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

janus-boye

Let’s face it: traditional enterprise content management (ECM) solutions have a somewhat tainted reputation as being too big or too complex to deliver practical business value. Why spend a year and a million dollars when what the business really needs to do is share documents easily among teams and automate document-intensive manual processes as well as collaborate internally and externally with partners, customers, vendors, and others. You want to get work done wherever workers need to work.
Cloud ECM can quickly and affordably improve the effectiveness and efficiency of information flow in your business, ensuring the right information reaches the right person when and where they need it but without compromising privacy and security of intellectual property. Because it requires no software or hardware—just an email and a browser—a cloud ECM solution can be up and running in days without the long, complex implementation needed for on-premise software. The increase in mobile, outsourced, and distributed workforces means that access to your information is required in more places—some of which are located outside your corporate firewall. Cloud can easily put content where it needs to be, without the costly programming and integration costs of on-premise software.
With content exploding and businesses needing to reduce overhead, cloud presents a clear, secure, trusted alternative to traditional software implementations. How do you know cloud document management and workflow solutions make a good choice for your business? Consider these five guidelines:
<ol>
<li>Need for rapid deployment—no time for long purchase cycles and implementation</li>
<li>Lack of a large up-front budget or the time to get one approved</li>
<li>Need for rapid change and evolution over time but within an envelope of common functionality</li>
<li>Deployed easily without specialized support</li>
<li>Lack of dedicated IT support</li>
</ol>
To determine whether cloud offers the best solution for your business challenge, use the five tests we’ve outlined below. These will help you determine whether your organization can benefit from a cloud Enterprise Content Management (ECM) solution.
 
TEST 1: COST VS VALUE 
Do you face budget restrictions? Do you want to limit upfront monetary risk? 
Implementing a new software system in any company involves effort. It also takes money. And regardless of software vendors’ promises of low license fees, the cost of implementing a traditional document management system involves much more than just purchasing and installing software. As mentioned previously, the cost of a typical installed software package is roughly 15 percent of the five-year cost of owning and maintaining that application. Simply put, a rough estimate of your five-year cost may be six times the application software license costs. By comparison, the cloud model eliminates virtually all of these costs by replacing them with a subscription fee. This approach leads to three major advantages:
•     No large up-front cost or cumbersome budget approval process
•     No annual maintenance fees
•     A direct link between the value the solution provides and how much you pay
Cloud solutions are developed to meet the majority of many industry-specific needs. Because these development efforts involve input and refinement from hundreds of customers, cloud solutions deliver comprehensive functionality out-of-the-box. With a cloud solution, you can be up-and-running literally in hours. If rapid deployment is your key project criterion, cloud offers undeniable benefits. The risk is diminished because you can generally see your application working immediately,
TEST 2: FUNCTIONALITY VS COMPLEXITY
Do you need a solution that integrates many different ECM components? 
If your application needs components not often found in off-the-shelf ECM software—or you lack the resources to integrate these tools yourself—cloud is right for you. For example:
<ul>
<li>The ability to receive and send faxes directly from the application</li>
<li>Optical character recognition (OCR) to transform faxes and scanned materials into text-searchable documents</li>
<li>Scanner integration to convert paper documents into electronic content</li>
<li>E-forms for combining form-based data with other documents and for augmenting document processes with structured data</li>
<li>Zone OCR to read specific fields on forms and to extract key information for indexing and organizing your content</li>
<li>Ability to view less-common proprietary file formats such as CADs</li>
<li>Advanced workflow for document-centric process automation</li>
</ul>
To include all of these components in on-premise software requires costly integration and enhancement. This introduces more complexities and time delays. Many ECM suites include pricey add-ons, but these require customization and maintenance. Configuring the various user interfaces to work in tandem is often challenging. If you won’t use these components frequently, justifying the expense is difficult. By integrating multiple technologies once and distributing the cost among all users, cloud delivers broader functionality than other options at a dramatically lower cost.
 
