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Not All Heroes Wear Capes. Here's Why CMS Is Your 'Unsung Hero' in 2025

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Content Management vendor Accrisoft has announced the release of Freedom CMS 8.2. Version 8.2 promises several powerful features, including an all-new lead nurturing module , site backup tool enabling simple site copying and migrations, form layouts, global tags and more.
<h2>Lead Nurturing</h2>
The Lead Nurturing module turns your Accrisoft Freedom website into an effective inbound marketing tool that generates leads, provides them with a personalized experience, and tracks them throughout the sales process until they become customers.
This module automatically interacts with leads via email messages, allowing you to scale the lead generation process and focus your sales efforts on high-value prospects.
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<h2 style="text-align:left">Global tags</h2>
The new Global Tagging feature in Accrisoft Freedom takes the categorization of information and makes it global, freeing it from the confines of a single module: It lets you tag items in a variety of modules, then share these tags across modules.
This makes creating lists of related items possible for modules other than the one you’re displaying an item from, which means, for example, that you could tag a blog entry, and, on the sidebar of that blog, show a list of news articles that are on the same topic.
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<h2>Site Backup Tool</h2>
The Site Backup Tool lets you quickly create complete backups of your website, and it keeps them within Freedom where they’re easy to restore. This tool also makes it possible to copy your site onto another Freedom website without any technical expertise. Best of all, the whole thing takes just a couple of minutes.
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<h2>New form layouts</h2>
With version 8.2, Accrisoft Freedom CMS gives you complete control over the output of your forms. This means that you can control exactly what HTML is used for each field. This also means that you can much more easily control the layout of the entire form itself via HTML layouts.
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To learn more about Freedom CMS 8.2, Visit their website: <a href="http://www.accrisoft.com/accrisoft/freedom-cms/">http://www.accrisoft.com/accrisoft/freedom-cms/</a>

Accrisoft Announces Freedom CMS 8.2

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We have been fortunate enough to be first to receive a video preview of the features that will be available in Hannon Hill's upcoming Cascade Server 7.2 release. Yesterday, they released  Cascade Server 7.2 beta for those interested in testing.
One of the improvements to the user interface is the ability to drag and drop webpages within the website structure. A user with this ability activated will be able to drag and drop a webpage or other asset into a different folder on their site, and upon doing so, that user will be presented with additional options for renaming and republishing that webpage in its new location.
In addition to drag and drop moving, there are several other user interface features included in the beta release of Cascade Server 7.2, such as automatic saving of drafts in the background of the application, an updated format editing user interface, clickable labels enabling easier selection of options throughout different parts of the system, auto-complete site switching for navigating between sites in Cascade Server, an easy way for administrators to check which effective abilities a user has for a given site, and preview functionality to the format editing interface.
“Improving the user experience in Cascade Server has been our focus for quite some time now,” emphasized Hannon Hill Lead Software Engineer Mike Strauch. “There are few things more frustrating than a powerful piece of software that is difficult to use, which is why I love the improvements we've made to format editing and saving of drafts; things feel much more seamless.”
Check out the video preview to get a first look at the new features:
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If you are interested in learning more or testing their beta, visit <a href="http://www.hannonhill.com/">Hannon Hill.</a>

