Kentico News & Articles

Kentico (news, site) aims to please heavyweight site builders with the latest updates in version 5.0 of its ASP.NET CMS.

More news from Kentico (news, site). This time it’s not a new release, but a new version for its Partner Program that will give its 900 partners added support for the development of better, if not bigger, Kentico ASP.NET websites.

While announcements about extending  partner programs come a dime-a-dozen, this one is slightly different in that Kentico has divided its partners into three different levels of partners and provided a new portal where they can interact.

Basically, partners will from here on be divided into three different categories: Partner, Certified Partner and Gold Certified Partner. The portal provides support for business and web development with the services offered depending on level of partnership.

As it stands 69 of Kentico's partners have attained Gold Certification, 122 have achieved Certified, with the rest classified as partners. Presumably, the more you use Kentico products, the more likely it is you will be elevated.

The fact that 35% of the Partners are in the US indicates how well and successfully the Czech-based web content management provider has been in the US, and is only topped by the number of European partners at 39%. Interesting to see if this figure changes by this time next year.
 

Czech-based Kentico Software (news, site), who continues to expand despite increasingly difficult trading conditions in Europe, recently made the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 list for central Europe. They are listed as the fifth highest ranked company in the ‘Rising Stars’ category.

 A little Microsoft is heading over to Web CMS. Thom Robbins, former Director of Developer Audience for Microsoft, made the move earlier this week to team Kentico (news, site) where he will operate as their new product evangelist. Coincidentally, Robbins will be working closely with Kentico Product Manager Michal Neuwirth, another ex-Microsoft head.

Robbins packs nine years of experience in technical marketing for Microsoft, having acted as their Principal Developer Evangelist and .NET Framework Product Management Director in addition to Director of Developer Audience. An author on the side, he has also published 3 books on Microsoft InfoPath and Windows Communication Foundation, as well as various industry articles.

"We are very excited to welcome Thom to the team. His extensive experience in product marketing and evangelism will help us make our enterprise-class Web content management solution more visible to the market," said Petr Palas, Kentico CEO. "He will also help us better educate our existing clients and partners about all the capabilities of the Kentico CMS platform."

Keep track of Kentico here, and let's see how Robbins does. 

Microsoft has just released the latest version of their Web Platform Installer and Web Application Gallery.

The beta for version 2 has been out since March, adding a community version of PHP and ASP.NET MVC 1 to an already full list of applications. New web applications that could be downloaded included Umbraco and Silverstripe Web CMS.

With today's release of the WPI, you will also get the Windows Azure SDK to get you started on those cloud-based applications and the IIS Media Pack.

Some of the latest additions to the Web Application Gallery include learning management system Moodle, Sitefinity web content management and Kentico Web CMS among many others.

If you were nervous about installing the beta version of WPI 2, you don't have to wait any longer. This is definitely an easy way to get your development environment up and running and a version of your favorite open source Web CMS to start developing your web applications.

Kentico (news, site) is either really into supporting the environment, or they are just that sure their web content management system is relatively bug free.

For every bug found in the latest version of the Kentico web content management system -- that's Kentico 4.1 -- Kentico has said it will plant a tree.

Now this only applies to bugs found by you, the users of the Web CMS. You can report your bugs on this website.

Kentico Trees For Bugs
 

The tree planting will take place until October 1, 2009 and Kentico has promised to plant at least 100 trees. They think the list of bugs will be much lower -- you can keep track on the Trees For Bugs website.

Just where are these trees being planted? Kentico say somewhere within 150km from Brno, Czech Republic, close to their headquarters.

And guess what? The tree planted for the bug you report will have your name on it. You will be emailed a picture of your tree and the location it is planted, in case you want to visit it.

This is a nice, environmentally friendly way to celebrate their 5th anniversary. So what do you say? Go find a bug and adopt a tree.

The release of Kentico (news, site) CMS v4.1 sees a number of upgrades to the Czech ASP.NET-based Web CMS that go beyond the usual bug fixes associated with a one point step-up.

Principal amongst those are an upgraded search engine, enhanced multilingual features and a new interface that enables the easy upload and manipulation of images.