TEST 3: SECURITY 
Do you need to a secure space to share documents and collaborate with internal and external parties?
To earn the trust of enterprise customers, a cloud ECM platform must be able to demonstrate the strictest security standards. For example, a SAS 70 Type II certified environment. A best practice provider will use SAS 70 Type II certification as a base, building on that with additional security and technologies. While on-premise solutions enjoy the benefits of in-house security, in some cases internal IT budgets and resources will be unable to compete with this level of security. Cloud platforms can also typically integrate with an organization’s identity management technology through things like SSO and directory synchronization. To get work done between internal and external teams located beyond your corporate firewall, your IT department will need to create an integration strategy and then customize the programs. Cloud ECM can provide the secure integration work space between internal and external parties without the need for custom programming.
 
TEST 4:  RESOURCE NEEDS 
Is it critical that your software application evolve quickly as your needs change and new technologies emerge? 
As highlighted earlier, with deployed software packages you incur the cost of maintaining and updating the application. But once deployed, on-premise software must be updated periodically, or a new version must be installed—a time consuming process.
Although customizations generally enhance a software application, the more you customize it, the less agile it becomes. With each new upgrade or version of the software, these customizations will not easily migrate to the next version of the software. As a result, when the application package is upgraded, you will need to re-customize the application or not carry those customizations forward to include those features in the new version. Cloud eliminates this frustration in several ways:
•     Upgrades are applied at the data center and available to all users immediately with no installation or delay. The administrator can often approve upgrades through configuration screens.
•     Because there is no software to install at each client site, software upgrades may be made more frequently. New features are added almost quarterly.
•     The user community accesses the same core application, meaning new ideas and feature refinement feedback from each user benefits the entire user community.
•     As a customer, you become part of this cycle, making enhancement requests that, if accepted, will be seen in the product in much more rapid fashion than previously possible.
 
TEST 5:  BUSINESS VS TECHNOLOGY 
Do you want to manage the business process or manage technology? 
Implementing a traditional ECM software application involves managing and providing leadership on a host of software and hardware issues. A cloud software solution, however, means that you manage the business function, not the technology. If you’re short of resources that have the experience in implementing and managing technologies and software applications, cloud offers a less time-consuming alternative. Cloud enables you to solve the business problem and to reap business benefits while leaving the technology challenges to others.
As you review cloud options, you’ll see that the model offers tremendous advantages to quickly and easily transform business critical functions, streamline manual processes, and deliver fast time to value at relatively low risk for the organization.
<h4>About the Author:</h4>
Daniel Dosen, Vice President, Product Management, <a href="http://www.springcm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">SpringCM</a>
Dan Dosen brings more than 20 years experience in enterprise content management, both as a customer and a technology provider, to SpringCM. Prior to joining SpringCM he was VP Sales Engineers and Channels at the iManage Business Unit of Autonomy Corporation plc. In this role he had responsibility for over 100 reseller and consulting partners, as well as Sales Engineering for risk and governance solutions. Prior to Autonomy, Dosen held key technology positions at Sonnenschein Nath &amp; Rosenthal and Premark International. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Northern Illinois University.

Is Cloud right for you?

mike-johnston

The new WordPress 3.1 release is here. CMS Critic has been updated to this new release and one of the newest features is the introduction of a handy new admin bar.
WordPress 3.1 Admin bar in action:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2012-01-21-at-1_27_19-pm1-450x132_sly80x.png" alt="WordPress 3.1 Admin Bar" />
The admin bar has a number of benefits such as quickly creating a shortlink, editing the post (opens the post editor within the dashboard) and much more.
So far, we see no issue with the upgrade (at least on our site). Let us know your experiences within the comments!
From the announcement:
<blockquote>
The long-awaited fourteenth release of WordPress is now available. WordPress 3.1 “Reinhardt” is named in honor of the jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt. Version 3.1 is available for download, or you can update from within your dashboard.
This release features a lightning fast redesigned linking workflow which makes it easy to link to your existing posts and pages, an admin bar so you’re never more than a click away from your most-used dashboard pages, a streamlined writing interface that hides many of the seldom-used panels by default to create a simpler and less intimidating writing experience for new bloggers (visit Screen Options in the top right to get old panels back), and a refreshed blue admin scheme available for selection under your personal options.
There’s a bucket of candy for developers as well, including our new Post Formats support which makes it easy for themes to create portable tumblelogs with different styling for different types of posts, new CMS capabilities like archive pages for custom content types, a new Network Admin, an overhaul of the import and export system, and the ability to perform advanced taxonomy and custom fields queries.
With the 3.1 release, WordPress is more of a CMS than ever before. The only limit to what you can build is your imagination.
</blockquote>
You can <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">download this latest release</a> or update from within your dashboard.

