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

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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.
<a href="http://www.coremedia.com/">http://www.coremedia.com/</a>

CoreMedia Empowers Business Users to Customize Online Customer Experience with CoreMedia 6

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Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) platform company, announced today the availability of Nuxeo Studio 2.0, a new major version of its customization and design environment delivered as a service.
Built to meet the needs of content management application developers, architects and business analysts, Nuxeo Studio 2.0 raises the bar for usability and rich customization capabilities. It exposes new design tools to help application developers build and deploy new features, content types, automations, and sophisticated views of managed information.
Created to enhance the extensible, plug-in friendly architecture of the Nuxeo platform for content management applications, Nuxeo Studio 2.0 is a major milestone in the Nuxeo strategy to deliver content management development tools as an integrated service, easing the life of application builders and system administrators. No upgrade, no installation is required for customers currently using Nuxeo Studio. Customizations made with Nuxeo Studio provide customers with full backwards-compatibility as product updates are released, reducing work and worry for administrators and app developers. As a hosted customization environment, no effort is required to take full advantage of the new Nuxeo Studio features, or benefit from on-going enhancements and improvements.
Nuxeo Studio has already allowed customers and partners to drastically cut their content application development and deployment times. According to Senior Project Manager Hervé Brasme with Ineat Conseil, a French systems integrator, “Nuxeo Studio is great. In a situation where our customer had tight scheduling constraints, Studio helped us optimize the project implementation time. There is tremendous value in Nuxeo Studio, because its graphical design interface lets our technical team deliver on customer requirements without coding. Our .NET developers are now delivering cutting edge Java-based content applications by using the power of Nuxeo Studio.” Added Brasme, “We’re really looking forward to this newest version of Studio. The ability to configure content views and widgets is exactly what we need to fulfill one of our customer’s requirements. This will help us get a quick final project validation.”
Nuxeo Studio 2.0 includes:
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<li>Content View configuration. Content views are a representation of a repository query result set. The high level of configurability enables the easy development of business data views that are well adapted to the organizational context. This feature gives full control of the content view – from the definition of a dynamic query, to the column display, to the sort criteria. Content view definitions can be applied in many places in Nuxeo DM, such as search results, virtual navigation, and specific content types.</li>
<li>Notifications. Email templates can be defined, with attachments and optional HTML, and included in content automation chains. This means that a specific type of email notification, with specified content, can be triggered for defined types of events.</li>
<li>User Groups. It is now possible to define users and groups within Nuxeo Studio. This makes role configuration easier and enforces the accuracy of the customization deployment.</li>
<li>Widget configuration. In Nuxeo Studio, a widget is a reusable component that defines the appearance and behavior of an input field in a form. Nuxeo Studio 2.0 provides many more configuration options for a widget, including the ability to dynamically control its display depending on contextual information (e.g. user, document type, etc.) so that it is read-only, hidden, or editable.</li>
<li>Content transformation. New transformation capabilities enable Nuxeo Studio users to quickly and easily set up XML and HTML formats or any textual format transformation of business content for external publishing and exporting.</li>
<li>Ergonomic improvements. This new version of Nuxeo Studio comes with improved documentation and improved ergonomic features as requested by Studio users. These include new copy/paste functions, more contextual links to online documentation, and a save verification before closing, making Nuxeo Studio easier to learn and use.</li>
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Content management applications built with the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform, or packaged products such as Nuxeo Document Management, can now be delivered even faster, ensuring backwards compatibility, ease of administration, and rapid-deployment into test or production environments. Fully integrated into the one-stop Nuxeo Connect Portal, Nuxeo Studio 2.0 enhances the end-to-end development and administration experience along with the Nuxeo Marketplace and Admin Center, the online app store for ECM modules and add-ons.
A free, full-featured 30-day trial of Nuxeo Studio is available with sign-up. A live, interactive demo of Nuxeo Studio 2.0  takes place on February 9. Register for the <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/about/events/event-nuxeo-studio-2" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Nuxeo Studio 2.0 webinar</a>.
About Nuxeo Nuxeo delivers a complete, modular and extensible open source software platform for enterprise content management and a set of packaged applications for document management, digital asset management and case management. Designed by developers for developers, the Nuxeo platform offers modern technologies, unmatched modularity, a powerful plug-in model and extensive packaging capabilities to help developers create and deploy content applications. Using a fully open source development model, Nuxeo provides a subscription program with software maintenance, technical support and customization tools. Nuxeo software is trusted by 1000+ organizations across 145 countries, including Cengage Learning, Pearson Education, French Press Agency (AFP), EllisDon and Jeppesen, a Boeing Company. Nuxeo is dual-headquartered in North America (Boston) and Western Europe (Paris). More information is available at <a href="http://www.nuxeo.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.nuxeo.com</a>.

