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

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A new release of mojoPortal has been made available. From the release announcement:
This is a minor release with just a few bug fixes, the primary purpose of this release is to fix a problem in our Shared Files feature and in our alternate File Manager when running under Medium Trust hosting. In the previous release of version 2.3.6.1 we had changed to strong name signed assemblies for NeatUpload and for the NeatUpload Greybox Progress bar.
This strong signed version of NeatUpload allows it to be installed in the GAC (Global Assembly Cache) on the server so it can work in Medium Trust, but there was a bug in the previous release because the NeatUpload.GreyboxProgressBar.dll was not compiled with the AllowPartiallyTrustedCallers attribute so it caused an error under Medium Trust. This release addresses that problem, it just required adding the needed attribute and re-compiling the NeatUpload.GreyboxProgressBar.dll. Since most shared hosting uses Medium Trust we felt it important to get a fix out for this quickly.
<h3>Fixed Bugs</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fix error under Medium Trust in Shared Files and in the Alternate File Manager</li>
<li>Fix bug in SQL CE data layer when creating new sites</li>
<li>Fix bug where file manager did not overwrite existing files</li>
<li>Fix redirect bug in Search Input that could happen on blog detail pages</li>
<li>Fix bug in blog when using google maps (this bug was introduced in version 2.3.6.1 when we added an option to use Bing maps in the blog)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Other Stuff</h3>
<ul>
<li>Upgrade from CKeditor 3.5 to 3.5.1</li>
<li>Updated Italian resources from Diego Mora</li>
<li>Updated Persian resources from Asad Samarian</li>
<li>Updated Portuguese (Brazil) resources from Fabio Mastaler</li>
<li>Updated French resources from Yves Jadin</li>
<li>Updated German resources from Jan Aengenvoort</li>
<li>Updated Spanish resources from German Barbosa</li>
<li>New partial Arabic translation from Sameer Alomari</li>
</ul>
Website: <a href="http://www.mojoportal.com/">mojoPortal.com</a>

mojoPortal 2.3.6.2 Released

mike-johnston

The Asbru Web Content Management system v7.3.4 for .NET, PHP and JSP/Java has been released. Some key fixes and improvements in this version include:
<ul>
<li>Added administration pages search and replace handling of access restricted link content items.</li>
<li>Added hiding of content groups/types without access permissions for Insert Hyperlink and Insert Media.</li>
<li>Improved Insert Hyperlink, E-Commerce and Usage Statistics handling of large numbers of content groups/types.</li>
<li>Improved handling of very large numbers of image content items for Insert Media.</li>
<li>Improved export to static files handling of page, script and style sheet filenames.</li>
<li>Fixed email notification problem for administrators without sub-groups/types.</li>
<li>Fixed links checking problem.</li>
<li>Various other improvements.</li>
</ul>
Grab a copy or read more at <a href="http://wcm.asbrusoft.com/">http://wcm.asbrusoft.com/</a>

Asbru Web Content Management v7.3.4 released

A new release of WordPress became available last night. WordPress 3.0.5 has been made available to the public.
The release addresses a number of issues and provides two additional enhancements:
<ul>
<li>Two moderate security issues were fixed that could have allowed a Contributor- or Author-level user to gain further access to the site.</li>
<li>One information disclosure issue was addressed that could have allowed an Author-level user to view contents of posts they should not be able to see, such as draft or private posts.</li>
<li>Two security enhancements were added. One improved the security of any plugins which were not properly leveraging our security API. The other offers additional defense in depth against a vulnerability that was fixed in previous release.</li>
</ul>
To upgrade, run the tool from within your WordPress dashboard or download from <a href="http://www.wordpress.org">http://www.wordpress.org</a>