WordPress 3.1 is now available and brings with it a number of new features

The Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware project has released Tiki 6.2. This release includes fixes and updates only. Tiki encourages all sites to upgrade to this latest release. Tiki Community members have made over 240 code contributions for this release. Review the release notes and <a href="http://dev.tiki.org/tiki6">http://dev.tiki.org/tiki6</a> for complete information about this release.
Active development continues on the 6.x branch, which will become the LTS (long term support) version, following the release of Tiki 7 (planned for April, 2011).
About Tiki
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery, and Smarty. Actively developed by a very large international community, Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki is managed by the Tiki Software Community Association. For more information, visit <a href="http://tiki.org">http://tiki.org</a>.

Tiki Releases version 6.2

On 18th February 2011, Sourcefabric announced the release of Newscoop 3.5.1. Formerly known as Campsite, Newscoop takes Sourcefabric’s decade-long experience of making tools for news organisations (not to mention the many years before that of actually working in the industry), and builds an open content management system for professional journalists.
Newscoop introduces some of the most powerful geolocation tools ever seen in an CMS, a modern new graphical interface, and a powerful templating engine capable of producing anything from HTML 5 to mobile.
Newscoop 3.5.1 was released as a security update to 3.5 and fixed an XSS vulnerability in the admin login page plus front end vulnerablities to Cross-Site Scripting attacks. <a href="http://dev.sourcefabric.org/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa?projectId=10000&amp;version=10390">The full changelog can be found here.</a>
<h3>Key features of Newscoop 3.5.1</h3>
<ul>
<li>Geolocation tool. Map out your content, using point and click or GPS data. Data can be displayed using Google Maps, Mapquest Open or OpenStreetMap.</li>
<li>Credit multiple authors and manage their bio, image and information in one central place.</li>
<li>Content can be structured in news-friendly issues, sections and different article types.</li>
<li>Templating. Produce anything from HTML5 to mobile, or use our new range of custom-built magazine and newspaper templates.</li>
<li>Overhauled GUI with new drag and drop widget dashboard (add Google gadgets, RSS feeds, image archives and more) and Article Edit page.</li>
<li>Page caching engine, speeds up your pages by between 8-50 times over uncached speed on production environments. Especially useful for VPS hosts where APC or memcached is not available.</li>
</ul>
More information can be found on the <a href="http://sourcefabric.org/en/products/newscoop_release/510/Newscoop-351-released!.htm">Sourcefabric Website.</a>

Newscoop 3.5.1 released!

Kentico Software (http://www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, has announced that Kentico CMS was officially recognized by Microsoft as an application compatible with the Windows Azure Platform.
The latest version of Kentico CMS 5.5R2 includes Windows Azure support for single CMS installations. Kentico customers are able to leverage Microsoft Azure to power their Kentico websites, community sites, enterprise intranets and on-line stores.
“It’s important that we keep our commitments to customers to deliver the latest Microsoft technologies.” said Petr Palas, CEO and Founder of Kentico Software. “Adding compatibility with Windows Azure removes barriers for our customers who are looking at their enterprise cloud computing strategy. Regardless of whether it’s on-premise or in the cloud, Kentico CMS is ready.”
The compatibility of Kentico CMS and the Windows Azure platform has been proved by the first six Kentico CMS implementations successfully migrated to the Windows Azure platform by Bit-Wizards, a Kentico Gold Partner from Florida, USA.
“The Windows Azure platform will provide more choice and greater flexibility for our clients,” said Vince Mayfield, CEO and Co-Founder of Bit-Wizards. “By building and deploying Kentico solutions on the Windows Azure platform, Bit-Wizards’ clients will be afforded the type of scalability and extensibility that has previously been only available through expensive web farms.”
“The Azure Enabled Kentico CMS is another tool in our toolkit,” said Bryan Soltis, Senior Software Engineer at Bit-Wizards. “The Enterprise features of Kentico CMS on the Windows Azure scalable platform provide a powerful combination to develop and rapidly deploy enterprise scalable content management systems.”
About Kentico CMS
Kentico CMS is an affordable Web content management system providing a complete set of features for building websites, community sites, intranets and on-line stores on the Microsoft ASP.NET platform. It supports WYSIWYG editing, workflows, multiple languages, full-text search, SEO, on-line forms, image galleries, forums, groups, blogs, polls, media libraries and is shipped with 250+ configurable Web parts. It’s currently used by more than 6,000 websites in 84 countries. The clients include Microsoft, McDonald's, Vodafone, O2, Orange, Brussels Airlines, Mazda, Ford, Subaru, Isuzu, Samsung, Gibson, ESPN, Guinness, DKNY, Abbott Labs, Medibank, Ireland.ie and others.
<a href="http://www.kentico.com">http://www.kentico.com</a>

