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<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/pwpwpw121x0.png" />Numerous upgrades and refinements make ProcessWire 2.4 our most friendly and powerful version yet!
ProcessWire 2.4 is focused on listening to the feedback from of our users and answering with the best CMS experience for web designers/developers and their clients. 
<h2>What’s new in ProcessWire 2.4</h2>
<h3>Field Dependencies</h3>
Thanks to the sponsorship support of <a href="http://www.avoine.fi/">Avoine</a>, we now have support for field dependencies in both the admin and from the API. Your admin form fields can now be shown or hidden based on values in other fields. Likewise, fields can be made required or not required based on values in other fields. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4323-field-dependencies/">More</a>
<h3>New Admin Theme</h3>
<ul>
<li>New and fully responsive default admin theme with 4 color scheme options (configurable from the Default Admin Theme module settings).</li>
<li>Support for admin themes as installable modules. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/4650-new-processwire-admin-theme-on-dev-branch/?p=53671">More</a></li>
<li>Support for multiple admin theme modules to be installed at once. When more than one is installed, admin theme becomes a user profile setting. </li>
<li>New drop down menus providing direct access to fields and templates (for superusers).  </li>
<li>Add New drop-down option for shortcuts to adding predefined page types.</li>
<li>New auto-complete search box with support for searching pages, fields and templates. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/?p=43930">More</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Admin Upgrades</h3>
<ul>
<li>New ability to install and upgrade modules directly from the Admin Modules page. Think of it as a Modules Manager Lite. </li>
<li>The modules screen now separates modules by Site and Core. (Site modules represent user installed modules). </li>
<li>New grid mode available with Image fields. Now you can view all your images in a grid rather than just a verbose list, and you can easily toggle between the two views. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/?p=45453">More</a></li>
<li>New double-click to select all mode for marking all files or images in a field for deletion at once. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/?p=45453">More</a></li>
<li>Core support for font-awesome icons with templates, fields and API level support with Inputfields. </li>
<li>New Link to Child option in the rich text editor link dialog box, along with other enhancements. </li>
</ul>
<h3>Language Support </h3>
Major upgrades to ProcessWire language support for page names/URLs. ProcessWire 2.4 now gives you the simplest, most powerful and stable options for creating multi-language websites. 
<h3>Database Change</h3>
ProcessWire now uses PDO rather than the mysql database driver by default. The mysqli driver will continue to be supported for backwards compatibility. The PDO driver provides better support for named parameters and offers more options for future database portability. 
<h3>New API Additions</h3>
<ul>
<li>New $log API variable for super-easy writing to log files. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/">More</a></li>
<li>New $database API variable for direct access to the new PDO driver. The mysqli driver continues to be accessible with the $db API variable. </li>
<li>New WireArray functions: implode(), explode(), and(), data(). <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/5098-new-wirearray-api-additions-on-dev/">More</a></li>
<li>New $pages-&gt;add() method for creating new pages more quickly and easily. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/">More</a></li>
<li>Conditional autoload modules. Now module authors can specify an anonymous function or selector string to trigger if the module is autoload. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/">More</a></li>
<li>New wireUnzipFile() function for unzipping a file to a destination directory, and wireCopy() function for copying all files from one directory to another (including recursively). <a href="https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/blob/master/wire/core/Functions.php#L264">More</a></li>
<li>Support for sharpening and auto-rotation of images. You may define defaults in your /site/config.php file, and/or specify arguments to any image resize function. <a href="https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/blob/master/site-default/config.php#L114">More</a></li>
</ul>
<h3>Other updates and additions</h3>
<ul>
<li>Built-in abstraction of URLs in textarea fields. <a href="http://processwire.com/talk/topic/3768-processwire-231-dev-branch/?p=41651">More</a></li>
<li>New locked mode for Inputfields where a value can be shown but not edited.</li>
<li>Upgraded installer that now includes selection of color theme, timezone and more. </li>
<li>Support for an HTTP hosts whitelist for added security.</li>
<li>Countless optimizations, fixes and improvements. </li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire/commits/master">See the full list of changes</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>About ProcessWire</h2>
<h3>ProcessWire is a friendly and powerful open source CMS and CMF with an exceptionally strong foundation.</h3>
With all custom fields, an easy-to-use jQuery-inspired API, and a powerful page selector engine, ProcessWire will rise to any task.
Clients love ProcessWire for its no-fuss simplicity and ease of use when editing their site. Designers and developers love ProcessWire for its thoughtful, easy and powerful API-driven approach that keeps them in control of the markup and makes development fun again. Not to mention, ProcessWire's API can also be booted from other applications or command-line scripts, bringing entire new levels of accessibility to your content.
ProcessWire is a modern SEO specialist's dream come true. It uses logical, readable and search-friendly URLs that always reflect the content's home in the tree. Meaning you'll never have to worry about multiple URLs or play duplicate content games. With full markup control, all custom fields, and support for runtime URL segments, ProcessWire lets you take full advantage of all the on-site SEO possibilities without wasting your time on long irrelevant tags and tricks.
ProcessWire is an incredible multi-language solution. With support for multi-language fields, multi-language URLs and a built-in static translation engine, ProcessWire 2.4 makes building and managing a multi-language website incredibly easy!
ProcessWire is designed for the needs of today and not limited by the past. It is equally at home powering small-to-large scale standards-friendly websites, mobile websites, JSON/XML web services, Flash applications, AJAX-driven content, iPhone/Android applications, and more. This output agnosticism drives ProcessWire's simplicity and makes it support, rather than interfere with your work.
ProcessWire is a mature product that comes from a strong bloodline of content management systems developed over more than a decade. ProcessWire runs beautifully on web servers running PHP 5.3.8+ and MySQL 5.
<ul>
<li><a href="http://processwire.com/">Learn more about ProcessWire CMF/CMS</a> and <a href="http://processwire.com/download/">download</a> »</li>
<li><a href="http://processwire.com/demo/">Try out a demo of ProcessWire</a> »</li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/ryancramerdesign/ProcessWire#upgrades">ProcessWire 2.4 upgrade instructions</a> »</li>
</ul>