WordPress 3.0.5 released

Web Content Management vendor, Bitrix has reported rapid growth in 2010 with a number of key accomplishents. Some of their highlights from 2010 include:
<ul>
<li> Gross licensing figures grew 42% over the previous year. But the important finding is that Bitrix Site Manager experienced growth of 28%, while Bitrix Intranet figures were up 63%, clearly demonstrating the increasing pace in the social collaboration market development.</li>
<li>The registered number of Bitrix product installations has passed 50,000, while Bitrix Site Manager was rated the world’s #3 most popular CMS by W3Techs.</li>
<li>The key customer wins include Condé Nast, Rosno Insurance, AXA Insurance, Vienna Insurance Group, Russian Parliament, Brown&amp;Brown, Campbells, and the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games.</li>
<li>The Bitrix partner network expanded to a total of nearly 6,000 certified partners worldwide being the largest network in the CMS market. The company introduced a number of channel initiatives to support partner development including the Leads Forwarding Program and the Marketing Cooperative Program.</li>
<li>Bitrix introduced six major releases of its flagship products and sixteen industry solutions.</li>
<li>Bitrix Site Manager and Bitrix Intranet have undergone a number of important improvements that address end-users’ and web developers’ core needs. Among them are new usability concept, Amber Ergonomics, turnkey website templates, records management, advanced e-learning, and integrated video conferencing.</li>
<li>The Bitrix platform has confirmed its industry-leading performance indicator by introducing TrafficJuggler™ technology which manages up to 19 million requests per day on hardware typical of the SMB segment, as confirmed by independent testing. This number represents 430% growth in performance in comparison to 2007.</li>
<li>The number of company employees grew 22%, bringing the total staff to 92.</li>
</ul>
“The company performed extremely well in 2010 and we attribute this growth to continuous product innovation, a lucrative partner program and qualified technical support. All these components work together to present the end user with a measurable business value”, said Dmitry Valyanov, President of Bitrix, Inc.
Learn more at <a href="http://www.bitrixsoft.com">http://www.bitrixsoft.com</a>

Bitrix Continues Rapid Growth in 2010

As we know, search engine optimization (SEO) is a critical component for competitive success. Magnolia CMS has published a new Tech Brief ” Search Engine Optimization with Magnolia CMS” that lays out what it means on a content management system level to keep current with various SEO best practices:
•	Creating W3C compliant code •	Providing a sitemap •	Enabling secure crawler access •	Creating search-friendly URL •	Providing a shallow site architecture •	Inserting HTML links •	Preventing broken links •	Categorizing content •	Redirecting traffic •	Optimizing images •	Managing multi-language and multi-regional sites •	Inserting keywords in page titles and description meta elements •	Enhancing your site's link popularity •	Attracting visitors to your site
Please visit: <a href="http://www.magnolia-cms.com/magnolia-cms/tech-briefs/seo.html">http://www.magnolia-cms.com/magnolia-cms/tech-briefs/seo.html</a> to download the free PDF (no registration necessary).

Search Engine Optimization with Magnolia CMS

The development team at SilverStripe have two new releases to announce. Released on the 1st of this month, versions 2.4.5 and 2.3.11 promise to include a number of fixes to the popular content management system.
<h3>Fixes in 2.4.5</h3>
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue in CMS where rolling back to an earlier revision of a page would produce an error (fixed in 2.3.11 as well).</li>
<li>Fixed issue where posting a page comment could post to the wrong page.</li>
<li>Fixed issue where documents and images with uppercase extensions were not accessible.</li>
<li>Fixed issue with “RandomGenerator” causing an error with some restrictive shared hosting environments.</li>
</ul>
Find out more in <a href="http://doc.silverstripe.org/sapphire/en/changelogs/2.4.5" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">the changelogs for 2.4.5</a>.
2.3.11, which is an older version that is still maintained has also seen an update for those customers who still run it. The primary change in this version was:
<ul>
<li>Fixed issue in CMS where rolling back to an earlier revision of a page would produce an error.</li>
</ul>
Website: <a href="http://www.silverstripe.org">http://www.silverstripe.org</a>