Nuxeo Studio 2.0 Now Available

Atex announces the release of Polopoly 10, the newest version of the industry leading Web content management solution. Polopoly 10 focuses on enhancing the user experience with flexible workflow models for cross-media publishing and a new Solr-based search engine.
Major productivity developments in Polopoly 10 make the system more responsive and efficient at publishing digital content. Enhancements include an updated graphical user interface, keyboard shortcuts, improved tab management, extended drag-and-drop support and on-page editing capabilities.
Polopoly 10 also features a new editorial search based on the open source enterprise search engine Solr. The new search allows Polopoly 10 users to perform full-text searches, faceted filtering and improves presentation of search results. Combined with the Atex Text Mining engine, it helps companies monetize digital content by making it easy to repackage for more digital devices.
“Release 10 represents a major step in the evolution of the Polopoly Web CMS that is meant to help editors control the growing complexities inherent in multimedia production workflows,” said Gustaf Sahlman, Atex Group Director, Products and Technology. “Major enhancements in Polopoly 10 were developed based on the feedback we received from customers and internal ideas as to how Polopoly could help editors improve efficiency. The result is a solution that successfully manages cross-channel publishing and gives publishers the tools to find business success in today’s highly competitive online environment.” Atex will showcase the Polopoly 10 Web CMS in three webinars starting Wednesday, 26 January 2011 and continuing on 2 February and 9 February. The webinars will demonstrate how Polopoly 10 helps companies manage cross-channel publishing and achieve business success.
For more information, please visit the Atex website <a href="http://www.atex.com">www.atex.com</a>

Atex launches Polopoly 10 Web CMS designed to streamline online publishing workflows

SubHub Lite is a new SaaS web CMS which launched on November 1st.
SubHub Lite is built on the latest release of Drupal 7, with a unique admin layer, site builder, design themes and apps (drag and drop functionality). As a hosted platform there's nothing to download to upgrade.
SubHub Lite has been built around the concept of outstanding ease of use.
So many content management systems / platforms have been built with the assumption that their users will have a certain level of technical expertise. This ignores a lot of people who would like to build and manage their own website, but are clueless about how to install plugins and modules, add design themes and generally customize things.
SubHub Lite embraces any kind of user and make it as easy to set up and manage a website, even if you're not particularly technically minded.
From an easy to use site builder, to the use of drag and drop apps and simple design tools, the SubHub team have tried to make their Lite platform as intuitive to use as possible.
Currently, users can add apps to their pages for YouTube, Twitter, Disqus, Flickr and MailChimp. Over the coming weeks and months they'll be adding new apps on a continuous basis. These will include store apps, subscription apps, ad-serving apps, video CDN apps and a lot more besides.
SubHub Lite is currently completely free. In the coming months however optional premium apps will be made available through the SubHub Lite app store. The opportunity will also be made available for developers and designers to build their own apps and design themes, which they can either make available to users for free or at a charge.
Check it out at <a href="http://www.subhublite.com">http://www.subhublite.com</a>

Introducing SubHub Lite - A new Drupal 7 based web CMS

DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft .NET, today introduced support for two innovative new products from Microsoft: WebMatrix and Razor. New adopters of DotNetNuke with limited technical experience can take advantage of the WebMatrix development environment to efficiently build their web site. More experienced developers can leverage the deep DotNetNuke integration with Razor to more quickly and easily create powerful extensions for the DotNetNuke platform. Version 5.6 of DotNetNuke also now includes a Configuration Manager feature which simplifies web site administrative tasks. In addition, the new DotNetNuke Solution Packages enable customers to get up to speed faster and take full advantage of the commercial editions of DotNetNuke.
– Available today is deep integration of the new Razor scripting syntax which Microsoft launched at CodeMash last week. Supported as a core aspect of the DotNetNuke platform, Razor enables developers to quickly and easily create custom extensions for their DotNetNuke web site or web application.
– Through support of WebMatrix, new adopters of DotNetNuke with limited technical experience can now take advantage of the WebMatrix development environment to efficiently build web sites.
– DotNetNuke 5.6.1 features a new Configuration Manager that allows a host user to manage the various configuration files that control the run-time operation of DotNetNuke. Administrators can now select the desired configuration file and load it into a multi-line textbox in a web browser where modifications can be made manually and changes can be saved where they will take effect immediately. Administrators can also upload a Configuration Merge script which can be used to automate many of the more repetitive and complex configuration operations.
– New DotNetNuke Solution Packages enable organizations deploying the DotNetNuke Professional or Enterprise Editions to get up to speed faster, lower their operating costs, and take full advantage of all the available product features. Users can choose the most appropriate package for their situation: Pro Quick Start for first-time DotNetNuke users; Pro Upgrade or Pro Elite for current DotNetNuke users; or, Enterprise Quick Start or Enterprise Elite for advanced users. The Solution Packages include a product subscription and product training in all versions and installation assistance and higher levels of technical support in some of the versions.
– Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community and subscription-based Professional and Enterprise Editions. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered.com, where users purchase third-party module and skin apps for the DotNetNuke platform.
– DotNetNuke is the fastest growing open source web CMS ever with over 1,000 subscription customers, 33,000 Snowcovered customers, and 400 percent year-over-year growth. Connect with us online: Twitter.com/dnncorp (company) or Twitter.com/dnnsc (Snowcovered marketplace); DotNetNuke blogs; and the DotNetNuke Community LinkedIn Group.
According to Shaun Walker, Co-Founder and CTO of DotNetNuke Corp., “DotNetNuke is thrilled to debut support for Microsoft WebMatrix and the exciting new Razor syntax with our latest product release. In addition, the new Configuration Manager feature will allow users to more efficiently administer their DotNetNuke web site. I am also very pleased to launch our new Solution Packages which will enable new Professional and Enterprise Edition customers to get up to speed faster while taking full advantage of the features in those products.”

