Wcm News & Articles

I've covered the Forrester Wave for Web Content Management, looked at the Leaders and the Strong Performers and talked about the WCM market's evolution overall. This last piece looks at the contenders and asks a question that I expect many might be asking.

Enterprise Web Content Management provider pTools has released an update for its System6 SaaS Web CMS product which aims to improve user analytics and personalized content.

Independent analysts firm Ars Logica has released a new Compass Guide on the eZ Publish WCM platform from eZ Systems, putting the newest version 5 nearly on par with segment leaders Adobe CQ and SDL Tridion.

Cloud services provider Acquia has commissioned a Forrester report on open source WCM, and while the results are not overwhelming, it does show more enterprise companies are employing open source systems.

German company e-Spirit, the provider of the FirstSpirit CMS, is on its way up. In the last year, the company has opened an office in the U.S, been named to the Gartner Web CMS Magic Quadrant (niche level) and now released a major new update called FirstSpirit 5.0. 

Webnodes, a .NET based Web CMS platform, has released version four of its semantic based CMS, and the system now ships with Mailgun and SendGrid email providers and a new video provider setup.

EPiServer, a provider of web content management (WCM) and engagement products, has announced the availability of a new add-on for their WCM platform. The new component, Social Reach, provides a single interface for users to personalize and communicate content across multiple social networks.

It’s that time of year again when techies, and lots of marketers and journalists, descend on Austin, Texas, for one of the largest annual technical conferences, South by Southwest Interactive (SXSWi). SXSWi will be taking place Friday, March 9 through Tuesday, March 13. The conference is massive in every way -- total number of attendees, parties, sessions, technology and, of course, buzz. In addition to behemoths such as Microsoft, IBM and Google, masses of fledgling companies and individual entrepreneurs arrive hoping to be “Southby’s” next Twitter or Foursquare. Here are a few things to watch for in the SXSWi 2012 whirlwind.

Whether you’re fully immersed within a world of content management or you’re just getting acquainted with digital marketing across multiple platforms, Gilbane Boston 2011 may be worth the price of admission.

This week PaperThin (news, site) announced the release of CommonSpot CloudTM, a SaaS version of its Web content management system. The new platform was designed to enable marketers to create and deploy Web experiences with a quickness independent of IT. 

After months of squabbling between Google and Microsoft over Office 365 and Google Docs, things finally came to a head today with the official, general release of Office 365 by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in New York.

Backbase (news, site), a provider of bank portal software, has improved integration with Web Content Management (WCM) platforms with its latest release, Backbase CMS 5.0.

The Memorial Day holiday here in the States stretched into a week for the DAM Lowdown, but have no fear. We are back with: Two News Items Apiece for DAM Lowdown Regulars celum and KIT Digital, an Update to the DAM Vendor Tracking Spreadsheet, an Introduction to XMP, the Lines Between WCM and DAM Continue to Blur and Quick Hits.

CMSWire community contributors work in the trenches of information management, enterprise collaboration and web engagement. In this weekly aggregation we highlight a few of the most impactful community articles.

Systems Alliance (news, site), maker of SiteExecutive (news, site), has recently announced the release of Enhancement Pack 1 (EP1), which adds a social dimension to SiteExecutive 2011. The update should provide integration with Twitter and Facebook, and provides enhancements in the Blog, Calendar, Profile Directory and other core CMS applications.