Crownpeak News & Articles

CrownPeak doesn't call its web content management platform a customer experience platform (CXM), instead it chooses to focus on what it does best -- web content management. With a new user experience coming your way, it may be just the right solution for your needs

A new partnership between SaaS Web CMS provider CrownPeak (news, site) and Magus (news, site) targets governance-concerned organizations managing their web content in the cloud.

This week in GRC, CrownPeak and Magus team up for SaaS Web Content Management system governance, Socialware picks up US$ 7 million in Series C funding, DocuWare v5.1 gets FDA certification renewed and McAfee goes mobile with Sony. Also this week, we took a look at records management for SharePoint again.

If you don’t remember when CrownPeak (news, site) added their own testing, targeting and measurement tools last November, then don’t worry. They’re adding similar tools -- again -- but this time it’s via integration with Omniture (news, site).
 

CrownPeak (news, site) offers a new host of marketing tools to help refine and target marketing strategies for websites and content.

CrownPeak (news, site) announced its integration with the [updated] new Website Optimizer Experiment Management API (based on Google Website Optimizer) [/updated], claiming to be the first content management vendor to do so as one of three “inaugural partners.” This integration is "a new API program that will provide users with an integrated solution for Web content management." Sounds a tad confusing, doesn't it?

Truth be told, quite a few other CMS providers -- including the direct SaaS competitors like Clickability, Ingeniux, Marqui and others -- have already dabbled with Google Optimizer integration. But let’s take a look at what CrownPeak had done and how it might be different from the others.

Editor's Note: Leave it to Google to provide some clarity ;) According to the big G, this is a "new Website Optimizer Experiment Management API...  [that] allows for the creation and management of experiments outside of the Website Optimizer interface." So, pretty much everything we talk about below in regards to tapping into the existing API, less coding steps and a more native within the CMS integration still seems to be valid.

CrownPeak (news, site) recognizes the importance of URL shortening for social media and social networking, while retaining the ability to measure that content through web analytics tools.

The news release of the CrownPeak URL Shortener allows CrownPeak CMS users to take advantage of the automatically generated short URLs, or modify them manually to create a customized URL. Voila, and we are social media-ready.

A job that can be done by services like bit.ly and 3.ly, is now handled within the CMS itself to generate CPeak.us and alike URLs.

Some of the uses of CrownPeak’s new URL Shortener include:

• Web and social media content publishing with CrownPeak CMS ability to automatically publishe content directly into some popular social networks.
• Web analytics integration (with CrownPeak Analytics, WebTrends, Omniture’s Site Catalyst, etc.) can be used to track both regular and short URL-ed pages with a breakout of the traffic.
• URL illustrations for highlighting available content in CrownPeak CMS Social Networking Tools for further dissemination and re-use.

Being a module of the SaaS CMS, The CrownPeak URL Shortener is available to all current customers as part of their existing SLAs with no extra licensing fees.

Imagine a combination of SaaS CMS, Web analytics, A/B and MVT testing, and optimization of landing pages -- sounds like a novel idea? Hardly.

Although every vendor wants to make us believe they are the first ever to step on the surface of the hosted Web CMS/analytics Moon, we know that others have approached this endearing to marketers subject before.

Nevertheless, here’s Autonomy’s (news, site) announcement about a new product designed to enamor marketers and allow them to build and test website landing pages in a hosted environment. The Autonomy Optimized Landing Page offering comes hot on the heels of Webtrends’ newest version 9 release. It sure is a hot summer for the web analytics industry.

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.