DotNetNuke Corp. Upgrades Popular Web Content Management Platform

Systems Alliance Inc., a software development firm and systems integrator providing high-value IT and business consulting services, today announced the launch of SiteExecutive 2011, the latest version of its flagship Web content management application (CMS). The release includes updates to the core product architecture and management interfaces, as well as several new and enhanced applications, all of which support the creation of highly engaging, multimedia-rich Web properties.
New and Enhanced Apps Create a Better Web Experience
Marketers are looking for ways of engaging Website visitors with content that will drive business outcomes, from generating leads and sales to collecting donations. With SiteExecutive 2011, Systems Alliance has enhanced and added new apps that will help clients create a more compelling Web experience, including:
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<li> Video Gallery: This SiteExecutive 2011 application aggregates videos from external sources, such as YouTube, Vimeo and MediaExecutive, and organizes them for playback on SiteExecutive Web pages.</li>
<li>Photo Gallery: SiteExecutive 2011 makes the Website photo gallery more effective, especially for display on mobile sites. It features a new photo API which automates image resizing and display based on bandwidth and browser settings.</li>
<li>Event Calendar: A completely revamped Event Calendar application enables the creation of multiple event calendars, which can be rolled-up into an aggregated view that can be sorted by any event criteria (e.g., type, location, organizer, etc.). Fully configurable, the app displays events as a list or calendar, accepts user-submitted events and interoperates with other popular calendar systems.</li>
<li>Profile Directory: The revamped Profile Directory application supports the creation of customizable profiles featuring any number of fields, as well as file uploads for photos and supporting content, such as publications. Systems Alliance will offer hospitals and colleges standard, out-of-the box staff and faculty profiles to accelerate content creation.</li>
</ul>
Core Updates Extend and Simplify Content Creation and Management
These days, “it takes a village,” certainly applies to the process of updating Web content. Content comes from people within and beyond your organization, as well as from other applications, databases and RSS feeds. SiteExecutive 2011 features a number of enhancements and new capabilities which improve performance, while also extending and simplifying content creation and management, including:
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<li> Structured Content API: This API is used for modeling SiteExecutive content such as events and directory listings. Content specialists can leverage the API for developing content that will be search engine friendly and semantically correct.</li>
<li>New Workflow Process: SiteExecutive 2011 enables more efficient review and approval workflow by giving authorized reviewers the right to edit and approve content in a single step. Workflows can also be automated based on specific content variables, further streamlining the review and approval process.</li>
<li>Enhanced user management: This feature is especially useful for sites with large numbers of content authors and administrative users, as it provides a new, more intuitive interface for managing and assigning users and groups.</li>
</ul>
Availability and Licensing
SiteExecutive 2011 is available immediately. Systems Alliance offers the software through perpetual license and SaaS (software as a service) licensing models. To learn more about licensing and pricing, visit: http://www.siteexecutive.com/licensing/.
About SiteExecutive 2011 Web Content Management Software
SiteExecutive 2011 reduces the complexity, cost and effort of building highly effective, engaging Web properties. Selected by organizations of all sizes, SiteExecutive is available by perpetual license or software as a service (SaaS). It lets non-technical personnel create and publish Web content in real-time, while maintaining compliance with organizational processes, branding guidelines and industry best practices. To learn more, please visit: <a href="http://www.siteexecutive.com">http://www.siteexecutive.com</a>.

