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What I Mean to Say: A Practitioner Perspective on AI, Semantics, and Content Evolution

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<a href="https://ghost.org/" target="_blank">Ghost</a> has released some improvements which will help make tag management a tidier experience.
Recently crowned the <a href="/2014-most-promising-cms/" target="_blank">2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner for Most Promising CMS</a>, Ghost is proving to be an exciting blogging platform, which now releases mini-updates like these on a very regular basis.
Ghost users can now edit and delete their tags in Ghost.  Additionally Ghost users can personalise tag archives by adding cover images and meta data. This allows existing tags to be tidied up a little, both in terms of spelling, quantity and categorization.
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As usual, Ghost Pro users will find this feature enabled automatically, while those self-hosting will need to <a href="https://ghost.org/download/?__hstc=10303082.e349d0ad7a5666a28a9feace53e2dd1f.1416486488818.1422275546673.1422296414441.10&amp;__hssc=10303082.2.1422296414441&amp;__hsfp=3780233567" target="_blank">update to Ghost version 0.5.8</a>.
For more information on Ghost's new tagging system (including a handy GIF showing this new enhancement in action), <a href="http://blog.ghost.org/tag-management/" target="_blank">check out Ghost's official blog announcement</a>.
To find out more about Ghost, <a href="https://ghost.org/" target="_blank">visit their website</a>.

