Web Cms News & Articles

From the Gilbane Conference in Boston Wednesday, Web content management and marketing vendor Percussion has announced a partnership with DivvyHQ, a vendor of a spreadsheet-free editorial calendar applications.

There are a few enhancements to the open source web content management platform, DotNetNuke, with the release of version 7 Wednesday. A little something something for both developers and editors alike.  

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Online sales on “Cyber Monday” -- the Monday after Thanksgiving -- were up 30% this year from Cyber Monday 2011, making it the most successful day of mobile shopping in history, according to analysis from IBM. Interestingly, mobile commerce drove much of the increase while social commerce actually decreased from last year.

In today’s business marketplace, web content is just as often the province of non-technical departments, such as marketing or sales, as it is under the jurisdiction of IT. Yet Web CMS solutions are still often aimed at users who would probably be thrilled at the label of “tech geeks.”

London-based Decibel Technology is launching an Open Application Programming Interface (API) for its enterprise web content management system, that, according to the company, allows its proprietary CMS to be customized in ways that offer many benefits beyond open source.

As the US slowly shakes off the bed heads after Thanksgiving weekend, Norwegian Web content management vendor eZ has just announced the release of a major upgrade to its platform in the shape of v5, or ‘Kilimanjaro’, which it says take a leap into customer experience management. 

Challenges including empowered buyers, proliferating engagement channels, tightening resources and an increasing responsibility to drive revenue are all making the job of today’s marketer more difficult and complex. However, as detailed in a keynote presentation entitled “Getting from Good to Great Marketing” at the recent Marketing Nation virtual conference, these challenges actually give marketers an opportunity to obtain more influence and control in the business than ever before.

Older versions of the Joomla! open source CMS are susceptible to takeover hacking attempts, according to a three month study by website security service Incapsula. Incapsula has now released an integrated Joomla! module to stop these dangerous attacks on one of the most popular open source Web CMSs in the world.

Norwegian CMS provider Webnodes AS is releasing a standalone solution called Webnodes Semantic Integration Server. The server is comprised of a SPARQL endpoint and an SDShare protocol-based integration server.

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As college students around the country look forward to going home for Thanksgiving break and enjoying free laundry and home cooking, higher education Web CMS provider OmniUpdate is focusing squarely on school with the release of OUCampus version 9.17. 

Acquia is expanding globally in its support of the open-source web content platform, Drupal. The Burlington, Massachusetts-based company said the expansion means it is the first Drupal hosting provider offering high-performance hosting on four continents -- Europe, North America, Asia and Australia.

Most web publishers of any significant size use some type of third-party technology solution that makes it easy for consumers to share their content with other Internet users. However, according to Rebecca Watson, VP of Business Development for social advertising platform provider RadiumOne, vendors of these solutions often perform some other sharing they don’t tell publishers about.

The US may be its home, but Jive Software has a hankering to get international -- and local.