Two new releases from the SilverStripe team

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SourceForge.net has been recovering from an attack which they discovered on Wednesday of last week. The attack consisted of a root privilege escalation on one of their platforms which permitted exposure of credentials that were then used to access machines with externally-facing SSH.
As a result of the attack and to prevent further damage, the SourceForge team locked down some of the impacted hosts which in turn, resulted in service downtime for:
<ul>
<li>CVS Hosting</li>
<li>ViewVC</li>
<li>New Release upload capability</li>
<li>ProjectWeb/shell</li>
</ul>
As part of the recovery process, they have begun to to data validation as outlined below:
<blockquote>
It’s better to be safe than sorry, so we’ve decided to perform a comprehensive validation of project data from file releases, to SCM commits. We will compare data agains pre-attack backups, and will identify changed and added. We will review that data, and will will also refer anything suspicious to individual project teams for further assessment as needed.
The validation work is a precaution, because while we don’t have evidence of any data tampering, we’d much prefer to burn a bunch of CPU cycles verifying everything than to discover later that some extra special trickery lead to some undetected badness
</blockquote>
They are working hard to restore all services and a plan is in place to do so. As a result, you may have issues accessing files and / or project info for CMS projects that use their services.
A full report on the attacks and their plan of recovery can be found here: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-attack-full-report/">http://sourceforge.net/blog/sourceforge-attack-full-report/</a>

SourceForge servers recovering from Attack

Convio, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNVO), announced today it has acquired StrategicOne, a leading provider of analytics, predictive modeling and database marketing services. By adding StrategicOne’s capabilities to Convio’s market leading software and service offerings, nonprofits can improve marketing and fundraising results by building stronger relationships with constituents and prospects. StrategicOne services help nonprofits discover, analyze and act on information to more effectively attract new constituents, retain existing ones, reactivate lapsed supporters and steward relationships to higher levels of engagement.
“Enterprise-size nonprofits need solutions that help them apply analytical intelligence to their constituent data to more successfully leverage relationships across channels and across the organization,” said Gene Austin, Chairman, CEO and President of Convio. “The experience and expertise of the StrategicOne team combined with our increased investment in enterprise constituent engagement solutions, further strengthens Convio’s position in helping large nonprofits maximize results.”
“The StrategicOne portfolio of services are designed to increase an organization's fundraising and other engagement results by maximizing the lifetime value of each relationship,” added Austin. “These services provide nonprofits with a better understanding of their constituents and prospects which allows them to develop campaigns across channels that more efficiently and effectively engage people to drive fundraising results, volunteerism, advocacy and other forms of engagement.”
StrategicOne, headquartered in Overland Park, KS, was founded in 1997 with the mission to assist clients with predictive and actionable intelligence to improve constituent acquisition, retention and lifetime value across all channels.
“Convio is at the forefront in integrating online and traditional channels with social, mobile and other emerging technologies,” said Michael Rogers, president and chief executive officer for StrategicOne. “We are proud to be joining a company that recognizes evolving market dynamics and is leading the way in helping nonprofits address those changes with innovative technology and services that help deliver fundraising results.”
Under the terms of the agreement, Convio will pay approximately $5 million in cash and may also pay $1 million in cash based on successful achievement of performance targets payable over three years. Total revenue for StrategicOne was approximately $2 million in 2010. Convio expects the impact of the acquisition to be neutral to non-GAAP earnings per share on a full-year basis in 2011. The Company will provide additional financial detail regarding the transaction on its regularly scheduled fourth quarter earnings call, to be held February 3, 2011.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains certain forward-looking information within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 about Convio, Inc. (“Convio”), StrategicOne, LLC (“StrategicOne”) and the combined company after completion of the transaction. Words such as “expects,” “anticipates,” “targets,” “goals,” “projects,” “intends,” “plans,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” variations of such words and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements which are not statements of historical facts. These statements include, but are not limited to, statements related to the opportunity presented by the acquisition, the needs of nonprofit clients and the addressability thereof by Convio and StrategicOne, the integration of the products and services to be delivered to nonprofit clients by the combined company and the fundraising and other benefits thereof, the financial results of StrategicOne and the impact thereof on the financial results of Convio.
These statements reflect management’s current beliefs, assumptions and expectations and are subject to a number of factors that may cause actual results to differ materially. These factors include but are not limited to: the unprecedented volatility in the global economy; the risk that the future business operations of Convio and/or StrategicOne will not be successful; the risk that Convio will not realize all of the anticipated benefits from its acquisition of StrategicOne; the risk that there will be disruptions following the acquisition in client acquisition and retention; the risk that unexpected costs in the integration and operation of the combined company will be incurred; the risk of litigation related to the acquisition or the operations of the combined company and the outcome thereof; the detrimental actions of competitors; adverse changes and developments affecting our industry; quarterly or cyclical variations in financial results; the risk that Convio is not able to protect its intellectual property rights; risks related to the combined company’s reliance on third parties for products and provision of services; and other factors that are set forth in the “Risk Factors” section and other sections of our registration statement and periodic reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Convio assumes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements as a result of new information or future events or developments, except as required by law.
About Convio
Convio is a leading provider of on-demand constituent engagement solutions that enable nonprofit organizations to more effectively raise funds, advocate for change and cultivate relationships with donors, activists, volunteers, alumni and other constituents.
For more information, please visit <a href="http://www.convio.com/">www.convio.com</a>