Ghost Tidies Up Tag Management

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Founded back in 2001, <a href="http://www.crownpeak.com/" target="_blank">CrownPeak</a> is now a widely respected enterprise CMS solution.
CrownPeak isn't just popular though, it's also an award winner. After securing its place as a <a href="http://www.crownpeak.com/Press/CrownPeak/20141023-CrownPeak-Named-a-Visionary-by-Gartner-for-Web-Content-Management.aspx" target="_blank">“Visionary” in 2014 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management (WCM) by Gartner, Inc</a>., CrownPeak recently went on to become the <a href="/2014-critics-choice-award-winner-best-cloud-cms-for-enterprise/" target="_blank">2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner for Best Cloud CMS For Enterprise</a>.
I recently had the pleasure of asking CrownPeak's CEO Jim Howard a few questions about the history of CrownPeak, some of the platform newest features, and where he sees the industry heading in 2015 and beyond.
<h2>About Jim Howard</h2>
Jim is focused on advancing CrownPeak's leadership in the cloud services marketplace. Under Jim’s leadership since its founding in 2001, CrownPeak has become the enterprise's only open cloud service for web experience management. Among the companies in the CrownPeak client roster today are Prudential, Diageo, Skype, MetLife, BNY/Mellon, Intuit, Oppenheimer, Zoetis and Eli Lilly.
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CrownPeak has been named as one of the 100 most influential companies in Online Content by eContent Magazine, named as a “cool vendor” and a “visionary” by Gartner, and was chosen as an
SIIA Codie Award finalist for Best Content Management Solution three years in a row.
Jim’s professional background combines extensive startup experience with years of software development and professional services delivery and management. He has spent the past eighteen years working with web content management, analytics and search technologies. Jim previously held senior executive positions in professional services management, sales, and operational management with companies such as USWeb, MarchFIRST, and successful startup, W3-design. Jim holds a degree in Chemistry from the University of Delaware.
<h2>The Interview</h2>
<h3>You founded CrownPeak in 2001 alongside Carl Sutter, the current Chief Product Officer. What were your aims at the start of this journey?</h3>
Carl and I came from one of the big internet consulting firms together. We had been installing and integrating on-premise Web Content Management packages for the previous few years. We both believed that the leading products in the WCM market at the time were simply too hard to get live and too hard to manage. These products essentially became bottlenecks to effective, agile digital marketing. We founded CrownPeak to offer a very cost-effective and results-focused set of WCM tools and services for the managers of websites – only delivered as a service, not installed. This was before the term Software-as-a-Service was even defined, although other startups like Salesforce were helping us to prove the delivery model.
CrownPeak became the first “CMS as a service” to target small to medium-sized businesses. We had to achieve the dual goal of highly efficient management for us and very cost-effective delivery for the customer.
Our engineers worked hard in those early years to build a single unified platform that separated the presentation layer for users on the front-end from all the infrastructure we managed for them on the back-end. That’s something we all take for granted today. From the beginning CrownPeak has been “true SaaS”, and we still offer the market’s only multi-tenant architecture. We’re also the first and only “low-code” development platform in the sector.
<h3>Have those aims changed at all?</h3>
Or, perhaps more appropriately, what additional aims have you adopted since co-founding CrownPeak, perhaps in response to evolutions within the industry?
We have evolved our capabilities a great deal over time, becoming a fully cloud-based solution that manages the entire digital customer experience across web, mobile, social. The platform now provides data-driven personalization, testing and targeting, digital asset management, search, behavioral analytics, and more than 60 out-of-the-box integrations with best of breed data and content sources.
We think we’re the most open and interoperable enterprise WCM on the planet! We have also evolved the company's focus. In 2010 we made a major shift to focus on the large enterprise customer because our platform offers scale and performance advantages to global companies with very complex web portfolios. One of the great advantages of our platform is the ability for many different project teams to implement projects simultaneously, sharing standard workflows, templates, designs, assets, integrations, content and data.
This ability to centralize the architecture but decentralize creation of great digital experiences is game changing for large distributed enterprises – particularly in highly regulated industries like healthcare and insurance where security and compliance are paramount.
<h3>Recently, you guys released a new Digital Asset Management Solution. Tell us a little bit about that.</h3>
We dedicate about a third of our product roadmap to feedback from customers, and back in 2013 they ranked Digital Asset Management as their top request. Because we are a cloud solution, when we roll out a new capability it’s available to every customer immediately. The DAM offering has met with huge success: we've seen almost 100% adoption.
This is a big deal because many DAM products go unused for web and mobile content management because they are “bolt-on” additions that don’t fully integrate.
This requires extra steps for designers and content authors when manipulating, deploying and managing digital media files. CrownPeak DAM is an integral part of our platform which means that assets can be curated, standardized and policed to design and launch consistently branded experiences on a global basis. We created a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlzLAmRXehg" target="_blank">3-minute video</a> recently that describes how it works.
<h3>CrownPeak boasts a heavy focus on making digital marketing easier for enterprises. Of course, the marketing vs IT balancing act has been the subject of debate for a long, long while now. How does CrownPeak respond to this very real issue?</h3>
I'm really glad you asked this because I think that debate is missing the point. Over the last decade, IT has faced their hardest challenge ever: to provide a direct web and mobile interface to every system they support for every line-of-business… and to do it securely. During this same period of incredible change, IT has also had to enable digital marketing, a relative newcomer to the world of technology automation.
There is no debate that IT must support marketing, and that it's been a challenge. We like to think that the CrownPeak brand is about giving greater freedomto both sides. For enterprise marketers, they become more self-reliant and free to launch great digital experiences faster. Their agencies receive greater creative freedom, flexibility and agility when designing those experiences. And technical folks, they are freed from complex integration problems and a flood of marketing support tickets!
However, there are two much more interesting debates that I end up writing a lot about <a href="http://www.crownpeak.com/Blog/Index.aspx" target="_blank">on my blog</a>. First, what is the role of marketing today? Second, how is IT tackling the challenge of developing a unified approach to customer experience management? In regard to these more relevant questions, we are focused on enabling digital marketing teams and other teams managing customer experiences to be highly successful and freed from the chores of software development.
We are also focused on enabling IT with a platform to deliver on their much broader customer experience management mandate. CrownPeak allows the entire organization to take advantage of the content, designs and integrations created by marketing across every other digital customer touchpoint. This means customer service and support – the sum total of digital experiences that inform greater customer loyalty and lifetime value.
<h3>2014 was a good year for CrownPeak, recognition wise. As many of our readers will know, you were named the winner of the 2014 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Cloud CMS For Enterprise.</h3>
<h3>Plus, Gartner recognized CrownPeak as a “Visionary” on its 2014 Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management, lauding the platform’s commitment to cloud delivery. Two impressive achievements.</h3>
Why do you think CrownPeak was so successful in these two instances?
We have gained customers and thus recognition because we have a much better solution to two key business problems. We allow global companies to standardize on a web and mobile platform without creating a bottleneck.
Second, we empower large enterprises to take advantage of the great content, design and integration work they have done with marketing and sales experiences and easily extend that work across all other lines-of-business. CrownPeak easily integrates with whatever marketing technology our customer is already using. Our platform has proven the scale and performance that enterprises expect. Here in the middle of our second decade, I’m very optimistic about what we’ve built and where we are headed.
<h3>With that being said, can you tell us anything about what 2015 has in store for CrownPeak clients?</h3>
CrownPeak is the enterprise’s only open cloud platform for managing web experiences, and remains a fiercely independent one at that! Looking out across other software sectors, cloud services have largely won the day because they are open, agile, more architecturally flexible, and provide significant economic advantages.
In 2015, CrownPeak customers will see more interoperability via a whole range of native content and data integrations with other cloud service providers. Our customers will gain added agility via a big push to make the platform even faster and simpler to implement. And our customers will gain further flexibility as we help them to manage the “front-end” of web applications built on the major stack providers like IBM and Force.com.
<h3>And finally, if you had just three short sentences to sum up why an enterprising company should choose CrownPeak over any other solution, what would they be?</h3>
CrownPeak is not for every customer out there.  We have built this platform for large, global organizations managing many web/mobile sites and looking to offer a unified digital customer experience.  So with that as the starting point:
First, CrownPeak provides the best solution ever built for global mult-site management because our open cloud platform eliminates the production bottleneck.
Second, due to our low-code development approach combined with our elastic computing architecture,  it's possible to centrally control the platform but decentralize creation of solutions.  In other words, every brand, market or functional group around the world can develop their solution on the central platform – taking advantage of all content, assets, designs, models and integrations – without risking compliance, security or performance.
Third, the platform can be used as a universal customer experience platform, where solutions created on the platform can be “front-ends” for portals, e-commerce, line-of-business applications, mobile app management, or secure document management repositories. Was that three sentences or four? Well anyway, you get the point! Thanks for asking.
<h3>Thank you for your time, Mr. Howard!</h3>
For more information on CrownPeak, <a href="http://www.crownpeak.com/" target="_blank">visit their website</a>.
Also, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/crownpeak/" target="_blank">CrownPeak via our CMS Directory</a>.