ProcessWire 2.4 Released

mike-johnston

<a href="https://www.django-cms.org/">django CMS 3.3</a> has been unveiled, and it brings about; speed, enhanced usability, and a whole bunch of other background improvements.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/django_cms.jpg" alt="django_cms" />
After being voted as the <a href="/announcing-the-2015-winner-for-best-open-source-cms/" target="_blank">Best Open Source CMS of 2015</a>; django CMS has gone from strength to strength, boasting nearly 80,000 downloads to date – a figure that continues to rise.
They also have more than 300 developers contributing to their open source project.
django CMS 3.3 builds upon the user interface improvements and touch-screen support features that were <a href="/django-cms-3-2-lands-with-new-interface-enhanced-touch-screen-support/">brought along with django CMS 3.2</a>.
To get us started, here's a video of django CMS 3.3 in action:
<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/pVnITKL8F4M?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
<h2>Speedier &amp; Easier</h2>
First of all, django CMS is now noticeably faster. See for yourself below:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/djangocms325330.gif" alt="djangocms325330" />
On the left, you have django CMS 3.2, and on the right, you have the far speedier django CMS 3.3 (this test was carried out on django CMS' Aldryn Cloud platform).
Furthermore, the django CMS team has modified the admin dashboard toolbar.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/menus-325-1.jpg" alt="menus-325 (1)" />
django users will notice that the History button has been placed in the sub-menu beneath Page. Also, the Language button has been moved to the right, and the View Published button has been renamed to View Published Page.
Those are relatively small changes, but together, I think they make the toolbar look far cleaner. Plus, the View Published button was far too vague, so I'm glad to see it replaced.
<h2>“[django CMS 3.3] Benefits Those With Large &amp; Complex Sites”</h2>
django CMS' core development team member, Martin Koistinen, had the following to say upon the release of django CMS 3.3:
<blockquote>
“We’re especially pleased with the performance improvements we’ve been able to achieve in this release, which particularly benefit users with very large and complex sites. django CMS is now more scalable than ever, and we’ll be building on this progress in future releases.”
</blockquote>
As for the rest of the features included in this update, you can find them all via the django CMS 3.3 <a href="http://docs.django-cms.org/en/develop/upgrade/3.3.html">release notes</a>.
More details on the release of django CMS 3.3 can be found on the <a href="https://www.django-cms.org/en/blog/2016/05/27/version-3-3-of-django-cms-released/">django CMS blog</a>.
To learn more about django CMS, be sure to check out my recently published <a href="/django-cms-review/">django CMS Review</a>. Plus, you can learn a lot from the <a href="/django-cms/">django CMS hub on our CMS Directory</a>.