Preview of the Features in Hannon Hill's Upcoming Cascade Server 7.2

As I've worked with clients over the years, their involvement with their own website has changed. When I first started, they wanted very little to do with updating the website. More recently, they want to edit their content, change the design, add pages, and more. With this change, the use of a CMS that works for the individual client has become paramount.
The variety of CMS's available spans from content-only editing to the ability to edit the entire website – including content and design. It begs the questions, “What is the right CMS?” The better question may be, “what does the end user want to do?”
Some CMS's are ‘plugged in' after the fact. The website is already designed and the CMS gives ‘behind-the-scenes' access to edit content areas and sometimes, to edit design and manage pages. Other CMS's require you to start using their CMS from the beginning, designing the site and adding content within their CMS.
Let's take a look at some of the questions to ask when it comes to selecting a CMS from the end user perspective.
<h2>How much control does the end user want?</h2>
I think this may need to be balanced with the question “How much technical knowledge does the user have?” If the technical knowledge is ‘I know how to use Word' – you'll want to stick to a CMS that offers a similar editor with access to only the content areas. If they want to do more – change the design of the site, add pages, etc. – then those options, along with their level of expertise – will help define which CMS works best for them. I have also found that sometimes it's a matter of educating a client on what is involved in updating a website and what's involved in keeping consistency across the website.
<h2>Can the end-user manage the pages on their website?</h2>
Some CMS options are edit-only. Others, let you add pages, move pages, and delete pages. Although this has the potential of introducing more options than our client really understands, many CMS's let you add a page template that matches your current design. Be aware that along with this comes the need to also edit the menus. Again, many CMS's have a friendly intuitive interface to manage menus, as well as pages.
<h2>Can one easily add images, links, pdfs, etc?</h2>
Most CMS editors let you easily add assets to your website – whether it's images, videos, sound clips, pdfs, or other types of files. The issue becomes (especially from a developer's viewpoint) the organization of these assets. Some CMS's let you specify where to store the assets, others have a central repository where all assets are uploaded. So a second question might be how are the assets stored?
<h2>Can individuals be given different roles/permissions?</h2>
Will the client have multiple users accessing the CMS to update the website? If so, will they need access to only certain page/sections of the website? Or, maybe the client wants only designated users to add content, and other users only to be able to edit content already on the website. Many CMS's have options to assign roles and permissions for these types of scenarios.
<h2>Is it easy to use the editor?</h2>
Most people know Word, or a similar word processing program. I've found the editor within a CMS system needs to look pretty much like Word. Again, I have found that when a client wants to edit their content it includes educating the client on certain aspects of editing website content vs editing a Word document. The two main questions I get when it comes to a client updating their content is ‘why can't I place this picture where I want it?' and ‘how can I make this go down just one line instead of two?” There will be certain aspects we'll need to educate the client, but overall the editor should be very intuitive and be a similar as possible to a word processing program.
<h2>Can forms be easily added to my website?</h2>
Some CMS's include a form builder or a form wizard to easily add forms to a website. Additionally, some CMS's have the option to include storing the form information in a database or spreadsheet. Also, be aware that if a particular CMS doesn't have an option to build forms, there are online options for doing the same thing. One example of this is <a href="http://wufoo.com">Wufoo</a>. You an build a form on their interactive website and use it on your website.
<h2>Can I add social media?</h2>
Some CMS's lets one easily integrate with social media. They may have a widget or plugin that easily lets you add twitter feeds or facebook posts. Or, they may have icons you can easily add to link to your various social communities.
<h2>Is the admin interface easy to use?</h2>
This one can potentially easily overwhelm the end-user. If they see way too many options when accessing the admin interface, it can become difficult for them to see the easy options in the midst of the complexity. Not all CMS's have admin interfaces, but for those that do, it's best if it is a simple admin interface that shows only the options the end-user needs to use, or the admin interface can be customized to show the client only what they need to know. This can also be a protection to prevent them from doing things they really don't want to do.
This is not a complete list by all means. Other questions may include:
<ul>
<li>Will the CMS allow my website to grow with my business?</li>
<li>Does the CMS offer analytics or integrate easily with other analytic options?</li>
<li>Is there a good user community where one can go to find help?</li>
</ul>
Having posed all these questions, it's still sometimes difficult to know which CMS to use, or if it's even wise to give clients that much control. I'm happy to give some clients that kind of control and with other clients I cringe when they ask to be able to update their website. I love the idea of clients being able to update their website, but I'm not fond of the idea that clients could potentially really mess up their website. Maybe that's where selecting the right CMS comes in. I'm curious what steps you have found to help you define what CMS to use and how you decide how much control to give or not give your clients.

What to Look for in a CMS from an End-User Perspective

The Tiki Software Community Association is proud to announce the immediate availability of the latest releases of the Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware Long Term Support (LTS) versions: Tiki 6.8 LTS and 9.2 LTS.
The 9.2 update includes more than 500 code changes, focusing on fixes and improvements such as:
<ul>
<li>Introduction of the Tiki Server Check, allowing users to test their server environment.</li>
<li>Automatic generation of site maps</li>
<li>Customized formatting for menu labels through wiki syntax and plugins</li>
<li>Improvements to the user registration process</li>
<li>Security fixes</li>
</ul>
See the Tiki Release Notes (<a href="http://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes92" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://tiki.org/ReleaseNotes92</a>) for complete information.
The 6.8 update includes the security patch only.
The Tiki 9.x series is a Long Term Support (LTS) version, and will be supported until November 2015 (or upon the release of Tiki 16). Tiki admins are highly encouraged to upgrade to this latest version as the 8.x series is now end-of-life (EOL) and is no longer supported. The Tiki 6.x series remains LTS through 2014. Refer to the Tiki Version Lifecycle (<a href="http://info.tiki.org/Version+Lifecycle" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://info.tiki.org/Version+Lifecycle</a>) for details.
Meanwhile, the Tiki Community continues to work on the next generation of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware: Tiki 10, which will be available later this year.
To download Tiki 9.2 LTS, 6.8 LTS, or any Tiki release, visit the Tiki download page at<a href="http://tiki.org/Download" rel="external nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://tiki.org/Download</a>.