Interview With Jim Howard, CEO of CrownPeak

Today I'm going to announce the winner of the Critics' Choice Award for Best Small to Midsize Business .NET CMS.
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When it comes to the small to midsize market, one CMS stands out from the rest of the crowd in both popularity and capability. This was an easy pick for the judges this year. The winner of the 2014 award for Best SMB .NET CMS is…
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Congratulations to the team at DNN Corporation on their win. Check them out in our directory here: <a href="/products/dnn-evoq-content/">DNN Evoq Content</a>

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best Small to Midsize Business .NET CMS

<a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/" target="_blank">Nuxeo Platform Fast Track 7.1</a> has been released, bringing about new features such as enhanced computed picture views and workflow graphs.
Nuxeo, an open-source content management system used mainly by architects and building developers to build, deploy, and run content-centric business applications, has coincidentally just been announced as the <a href="/2014-critics-choice-award-winner-best-open-source-java-cms/" target="_blank">2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner for Best Open Source JAVA CMS</a>.
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<h2>Foundations For Major Innovations Laid</h2>
Nuxeo Platform Fast Track 7.1 makes it simple to declare new metadata read / write processors and metadata document property mappings. It provides the features needed for using this mapping in custom automation chains context.
With the Nuxeo Platform FT 7.1, developers can easily configure metadata extraction and edits on metadata embedded files, such as:
<ul>
<li>Office, PDF metadata</li>
<li>EXIF, IPTC, XMP metadata</li>
<li>Media information (especially on video, pictures, and sound)</li>
</ul>
Furthermore, Nuxeo now offers the ability to easily declare and configure new views using Automation Chains. This enables developers to offer end users a selection of file sizes that can easily be downloaded from the summary tab.
Nuxeo Platform Fast Track 7.1 also introduces an upgraded visual editor for workflow processes. The enhancements include a grid-based system, better auto-layout engine, and snappy grid underlying the designer. It also allows workflow designers position elements more easily.
Regarding the release, Eric Barroca, Nuxeo CEO, made these comments:
<blockquote>“We are pleased to release our first Fast Track of 2015 and the first of the 7.x series. This release includes enhancements to the platform to further support developers as they efficiently build and manage their applications. We are also laying the foundation for major innovations in upcoming Fast Track releases.”</blockquote>
To learn more about Nuxeo Platform Fast Track 7.1, <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/media-center/nuxeo-sets-stage-2015-fast-track-7-1/" target="_blank">check out the official announcement</a>.
Also, don't forget to explore more of <a href="/products/nuxeo/" target="_blank">Nuxeo via our CMS Directory</a>.