Convio Acquires Analytics and Data Intelligence Firm StrategicOne

1024cms – CVI development team has announced the release of beta version 1.1 stable of the 1024cms. The new version includes only admin backend and better performance, improved Search Engine Optimization tools and support for the html editor and FCKeditor WYSIWYG text editors.
1024cms is a powerful Open Source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP and is suitable for many types of website development.
1024cms is designed to run on a Linux web server, running Apache, PHP and SQL. Other platforms and databases (eg Oracle) are also supported but not tested and you can do the test your self and share with our community.
We spent a lot of time evaluating the admin interface from the user's perspective and making improvements as necessary. We also did very rigorous testing on this version. We think this version is the most mature and easy-to-use version.
To test, please visit and download fresh copy of 1024cms.
<a href="http://www.1024cms.org">http://www.1024cms.org</a>

Brand new 1024CMS release

We were recently contacted by FamousWhy.com to review their content management system script, Famous Questions CMS. Famous Questions is an option for those looking to create a site similar in concept to that of Yahoo! Answers for instance.
Some ideas for use may include: being used as a niche social network website for a specific country, business category, profession or job such as : Ask a Doctor, Ask a Lawyer, Ask a Teacher or Ask an Expert for a general community-driven Q&amp;A site.
At first visit to their demo (available online at http://www.famousquestions.com), you can see the default look of the site once installed:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/main-famous-questions-cms-580x382.png" alt="Main - Famous Questions CMS" />
As you can see, the software has been designed to encourage communication either through question / answer style or debate style. The options for both are available and can be used concurrently.
Taking a look at the back end (below) you will see that upon first login you are presented with a number of quick stats signifying the activity on your site:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dashboard-famous-questions-cms-1-580x440.png" alt="Dashboard - Famous Questions CMS - 1" />
You are also shown the last admin activities that have been performed (useful if you have multiple administrators working on the site simultaneously). On the Q&amp;A tab, you are given the option to managed and edit the various questions which have been posed within the system.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dashboard-famous-questions-cms-2-580x440.png" alt="Dashboard - Famous Questions CMS - 2" />
Should you wish to edit the questions, you are given a popup window where you can modify the text, category and topic.
The next tab is quite similar and pertains to the debates section:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dashboard-famous-questions-cms-3-580x440.png" alt="Dashboard - Famous Questions CMS - 3" />
The debates system is an interesting setup. You create a statement or topic for debate, categorize it and publish. Your topic is then shown with a YES or NO button (see below). Clicking on either casts a vote for that choice and gives you an opportunity to state your case. The system works as intended but there are issues such as misspellings in the code which makes the CMS appear less than professional:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/driods-450x535_vg3pb0.png" alt="poll" />Moving on we come to the Users tab where you can suspend, reactivate or edit the individual users within the system:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dashboard-famous-questions-cms-4-580x440.png" alt="Dashboard - Famous Questions CMS - 4" />
Everything works as expected on this tab. Next is the Buzz tab which is used for maintenance tasks. I'm not sure why the developers chose to call it Buzz and not maintenance as it's not particularly clear from the onset what this tab is for until you actually visit it. Personally, I would reword this to make it's purpose more clear.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dashboard-famous-questions-cms-5-580x336.png" alt="Dashboard - Famous Questions CMS - 5" />
Unfortunately, when clicking through the various options on this tab, there is no status shown as to what was actually done. The script just shows a simple message (shown below) that is, once again, misspelled:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/buzz-famous-questions-cms-mozilla-firefox_2011-01-27_08-59-29.png" alt="Buzz - Famous Questions CMS - Mozilla Firefox_2011-01-27_08-59-29" />
Lastly we come to the settings tab:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-09-01-at-5_20_30-pm-450x234_powzft.png" alt="Dashboard - Famous Questions CMS - 6" />
The settings tab is well put together with the option to quickly replace the site logo and favicon as well as enter Facebook API credentials (for integration into the CMS). One is given the ability to manage the basic typical tasks you would expect to find and in the Banner section there is space to add your applicable advertisement code.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dashboard-famous-questions-cms-7-580x440.png" alt="Dashboard - Famous Questions CMS - 7" />
The Banner area appears to have been created strictly for Google Adsense or similar products and does not provide an area or means to add your own banner images.  Under the SEO settings, you are able to edit meta descriptions and keywords for each module and page:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/dashboard-famous-questions-cms-8-580x440.png" alt="Dashboard - Famous Questions CMS - 8" />
That concludes our tour through the admin interface.
<h3>My final thoughts:</h3>
While the system works as intended and provides a good alternative for users who are looking to have their own forum for people to debate or pose questions to one another,  there are small quirks that need to be corrected in order to give this product a more professional feel. Unfortunately, misspellings and poor naming conventions do not give the end user a feeling of security or confidence in the quality of the code. If the developers are not able to catch misspelled words, it lends one to wonder whether they rushed to write the code as well, making mistakes along the way there too.
This is not to say that this is the case in this product, but rather that this is the impression that some users will get when seeing these mistakes. Should they be corrected and the naming conventions be changed to more accurately reflect their purposes, this product will be more likely to be successful.
As with all products, however, there is always room to improve and I am confident that the team at FamousWhy.com will make the necessary corrections with the next release.
From a price perspective this script is priced (as of this review) at $269.
Is you are interested in trying this product, you can do so here: <a href="http://www.famousquestions.com">http://www.famousquestions.com</a> or you may purchase it from <a href="http://ask.famouswhy.com/">http://ask.famouswhy.com/</a>