Systems Alliance Launches SiteExecutive 2011

<a href="http://www.fatwire.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FatWire Software</a>, the largest independent provider of Web Experience Management (WEM) solutions, today announced the availability of the next-generation of its FatWire Mobility Server product.  The solution gives organizations the power to easily mobile-enable their web presence by reusing website content to create optimized mobile web experiences across devices.  The FatWire Mobility Server enables organizations to incorporate the mobile channel as a key component of their marketing and customer experience initiatives.
Increasingly, customers are accessing the web via mobile devices and thus the mobile web has become a critical touch point for businesses to reach customers and prospects.  Websites viewed on mobile devices like the BlackBerry, iPhone, iPad and Android, not to mention thousands of other mobile device types, have become critical competitive differentiators.  Like the traditional web, the mobile web is not only essential for delivering product and service information, but also for fostering deeper, richer customer engagement.
“With the explosive growth in mobile web connectivity, the mobile web has become an essential tool for organizations,” said Kathleen Reidy, senior analyst at The 451 Group. “A mobile web presence that is rich, engaging and efficiently managed will be a significant driver of a positive customer experience, and successful business initiatives.”
Traditionally, deploying and managing mobile websites has been wrought with difficulty and expense due to the large number of different mobile devices, and the difficulty of creating and maintaining multiple versions of the same site for each device type.  FatWire Mobility Server eliminates this pain by enabling organizations to build and manage their site in a single place for deployment across thousands of mobile device types.
Using FatWire Mobility Server, organizations can:
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<li>Easily build a mobile web presence. Content from traditional websites can be easily repurposed for the mobile channel.  Navigation structures from the traditional site can be edited and repurposed for mobile websites. Out-of-the-box mobile webpage templates enable fast, easy creation of mobile sites.</li>
<li>Edit content from one user interface. A central user interface for managing the traditional website and mobile websites enables great efficiencies by eliminating the need to build, format and maintain individual mobile applications or websites for different devices.</li>
<li>Preview mobile sites in-context. In-context preview of what the site will look like on different mobile device types enables easy management of mobile website content.</li>
<li>Offer location-based services. FatWire Mobility Server makes use of device GPS data to deliver location-based content and services to mobile website visitors. </li>
<li>Optimize websites automatically for thousands of different mobile devices. Automatic reformatting of existing website content, including video and rich media, makes it easy to optimize content for display on every type of mobile handset.</li>
<li>Enable a social mobile web experience. FatWire Mobility Server enables organizations to easily mobile-enable user-generated content and other social features </li>
</ul>
“Delivering on today’s high expectations for mobile web interactions across a wide range of mobile devices is proving to be too complex, costly and inefficient for organizations,” said Yogesh Gupta, president and CEO of FatWire Software.  “Organizations today need a centralized online strategy to manage both the traditional and mobile web channels from a single platform.  FatWire Mobility Server is the right solution for delivering a rich cross-channel experience, and doing so extremely efficiently.”
FatWire’s Web Experience Management suite enables enterprises to offer an engaging online customer experience.  The FatWire WEM suite is a scalable platform for enterprises to author and design websites, target and optimize content for specific audiences, deploy sites in multiple languages, offer social computing features including gadgets and user-generated content, and more.  FatWire Mobility Server is the key component of the FatWire solution set enabling websites to be deployed to the mobile channel.
About FatWire Software
<a href="http://www.fatwire.com/home" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">FatWire Software</a> provides Web Experience Management (WEM) solutions that power the web presence for some of the world’s largest organizations and most trusted global brands.  FatWire’s technologies provide the platform for organizations to optimize online customer engagement, with tools that are easy to use and built to scale.  With FatWire, enterprises can use the web to drive revenue, customer loyalty and business efficiencies.  Headquartered in Mineola, New York, FatWire serves more than 500 customers in industries, including financial services, media, technology, manufacturing, public sector, retail, healthcare and more, from offices in 12 countries.

FatWire Announces New Release of Mobility Server for Mobile-Enabling the Web Presence