Tiki 6.8 LTS and 9.2 LTS are now Available

Solodev has changed the CMS landscape by developing an all-in-one content management system that can be used to build and manage native smart phone apps, social media apps and enterprise websites at the same time. Solodev software also makes it possible for users to create and manage dedicated mobile sites, conduct online transactions with an integrated e-commerce engine and increase productivity with B2B tools.
“Our software puts more power in the hands of marketers and allows them to have full control of their organization’s online presence,” said Solodev founder and CTO Shawn Moore. “The addition of smart phone app functionality eliminates the need to learn a separate software system or rely on a developer to edit content after the app is built. There is no other product on the market that gives users control over all online channels the way Solodev does.”
Moore and his programming team recently closed the online channel loop to include all-in-one capability by developing an API layer that taps into the CMS and delivers content to native apps and also social media aware applications. The latter allows organizations to plan and manage their tweets and posts through the same software that powers their other online interactions. It also allows them to automatically customize website content according to a user’s social media footprint.
“Content is at the core of every business and we are continually in search of ways to help our clients deliver that content and engage customers across a growing ecosystem of online channels,” Moore said. “We have built our platform in such a way all channels have access to the same content so there is zero data redundancy. Another key benefit is the integration of our e-commerce platform that allows companies to take advantage of the growing trend of mobile consumerism.”
The all-in-one CMS from Solodev allows users to control an organization’s entire online presence:
<ul>
<li>Easily create and manage native apps, mobile sites and traditional websites</li>
<li>Develop social media aware applications and syndicate content to social streams</li>
<li>Build and manage e-commerce stores</li>
<li>Streamline data management</li>
</ul>
One of the first organizations to benefit from this breakthrough technology is Volusia County, Florida. The county recently released a native app dedicated to its world-class beaches that administrators can manage with the same back-end interface used to control the county’s main website. Lifeguards and other beach safety personnel can update conditions on Daytona Beach and other county beaches remotely with any Internet-enabled device.
About Solodev
Solodev is an enterprise-level content management platform for building smart phone applications, social media applications, interactive websites and other online portals designed to reach an ever-growing ecosystem of screens and devices. Solodev software allows users to seamlessly manage mobile, web, social and ecommerce content in one place with zero data redundancy so more time can be spent marketing data and less time maintaining it.
Solodev runs in the cloud or on premise to provide secure and scalable online solutions. Headquartered in Orlando, Florida, Solodev’s growing list of clients includes Fortune 500 companies and mid-to-large-sized organizations in the fields of healthcare, retail, transportation, non-profit, government, economic development and associations. For more information about Solodev, please visit <a href="http://go.pardot.com/e/13812/2012-10-24/3zg4d/80157692" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.solodev.com</a>.

Solodev Changes the CMS Landscape by Introducing All-In-One Functionality

Adobe has released an interesting infographic entitled the “Marketing Myth” that highlights some interesting bits of research. One finding I found especially interesting is that 53% of people want a dislike button. This happens to be one of the #1 complaints my father in law, who recently joined Facebook to see pictures of our kids, mentions most often.
In his words:
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“I'm tired of looking at people's food and pictures of their pets on Facebook. Why isn't there a dislike button or a Wilf thinks this is stupid button?”
</blockquote>
Yes, the father in law. A beacon of knowledge and refreshing frankness (ok perhaps not when he's lecturing me about products being made in China, but the rest of the time).
Other results from their research indicate that 69% of respondents use social media, a number that certainly seems to be on the rise while only 29% stated that “Likes” drive them to check out products. Even more disturbing for those that use Facebook as a marketing tool is the fact that only 2% say that these “likes” inspire them to purchase a product.
I'll be honest, I've never been a huge Facebook fan. I personally find the site is too out to make money, especially since they started to charge to expose content to people who've liked your page. This research just makes me more convinced that something needs to change.
Here's a video they produced to share the results of their research into how people view marketing / marketers:
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Obviously, Adobe is determined to change this perception and to do that, they've launched a Metrics, Not Myths campaign. Here's a <a href="http://blogs.adobe.com/conversations/2012/10/in-defense-of-marketing.html">link</a> to Adobe's Chief Marketing Officer, Ann Lewnes response to these results.
I find this type of research refreshing personally and think Adobe is on the right track to flag the issues at hand for marketers and give them ways to react accordingly. This amusing video demonstrates exactly what one of the main problems is, a lack of clarity:
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I, for one, find it refreshing that Adobe is poking fun at how some marketers tend to use buzz words and phrases to make points that nobody truly ever really understands. Is that really what we want to achieve as marketers or do we want to transmit a clear message that the consumer understands? I think the latter. What do you think?  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/AdobeMarketingCloud/app_274300696015294">Join the conversation with Adobe</a> on Facebook or via Twitter using hashtag: <a href="http://twitter.com/search?q=%23metricsnotmyths&amp;src=typd">#metricsnotmyths</a>

