Web Cms News & Articles

Perhaps the biggest news at DrupalCon was a four-way merger of leading European Drupal shops to form Wunderkraut. NodeOne, Krimson, Mearra and Wunderkraut joined forces under the Wunderkraut name to create an international team of Drupal service providers.

For those in the Drupal community, DrupalCon is simply DrupalCon. For the rest of you: DrupalCon is a bi-annual Drupal conference put on by the Drupal Association. It’s a world-class tech conference, it is THE place for Drupal news and it’s happening this week in Munich, Germany. 

What was an unknown field all of six years ago has developed at a rapid pace in the last year, created in part by demand from marketers for faster, more efficient methods of tracking marketing campaigns and more accurate analytics. Tag Management Systems is the focus of a recent Forrester report exploring how the field is growing to meet these demands.

Are you ready for SharePoint 2013?

In this third installation of my four part series giving a 35,000-foot overview of some of the major changes expected in SharePoint 2013, we will be looking at some of the new features that will specifically affect SharePoint designers.

Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can view the full calendar here.)

Google Apps has made a big splash in the enterprise market, with businesses moving their apps to the web. But even as emails, calendars, IM and online storage have increasingly gone cloud-bound, the service has been limited by the languages and domains supported. In its latest update, Google Apps has opened its domain registration to country-based top-level domains (ccTLD), and is offering support for new Arabic input tools.

We all know our mobile devices are not only for making calls, sending text and listening music anymore. It goes far beyond that and they have become part of our everyday life in recent years -- so much so that we like to do almost all our personal and business transactions using some form of handheld devices.

Businesses treat handheld devices as one of the primary channels today to create a differentiator, improve customer satisfaction and more importantly engage customers toward its brand. Enterprises like to build simple, intuitive, innovative business applications and knowledge worker tools for handheld devices so that employees enjoy maximum flexibility with increased productivity.

At the end of the day, it's all about ease of use, engaging users, flexibility, productivity and accessing the right information anytime, anywhere. This is one of the most disruptive innovations that has happened in recent years. With the pace it is moving and the explosion we have seen already, industry is going to see a phenomenal growth of usage of handheld devices like smartphones, tablets across the globe. Businesses definitely like to take this as an opportunity to be part of this transformation journey for good reasons.

Rackspace has rebranded its Critical Sites service to Critical Application Services. With the rebranding it has extended the service to the open cloud and to its Adobe CQ web content management customers.

With each new release of SharePoint I become like a kid in a candy shop, ready to find all the new and exciting goodies that have been made available. SharePoint 2013 has been no exception.

FusionLeaf, the brainchild of developer Joseph Spurrier, is now open to the public, and the open source CMS can build fully featured websites complete with analytics, rich text editing and all the tools we expect from a modern Web CMS.

Sitecore has taken a large minority investment in Komfo, a Denmark-based social media marketing platform provider and member of Facebook’s Preferred Marketing Developer Program. The Komfo platform is designed to allow marketers to create and manage Facebook fan page conversations without needing additional resources.

Our industry event planner gives you the heads-up on what key industry events are coming around the corner. If we've missed something, don’t hesitate to add your event to the list. (You can view the full calendar here.)

Acquia has just announced that it is buying content monitoring vendor Mollom. With Mollom, Acquia says it will be able to build the first social content moderation platform that will ensure the quality of content that appears on client’s websites.

Web engagement/interactive technology vendor Bridgeline Digital is releasing a new website management suite aimed specifically at large franchise networks and multiple dealer organizations. Called iAPPS ds (distributed subscription), the suite is intended to provide franchisees and dealers with a centralized digital marketing structure.

InsideSales.com, a provider of a Saas-based sales force automation platform, has completed a round of funding totaling US$ 4 million. The company says it will put the money toward accelerating growth into enterprise markets and developing predictive analytics capabilities.