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Context first. This is what Bob Egner, VP of Product Management and Global Marketing for Web CMS vendor EPiServer is excited about.

In an exclusive CMSWire interview Egner and CMSWire staff dug into the fundamentals of Customer Experience Management, how Web CMS vendors differentiate -- or don't, the cloud and PaaS vs. SaaS, how to go mobile more simply and the big challenges facing vendors in 2012.

Let's have a look:

We've long considered Web CMS vendors like Sitecore and Ektron to be mid-market players. And to some extent they still are. But with the evolution of web content management towards customer experience management has come a shift in the .NET Web CMS vendor landscape. Here's a look at where the players are today.

Why should you have to build two separate versions of your website to satisfy mobile users?

Amazon's stability troubles may be dominating the headlines, but that's not stopping the momentum of cloud-based offerings. EPiServer (news, site) is the latest to fall in line offering a "Platform-as-a-Service" version of its content management system.

I think we can stop worrying about EPiServer for a little while.

The recently acquired EPiServer (news, site) appears to be going strong after joining forces with IK Investment Partners in late 2010. Need proof? EPiServer is celebrating the 500th addition to its partner network.

After a failed attempt to go public, EPiServer's (news, site) future possible routes included either trying the IPO again or selling to someone. They chose the latter. The buyer is IK Investment Partners, a European private equity firm, with a surprising business focus.

Mobile is huge, in case you haven’t heard. More and more Web CMS vendors are embracing the mobile channel. EPiServer (news, site) is one of them with the latest release of MobileCenter App for iPhone and iPad.

Forward Search (news, site) 2.0 release aims to increase the amount of website and enterprise data you can search to better mine results and improve business intelligence.

The big Initial Public Offering (IPO) party we anticipated is not going to happen. EPiServer's (news, site) plans for going public fell through.

Recently, the Real Story Group identified mid-market Microsoft .NET-based content management systems as the biggest Web CMS trend for Q3.

I was inspired to explore this topic a bit more, as industry anecdotes of organizations selecting one CMS vendor over the other based on the "We're a 100% .NET" claim sprang to mind.

More news from the land of Web Engagement Management, where EPiServer (news, site) has been creating some WEM magic. As initially promised in late 2009, they released an e-Commerce product that includes product catalog management, multi-language stores, customer management, reporting and a slew of other features -- all in the name of better online engagement with customers.

Sure SharePoint 2010 (news, site) has built in web content management capabilities. But that doesn't stop of number of WCM vendors from integrating their own solutions with the collaboration platform. After all, we all need options.

At this year's EPiServer Partner Summit -- running today through June 6th -- Ephox (news, site) will be discussing their new online authoring capabilities for EPiSerer CMS. EditLive! claims to bring the power of traditional word processing to non-techies, while simultaneously enhancing productivity and website quality.  

In the past three months both EPiServer CMS (news, site) and Ephox EditLive! (news, site) have been upgraded -- EPiServer CMS to version 6 and EditLive! to version 7.0. Today the two have been integrated so EPiServer CMS users will be now able to use EditLive!