New Research From Adobe Indicates 53% of People Want a Dislike Button #MetricsNotMyths

Those who know me know I am a huge fan of simplicity and minimalism and when these two traits can be found in a CMS, well, you pretty much have my interest piqued. Simplicity and minimalism doesn't mean a lack of functionality, however, and in the case of ProcessWire, it means a whole lot of features packed into a no-nonsense CMS without the fluff. And that means, Mikey likes it (for those old enough to remember <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEXzx-TINc"> this commercial</a>, you'll get the joke there.)
Before I get into the review, I recommend you watch this video which gives a great overview of ProcessWire and helps you get an understanding of the product before reading below.
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<a href="http://processwire.com/about/what/">Here is a great explanation</a> as to what ProcessWire hopes to achieve as well and it's a good read for those considering this CMS.
For this review, I'm using the Blog Profile that Ryan Cramer (ProcessWire's founder) has put together for those who are interested in using this CMS for their blogs or who wish to incorporate a blog into their existing ProcessWire sites.
What I personally find amazing about this blog profile is the fact that Ryan quite literally started this June 8, 2012 and already it is packed with features comparable to some of the more popular blog platforms.
Take a look at this list of features:
<ul>
<li>Mobile-friendly (responsive)</li>
<li>Customizable categories and tags</li>
<li>Monthly and yearly archives</li>
<li>Comments may be browsed with posts or on their own</li>
<li>Author biographies</li>
<li>Customizable and sortable sidebar widgets</li>
<li>Recent comments and recent posts widgets</li>
<li>Can be connected to your Twitter account with the Recent Tweets widget</li>
<li>RSS feeds for posts by date or category</li>
<li>RSS feed for recent comments</li>
<li>Built-in lightbox photo gallery</li>
<li>Built-in YouTube and Vimeo video embedding–just paste in the video URL!</li>
<li>Multi-language ready</li>
<li>Custom search engine for blog posts</li>
<li>Markup and styles based on the Skeleton boilerplate CSS framework.</li>
<li>Built around well documented, easy-to-understand and easy-to-modify ProcessWire template files and CSS. This makes it easy for you to use as-is or as a starting point for your own completely custom blog.</li>
</ul>
Now think about how quickly he managed to build this blog profile using ProcessWire and if that doesn't tell you something about how powerful this system is, I don't know what would.
Here's how it looks when you first install it (by the way, the installation is about 5 steps and it's super easy so no need to include screenshots of that process here.)
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/instant-resume-website-2xl_yotrxp.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
As you can see, you start with a standard three column template with a menu on the left, nice comment counter beside your title and everything you'd expect from a typical blog (ala WordPress, etc). Ryan has included a number of awesome ways of displaying your posts within the site. You can browse by Categories, Tags, Archives, Comments and Authors. Here's how each of these views looks to the end user.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-2-620x338.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" /> 
ProcessWire Review – Posts by Category
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ProcessWire Review – Posts by Tag
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ProcessWire Review – Archives
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ProcessWire Review – Posts by Author
You can also view recent comments from the Comments link:
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ProcessWire Review – Recent Comments
With each blog post you write, readers are able to leave comments as well, here's how they link at the bottom of a blog post:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-7-620x711.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
As you can see if you read the comment in the screenshot above, Ryan has thought of pretty much everything and has enabled comment moderation by default, but should you choose to do so, you can disable this. You can also install the Akismet module (powerful spam protection from the makers of WordPress) from within ProcessWire and use it to help trim spam comments.
Perhaps you are interested in writing a post that includes a gallery of pictures? ProcessWire can handle that with ease. Not only does it come loaded with a lightbox effect for your images that pops the picture up over the post but it also nicely organizes the images into a thumbnail gallery for you. As part of the sample content that ProcessWire starts off with, you'll get a nice post that explains how to quickly generate an awesome looking gallery post. Here's how it looks when published:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-8-620x439.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review " />
Here it is again showing the effect that happens when you click on a thumbnail:
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That, in a nutshell, is the blog profile for ProcessWire.
Now that you've seen some of what it can produce, you must surely be wondering where all of this magic takes place? Why, in the CMS itself of course! Let's take a look!
Here's how ProcessWire looks when you first log in:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-11-620x329.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
Were you expecting more clutter? You won't find it here.
There you have it, the ProcessWire backend. Where all of the magic happens. On this first page, we've got all of our types of content neatly organized and ready for editing, moving, viewing, etc..
