Wcm News & Articles

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.

The CODiE Awards are on our radar again for 2009 and the finalist announcements are expecting to be flooding the internet wires. In this case, web content management vendor Clickability has made the list of finalist again for the Content Management category.

2009 is bringing big things to eZ Systems, the content management solution provider. Not only are they turning 10 this year, they are hosting the 7th annual eZ Conference and the annual eZ Awards which will be partially geared towards celebrating ten years in the WCM world.

Can't get enough information on SharePoint? Web Content Management? A little in the dark about DAM? Are you interested in learning? AIIM and CMS Watch have announced a new series of technology-based education programs covering topics such as web content management, SharePoint, eDiscovery and digital asset management.

After perhaps working more diligently than ever before, Emagine follows up on their August 2008 release with the spankin’ new emagiC CMS.Net v8.0.

The new version of their content management system includes, as usual, a ton of new features. This time around, functionality flirts with the likes of Google, language, and document and image capabilities, among others.

In its fourth year, the J. Boye Conference is coming to the U.S. To be held in Philly this May, the conference promises to be a notable event for those interested in web strategy and development, e-government, technology standards, SharePoint, Enterprise 2.0, Web marketing, Web 2.0, Web CMS, enterprise search, etc.

As of now, there are about 20 confirmed speakers from around the world scheduled to make their appearances at J. Boye Conferences: Philadelphia 2009.

And there’s a great opportunity to contribute to this exciting conference by submitting a practitioner case study for the Web Content Management track. The conference is also looking for submissions from practitioners in the following areas:

• Strategy & Governance
• Intranet
• MOSS
• User Experience
• e-Health

The organizer, Janus Boye, is looking to for “honest presentations from practitioners” who can share lessons learned and discuss their challenges. If you’re interested in participating, you can contact Boye directly.

To get more information and to register, visit the conference's web site. Super early bird discount is available until January 31. CMSWire readers get a special discount: 15% off the regular price with discount code cmswphilly.

Our friends at CMS Watch recently announced their take on trends in SaaS Web Content Management for 2009. We've been contemplating about the future of SaaS WCM for quite some time ourselves.

Let's take a look-see at CMS Watch's predictions for the year to come and some more analysis of hosted Web CMS solutions.

PaperThin, the producer of ColdFusion-based Web CMS CommonSpot, announced that its 2008 Q2 and Q3 revenues shattered all company records, having grown an average of more than 50% year over year. Furthermore, the company’s average deal size increased by more than 30%.

Now, it’s time to update the product, perhaps. And PaperThin plans on doing so in 2009. The last major product release from PaperThin was in October, 2007, when CommonSpot 5.0 came out.

From East to West… Ektron is now ready to jump into those cowboy boots and embrace the oh-so-desired Bay Area. The Web CMS vendor (quite predictably so) announced the opening of two new offices — in San Francisco, California, and in Austin, Texas.

The addition of the new offices will extend Ektron’s market reach and provide additional support and services critical to the company’s expanding customer base and partner channel.

Ektron reports increasing demand for its products and services over the past 5 years. It also shows the revenue growth rate of over 400%.

During the past two years, due to the consistent increase in sales and ongoing development of the company’s partner channel, Ektron grew staff levels to approximately 200 employees and opened offices in Toronto, Canada, Sydney, Australia and the U.K.

The new San Francisco office will serve as a services and training facility. The Austin office will provide additional sales and services resources.

Coming on the heels of the September announcement of Ektron CMS400.NET v7.6 and Ektron’s new deployment options, Ektron is expanding big time. No wonder — it’s cheap, flexible, gets accolades every now and then and demos well.

Emagine has been working hard. Following the v6 release at the beginning of this year, here is the new and shiny v7 of emagiC CMS.Net several months later.

Emagine continues to build on its very attractive .NET framework, offering a WCM tool for web sites, intranets, extranets and portal sites. In addition to about twenty bug fixes — no new release comes without them — there are also some new features.

Content management terminology changes with time. The times of the Micro CMS may soon be gone, as now it appears it is the era of the “simple CMS,” — at least as positioned by Bizy, Inc. They have announced the distribution of their “simple CMS” product Bizyweb. Were they joking?

If you were under the impression that the WCM market was overpopulated, think again. There’s yet another addition to the happy WCM family – a little baby named Edicy. Fraktal, a start-up software company based in Tartu, Estonia, is behind the new CMS tool.

We’ve been watching Edicy for more than a couple of weeks now trying to figure out where it is going. We still are waiting, but thought we’d share what we know so far.

Known as one of the more knowledgeable people on content management, he spends a great deal of his time traveling the globe teaching us about the trials and tribulations of content management and related technologies.

He’s Tony Byrne of CMS Watch and he’s decided to bring his extensive knowledge to the world of online education.

While Vignette is struggling with its financial performance, Interwoven’s Q2 2008 results soar. Interwoven reported total revenues of US$ 63.2 million for the second quarter of 2008, an increase of 16% from the same time period last year. License revenue is up 11% totaling US$ 23.4 million versus Q2 2007. Support and professional services revenue increased 18%. Net profit soared 78% from Q2 2007 to Q2 2008.

Vignette is not having a good year. The company released its Q2 2008 financial results, and they’re not pretty. The revenue is down (again), GAAP net loss is substantial, non-GAAP net income is 73.5% down compared to the same period last year. The company says that sales and marketing efforts need improvement. But is it really so?