Telerik, an end-to-end provider of software application lifecycle and content management solutions today announced the launch of Sitefinity 4.0, the newest edition of its powerful, scalable Content Management System (CMS). The platform’s redesigned product architecture delivers an array of enhancements, like advanced workflow control for better business process management and improved ease-of-use, generating considerable productivity gains of up to 70 percent. Underscoring its commitment to meeting the needs of customers developing commercial websites, Telerik also announced its recent acquisition of Mallsoft, leading developers of e-commerce shopping cart technologies. The acquisition lays the groundwork for the integration of advanced e-commerce functionality and a robust system for handling online stores within the Sitefinity platform.
“This is the culmination of many years of real-world experience, extensive time and resources invested in product R&amp;D, and in gathering customer feedback. Additionally, with new frameworks supporting Mallsoft’s e-commerce technologies, users have the ability to fully manage all aspects of their online business, from corporate websites to intranets to online stores. Sitefinity 4.0 has matured into one of the market’s most powerful, comprehensive, and highest quality content management solutions being shipped today,” said Martin Kirov, executive vice president of Sitefinity at Telerik. “By minimizing complexities while providing robust tools and innovative features addressing every aspect of the site building and management experience, Sitefinity 4.0 enables users to quickly, easily, and efficiently optimize their web presence.”
Based on Microsoft’s <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET</a>, Sitefinity is an award-winning CMS for the development and management of websites, intranets, and portals. Sitefinity 4.0 focuses on increasing productivity and usability for both developers and business users alike. As part of its ground-up redesign, various upgrades have been deployed for the development community, such as an open, fluent, and fully exposed API for superior product extensibility and customizability. The backend has also been AJAXified, resulting in substantially improved performance.
Telerik’s recent acquisition of leading San Diego-based web design and development firm, Mallsoft, paves the way for the integration of e-commerce support and underscores the company’s dedication to providing its users with the most complete CMS solution possible. The introduction of Mallsoft’s complementary e-commerce technologies to the Sitefinity platform also assures users will save valuable time, resources, and money by eliminating the need to select and integrate software from third-party vendors. The incorporation of Mallsoft’s development staff and leadership team as part of Telerik extends the company’s presence in the U.S., allowing it to engage more deeply with partners and customers alike.
“We are extremely excited to be a part of the Telerik family, which employs some of the brightest people in the industry.  The vision we saw several years ago with Sitefinity CMS and knowing where it is heading, gave us the confidence that the product will quickly evolve into a leading web presence platform,” said Steve Miller, president of Mallsoft.  “Telerik is an amazing company that truly delivers more than expected, as will Sitefinity eCommerce.“
Telerik’s focus on extended value for business users includes improvements to Sitefinity’s task-oriented UI, facilitating easier browsing and inline editing. Intuitive drag-and-drop functionality enables non-technical personnel to swiftly accomplish tasks previously requiring developer intervention, like button and banner localization, minor page layout changes, and workflow settings updates. Sitefinity 4.0 further improves the business user experience with invaluable SEO tools, like new Forms and Analytics modules allowing users to drill down into site statistics and data to optimize web marketing strategies. The platform is also WebAIM Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG) and Section 508-compliant.
Sitefinity 4.0 incorporates more than 100 <a href="http://asp.net/" target="_blank">ASP.NET</a> AJAX and Silverlight UI controls from Telerik’s market-leading RadControls developer productivity tools collection, enabling swifter and easier site development. With the new Project Manager, developers will see streamlined installation, deployment, and upgrade processes, maximizing efficiency and productivity. Other developer-oriented items making their debut are:
<ul>
<li>· Enhanced workflow management capabilities and seamless Windows Workflow Foundation integration</li>
<li>· Improved widget controls layout and output modifications via the Widget Template Editor</li>
<li>· Advanced facet and network taxonomies support</li>
<li>· Starter Kits with premade site architecture, content, components, and customizable widgets</li>
<li>· Support for more granular permissions</li>
</ul>
For more information on Sitefinity 4.0, please visit <a href="http://www.sitefinity.com/" target="_blank">www.sitefinity.com</a> or follow @Sitefinity on Twitter. For more information about Telerik, please visit <a href="http://www.telerik.com/" target="_blank">www.telerik.com</a> or follow @Telerik on Twitter. For more information about Mallsoft and Sitefinity 4.0 e-commerce functionality, please visit <a href="http://www.esitefinity.com/" target="_blank">www.esitefinity.com</a>.
About Telerik
Telerik is a market-leading provider of end-to-end solutions for application development, automated testing, agile project management, reporting, and content management across all major Microsoft development platforms. Telerik’s award-winning software development products enable enterprises and organizations of every size to generate tangible productivity gains, reduce time-to-market, and stay on time and under budget. With tens of thousands of users in more than 90 countries around the world, Telerik’s customers include numerous Fortune 2000 companies, academic institutions, governments, and non-profit organizations.

Telerik unveils powerful Sitefinity 4.0 content management solution

CMS Summit 25

Find out at CMS Connect 25, August 5 - 6 in Montreal, Canada. Seats are limited.

CMS. Content. AI. Where is it all headed?