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Today, I'm going to announce the winner of the 2014 Critics Choice CMS Award for Best JAVA CMS for Small to Midsize Business CMS.
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The importance of content management systems to business is obvious, they are a critical piece of the infrastructure and part of what holds things together. Choosing the one that should be crowned as best of the best is a challenging task but the judges have made their decision.
The winner for this year is Jahia Digital Factory.
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Congratulations to the team at Jahia on their win. Learn more about them in our directory here: <a href="/products/jahia/"> Jahia Digital Factory </a>

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best JAVA CMS for Small to Midsize Business

Today, I'm going to announce the winner of the 2014 Critics Choice CMS Award for Best PHP CMS for Small to Midsize Business.
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After much deliberation, the judges have chosen the winner of this year should be none other than…
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Flexibility, simplicity, control. You’ve never seen them come together in a CMS like this before. At last, you can deliver a content management experience that is precisely tailored to meet the site’s unique content needs, with a workflow that is incredibly simple and straightforward, all while maintaining complete control over your markup and styles.
Congratulations to the team at Craft CMS on their win. Check them out in our CMS directory here: <a href="/products/craft-cms/">Craft CMS</a>.

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best PHP CMS for Small to Midsize Business

Today, I'm going to announce the winner of the 2014 Critics Choice CMS Award for Best Open Source .NET CMS.
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After much deliberation, the judges have chosen to give this year's award to the popular open-source .NET CMS…
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Umbraco is a fully-featured open source content management system with the flexibility to run anything from small campaign or brochure sites right through to complex applications for Fortune 500's and some of the largest media sites in the world….Oh, and did we mention that it's free?
Congratulations to the team at Umbraco on their win. To learn more, visit them in our CMS directory here: <a href="/products/umbraco/">Umbraco</a>

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best Open Source NET CMS

Today, I'm going to announce the winner of the 2014 Critics Choice CMS Award for Best Open Source JAVA CMS.
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The winner this year is a CMS that offers a wide range of features and is a powerful presence in the marketplace. The judges have chosen.
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Nuxeo is an open-source content management system platform used by architects and developers to build, deploy, and run content-centric business applications. Nuxeo's Enterprise Content Management (ECM) technology allows for document management, case management, digital asset management, and other applications. The Nuxeo Platform offers modularity, a plug-in model and packaging capabilities.
Congratulations to Nuxeo on their win. Check them out in our CMS directory here: <a href="/products/nuxeo/">Nuxeo</a>.

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best Open Source JAVA CMS

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Today, we're going to announce the winner of the 2014 Critics' Choice CMS Award for Best Open Source PHP CMS.
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The winner this year will not be a surprise to anyone as it's the very CMS that has been taking over the world of content management of late. We would be remiss to not hand this award to the incredibly popular.
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Congratulations to the development team at WordPress on their win. Check them out in our CMS directory here: <a href="/products/wordpress/">WordPress</a>.

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best Open Source PHP CMS

Today, I'm going to announce the winner of the 2014 Critics' Choice CMS Award for Best Free .NET CMS.
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This year was a tough one when it came to selecting the best of the best in this category but after some tough decision making, the judges came to the decision that the CMS most deserving of this award this year is..
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Congratulations to the team at Composite C1 on their win. Check them out in our directory here: <a href="/products/composite-c1/">Composite C1</a>.

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best Free .NET CMS

Today, I am announcing the winner of the 2014 Critics' Choice Award for Best Free PHP CMS.
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The judges deliberated on a large number of content management systems before making their decision but in the end, the decision was unanimous.
The winner for this year is none other than…
<a href="http://www.processwire.com"><img style="max-width:397px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire_logo.png" /></a>
Congratulations to the team at Processwire on their win. It's well deserved.
Check out <a href="/products/processwire/">Processwire</a> in our directory.