When you are ready to add content you simply click on the type of content you wish to modify, in this case we'll go with Blog Posts and select ‘New'.
Let's do a sample post shall we?
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-12.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
Once you've entered your Title and slug, you'll click save to proceed. You'll then get this page:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-13-620x573.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
As you can see, I entered some text in the body of my post, uploaded a picture and entered a description for it. Scrolling down, I'd be able select my category, enter any tags I wish and view any comments (including those that might need moderating).
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-14-620x236.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
To further modify the post, I can click on the settings link and make the necessary changes.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-15-620x573.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
Once published, here's how it looks within the blog profile on the site:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2017-07-01-at-54732-pm-lg_w67kr7.png" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
Now that we've seen how adding content works, it's time to look more at the admin interface so let's take a look at the Setup menu where templates and fields can be created and modified.
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Opening the Templates menu, we can see a huge list of all templates within ProcessWire. This is also where you would go to create or modify them.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-18-620x500.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
Each template makes use of specific instructions and fields that you choose when creating the template (or modifying an existing one). Within this blog profile for instance, we have the templates above and a list of fields that looks like this:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-19-620x463.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
New fields can be added easily and made available within templates. To do so, you would simply click on Add New Field and you'd be presented with a screen like the one below where you would enter the name for the field, select the field type, enter a label and a description.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/17917160_409518032760518_467998378344912777_o_ljfxwb.png" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
Once this is complete, you can enter additional details for the field:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/processwire-26.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" /> 
Formatting options
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Input Field Settings
Once the field is customized to your liking, you simply go back and choose which template you'd like to add it to your chosen template by editing it.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/skyline-business-website-design-100-blocks_ik55ou.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
That's how easy it is to add a new type of content to a template. Quick and simple. Templates can be heavily modifed to your liking and there are tabs for URL settings, access privileges, caching and more.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/skyline-business-website-design-twenty-pages_gnstey.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" /> 
URL Settings
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Output Caching
Perhaps you'd like to add additional functionality to your ProcessWire installation? There are plenty of modules to choose from. Simply navigate to the Modules link at the top of your Processwire admin area and you'll get a list of Modules to choose from. There's also a handy button to check for new modules that you've uploaded since when you first did your install.
To install a module, click the Install button (hopefully that's obvious from the screenshot below):
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/skyline-business-website-design-blog-functionality_a3ezg7.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
ProcessWire comes with an advanced permissions system as well. You can control every little detail if you wanted to and be obsessive with your permissions, or you can choose to use the defaults. You can create new permissions, roles and users from within the Access page and you can go as granular as you wish.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/skyline-business-website-design-seo-settings_aae6zw.jpg" alt="ProcessWire Review" />
That, ladies and gentlemen, is ProcessWire in a nutshell. For those of you who are still not sure if it's the right system for you, be sure to read their about page where there's a good sample of sites running Processwire ( <a href="http://processwire.com/about/"> http://processwire.com/about/ </a> ) and check out <a href="http://processwire.com/videos/"> these videos </a> showcasing some additional functionality within the system or even better, <a href="http://processwire.com/demo/"> try their demo </a> .
<h3>What do I like about ProcessWire?</h3>
ProcessWire offers simplicity, power and flexibility in a small package that, with a small learning curve, is quick to pick up and learn. They have an awesome, tight knit community that is quick to offer suggestions and help to those who need it and there are plenty of modules.
They are also in the running in our <a href="/cms-critic-awards/"> Critic's Choice CMS Awards</a> so if you like them, go vote!
For those looking for an awesome CMS with a ton of power that's easy on the resources, you'd be remiss not to <a href="http://www.processwire.com"> check out ProcessWire </a> .