If we don’t sound excited -- or even surprised -- well, that’s what you get for outlining exactly what you are going to include in your next update five months before you do it. Keeping promises is good though. All that really remains is to see whether Kentico CMS 4.1 has everything promised.

Ah, we knew it wouldn't be long until we heard about another new SharePoint connector. This latest one comes from Kentico (news, site) and is called the Kentico CMS Connector for SharePoint. What's different about this one? It's free.

Kentico (news, site) expands its presence in the market with a new enterprise hosting solution via its new partner, Intermedia. Intermedia is a comms specialist offering email and messaging, which all adds up to a practical and convincing services bundle.

The last little while Kentico (news, site) seems to have been focused on adding social networking capabilities to their Web Content Management System. But apparently that's not the only thing they have been working on.

Yes, it's true, the latest version of Kentico does marry social networking and web content management, but the company has been working on the more technical aspects of its solution.

Today, they announce that Kentico now supports both Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. In fact, versions 4.0 and up will run on these platforms -- good news for those who may be looking at upgrading the backend, but not yet the solutions that run on them.

Martin Hejtmanek, CTO at Kentico Software says, “Making our application compatible with Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 helps us offer our customers compelling benefits, including improved security and reliability features, tools to keep them connected to data stored on the Web and sophisticated management feature".

While we bask in the enjoyment that Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 might bring us, we also sit back and patiently wait to see if all the new changes expected for version 4.1, slated for August, will also behave on these platforms.

Kentico (news site), a Czech vendor of web content management solutions built on ASP.NET, has just announced details of its 4.1 version, scheduled for release next August.

Founder and CEO Petr Palas, on Kentico’s blog, said this latest version carries a full text search engine based on Lucene.NET as well as improvements on the current engine based on SQL queries.

Kentico Software, a Czech Web CMS vendor, released a new version of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The 4.0 version, out of beta announced in December of last year, brings to the table Web content management packaged with social networking.
 
The majority of new Kentico CMS 4.0 features are revolving around the oh-so-popular social networking, online communities and Web 2.0 technologies.

Kentico has been hard at work on the latest edition of their Web CMS. This new edition, still in beta, was recently demoed at the Gilbane Conference in Boston.

What's so special about the new version? It will include social networking features and functionality to enable businesses to build online communities and social networking sites.

The Social Networking Edition will be available with version 4 of the Kentico Web CMS. This new version is now said to be a complete solution offering content management, social networking and e-commerce in a neat little package.

Features of the Social Networking Edition are fairly standard for this type of solution. They include blogs, forums, polls, user-contributed content (wiki), groups, friends, message boards, content rating and improved membership management.

The solution handily comes with a Starter Community Site all ready to implement.

Kentico is joining the masses of content management providers offering an integrated solution of content management and social networking. This was to be expected. There's not much information on the new Social Networking Edition on their website yet, but you can learn more about their .Net-based Web CMS, including the free version available. You can also try out a Beta of Version 4.

The official release is expected before the end of the year -- but time is running out.

Kentico, the ASP.Net-based Web CMS out of Europe is expanding. Providing a strong CMS that offers structured content management, Kentico is thriving in this global economic situation plaguing much more than just the U.S. and Europe.

Kentico Software, a Web CMS vendor, announced at Microsoft Professional Developer Conference 2008 (PDC2008) that they have integrated Silverlight 2.0 and Windows Live ID support into Kentico CMS.

Kentico CMS, a Web CMS developed for ASP.NET, now enables Web site developers to easily integrate Microsoft Silverlight 2.0 content into their sites, which ultimately results in more interactive Web sites. Granted, Silverlight lacks the adoption rate to have that much of an impact, but its support is likely very welcomed amongst developers who utilize this technology.

Also new for Kentico CMS is the support for Windows Live ID user authentication — Visitors to Kentico CMS-based Web sites can sign in with an existing Windows Live ID account, without requiring to create a new account.

While Silverlight 2.0 lacks adoption, plenty of users likely have Windows Live IDs, and this might end up being far more useful to the Kentico CMS, at least in a short-term outlook.

The Kentico team is currently showing off both technologies integrated into Kentico CMS at PDC2008. Visit Kentico’s Web site for more information about their products and services.