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Since the initial integration of BigBlueButton (BBB) into Tiki (first introduced in Tiki 5.0), the Tiki and BBB communities have become strategic partners. Each release of Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware has featured tighter integration, and the Tiki Community extensively dogfoods BBB at each TikiFest.
In this video, Marc Laporte, a member of the Tiki Community and Fred Dixon of Blindside Networks discuss the integration of BigBlueButton within the Tiki infrastructure. Blindside Networks is dedicated to helping universities, colleges, and commercial companies deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.
Watch the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhEFpRzPNTE
In March 2011, the two communities will hold a joint development session to further improve integration. This will be the second TikiFest to focus on BigBlueButton. See http://tiki.org/TikiFestBigBlueButton2 for details.
You can explore the BigBlueButton and Tiki integration and see it in action at http://live.tiki.org. See http://dev.tiki.org/BigBlueButton to learn more about the long-term roadmap for Tiki+BBB integration.
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>.

Collaborative web conferencing with Tiki and BigBlueButton

OpenCms Days 2011 will take place from Monday, May 09 to Tuesday, May 10, 2011 in Cologne, Germany.
OpenCms 8 will bring a major update of the content manager user interface. The new Advanced Direct Edit feature will allow content managers to create, modify and publish new pages directly with drag &amp; drop on their web pages, making OpenCms much more user friendly.
The final version of OpenCms 8 will be made available for public download on the first day of the conference. A release candidate version of OpenCms 8 will be downloadable earlier.
The conference will provide a unique opportunity to learn about the new features of OpenCms 8 directly from the developers.
OpenCms Days 2011 conference will feature 2 parallel tracks with Showcase and Workshop sessions:
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<li>Showcase track sessions will present a variety of OpenCms show cases and best practices from OpenCms projects all over the world.</li>
<li>Workshop sessions for developers provide in-depth, hands-on presentations and workshops about the new technical features in OpenCms 8.</li>
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At the OpenCms Days 2011 conference expo, OpenCms solution providers will exhibit their OpenCms business solutions and enhancements.
OpenCms Days 2011 is targeted towards an international audience. The language spoken at the event is English, and all presentations will be held in English language.
Registration price:
Early bird registration (by March 15): 180,- Euro Normal registration (after March 15): 200,- Euro
The full program and list of speakers will be available March 16, 2011 from the conference website.
Read more on: <a href="http://www.opencms-days.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.opencms-days.org</a>

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With the release of Joomla 1.6, we decided now would be a good time to do a followup to our <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/joomla-1-5-review/">previous review</a>.
Installation hasn't changed and is the same number of steps so we won't cover this during our review. One thing that would be nice to see in future versions and that we would have liked to see in this release would be the automatic removal of the /installation directory at the end of the install. Right now, the installer expects the user to delete this when removing it automatically would make things slightly more convenient.  This isn't a major issue at all, just a simple nice to have that would be good to see in future releases.
The default theme that has been present for years in Joomla releases has been changed to a much plainer one:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/phpfox-580x421_f7kerk.png" />
I couldn't find any mention as to why this was changed in the release notes but it has been. I personally welcome the change, it's nice to see something different for a change. Whether you think it's actually better or not is up to you.
The administration interface has a slightly newer feel to it and some minor changes visually:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/percussion_wykes-199x300_xisnoq.jpg" alt="joomla 1.6 - 2" />
When compared to 1.5, you can see there have been some changes to the default icons such as the addition of the extension manager and a new Edit Profile icon. For comparison purposes, here's a screenshot of the 1.5 admin interface:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/joomla-1_5-1-580x258.png" alt="joomla 1.5 - 1" />
Once of the most touted new features to this release is the addition of much needed ACL functionality. As you add new articles, you'll notice the new section below the editor:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/f772689190b08068bff2c0c6dd8db184_wix_mp_fiuz2g.png" alt="joomla 1.6 - 3" />
It's great to see this level of customization has been added and it puts Joomla in a much better position to contend with some of the other options (both commercial and open source) that are on the market today.
The settings are very straight forward and easy to configure and most users should find their comfort level fairly quickly with regards to setting them up.
Users do not have to configure these individually, however. In the Article Manager, when clicking on the Options button at the top of the screen, you can set defaults for all articles as well:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/cmsc2i-300x145_qgqd2r.jpg" alt="joomla 1.6 - 4" />
There is also a new button that allows editors to save their article and immediately start a new one. A simple addition but a welcome, time saving one.
ACL can also be managed on a per category level, per module and also on individual media itself so there's definitely a solid level of granularity to the controls users now have.
Thankfully, the development team has seen fit to get rid of the Sections altogether. This is a very welcome change and has been a major annoyance (in my opinion) for a number of years. No longer is this an issue.
Moving on to the menu management module, another new addition has been made available. Users can now see which modules are linked to each specific menu. This is a very useful addition and seems to be on mark with the development teams goals for this release which include improving usability and making the system easier to use:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/joomla-1_6-5.png" alt="joomla 1.6 - 5" />
User management also shows a few new additions. Namely, the ACL functionality is present (obviously) and there is also a new function to set a default backend template style. This is a handy addition and allows the designer/developer the additional ability to further customize the experience on a per user basis.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/joomla-1_6-6-580x402.png" alt="joomla 1.6 - 6" />
Access levels and groups are a new addition as well and can be found under the new user menu:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/joomla-1_6-8.png" alt="joomla 1.6 - 8" />
As you can see, there is also the ability to mass mail users from within the backend. This is especially handy and works like a charm:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/joomla-1_6-9-580x272.png" alt="joomla 1.6 - 9" />
Under the components menu, there is a new Redirect option which allows administrators to configure 404 redirects on a per item basis or in bulk. No more 404 pages for users who follow an old link that has changed.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/cmsc3i-580x262_hixvgn.jpg" />
Moving to the management of extensions, there is now the ability to update extensions and find updates.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/joomla-1_6-7-580x93.png" alt="Joomla 1.6 -7" />
For more info on this functionality, here's a video showcasing the new capability:
Developers are also available to distribute multiple modules in a single zip file to easy installation. This is a great time saver for the administrator of the system.
From a template point of view, all core output files are written in XHTML 1.0 Strict. HTML 5 is also supported in Joomla! 1.6 which brings Joomla up to date with current standards. Furthering that, you can easily create minor template variations, which can then be assigned to specific pages on the website.
Overall, I have to say that the Joomla! development team has done an outstanding job improving the system with this release. Joomla 1.6 is a significant improvement and brings with it functionality that lifts it to a new level of competitiveness with commercial competitors.
There is no doubt that the developers were focused on improving usability and ease of use. Their commitment to doing so is very evident and I strongly recommend Joomla! as a viable alternative to those looking for a powerful content management solution.
The Joomla! development team should pat themselves on the back for a job well done.
I've no doubt there are additional changes that I didn't catch. Share your experiences in the comments.
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Joomla 1.6 Review