ProcessWire Review - Simplicity Meets Performance

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VYRE has released a new version of it's Brand Asset Management (BAM) solution. This SaaS based system brings advanced reporting features, better tablet and mobile device support, steamlined UI enhancements, better documentation and help guides, video guides and much more.
<h3>HTML5 Video</h3>
The solution now has wider mobile and device support for HTML5 video. On Brand was built from the ground up to provide complete support for managing digital content from all mobile devices. In this latest release we’ve enhanced this to include the ability to play video and audio on all major browsers regardless of device. As iOS and Android based devices are increasing in popularity your users need to know that managing, enriching and sharing of all digital assets including audio and video is simple and pain free.
<h3>Creative Workflow</h3>
A number of user interface and functionality improvements have been carried on the Creative Workflow module. These include: increased admin rights for administering projects, adding users to projects is now filtered by brand, links to user profiles from project members and the ability to upload revisions by a member no longer needs to be requested. Project overviews, activity listings, brief management, viewing and filtering of all projects have all been improved to allow users to manage their projects more effectively.
<h3>Multi-brand Enhancements</h3>
On Brand now provides further support for managing brands within a single instance. Sub domains can now be created and managed within the solution to allow for multi-tenanted options for clients and partners. The system provides for the ability to add for example http://brandname.company.com for each brand, product or client. On Brand provides features that allow for quickly creating a complete sub brand including individual brand users, assets, articles, taxonomy and permissions. This existed prior to 2.4 but with this latest release the management of each sub brand or client is further automated and simplified. We can now offer clients single branded On Brand, multi brand and tailored On Brand with varying levels of integration and customization for each..
<h3>Training &amp; Help</h3>
The On Brand solution was designed to be intuitive and simple to use. We have throughout it’s development added design features to aid and guide users such as tooltips and other elements. In the latest version of the solution we have added a complete online help site. The help site provides short videos and text on how to use the system. Short video guides are provided for each area of the system to ensure users get the most out of On Brand. From basic navigation, searching for assets right through to creating projects and approvals users can get help straight away in a friendly visual format.
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Website: <a href="http://vyre.com">http://vyre.com</a>

VYRE On Brand 2.4 Brings Advanced Reporting, Extended Tablet and Mobile Device  and More

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Jahia announced today the availability of the new version of its flagship CMS solution: Jahia xCM 6.6.1. Even though digitized as “minor”, this new version unlocks new authoring interfaces, providing major improvements in the areas of mobile rendering and related in-context edition.
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“Talking about mobile rending these days is quite trendy. But we didn’t want our new release to be just about “buzz”. We wanted it to truly help our users, both business and technical, and seamlessly display their chosen content on any mobile devices. And not only to do so with simple clicks and drag &amp; drops, but also with the ability to preview and to add any new mobile devices they’d need. This release has required an intensive work from our development team and an equally intensive back-and-forth with our customers to make sure we did it right. Since our 6.5 platform launch, we’ve been intensively working with our community of developers, partners and customers to raise the bar, release after release, to the highest possible levels in terms of user experience management. This Jahia xCM 6.6.1 release -and its related Jahia Studio, is probably the one that reveals the most that incredible work of our team as well as the efficiency and fantastic potential of our platform.” says Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia Solutions Group SA.
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Jahia xCM 6.6.1: Mobile unleashed!
With Jahia xCM 6.6.1, User Experience is optimized for any device: mobile, browser, tablets. Jahia introduces a brand new paradigm that allows users to publish their content as easily for a mobile device (both phone and tablet) as they would for a desktop browser.
With simple clicks, authors and web designers will be able to fully manage and personalize both content and user experience per device. Jahia authors will also be able to preview device-based user experience with high definition emulators:
<ul>
<li>Mobile in-context page and template building (Enterprise distribution only)– Thanks to a new channel switcher, Editors and Template developers can now choose to work directly -in Edit Mode or in the Studio – on the desired channel / device as easily as they do with standard web pages.</li>
<li>Multichannel integrated in preview window – A channel / device selection is now available in the Preview window for previewing pages “in device/channel context” before publication.</li>
<li>Multichannel customizable providers (Enterprise distribution only) – The list of channels/devices can be extended at will. For each device/channel, its capabilities can be defined in order to tailor the best customer experience.</li>
<li>Channel fallback mechanism (Enterprise distribution only) – Channels are organized as a tree with an integrated fallback mechanism, so the most relevant rendering will always be served even if the calling device is not explicitly listed and known by the system.</li>
<li>Point and click content assignation to a channel (Enterprise Distribution Only) –  Any content item can be included (forced to be displayed) or excluded (completely removed for the rendering, not only hidden) from a channel with a simple click. This zero-code feature dramatically accelerates customization of multi-devices sites and web applications.</li>
<li>WURFL engine integration (optional) (Enterprise distribution only) – The mobile device capabilities of Jahia 6.6.1 can optionally use WURFL as a provider, an Open Source framework that compiles a huge set of data about each device available on the market.</li>
</ul>
Other major improvements brought by Jahia xCM 6.6.1
<ul>
<li>Jahia xCM 6.6.1 – Raise the business-users-friendly authoring mode to the next level: Based on many feedbacks from customers, the Contribute Mode has been improved. It is now based on GWT, as is the Edit Mode, the other authoring mode available within Jahia xCM for advanced content managers. The contribute mode comes with the same usage principles (double-click, drag and drop…) with the right level of feature set for targeted audience – which has always been the goal of the Simplified, business user friendly “Contribute Mode”.</li>
<li>Enhanced user comfort: the platform strengths and responsiveness have been reinforced for a greater usability and performance. Interactions between users and the platform have been streamlined through an intensive user feedbacks monitoring that resulted in an improved user interface and even greater performance.</li>
<li>Detailed and exhaustive list of Jahia xCM 6.6.1 improvements available <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70112415&amp;msgid=247207&amp;act=LMSD&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jahia.com%2Fwhats-new-in-jahia-661" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here</a></li>
</ul>
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Because Jahia provides its community and enterprise users with the same core software, all their feedbacks benefit the entire community of users. This ensures the best level of stability and quality of Jahia solutions.
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Jahia xCM 6.6.1 <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70112415&amp;msgid=247207&amp;act=LMSD&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jahia.com%2Fnewsletter%2Fcom%2F2012%2Foctober%2Fjahia661%2FJahia661-Screenshots.zip" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Screenshots</a>
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Jahia unleashes mobile rendering of websites with the new version of its flagship CMS solution: Jahia xCM 6.6.1