Famous Questions CMS (Questions and Answers Script) - Review

Bitrix, Inc., a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, introduces a survey of the top-10 most popular intranet collaboration benefits that allow organizations to improve internal efficiency and raise workforce productivity.
Based on analysis of 1.000+ real-life installations of Bitrix Intranet among small and medium-sized businesses and many years of implementing social-enabled intranet solutions, Bitrix has shortlisted the most popular collaboration features.
<h3>Ranked 	Intranet Collaboration Features</h3>
<ol>
<li> Employee availability and presence tracking</li>
<li>Instant messaging and video conferencing</li>
<li>Meetings / conference room management</li>
<li>Virtual workgroups</li>
<li>Shared documents</li>
<li>Workflow management</li>
<li>Routine processes automation</li>
<li>Information and expert discovery</li>
<li>Idea management and social networking</li>
<li>Task management</li>
</ol>
The top ten list reflects the most-used intranet collaboration features and correspond to the most popular adoption patterns. Intriguingly, the priority of listings doesn’t match the wide-spread notion of the customer demand among SMBs. Indeed, task management, shared documents and content search are on the list but concede position to the seemingly less important features like presence tracking, instant messaging and meetings management. This is due to the fact that SMBs normally start the intranet implementation not with the most ‘famous’ features but rather those which are easy to adopt.
The survey confirms that SMBs are mainly interested in simple collaboration tools with the shortest adoption period. The organizations prefer step-by-step intranet adoption that starts from the most commonly used features and ends with heavy-weight functionality. In fact, this process may stretch over months depending on the organization’s readiness, internal governance and c-level support.
Considering the growing popularity of the intranet technology, Bitrix predicts that in the next year this list may undergo a major shift. Many organizations will be one step ahead in the intranet adoption and proceed with implementing more comprehensive collaboration features. At the same time, we believe the market will be notable for greater awareness of the benefits of intranets, as vendors provide better guidance to speed up the technology adoption.
To name names, Bitrix anticipates business processes and records management, social CRM and e-learning to become shortlisted. The leading intranet vendors have already integrated these features to let organizations ease the burden of third-party software acquisition, implementation and maintenance. At the same time, these are crucial tools for effective business management.
“Over the past years, businesses have realized that intranets are no longer the luxury nor the exclusive domain of large enterprises. Affordable and easy-to-use solutions deliver a set of obvious advantages to small and medium-sized businesses by improving collaboration, simplifying communications and strengthening the team spirit with social networking features”, said Dmitry Valyanov, President of Bitrix, Inc.
<a href="http://www.bitrixsoft.com/">http://www.bitrixsoft.com/</a>