Django CMS 3.3: The Fastest Version of Django CMS to Date

Today, we're going to announce the winner of the 2014 Critics' Choice CMS Award for Best Open Source PHP CMS.
<img style="max-width:188px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/bestopensourcephpcms2014.png" />
The winner this year will not be a surprise to anyone as it's the very CMS that has been taking over the world of content management of late. We would be remiss to not hand this award to the incredibly popular.
<a href="http://www.wordpress.org"><img style="max-width:400px" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/wordpress-logo400x0.jpg" /></a>
Congratulations to the development team at WordPress on their win. Check them out in our CMS directory here: <a href="/products/wordpress/">WordPress</a>.

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

<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/prestashop666x0-is.jpg" /> The latest release of Prestashop is now available in 1.7.3. Llist below are a few of the new features you can expect to see in this release.
<h2>Improved Stock Management</h2>
You can now define low-stock levels in two different ways:
<ul>
<li>By default, in the product Settings section</li>
<li>Per products by modifying a standalone item or variant.</li>
</ul>
<h2>New Demo Products</h2>
To improve on the ability for users to be able to demo their stores, the team have also introduced a number of new customizable products, vistual products and more as shown below.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/homepage_1_7_3.png" />
<h2>RTL Compliance That Adapts to Any Theme</h2>
There has also been quite a bit of progress made in the migration to Symfony 3.4, which you can read about on their <a href="https://www.prestashop.com/en/blog/prestashop-1-7-3-0-is-available" target="_blank">blog post</a> announcing the release.
For a full list of updates and improvements, check out <a href="https://www.prestashop.com/en/blog/prestashop-1-7-3-0-is-available" target="_blank">this blog post</a>.

PrestaShop 1.7.3.0 Is Available

Liferay Social Office is a unique app that has been around for some timebut up until recently, it hasn't been compatible with the most recent release of Liferay, namely Liferay 6.2. Well, no longer will you have to wait. Social Office is now available and updated to work with the latest release of both the Community Edition and Enterprise Edition of Liferay.
This new release now takes advantage of all of the great new features provided by Liferay 6.2, including the upgrade to AlloyUI 2.0, the revamped Calendar and Document Library and a new, extensible Notifications portlet.
Here's some more info (and some sweet, sweet screenshots) about Social Office for those who are not familiar with it:
Liferay Social Office is a dynamic team workspace solution that provides holistic enhancement to the way you and your colleagues work together. By adapting today's most innovative social technologies to the unique needs of productivity and goal-driven enterprise teams, it enables an important shift in how and why communication happens. Key features include, but are not limited to:
<ul>
<li>Documents: shared document repository with Microsoft Office integration.</li>
<li>Communication: instant notifications, team calendars, webmail, task management and contact management.</li>
<li>Collaboration: integrated threaded discussions, blogs, and wikis with related assets and federated search.</li>
<li>People: searchable user profiles with user tagging, friending, integrated chat and simplified Social Office user management.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/contact_center_notification.png" alt="liferay social office" />
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/site_home_strata_scheme.png" alt="liferay social office" />
Check out more about <a href="http://www.liferay.com/web/vicki.tsang/blog/-/blogs/announcement-social-office-3-0-ce-ee-released-for-portal-6-2">Social Office</a> or learn more about <a href="/products/liferay/">Liferay</a>.