Telerik today announced the availability of Sitefinity 5.2, the latest release of the company’s leading web content management platform. With this release, Telerik offers web developers and designers the ability to target different audiences through personalization and multi-site management, equipping organizations with the tools needed to run effective websites.
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“Online audiences increasingly expect brands to recognize their unique interests and deliver web experiences focused on their personal goals,” said Martin Kirov, executive vice president, Sitefinity. “In some cases these targeted experiences are managed through different brands and separate websites. However, in other cases a single website must engage with a variety of audiences. In both examples, it is important to deliver the right message to the right person, and reuse resources where appropriate. With Sitefinity 5.2, enterprises can deliver a unique user experience, while minimizing the complexity associated with maintaining different content experiences.”
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Personalization According to Gartner, those in pursuit of online channel optimization should, “adopt optimization technologies aggressively, especially testing, navigation improvements and high-level personalizations/contextualizations.” At the same time, personalization often is an underutilized resource due to its complex nature.
Sitefinity 5.2 strategically targets the three complications with personalization adoption:
<ul>
<li>Identification – helps businesses describe and identify various audience sets</li>
<li>Transformation – enables customized content to be attached to each audience</li>
<li>Testing – easily impersonates the audience’s experience to measure accuracy and</li>
<li>impact</li>
</ul>
Many CMS vendors only enable trivial changes to web content, such as banner ads. However, Sitefinity enables content creators to reshape the entire page and offers a rich language for describing audiences and impersonating each audience’s unique user experience.
Multi-Site Management
Multi-site management is rooted in resource reuse. However, the resources that get reused can vary dramatically – users, templates, content, infrastructure, tools and more. Without multi-site management, these resources would need to be manually copied and synchronized across sites.
With Sitefinity’s multi-site management capabilities, organizations can:
<ul>
<li>Create multiple web sites within a single instance of Sitefinity</li>
<li>Implement controlled permissions for site and resource access</li>
<li>Engage in a variety of resource sharing options</li>
<li>Easily toggle between sites</li>
</ul>
Permissions are attached to everything and through these permissions administrators control exactly what gets shared and with whom. For the individual content author, the interface is shaped based on their permissions. This enables Sitefinity to address a wide range of scenarios while minimizing UI complications.
Sitefinity also helps organizations manage the complexity associated with maintaining different experiences for different audiences by enabling the ability to reuse content and test the resulting experiences. The result is a higher adoption of personalization capabilities for a better overall customer experience.
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For more information about Sitefinity 5.2, please go to <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com">www.sitefinity.com</a>.