Bitrix Announces the Ten Most Popular Intranet Collaboration Features for Improved Internal Efficiency

Bitrix, Inc., a technology trendsetter in business communications solutions, introduces Bitrix® Virtual Appliance 2.0 – the world’s first dedicated ready-to-use solution designed to run social collaboration and e-commerce applications in the most popular virtual environments including VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels Virtuozzo and Amazon EC2. As a result, SMBs can achieve cost savings up to 50% on deployment and management of applications and reach a new level of business continuity and agility.
Bitrix Virtual Appliance allows Bitrix Intranet and Bitrix Site Manager to be installed on the same physical server and share it with other business-critical applications like e-mail, proxy or CRM. The software supports a variety of virtual environments, contains pre-installed settings optimized for maximum performance and distinguished for ease of use and management. Importantly, Bitrix Virtual Appliance is free of charge, relies on free open source solutions and standards, compatible with free virtualization tools like VMware Player, and can be used for third-party PHP applications, thus improving the total cost of ownership of the organizations IT infrastructure.
Virtualization of social collaboration and e-commerce applications brings extra value to SMBs with heightened business continuity, agility and data security. Firstly, it improves time-to-launch as applications don’t require time-consuming deployment and configuration of operating systems or additional software. At the same time, centralized management enables effective orchestration of all business-critical applications from a single console. Secondly, greater availability and shorter disaster recovery time reduce risks associated with service downtime and data loss. Finally, virtualized applications run in a highly-secured sandbox. Coupled with the Bitrix PRO+PRO™ security framework, it delivers rock-solid protection against the hostile environment of the web.
Bitrix Virtual Appliance also streamlines VPS-based deployment of social collaboration and e-commerce solutions by hosting providers. This allows extending the company’s business footprint by selling high-demand software, increasing average revenue per user and creating a new source of recurring profits. A number of hosting providers have already taken advantage of this opportunity.
“Virtualization has already gained popularity in the enterprise market. But the future of this technology strongly depends on the adoption rate among SMBs; it is they who are considered to be the main market driver by the industry analysts. The availability of ready-to-use virtualized social collaboration and e-commerce solutions encourages smaller organizations to consider switching IT infrastructure to a virtual environment”, said Dmitry Valyanov, President of Bitrix, Inc.
<a href="http://www.bitrixsoft.com/">http://www.bitrixsoft.com/</a>

Bitrix Unveils World’s First Multi-Platform Virtual Appliance for Social Collaboration and E-Commerce