Social Office updated to work with Liferay 6.2

At the end of May, Janus Boye and his <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/conferences/martech-briefing2023">Boye &amp; Co organized two meetups</a> in Europe with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/sjbrinker/">Scott Brinker</a>, the famous author of the <a href="https://chiefmartec.com/2023/05/2023-marketing-technology-landscape-supergraphic-11038-solutions-searchable-on-martechmap-com/">Marketing Technology Landscape infographic</a>, Editor at <a href="http://chiefmartec.com/">chiefmartec.com</a>, and VP Platform Ecosystem at HubSpot. Janus also invited some other speakers to showcase the reality of martech development in different types of companies. Since Kentico was sponsoring the event, I was lucky to attend both of them and can summarize the most interesting takeaways.
<h2>MarTech Supercollision</h2>
Let’s start with Scott Brinker's presentation, “<a href="https://www.boye-co.com/conferences/martech-briefing-hamburg-2023">MarTech Supercollision</a>,” covering several marketing technology topics. He discussed companies' varying levels of maturity with marketing technology, emphasizing the need for investment in people in addition to technology. Scott also explored the concept of composability in marketing, including its importance in creating personalized customer experiences. He analyzed the three different trends in MarTech, calling it “Supercollision” because each would be big enough to shake the industry. Still, they are now happening all at the same time: data, composability, and AI.
Scott has been exploring the MarTech landscape since 2011. There has been a 7,258% growth in the number of martech solutions in the last 12 years. The 2023 infographic contains 11,038 solutions – that’s an 11% increase from 2022, even though there was a 7% churn rate.
And as we discussed during the event, we can expect an even bigger influx of new niche solutions since the development of AI has completely shaken and democratized software development. It’s unexpectedly easy to brief an AI tool to create the right app for your needs and put it to the market.
In my insightful interview with Scott after the event, the conversation also revolved around the rapid influx of tools and innovations in the market and how companies can embrace these changes. Scott emphasized the importance of maturity in utilizing MarTech, stating there's a wide distribution in how mature companies are with leveraging marketing technology. He referred to Avinash Kaushik's 90/10 rule, where 90% of the investment should be in people and only 10% in technology. Scott stressed the importance of investing in people, not just in terms of individual skills training but also in evolving the organization to support what those people want to do.
We also discussed the concept of composability in martech. Scott explained that while there are different levels of composability, most companies are currently at a stage where they are composing relatively lightweight but very useful things. He emphasized the importance of creating a supportive culture that encourages people to experiment with applying these tools. He also highlighted the need to adjust processes to remove some friction, making it easier for people to use these tools.
I found Scott’s analogy of composability to LEGO clever for explaining it to non-tech marketers. However, I argued that in many cases, companies do not need to buy thousands of small bricks to build a LEGO ship. They can use pre-built sets, put them together, and have fun with the result instead of spending hundreds of hours sitting with the most expensive building kits. Sure, there are people who love to spend this time building it from scratch, and it’s fine. It’s just not the majority.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/06/scott-brinker-lego-analogy-1024x502.png" alt="Buy, build, adapt composable images from Scott Brinker's presentation" />
<h2>What about people?</h2>
I already mentioned that Scott emphasized the importance of people during our interview, but there was also another presentation called “The hidden success factor behind MarTech” by <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelika-gust-5a4192205/">Angelika Gust</a>, Head of Marketing at S-Bahn Berlin, focusing on this.
Angelika argued that martech should actually be called “Communication Technology (CommTech)” since it should help anyone in the company, not just marketing people, communicating with the customers. And very often, she said, these hidden champions, employees with direct or indirect customer touchpoints, are not digitally native and savvy.
To maximize the potential of MarTech, companies should focus on transforming these employees into enthusiastic MarTech users. Angelika underscores the need for roles like Data Translator and MarTech Operationalizer, who can bridge the gap between MarTech specialists and other employees. She also highlighted the importance of addressing fears like job loss due to AI advancements.
<h2>The digital experience maturity journey</h2>
The journey towards digital experience maturity is a shared endeavor, as evidenced by the contributions of our own Kentico partners and customers at these two events. Co-founder of <a href="https://www.actumdigital.com/">ACTUM Digital</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/janhavel/">Jan Havel</a>, along with <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/delfinvassallo/">Delfin Vassallo</a>, Marketing Director at <a href="https://www.actumdigital.com/cases/uponor-case-study">Uponor</a>, and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/roelkuik/">Roel Kuik</a>, Kentico Practice Lead at <a href="https://www.avivasolutions.nl/">Aviva Solutions</a>, alongside <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-van-dijk-b176b611/">Michael van Dijk</a> from APS IT-diensten, all shared their unique experiences of re-platforming.
The key takeaway from these presentations is the vital importance of ensuring that technology is in harmony with the specific needs and objectives of the business. By doing so, companies can optimize their technology solutions for the greatest impact. This alignment boosts operational efficiency and enriches the user experience and satisfaction, improving engagement metrics.
Furthermore, these insights highlight the necessity of flexibility and the courage to shift towards different goals and strategies when needed. Whether it's crafting a user-friendly interface for content editors, establishing a unified component library, or tackling industry-specific challenges in B2B e-commerce, the capacity to adapt and pivot is crucial.
In summary, these insights reinforce the mantra of "Listen to understand." Companies can make well-informed decisions about their technology implementations by attentively listening to the needs of the business, the users, and the industry. This approach, combined with a commitment to employee satisfaction and a willingness to embrace change, can substantially enhance business performance and user experience.
<a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/critics/jenda-perla/">Jenda Perla</a> is VP of Marketing at Kentico, and a CMS Critic contributor.