Sitefinity 5.2 Delivers Targeted and Personalized Experiences

Just a few months ago, CMS Critic covered the <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/demandbase-releases-real-time-visitor-identification-for-drupal-cms/">news</a> of our release of Real-Time Identification for Drupal CMS users. Since then, we’ve opened the API for our platform, giving developers the opportunity to leverage company identification of web visitors – using company IP addresses or networks – and use each company’s set of attributes to serve a more personalized experience. And just last month, we launched Real-Time Identification for CRM at Dreamforce.
Over the last year, our team has been hard at work to release the next phase to our platform. It’s a major piece to our puzzle, this time changing the way business advertisers target and personalize their ads.
Today, we launched <a href="http://www.demandbase.com/what-we-do-and-why/demandbase-company-targeted-advertising">Demandbase Company-Targeted Advertising</a>, and for the first time, advertisers have the ability to target specific companies only, and through this technology, they can follow that customer from the ad to the web site and through the CRM system – through the entire campaign, with no cookies.
We saw an opportunity in the B2B advertising market when we saw marketers struggle with campaigns with little results. In fact, some companies are wasting more than 90 percent of their ad budget to attract businesses to their website. B2B sales teams are usually only targeting a few thousand companies, yet there are tens of millions of them out there. So we came up with a brand new approach, giving B2B advertisers the opportunity to run efficient, zero-waste campaigns.
By uniquely identifying companies on a website – on the first visit and without a cookie – we qualify the visitors and when applicable, they are served the targeted ads. This is what makes the Demandbase Company-Targeted Advertising solution so unique. You can serve ads to your targets on their FIRST visit to a target site while making them personal and more relevant.
So here’s how it works. We ask our customers to send us a list of companies, or a set of attributes about a company that would be a good target for them. For instance, they can target Fortune 1000 companies, or select businesses by industry size, revenue, exact company name, or a number of attributes. This is a critical step in ensuring that Company-Targeted Advertising produces zero-waste campaigns. From there, we get the customer’s creative, or if they don’t have one yet, we can work with them to create ads in house here at Demandbase. Then we work with ad exchanges to make sure that client ads are personalized and served to the companies on the target list. No more effort, time and money wasted on focusing ads where they don’t belong – in front of companies that aren’t on your target list or match up to the attributes you were looking for in a company.
Metrics like impressions, clicks and CPL, still apply, but also companies can now connect your ad spend to overall target company engagement. With our solution, customers know their targets, so they are able to engage accounts that were not responding to other marketing tactics, as well as accelerate the buyer’s journey for those already engaged.
A few large enterprise companies have been testing this with us, and they’re targeting and personalizing online ads to specific account lists to drive higher website engagement. While our customers are still underway on their campaigns (and not yet ready to share those results but will soon!) we know they’re seeing more brand awareness, sales leads and revenue from these targeted companies. Imagine the impact it could have on your marketing efforts… what would you do differently?

A New Zero-Waste Approach to Company Advertising

Irish Enterprise Web Content Management provider pTools has today announced the launch of its new Software as a Service (SaaS) Web Content Management (WCM) solution at Europe’s biggest technology conference, the Dublin Web Summit. The new software allows content to be securely distributed to users across desk-top, mobile and tablet devices for web, extranet and intranet from a single secure source, more effectively than has ever before been possible.
pTools SaaS application combines all of the enterprise level features of pTools into a single easy-to-use software service, available for a monthly or annual subscription fee rather than the traditional up-front licensing model. pTools has invested over €1million in re-developing its WCM software for Cloud and SaaS delivery.
The Dublin headquartered software company, pTools, was recently included for the first time in the long-list of vendors in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management 2012 report and the company’s commitment to SaaS delivery using the latest cloud computing technologies and infrastructure partners is seen as an important factor in this recognition. Gartner estimates that SaaS revenue for 2012 will reach $14.5 billion in 2012 – a 17.9 percent increase from 2011 – and reach a projected $22.1bn in 2015, with cloud computing driving adoption forward.
Commenting on the launch of pTools SaaS, Keith Wood, CEO of pTools says: “This is a major initiative for pTools and already we are seeing take-up of the new pTools SaaS offering by new and existing customers in all markets. It’s great to be able to launch this in our home city, Dublin, at what is effectively one of the biggest and most dynamic new technology conferences in the world this year.”
Paddy Cosgrove, founder of the Web Summit says “We're delighted that pTools, a fantastic Irish company with business internationally, is using the Web Summit as a platform to launch its new software service. Enterprise and cloud are two very important aspects of the Web Summit this year.”
Key aspects of the new pTools SaaS offering include:
<ul>
<li>Full-featured enterprise class WCM Software-as-a-Service.</li>
<li>Rapid, sign-up and simple on-ramp to get started.</li>
<li>Multi-tier architecture, back-ups and disaster recovery as standard.</li>
<li>Preferred territoriality, security, and performance options.</li>
<li>Global cloud partners and dedicated points of presence.</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.ptools.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pTools</a> SaaS enables partners and customers to easily deploy enterprise class WCM and other applications based on a recurring payment model. Traditional up-front licensing is replaced by fully managed on-going service designed to make continuous improvement easier and more efficient. pTools SaaS content delivery network is based on tier-one infrastructure, data center and connectivity providers with world-class security, performance, back-up and recovery services available to all as standard.

pTools Launches new Software as a Service  Web Content Management Solution

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