Kentico CMS is Compatible with the Windows Azure Platform

Elcom, One of Australia’s largest independently owned Web Developers, today announced the latest release of CommunityManager.NET (Version7.3) – its flagship enterprise Web Content Management software.
CommunityManager.NET is utilized by over 500 organizations worldwide, and provides a secure and scalable framework which supports websites, intranets, ecommerce platforms, membership systems, mobile platforms and online training capabilities.
Underpinning this latest version of CommunityManager.NET is a variety of updates and additional new features, designed to increase efficiency and reduce costs through an improved user-experience for clients and end-users. At the core of this latest release is the addition of A/B testing to Elcom’s existing Online Marketing offering.
According to Elcom’s Product Director, Anthony Milner, “This new feature was developed in response to industry trends and by really listening to what our clients wanted”. It allows users to test a baseline control sample webpage and compare it to a variety of single-variable test samples, in order to better evaluate and improve response rates. This ultimately enables the execution of “smarter marketing” through testing, evaluation, better resource allocation and enhanced tracking ability – thereby significantly improving Return on Investment. Another significant advancement to Version 7.3 of CommunityManager.NET is a strategic partnership between Elcom and Ephox, allowing Ehpox’s EditLive to be seamlessly integrated with CommunityManager.NET.
Speaking on the end result of this collaboration, Milner stated “…users will be truly impressed with its functionality, and specifically the way it cleans and presents semantic HTML code even with cut/pastes from external sources, image cropping, track changes, commenting and accessibility checking as you type. This even extends to advanced table management, whereby it can handle splits, resizes, merged cells, define header rows Vs data rows and table summaries for accessibility – and it never skips a beat while doing all this magic”
Building on Elcom’s focus in the user- experience area, comes the addition of RSS Curation to this latest release. This new feature allows a user to monitor an RSS feed and import content which matches a specified set of criteria, allowing auto creation of articles and auto tagging. “…providing users with the ability to personalize their content with the information that interests them, is definitely a big step towards enhancing our clients and their customer’s online experiences”, stated Milner.
Elcom is an exciting Australian Company which has just entered the North American Market. It continues to drive product innovation within the enterprise Web Content Management sector, through the pursuit of an aggressive release schedule involving quarterly updates. The company is confident in its technology and is focused on constantly growing its customer base and market presence – both locally and internationally
About Elcom
Founded by John Anstey in 1996, Elcom Technology Inc. (Elcom) is a globally recognized enterprise web content management developer assisting mid-market organizations achieve their online objectives for corporate websites, intranets, ecommerce and training through one powerfully simple, secure platform: the CommunityManager.NET.
For more information about Version 7.3 of CommunityManager.NET and Elcom’s suite of web application products please visit <a href="http://www.elcomglobal.com">www.elcomglobal.com</a>