Scott Brinker's "MarTech Supercollision" and Key Takeaways from the Boye & Co Briefings in Europe

jenda-perla

Martech supercollision of text and background moving towards center of light

The popular content management framework <a href="http://www.kajona.de/" target="_blank">Kajona</a> today announced the release of Kajona version 4.4.
Since its founding in 2004, the open-source, PHP5 based platform has grown into a comprehensive and powerful framework that provides a wide range of use with a wide range of modules. According to developers, the main focus of the framework lies in usability and performance.
With version 4.4, Kajona are hoping to enhance their platform like never before, with a long list of improvements. So, let's take a look at what's new for Kajona users.
<h2>Fastsearch Capabilities</h2>
More than 400 changes were integrated by the Kajona team in order to build the new version 4.4 “fastsearch”. Besides the optimization of existing functionality and modules, the new, index-based search engine is the biggest change shipped with Kajona 4.4.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/v4_4_search700x0.png" alt="Kajona 4.4 Search Engine" />
While still being enabled for the backend only, tests prove that the index-based approach provides results way faster, especially for large databases. Complex search queries with combined filters and terms are possible using the API but not yet integrated into the user-interface.
Future releases will concentrate on a flexible, user-friendly query box. The search index is updated automatically as soon as a record is being modified. The definition what contents will be added to the index is made on object / class level; each property marked with “@addSearchIndex” is added to the index during index-updates.
<h2>Messaging, Backend Polishing &amp; More</h2>
The layout of the backend was polished and optimized for Kajona 4.4. Input fields supporting the user by autocomplete suggestions indicate the availability of this functionality by default. The path navigation is able to handle a large number of entries and adopts to the screens width automatically.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/v4_4_toolbar700x0.png" alt="Kajona 4.4 Toolbar" />
When working with a data-record, the different actions are available using a toolbar directly. This avoids the time-consuming navigation via the list-views.
The messaging center integrated into Kajona is now also configured using a new configuration panel.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/v4_4_messaging.png" alt="Kajona 4.4 Messaging" />
The activation of message-providers is now way more user-friendly. The dependency management of packages is now formatted more user friendly, spotting unfulfilled dependencies is now way easier then before.. Built and implemented especially for developers, the new, parametrizable properties reduce the effort to localize interfaces.
Kajona makes use of established and well known syntax, e.g. from the Java-world: It is possible to inject values for the placeholders {0} and {1} into the expression “hello my {0}, today is {1}”, depending on the use case and other conditions.
Since Kajona 4.4 includes several bug fixes, security updates, and updates for compatibility with current web browsers and web server systems, the upgrade to 4.4 is recommended to all users. The update is available and recommended via the integrated package-management.
To find out more about Kajona 4.4, check out their <a href="http://www.kajona.de/en/News/newsdetails.Kajona-V4-4-fastsearch-available.newsDetail.925cc9f52f8a07b45fa8.html" target="_blank">official news release</a>. Additionally, you can dig up some more information on Kajona via our CMS Directory.