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CoreMedia, a leading Web content management (WCM) company, today announced the launch of CoreMedia 6, the latest release of its innovative WCM platform. Purpose built for organizations looking to increase the value of their online channels, CoreMedia 6 enables a more relevant, engaging and “contextual” online experience by delivering the right business data in real time to the right customer touchpoint, including websites, mobile devices, tablets and TV sets. With this new release, non-technical business users such as marketers and website managers can more easily customize the online experience and anticipate customer preferences and intent by adapting the content or communication “on demand” to each user’s unique needs in a way that is context-aware and goes well beyond basic personalization.
According to a report from IT analyst firm, Gartner, “Context-aware computing — the concept of leveraging information about the end user to improve the quality of the interaction — can improve business results.” The report continues, “Though some components of this concept may already be familiar, such as personalization, Web analytics and recommendations, it is the application of such technologies within a cohesive strategy that allows interactions with users to be even richer and more relevant. Information derived dynamically from the evolving interaction itself can lead directly to a more proactive, well targeted, highly relevant experience that encourages further interaction. In this way, a delivered experience can be converted into an ongoing engagement.”[1] CoreMedia 6 was developed with this in mind; to give organizations user-friendly tools that can truly evolve their Web presence to become context-aware in order to meet customer expectations and business goals.
From laptops to tablets, mobile phones and smart devices to social networks, businesses must also integrate support for all devices and customer touchpoints and ensure a consistent experience, even when customers switch access points. To deliver a relevant experience in this cohesive Web environment, WCM software can no longer work in isolation, but must cooperate with adjacent technology such as social networks and internal applications such as ERP, CRM and other backend enterprise systems.
As the only WCM platform focused on contextualization, CoreMedia 6 offers content orchestration and context management capabilities that enable seamless integration with an organization’s existing business infrastructure to create contextually relevant content on demand, while empowering non-technical users to go beyond editing and publishing content to websites and craft compelling customer experiences. Specifically designed for marketers, communications professionals and website managers, CoreMedia 6 enables companies to derive more value out of existing customer data locked in enterprise applications by optimizing every Web interaction. Several new and exciting features in CoreMedia 6 include:
CoreMedia Studio: Zero-install Web-based environment for business users to access their content ecosystem and create, test and preview relevant Web business rules.Enables non-technical business users to anticipate the customer’s preferences and intent by leveraging all available context information and adapting the content or communication across all touchpoints.
Adaptive Device Delivery: Improved capabilities for an application-like experience on touchscreen devices such as iPhone, Android, and iPad through zero-install browser applications and optimized, device-specific rendering. This allows users to create contextualized experiences for mobile phones from the CoreMedia Studio editorial interface without having to rely on IT departments for any changes. Updated Adaptive Personalization Component: Significant updates and new capabilities, including the intuitive Context Rule Creator for CoreMedia Studio that enables non-technical users to easily apply business rules to match content to a customer’s situation and preferences. Improved context profiling allows for processing real-time customer data to dynamically customize the experience regardless of device or channel. “Internet Broadcasting provides all the components media companies need to build profitable digital businesses: world-class technology, engaging content and applications and revenue solutions. Everything we do focuses on the twin goals of building consumer engagement and enabling our partners to monetize those audiences,” said Jeff Kimball, chief operating officer at IB. “Our relationship with CoreMedia gives IB and our media partners the best foundation for our digital businesses. CoreMedia’s combination of world-class technology, culture of innovation and ease-of-use power IB’s market-leading publishing platform. I am very excited about CoreMedia 6; its focus on contextualization is the beginning of a fundamental shift in the market where it is now possible to provide the most relevant user experiences on multiple devices in a cost effective way.”
“Over the past 14 years, CoreMedia has focused on innovating Web technologies to create a truly connected online world that provides consumers with highly personalized, relevant and real-time content, regardless of the channel or device,” said Glenn Conradt, global vice president of Marketing, CoreMedia. “CoreMedia 6 is the next evolution in helping organizations truly maximize their online presence by making it easy to craft a highly customized experience for each and every customer. In 2011, context is king.”
Availability
The new CoreMedia 6 platform will be available in March 2011. The CoreMedia Studio has been beta tested by companies like Deutsche Telekom.
To learn more about contextualization, CoreMedia produced an entertaining video explainer available for viewing anytime by clicking here. For more information on CoreMedia 6 please visit the product information page by clicking here.
About CoreMedia
CoreMedia is a leading provider of Web Content Management (WCM) software to organizations demanding engaging, context-driven online experiences for their customers regardless of channel or touchpoint. The company’s WCM suite offers unique business value by seamlessly integrating digital and social media assets, increasing editorial productivity and accelerating time to market in complex environments. As a result, businesses can more effectively execute their online strategies to engage users, build customer loyalty and ultimately drive greater revenue and profitability.
Established in 1996, CoreMedia is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, with offices in San Francisco, London, and Singapore. CoreMedia’s clients include global brands, such as the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), Bertelsmann, BILD, CLAAS, Continental, EPCOS, Deutsche Telekom, Internet Broadcasting, O2, SEAT, Singapore Press Holdings.
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