Australian Web CMS firm revolutionizes CMS experience with new Product Release

Netbiscuits, the world's leading cloud software service for cross-platform development, publishing and monetization of mobile sites and apps, today announces the “HTML5+” extension of its Rich UI Development Framework. A set of new rich user interface components allows Netbiscuits' developers to create the most advanced user experiences for mobile web applications using the latest in HTML5 technology.
The extended feature set enables auto-location via GPS (Location Biscuit), animated tickers (Ticker Biscuit) and more advanced image and video galleries (Gallery Biscuit). In addition, Netbiscuits' full Rich UI Framework has been expanded to develop multi-touch navigation, floating layers, swiping galleries, dynamic maps, auto-complete, and get-remote content features for mobile web applications. All rich UI features are adapted to more handsets and platforms, including Windows Phone 7.
“The term ‘HTML5+' is our way of defining our approach towards upcoming new technologies in the mobile space”, explains Michael Neidhöfer, CEO of Netbiscuits. “We believe that HTML5 as a technology is a great step forward in the creation of mobile web applications which feel like native apps. But HTML5 is not an approved standard, yet. Consequently, developers will face fragmentation problems resulting from inconsistent HMTL5 implementations on the various mobile software platforms for years to come.”
“The mobile market is growing everyday and many developers are frustrated working with development environments which only support the lowest common denominator or only one platform such as iOS”, Neidhöfer continues. “Netbiscuits provides solutions for our clients today, which get the best possible user experience out of each device by making the best use of the specific features of any given mobile device.”
Many premium customers of Netbiscuits already take advantage of this innovative approach to dramatically increase reach and revenues by covering all mobile devices, not just a few. eBay's new mobile site is a good example: It provides swiping picture galleries for various top categories on many different kinds of touch-enabled smartphones. An overlay menu allows users to load new gallery content without reloading the site completely. Also the search box on top of the site provides a richer user experience being enabled with auto-complete functionality that helps eBay customers to find items they look for faster. When logged in, the eBay site shows a floating menu bar that keeps key menu items always visible on the user's mobile screen, even while scrolling.
“We enable these and other features by providing a vast array of multi-layout building blocks to set up mobile sites”, Neidhöfer points out. “Each of these “Biscuits” is individually adaptable to the capabilities of any specific mobile device. Thereby Netbiscuits is able to exploit the rich, touch-based user interface capabilities of the latest smartphones and guarantees optimized delivery to less expensive but highly popular mass market feature phones as well. Basically, Netbiscuits allows you to use one code source to feed the whole spectrum from the very top down to the very end, enabling mobile websites and native apps via hybrid solutions for all major platforms. This is what we see as the basis for a sustainable mobile web strategy.”
About Netbiscuits
Netbiscuits enables you to develop, publish and monetize cross-platform mobile sites and apps.
The platform supports all mobile operating systems, including Apple iOS, Google Android, Nokia Symbian, MS Windows Phone 7, Samsung bada, HP WebOS, and RIM BlackBerry. Furthermore, it allows customers to manage their mobile sites and apps using one central platform and delivers optimized content to the broadest range of web-enabled mobile devices, including media tablets, game consoles, music players, e-readers as well as feature phones and smartphones.
Being a cloud software service, Netbiscuits give access to mobile software tools and its industry leading publishing platform on the web. This approach offers customers guaranteed security, reliability, and scalability and is yet a cost-effective way to implement mobile projects and realize ROI fast.
Netbiscuits serves the mobile web services for premium online, media and retail companies such as eBay, Universal Music, MTV Networks, HSN and Axel Springer, as well as leading agencies such as SapientNitro, Publicis, Razorfish and Ogilvy. Globally Netbiscuits processes more than 4.4 billion mobile page and content requests for its customers each month. Founded in 2000 the company runs offices in the USA, Germany, UK and Singapore.
<a href="http://www.netbiscuits.com">http://www.netbiscuits.com</a>

Netbiscuits Extends Mobile Rich UI Development Framework with HTML5+

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Roxen has just released Roxen CMS 5.1, an update to our Web Content Management solution. This represents an evolutionary step for the CMS platform with over 300 bug fixes and feature additions. The changes fall in several categories such as compatibility, performance optimizations, usability improvements and developer tools.
Some highlights:
<ul>
<li>A new feature to enable Access Control permissions on individual languages in multilingual sites.</li>
<li>Built-in HTTP compression for static and dynamic requests. This results in better performance and lower bandwidth consumption.</li>
<li>A full-text search tool that works with template code, CSS stylesheets and similar text-based data in the site repository.</li>
<li>Profiling tools for both XSLT and RXML accessible from within the Content Editor environment. We already know of CMS customers that have used these tools to improve their site performance significantly.</li>
<li>Improved compatibility with latest release of popular web browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer 9.</li>
</ul>
<a href="http://www.roxen.com/products/cms/" target="_self" rel="noopener noreferrer">Learn more about Roxen CMS</a>