Joomla (<a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.joomla.org</a>), the world’s most popular open source CMS (content management system), today announced the immediate availability of Joomla 1.6. Users will be able to download the latest version effective this evening from the Joomla website. Designed to offer enhanced site control and a more polished user experience, Joomla 1.6 delivers a variety of new tools to improve website management and access, a more robust organizational structure for content control, and various other user-experience improvements throughout the software. “With new features and capabilities such as the hierarchical design of the access control system, semantic XHTML layouts, one-click extension updates and multi-language functionality, Joomla 1.6 has evolved to become the most user-friendly and powerful tool to develop a web presence,” said Ryan Ozimek, president of Open Source Matters, a not-for-profit created to provide organization, legal, and financial support to the Joomla project. “This has been accomplished through the tireless feedback and work on 1.6 by the thousands of members of the Joomla community over the past year.” Joomla’s ease-of-use and extensibility has made it the most popular and downloaded open source website software in the industry today (it has been downloaded more than 22 million times). It is used for everything from small personal websites to the backend management for some of the largest enterprises and highest traffic sites on the Web, including sites operated by Citibank, eBay, General Electric, Harvard University, Ikea, McDonald’s and <a href="http://community.joomla.org/labels/joomla-portfolio.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">many more</a>. Key Features in Joomla 1.6: ·    New Access Control System – Allows site administrators control over who can view and manage content. ·    Unlimited Depth Organizational Model – Gives site administrators and content creators user-defined category levels that allow for the creation of a category tree with as many or as few levels for organizing articles and other content as needed. ·    One-Click Extension Updates – Allows users to keep sites secure and controlled by simplifying the process of updating extensions. ·      Semantic XHTML Layouts – Provides a better baseline for content presentation. ·      Multi-language Functionality – Allows site builders to implement a multi-language site. In addition, developers and implementers will enjoy the new ability Joomla 1.6 provides in allowing extensions to be built with granular control and permissions. This makes it easier to create more advanced, enterprise-focused applications and extensions for Joomla. Furthermore, there are numerous improvements in areas like code reuse, and considerable success in ensuring the stability of application programming interfaces via unit testing. “The current Joomla Platform provides developers with the tools they need to rapidly build the Web of the future,” said Ron Severdia, a member of the Joomla production leadership team. “Although 1.6 is being released today, the Joomla production team is not resting on its laurels. We're hard at work developing even more powerful Joomla features for the future, such as new search capabilities and new ways to leverage website content.” Visit <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">http://www.joomla.org</a> to download Joomla 1.6 today. About Joomla! Joomla is the world’s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.5 percent of the web running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small and medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create and build a variety of websites and web-enabled applications. Due to its power and elegance, it can be used by the most inexperienced user to the most seasoned web developer. Since its inception in 2005, Joomla has been 100 percent community owned and operated, and its software has been downloaded more than 22 million times. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.joomla.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">www.joomla.org</a>.

