Sitecore News & Articles

After what seemed like much deliberation and preparation, EPiServer (news, site) has finally announced its official U.S. presence.

There is a good chance that competitive temperature is going to rise in the North American web content management market.
 

DotNetNuke (news, site), an open source Microsoft.Net web content management provider, offers both a community and professional version of their solution. The professional version contains some features and functionality not available in the community version, features designed for the enterprise.

The latest version of DotNetNuke Professional hits the streets today. Get the scoop on what's new in the Web CMS.

Here come the Marketeers! Hot on the heels of last week’s launch of SDL Tridion’s (news, site) Unified Online Marketing Suite, Moderandi, an Arizona-based web applications developer, has today launched a new marketing platform called Growth Panel.

Targeting the small-to-medium (SMB) sized business market, this SaaS solution enables marketeers and consultants create plans and manage marketing projects in the cloud.

Moderandi says that this new platform fills a gap in the market that is not being properly serviced, notably for SMBs, who have neither the cash, nor the bandwidth to develop an all-inclusive marketing campaign.

If marketers are finding it difficult at the moment to decide what Web CMS they should be using, then the launch of SDL Tridion’s (news, site) Unified Online Marketing Suite is going to make things that little bit more difficult.

In the past six weeks alone SDL Tridion 2009 and two other marketing suites have entered the market: Sitecore (news, site) and Interwoven (news, site). All three focus on providing solutions that will penetrate customers’ markets where no other solution has gone before.

Star Trek reference’s aside, this is serious business especially considering over 80% of the world’s data is unstructured, coming in the form of social media, blogs, twitter posts, instant messaging, e-mails, documents, videos and rich media.

When you are doing well in the market, it's possible that you could just sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. But while you are sitting there drinking your strawberry daiquiri, the market is likely to be shifting and changes may be required.

Sitecore (news, site) understands this well. According to their VP of Product Marketing, Darren Guarnaccia, web content management has become a commodity, plateauing on functionality and UI. For customers, it has become frustrating trying to decide which Web CMS is the right one, when they all seem the same. So what do you do?

Sitecore's answer is to provide a solution to solve a specific problem. In this case, it's an Online Marketing Suite (OMS).

Maybe it's the Swine Flu, but more people are heading to Canada.

Sitecore (news, site), the leading provider of .NET Web CMS software, has appointed Kerri Jankelow as Regional Director of Canada, a role that she will use to lead new business development efforts and build partner relationships across Canada.

Moving north is a strategic move aimed at capitalizing on the increasing demand for web content management as well as growing Sitecore's presence within the Canadian marketplace.

In addition, the economy has treated Sitecore well, with more than 95% of revenues coming from new license sales. Overall, Sitecore has been profitable in each of the past four years, while maintaining a strong triple digit annual growth rate.

Jankelow comes with a decade of experience in the information lifecycle management industry and was National Sales Manager for Sun Microsystems, responsible for business development of Sun’s storage product line in Canada. Before that, Jankelow held sales positions at Teradata, Dell and IBM.

With a presence in more than 50 countries, Sitecore's Web CMS and portal software continues to help organizations to create compelling website experiences.

Sitecore, the vendor behind the namesake web content management system, has released a survey and identified three trends that, they say, will drive the web content management industry in 2009. These key driving factors took root and were visible in 2008, but according to Sitecore, we will see the trends truly manifest in the current calendar year.

To gather these industry trends, Sitecore queried 83 of their U.S. based customers.

Sitecore has been around for awhile now. And during that time they have established themselves as a quality option for web CMS and intranet portal software. Now they have made the news in a way that even further solidifies their place in the industry.

They won the Web Idol Award at Jboye08 Competition, but that’s not where the good news stops for Sitecore. The Web CMS just received a top review from the Butler Group for it’s extensive functionality and Web 2.0 capabilities.

In the very Danish early evening here at the jboye08 conference your sometimes faithful correspondent was present to witness the ever faithfully entertaining Web Idol competition.

For those unfamiliar with the concept, Web Idol is a semi-serious but mostly humorous event loosely based on the extremely popular (with people we don’t know) American Idol TV show.

The Web Idol version is a bit of a hoot but at the same time provides a line-up of Web CMS vendors with a chance to strut their latest stuff in front of a crowd of leading web practitioners.

Sitecore, a famed .NET Web CMS vendor, announced that its 2008 revenues have grown by over 100% over the prior fiscal. Reportedly, 95% of revenues are coming from new license sales, 4% — from training and less than 1% — from Professional Services.

While this kind of revenue percentage distribution may seem kind of funky to some, knowing Sitecore’s focus on software development and exclusive outsourcing of PS and related implementation activities to its third-party integrators and partners — we are not surprised.

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…

Straker, with its ShadoCMS v8.5 Web CMS, and Across Systems’ Language Server teamed up to deliver a new localization interface, providing an automated process from web content creation to translation management, publishing and handling of dynamic multilingual content.

The partnership promises to deliver savings above 60% for companies that manage large-scale translations of dynamic web sites. Better late than never, as they say. So, welcome to the global content management party!

Following a recent surge in globalization and multi-site management popularity, web CMS provider Sitecore has released Foundry 2.0. The enhanced tool addresses the need of international companies to maintain a consistent global brand while allowing regional affiliates to localize their websites.

Sitecore recently announced the coming version of their flagship web content management system and today the product is officially out the door.

Our technical and editorial teams had an opportunity to test drive the new Sitecore 6 product last week. And with this latest version out of the gates today, we thought it apropos that we share a bit of what we saw.

In a very few words, version 6.0 is a nice corner-rounding release that demonstrates both that the company cares about its customers and that it has a successful process of building client feedback into the product development cycle.