Roxen CMS 5.1 Available

Magnolia 5.0, the upcoming release of the Java-based open source Magnolia CMS, will have a new user interface based on Vaadin, the popular open source framework for Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Vaadin was selected after an exhaustive review and community discussion due to its agility, security, efficiency, theming, collaboration, and community backing.
The new Vaadin-based interface of Magnolia CMS will include full support for touch, mouse, and keyboard input, allowing Magnolia 5.0 to work on tablets and other touch devices. In addition, developers will be able to leverage Vaadin's Java packaging to create and share custom Magnolia extensions and modules without worrying about browser compatibility issues.
You can read more about Magnolia 5.0 in a blog post by Boris Kraft, CTO Magnolia: <a href="http://www.betterfasterbigger.com/2011/02/raising-bar-in-cms-usability-with.html">http://www.betterfasterbigger.com/2011/02/raising-bar-in-cms-usability-with.html</a>

Magnolia Selects Vaadin for Revamped CMS User Interface

Liferay, Inc., provider of the market’s fastest growing open source portal and web content management product, recently announced strong community, fiscal and market share growth for 2010 as well as upcoming strategies for expanding the community and eco-system in 2011.
Liferay enjoyed a solid year of business growth in 2010 that included a triple-digit increase in revenues, accompanied by an increase of staff to over 200 with new offices in Hungary and Brazil. The company also saw the number of its services partner network expand to 85 around the world.
In addition to the community and enterprise releases of Liferay Portal 6.0, the company added new technologies to its portfolio, including:
<ul>
<li>Liferay Developer Studio</li>
<li>Alloy UI framework, in collaboration with the Yahoo YUI team</li>
<li>Kaleo workflow engine</li>
<li>Three Liferay-on-Liferay programs:</li>
<li>Liferay Enterprise Support Application (LESA) for customer support</li>
<li>Liferay LIVE – for community webinars</li>
<li>Liferay Operations Support Bus for internal operations</li>
</ul>
“We’re extremely happy with our 2010 results from product, revenue and operations perspectives,” said Bryan Cheung, Liferay’s Chief Executive Officer. “Thanks to these successes, we are very well positioned in 2011 for expansive growth of the community, customers, and overall market share.”
Beyond advancements in business and technology, the company also took steps to improve community relations and grow its business eco-system. To rally support for the company and product, Liferay hired James Falkner from the Sun Portal team as the new community manager. By providing the community with resources and a process for the incubation and approval of ancillary projects on Liferay.org, Liferay hopes to foster development of new web development technologies that will connect as modules into the Liferay core services.
A major initiative in 2011 is the Liferay Marketplace, an online space for buying and selling modules and solutions that leverages Liferay as a strategic web platform for web sites, applications, and solutions specific to several key industries. Liferay will also target companies looking to implement social networking within the enterprise. Those seeking to implement social applications, Social Product Marketing (defined by Liferay), or enterprise social collaboration leveraging OpenSocial components will be able to use Liferay’s core capabilities for an enterprise wide platform.
“What it means to have a presence on the web has changed dramatically in recent years,” said Michael Cote, Analyst at leading industry firm Redmonk. ”The zealous adoption of social networking sites shows demand for a rich, person-infused life online that's about much more than consuming static content. Companies are discovering that embracing this more social web experience is helping drive business through their external sites and increase productivity on internal web properties. An open source, mature platform like Liferay has proven itself here. The company and community are keeping good pace with web innovations and the patterns of use, updating, and growing its portfolio to give platform users what's needed to create these contemporary web offerings.”
Such strategies and growth has helped Liferay garner industry acclaim, including:
<ul>
<li>recognition as a Leader/Visionary in Gartner’s 2010 Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals</li>
<li>recognition as the most popular Java web content management system by Water &amp; Stone’s “2010 Open Source CMS Market Share Report.”</li>
</ul>
For more information about Liferay’s products and services, please visit <a href="http://www.liferay.com">www.liferay.com</a>.