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In a market that sometimes seems to be over-saturated with vendors vying for your dollar, it's always interesting to see how the various vendors are changing to stay competitive.  cmScribe has been around for a number of years but has recently “pulled the current software apart and rebuilt it on the latest versions of .NET and Ajax to specifically address web developers' workflow and UI expectations.”
I was offered an opportunity recently to take a look at the new product and here are my thoughts.
cmScribe is a SaaS-based content management system with what I would consider a very reasonable price point. Currently, their product is not available for commercial purchase but the tentative numbers are as follows:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/03/criticschoice_emblem-150x150.png" />
There are quite a few options in the SaaS arena but not very many of them are priced as competitively as this one, in my opinion. I'm eager to see how widely adopted the system becomes once it's officially released.
Please keep in mind that this review is based on an existing beta and, as such, there may be bugs or glitches that I identify. These may not necessarily still be present in the final product.
I was given a demo site to use for this review that was pre-populated with data. Once I logged in with the designer role, I was presented with the following screen:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/03/criticschoice_logo-1024x173.jpg" />
You can see in the picture above that in the top left beside the logo for cmScribe there are three icons that look like this:
<img style="max-width:99px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2011-06-26-at-8_07_16-am-580x272_hy6y9u.png" />
These are used to enter the various modes of page display. For instance, the left being edit mode, then manage mode, and finally, live mode. The screenshot above shows edit mode. Clicking on any of the available green edit buttons brings up a simple ckEditor window for quick editing of content:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/03/cmscritic_logos-1024x372.jpg" />
Editing the content is pretty straight forward and I experienced no issues using the editor. cmScribe uses Ajax to load the various options and I found load time to be very quick. There is also the ability to create a new page which is equally as quick.
The next mode, manage mode.
Once active, the toolbar at the top becomes active with the following functions.
It also presents a screen that looks like this:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/03/cmscritic_logos_2.jpg" />
In this mode, you have the ability to add panels to the various active areas, edit the ones that have something to change, manage the styles and edit the template. One of the things that might potentially confuse new users are the icons on the various areas. For instance, the move icon on the left (pictured below) led me to believe I had the ability to drag and drop the basic content within the various active regions.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/03/display_banners.jpg" />
This isn't the case, however. You have to actually click on the icon to get the option to move it. This obviously isn't a major issue but could certainly lead to confusion for new users. Hovering over this icon should probably present an info pop-up advising users how to use it, currently, it states that you use it to move the panel but it doesn't make it obvious that you need to click on it.
Clicking on Page Settings on the top bar gives a variety of options to configure on a per page basis:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/03/cmscritic_marketing.jpg" />You can also navigate to the various CMS settings using the drop down menu in the top right:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/03/cmsexpert_page.jpg" />
The majority of the options and their respective pages are pretty straightforward to I won't focus too much on the obvious ones other than to say they load fast, work as intended and are easy to understand.
One of the options I found the most interesting is the Content Prototypes option. Clicking this one presents a page such as this:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/cmscribe-8-580x431.png" />
This is a very easy to use way to build content templates which I found exceptionally well put together. Adding the various elements works with drag and drop and clicking on the names (when in blue) presents individual settings for said option. Example:
<img style="max-width:579px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/cmscribe-11.png" />
I have to say, this is one of the best setups I've seen for constructing content templates and it was pleasing and easy to use. I think cmScribe took one of the greatest frustrations new users have and made it simple.  I'm duly impressed.
That's it for Manage mode.
Live mode is simply a preview of how the site looks once you've completed your edits.
For those unsure how to use the system or who require additional assistance, cmScribe has also provided a number of videos that demonstrate how to go from  html/css/javascript and graphical assets to a completed cmScribe website: <a href="http://www.cmscribe.com/support/Developer-Videos/97/" target="_blank">http://www.cmscribe.com/support/Developer-Videos/97/</a>
<h3>Conclusion</h3>
cmScribe has put together an excellently valued SaaS based CMS here. They've taken the most difficult portions of web development and made them as easy as possible and they have done so successfully.
We'll have to wait to see how the final product looks but I have no problem recommending this system to anyone looking for an easy-to-use .NET system that is SaaS based (hosted).
Check them out at <a href="http://www.cmscribe.com">http://www.cmscribe.com</a>

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