMS, of course.

"My goal will be to help our interactive agency partners in this region develop both a technology platform and a content process that delivers on the true promise of marketing ROI," concluded Samios.

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.

 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.

CrownPeak (news, site), a provider of SaaS web content management solutions, has its eye on the online marketing crowd.

The latest release of CrownPeak CMS sports multiple new features designed to make CRM and web content management easier. If campaigns, lead conversions, tracking and revenue generation are part of your lexicon, CrownPeak has news for you.

With a greater drive to taking advantage of the Internet to attract new customers, marketers need web content management solutions that help them build and manage their online initiatives faster. CrownPeak is offering a solution that may help. Called the Landing Page Manager, this solution helps create, test and manage Landing Pages quickly all within a SaaS environment.

Our friends at CMS Watch recently announced their take on trends in SaaS Web Content Management for 2009. We've been contemplating about the future of SaaS WCM for quite some time ourselves.

Let's take a look-see at CMS Watch's predictions for the year to come and some more analysis of hosted Web CMS solutions.

CrownPeak, a player in the Web content management field, announced significant growth in the third quarter of 2008. The company reports that the company’s record growth was fueled by positive expansion of the overall Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry.

In addition to the record quarter-over-quarter growth, CrownPeak has announced new high-profile clients that are utilizing CrownPeak CMS for their Website deployment and extranet solutions. To compliment new projects from new customers, CrownPeak has also seen growth from being able to add new projects from existing clients as well.

As a part of its new SaaS endeavor, the company has hired Chris Taylor, VP of Professional Services. Taylor complements CrownPeak with experience in technology, software and technology professional services. CrownPeak hopes the new hire will help further expand their business from their software services group.

In an economic environment where enterprises are looking to effectively manage their technology spending, SaaS solutions providers such as CrownPeak will further gain from the opportunities they present to their clients.

In addition to recently wowing the CMS world by giving away a f*ree edition of its records management module, SpringCM just released version 4.5 of its SaaS Enterprise Content Management System.

The new release, while heavily focused on process management, also includes enhancements designed to improve document-centric processing and the SpringCM user experience.

In these times of economic upheaval, many businesses — large and small — start to take an even closer look at how they are spending their IT budgets. For those who have or are considering SaaS-based solutions, you should know there are opposing views on whether SaaS has what it takes to survive in the long term.

CrownPeak, a Gold sponsor of the Gilbane Conference that starts tomorrow in San Francisco, has announced some major new features for its web content management system that should make both developers and end-users as excited as a school boy in a comic shop.

This new set of features includes support for Microsoft developers, better file management and improved web analytics with the flavor of Web 2.0.

CrownPeak has a little more money in their pocket these days. They have just secured US$ 6m in funding from a second round of venture capital financing bringing the total raised to US$ 10.25m. What are they going to do with all the cash?

The second round brought out a new firm, SunAmerica Ventures, to sit alongside their existing investors - Sigma Partners and Altos Ventures. Troy Fukumoto from SunAmerica will join the CrownPeak board which already has a member from each of the other major investment companies.

So what exactly is a web content management vendor who provides their software as a service going to do with all that money? Well, CrownPeak isn’t being explicit about the details, only saying it will be used to accelerate new product development initiatives and spend more money on marketing. It’s all about “customer value” they say.

In February, CrownPeak came out with their content management SaaS offering. In January they announced integrated support for Google’s Open Social. So maybe we’ll be seeing more of a foray into social computing capabilities in their software, especially in the SaaS version of their software.

It looks like there might be a battle brewing in the SaaS Web Content Management world. CrownPeak has decided to go full force in hosted web content management and is now offering a website and product suite on ContentManagement.com for small to medium-sized companies.

Crownpeak has been around for awhile offering content management services, but this is their first foray into the delivery side of the content management equation. Does this solution put them on equal footing with competitor Clickability?

CrownPeak has announced integrated support for Google’s Open Social, Google Gadgets and a number of other social networking standards.

CrownPeak customers will henceforth be able to build rich Web applications from within the CrownPeak CMS and share them on other sites including social networking sites like Facebook, Orkut and Salesforce.com.

Belgium-based Emagine updates their flagship Web Content Management (Web CMS) product, emagiC. Release 3.0 focuses on ease of use, rapid adoption, and wizard-driven management.