Liferay Announces 100% Year-Over-Year Growth

Sitecore today announced a new release of its Intranet Portal Solution that provides business users with a Web solution to deliver and manage large, reliable corporate intranets.
Well-suited for organizations with an increasing amount of content and a geographically distributed workforce, Sitecore’s Intranet Portal 3.2 improves collaboration internally and externally with the same level of performance and reliability expected from a customer-facing website. Organizations can more effectively respond to global markets, improve productivity and accelerate innovation in real-time, across diverse teams and borders.
“Successful business results come from tapping information from a diverse community of people – internally and among customers, partners, prospects, etc.” said Darren Guarnaccia, senior vice president product marketing, Sitecore. “Sitecore’s Intranet Portal technology helps human resource managers, marketing communications directors and other business users manage corporate data and build an internal community. Furthermore, as websites and intranets become more integrated to serve the real-time needs of today’s sophisticated, mobile worker, Sitecore helps companies rise to these demands to improve business performance at lower operating costs.”
Sitecore Intranet Portal features a highly intuitive editing interface with the look and feel of Microsoft Office®, reducing the need to train business users. Pre-built templates including fully customizable page layouts help expedite corporate communications projects and facilitate employee engagement across an entire organization or department. Templates for wikis, blogs and other social networking features are included as well.
Take a quick tour of <a href="http://www.sitecore.net/Popups/Tours/QuickTour.aspx?sc_camp=21F6B0ACD1DD41D39ABD359961B12853">Sitecore Intranet Portal</a>.

Sitecore Turns Corporate Information Into Collaboration Advantages and Opportunities

With a new look and tons of interface improvements,  the release of Contegro Version 4, comes a Window’s style desktop that will make even first-time Website CMS users feel like experts.
Contegro 4 continues the goal of completely removing the developer from the website life-cycle, and empowering designers with the sole power to create and manage functionally rich websites. “Contegro Version 4’s interface brings simplicity and usability in Web CMS to a whole new level,” says Contegro founder Vaughan Reed. “The Window’s Desktop interface is already familiar, so for users every action is intuitive.”
Contegro Version 4’s new Interface and multi-tasking workspace concept is set to revolutionize Web CMS. Take a look at the following key feature releases.
A completely transformed CMS interface
Contegro v4 removes the need to open up multiple browser tabs to manage many different areas of a website or even independent sites; everything can be managed from the new interface. “It makes multi-tasking so simple,” says Reed. “The increase in productivity that can be achieved when setting up and managing sites by using the new interface is really exciting.”
<img style="max-width:427px" title="Contegro 4 - 1" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/04/browserstack-live-pricing.jpg" alt="Contegro 4 - 1" />
More specific interface features include the following:
Smart Desktop Shortcuts.
A quick click on a desktop shortcut enables you to access/manage files, categories, website members, and edit content. Or simply go to the Contegro Start Menu.
<img style="max-width:346px" title="Contegro 4 Context" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/02/wordpress-homepage-featured-image.jpg" alt="Contegro 4 Context" />
Streamlined Task Bar.
Just like the Windows Desktop environment, if a new application is opened it appears as a button on the Task Bar. You can quickly and simultaneously switch between tabbed windows keeping them open. A right-click minimizes the window and can it be relocated onscreen to suit your requirements.
Informative Notification Window.
The Notification Window keeps you in the loop. See your latest edited pages; pages within your workflow approval queue, product updates, feature releases and training videos. Pages can be open from within the notification window directly from the desktop.
<img style="max-width:391px" title="Contegro 4 - 2" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/02/wordpress-logo-homepage-featured-image.jpg" alt="Contegro 4 - 2" />
Further Developments in Contegro Version 4 include:
An Advanced Workflow.
The Contegro Workflow provides a flexible three-step workflow process with Submit, Approve and Publish steps to make life easy. The workflow can be configured to a one-or-two-step process if required. To keep uniformity, one single workflow can be established as a global site-wide process. Conversely, multiple workflow scenarios can be established within sections of a website.
Site Tree Enhancements.
Drag ‘n’ Drop and right-click functionality makes it easy and efficient to manage the site structure, create pages, copy pages and assign permissions and workflow.
Updates to the Site Tree include the clever automatic creation of 301 redirects when moving pages from one section to another. This eliminates broken links within search engines and external linking to moved pages.
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An Intuitive Editing Workspace.
With a streamlined workspace that takes advantage of the new Window’s look, the Site Tree, Page Attributes and Content Editing Sections have been combined within a single workspace. Key features include:
<ul>
<li>Ability to open and edit multiple pages simultaneously and copy and paste content between pages.</li>
<li>Drag and drop modules – add, remove or drag modules around the page to add functionality.</li>
<li>View all page attributes – plus listing details, publishing and revisions at the same time.</li>
<li>Workflow steps – ensure pages are edited, approved and published by the correct staff.</li>
<li>Maximize your workspace – Editor and Attributes and Site Tree panels all individually minimize.</li>
</ul>
Superior Administrator Control.
The Administrator Control has also been modified to include
Unlimited Administrative Groups and greater control around the management of the Administrator group permissions. The level of access that each account has can be completely customized to your staff requirements and ability.
Control Administrator access to sections of the website via the site tree. Lower levels will inherit both member and administrator permissions set in the parent page.
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Contegro Version 4 is available now. With the simple usability of the new interface and new key features, the potential for greater productivity and creativity is almost endless. Discover the new face of Contegro today.
<h3>For More Information</h3>
Please visit <a href="http://www.contegro.com">http://www.contegro.com</a>