2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner - Best Free PHP CMS

LightCMS has made life a little easier for its Partner Platform users, with a brand new client billing system.
With LightCMS, you can build blogs, online stores and more in a matter of minutes, <a href="https://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/website_builders/reviews/lightcms/" target="_blank">as demonstrated on Website Builders Critic</a>. LightCMS has continued to improve itself over the last year, and was recently voted the <a href="/the-winner-of-the-2014-peoples-choice-cms-award-for-best-cloud-cms-for-smb/" target="_blank">People's Choice for Best Cloud CMS for SMB</a>.
Named, “Client Billing 2.0”, LightCMS' new billing feature will become available from February 3rd 2015.
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<h2>Smoother, Faster &amp; More Profitable Billing</h2>
With their “old” client billing system, LightCMS billed users for their monthly base charges and also billed users' clients for their monthly charges. Users then had to request that money from LightCMS, after the client had paid. A cumbersome system, to say the least.
Client Billing 2.0, though, does away with this dated billing method.
Here are the changes Client Billing 2.0 will bring:
<ul>
<li>The customer invoice has your company information, and your business is listed on your client’s credit card charge.</li>
<li>The processing fees are less.</li>
<li>Billing is initiated on your behalf by LightCMS.</li>
<li>There is no more “Money Pile”. Your money is paid directly to you by Stripe.</li>
<li>LightCMS bills you only for your monthly base charges.</li>
</ul>
To find out more about LightCMS' Client Billing 2.0, check out the official blog announcement.
Also, you can discover more about LightCMS via our CMS Directory.

LightCMS Revamps Client Billing

<a href="https://www.joomla.com/" target="_blank">Joomla</a>, one of the world's most popular content management systems, has opened its digital doors wider than ever before by offering up free, hosted website solutions.
Make no mistake, this is big news from one of the biggest players in the CMS world. Joomla is an open-source, award-winning platform, powering millions of websites and online applications across the world.
Now, thanks to a partnership with hosting company Siteground, anybody can sign up for a free Joomla website via <a href="https://www.joomla.com/" target="_blank">Joomla.com</a>.
<h2>Joomla In Just A Few Clicks</h2>
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To make Joomla.com removes hosting fees, lengthy installations and some expandability options. The result is that a Joomla website is now just a few clicks away from the average person and business. Here are the feature highlights:
<ul>
<li>Hosting for all Joomla.com websites is totally free.</li>
<li>Free site name at the joomla.com subdomain (for example: mywebsite.joomla.com).</li>
<li>Comes pre-installed with additional extensions, templates, and all available languages.</li>
<li>Automatic updates.</li>
</ul>
Joomla.com doesn't offer everything that <a href="https://www.joomla.org" target="_blank">self-hosted Joomla</a> users can get, though.
As of right now, Joomla.com includes a set of pre-selected templates and several very useful pre-installed extensions like Google analytics, Google maps integration, Disqus powered comments and social media sharing options. However, Joomla.com wouldn't be suitable for a user looking to build an advanced website with custom code and a wider choice of templates and extensions. Then again, that's what Joomla.org is for.
Having said that, Joomla has claimed that websites started at Joomla.com can easily be developed later into full-fledged self-hosted Joomla projects without any limitations on extendability.
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The President of Open Source Matters Inc. (which provides legal and financial support to the Joomla project), Sarah Watz, made these comments upon the release of Joomla.com:
<blockquote>“I’m very excited because the new service at joomla.com makes Joomla! CMS a more accessible option than ever.”</blockquote>
I take my hat off to Joomla, for this step towards greater accessibility is precisely <a href="/cms-in-2015-what-we-want-to-see/" target="_blank">what I called for from the world of CMS in 2015</a>.
For more information on this release, <a href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/general-news/5580-joomla-offers-free-hosted-website-solution-on-joomla-com-in-partnership-with-siteground.html" target="_blank">check out the Joomla announcement</a>. To get your free Joomla website, head over to <a href="https://www.joomla.com/" target="_blank">Joomla.com</a>.
Also, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/joomla/" target="_blank">Joomla via our CMS Directory</a>.

Joomla Now Offers Free Hosted Websites via Joomla.com

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