Ingeniux News & Articles

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.

Ingeniux 7.5 has been released today, offering web managers and marketers a digital hub that supports the management of a single set of content deployed across a range of channels and devices. There are over 126 updates in this release. Here's a look at the major ones.

Ingeniux (news, site) has always been a prominent supporter of mobile capabilities as part of web engagement management. Today the web content management vendor demonstrates that even more with the release of its new Mobile Web Portal and solution packages.

Ingeniux is a smallish U.S. vendor with a solid feature set, a mature business posture and a steadily growing list of enviable clients. Here's a background snapshot on the company and our review of release 7 of the Ingeniux Web CMS product.

Consider the dinner table this holiday season. Will you be eating and enjoying time with family and friends, or checking your e-mail with your mobile device? A couple of recent surveys have revealed some uncomfortable facts about American behavior with regards to the mighty inbox, as well as the mobile trends to look for in 2011. 

Ingeniux (news, site) has a new partnership to add to the list. This one sees the integration of Ingeniux CMS and Cartella with software that supports associations online.

It's been a while since Ingeniux CMS (news, site) got a major face-lift. Last week, they released version 7.

Its predecessor, Ingeniux CMS v6, dates back to 2008 with focus on Enterprise 2.0 web content management. What does Ingeniux have to offer in v7 after two years in the making?

Clearly feeling optimistic, web content management system vendor, Ingeniux (news, site), has used the proceeds from recent, profitable quarters (and perhaps jumped on descending commercial rental prices) to relocate and expand operations, paving the way for future growth and perhaps even better margins.

The results of the 2009 CODiE Awards are in and Clickability (news, site) is rising to the top for a second year in a row. They have won the award for Best Content Management System.

What were the judges looking for?

• Ease of posting and manipulation
• Fulfillment of key attributes
• Functionality of key attributes
• Management tools
• Translations between different formats
• User interface

Clickability has won the award over Nstein -- also their second year to make the finalist list -- Ingeniux CMS 6.2, RSuite CMS from Really Strategies and Salesforce Content from Salesforce.com.

"We are extremely proud to have won such a prestigious award two years in a row," said John Girard, Clickability co-founder and CEO. [] This award represents our continued dedication to providing the most innovative WCM solution on the market today. The CODiE Awards honor only the best and brightest in the software industry, and we are thrilled to be among the 2009 winners."

There were 850 products submitted by 600 companies up for a number of different awards. You can view all the winners here.

Or so Ingeniux says with a new release called Cartella. What does Cartella do? The very basics of social networking, social content and web content management put in the same wagon.

CMSWire got a little Cartella tour from Ingeniux’s David Hillis, director of marketing and business development, and Nathan Eggen, director of technology – and this is what we’ve found out.

How many reports does it take before Web Content Management vendors change their errant ways and start listening to customers?

If you were to look at the recommendations from The Gilbane Group (news, site) and their Justifying Web Content Management: The Business Case and ROI report, then there is still a sharp learning curve ahead of many.

A simple four-word summary of the report, sponsored by SDL Tridion (news, site), might as well go “Keep it simple, stupid”. While that could be a tad simplistic -- and we’ll be looking at why -- it is a conclusion that keeps hitting the reader smack-bang in the face.

While the majority of the country’s companies are struggling to keep their doors cracked open or regretfully shutting them all together, a handful of Web Content Management vendors are riding a wave of significant growth.

Among the lucky few is Ingeniux, a WCM vendor that recently reported its biggest first quarter in the company’s history, representing a 65 percent growth in revenues compared to Q1, 2008.

The question, of course, is why? What is WCM doing right? Jim Edmunds, CEO of Ingeniux puts it like this: “Companies and organizations are investing in the Web to gain efficiencies and cost savings."

We’re inclined to agree, and so are others, including Global Industry Analysts, Inc and the Aberdeen Group. Aberdeen’s recent survey found that 42 percent of all respondents said they would be increasing their budget for WCM in 2009 while a whopping 70 percent said that optimizing online content is a top business priority.

All together now, let’s wipe the sweat off our brows because it looks like we’re in good shape—and not just for the time being. Global Industry Analysts, Inc. reported that the global content management software market is expected to reach a staggering US$ 10.45 billion dollars by 2015.

“We learned an important lesson in the last recession,” continues Edmunds. “Stay close to your customers and focus on building what they need, not what we think they need."

The practical and efficient are thriving in today’s economy simply because when there’s no money, there’s no room for razzle dazzle. Perhaps by being forced to go with what makes most sense rather than what’s most appealing, niches like WCM will discover the solutions they never knew they always needed. Hopefully the rest of the country will catch on, too. 

What is it with the rebranding trend in the content management space lately? Just having recently lost RedDot in a rebranding maneuver, today we say goodbye to Percussion's Rhythmyx.

And welcome their new Web Content Management system succinctly named CM System.

Day Software released three new editions of CRX, Day’s famed JSR-170-compliant Java Content Repository (JCR). These new goodies will make some developers and CIOs salivate -- especially those looking for leaner content infrastructure solutions based on Day’s commercial implementation of Apache Jackrabbit and Apache Sling.

In a nutshell, developers get free access to the CRX; and enterprises can get the CRX cheaply, on the pay-as-you-go model. Is that all? Not really. The impact on the entire Enterprise and Web Content Management industries may be a lot larger.

It’s that time of the year again. It’s time to shop for those shiny and new 2009 Lamborghini models, as well as for the new 2009 Web CMS report from CMS Watch.

The Lamborghini of Web CMS researchers, CMS Watch works diligently every year interviewing customers, vendors, partners and all sorts of other people on the CMS street to get the skinny on the Web CMS ecosphere and to give selected vendors an A or a D, depending on how well they did during 2008.

Brace yourselves and read on…