Contegro v4 Released - Introduces whole new interface and usability improvements

A translation sprint in February followed by two consecutive weeks of TikiFests and industry conferences in March present the perfect opportunity to learn more about Tiki and become more involved with the Tiki Community.
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First up is TikiFest Québec from February 12-14. This event, the seventh to be held in Québec will focus on improving the French translations in Tiki. See http://tiki.org/TikiFestQuébec7 for details.
The Spring Tiki Tour then continues with TikiFest ConFoo in Montréal, Canada, March 4-8. Work is expected to focus primarily on continued integration with BigBlueButton. See http://tiki.org/TikiFestConfoo2011 for details.
ConFoo.ca immediately follows from March 9-11, also in Montréal. This is the second edition of the ))ConFoo(( conference and includes experts in Java, .Net, PHP, Python and Ruby will present solutions for developers and project managers. Tiki Community member Marc Laporte will be speaking about Tiki Suite: Tiki's integration with other open source applications, such as BigBlueButton, Kaltura, Clipperz, and many others.
The tour then heads across the border to participate in Recent Changes Camp 2011 in Boston, Massachusetts. This Open Space Technology format unconference focuses on wikis and collaborative practices and runs March 11-13. Several key Tiki Community members plan to attend the event.
TikiFest Boston, March 14-18, marks the end of this Spring tour. This will be the last major gathering before the release of Tiki 7 (planned for April 2011). Work will primarily entail release preparations, but the TikiFesters will also look at long-term work including the move to Smarty 3 and major rework and improvements to Tiki Trackers. See http://tiki.org/TikiFestBoston7 for details.
Summer Tour 
An even more ambitious Summer Tour is planned in June, July, and August with stops on four continents:
<ul>
<li>Brazil: June 21-27</li>
<li>Strasbourg, France: July 6-9</li>
<li>Portland, Oregon, USA: July 23-24</li>
<li>Haifa, Israel: August 2-3</li>
<li>Berlin, Germany: August 18-21</li>
</ul>
For more information on this Summer Tiki Tour, see <a href="http://tiki.org/Summer+2011+Tiki+Tour">http://tiki.org/Summer+2011+Tiki+Tour</a>. The Tiki Community calendar (https://info.tiki.org/Calendar) contains information on these and all other Tiki Community events.
About Tiki 
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, web-based, multilingual (35+ languages), tightly integrated, all-in-one Wiki+CMS+Groupware, Free Source Software (GNU/LGPL), using PHP, MySQL, Zend Framework, jQuery, and Smarty. Actively developed by a very large international community, Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki is managed by the Tiki Software Community Association. For more information, visit <a href="http://tiki.org">http://tiki.org</a>.

The Cross-border Spring Tiki Tour

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