Kajona Release Version 4.4 of Their Content Management Framework

The hype around digital experiences, headless, MACH, customer journeys, and other buzzwords can be deafening. 
But what about content? And more specifically, managing content? 
For most people in the CMS industry, managing content is considered "core functionality" when it comes to a content management system, but also an area that hasn't really been front and center for the past few years. 
Managing content – so you can do more with it – has huge potential. But how do you tap into this? 
Let's start our quest for better content management in 2022 by looking at some of the recent analyst reports. I'll then turn to a few other key market trends, provide some inconvenient truths, and finally offer some (hopefully) helpful advice on how you can make progress. 
 
<h2>What do the industry analysts say about managing content in 2022?</h2>
I've looked at the reports, we've talked about them in our recent <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/groups/cms-experts/" target="_blank">CMS Experts group</a> meetings, and to be blunt: there's so much confusion that even industry insiders struggle to navigate this marketplace.  
If you turn to the most recent <a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/webinars/4005210/the-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-digital-experience-platforms" target="_blank">Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Platforms</a>, you can get a glimpse into how one of the larger industry analysts sees the marketplace. As they say in the opening of the MQ report, their focus is on:
"...the demand for platforms to manage digital experiences of customers, partners and employees…"
And the way they look at the vendors is on how well they:
"...enable the composition, management, delivery, and optimization of contextualized digital experiences across multiexperience customer journeys…"
Content is naturally a key part of digital experiences, and Gartner does consider content management a core capability of a DXP. Still, it's listed alongside 14 other core capabilities and 12 optional capabilities. 
16 vendors are included in this year's Gartner report, and content comes up directly and indirectly with a few of the vendors, such as:
<ul>
<li>CoreMedia's strengths in supporting global multisite operations provide a solid platform to ensure consistency for brands.</li>
<li>Magnolia's focus on offering an extensible DXP built from best-of-breed components from different vendors, to the point of enabling customers to replace native content management system (CMS) capabilities.</li>
<li>Oracle's offering being differentiated by content and digital asset management.</li>
</ul>
 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2022/03/gartner-mq-dxp-2022.jpg" alt="Gartner Magic Quadrant for DXP graphic 2022" />
It's also worth noting that Gartner looks at <a href="https://www.doxee.com/blog/marketing/what-is-b2e-and-why-it-is-becoming-important/" target="_blank">business-to-employee (B2E)</a> use cases (traditionally known as intranets) and with some of the tools squarely focused on external use cases like digital marketing. This impacts how well they rate in the "horse race style" evaluation approach. 
A noteworthy vendor in this analyst report: Salesforce, who has been marching towards the leader quadrant for quite some time. According to Gartner, they're still positioned as a Challenger, but they've made a few interesting acquisitions – most notably Slack – with the aim of connecting their suite more deeply as a customer experience hub. Salesforce does seem to have a clear vision for integrating its technologies to deliver a more unified digital experience with brand power. Still, where does CMS, and specifically managing content, fit in the Salesforce stack? 
Competing IT analyst firm Forrester released their Q1 2021 <a href="https://www.forrester.com/report/the-forrester-wave-agile-content-management-systems-cmses-q1-2021/RES161667?objectid=RES161667" target="_blank">Agile Content Management Wave</a> a year ago, which covered 15 vendors (mostly the same as Gartner). The initial recommendation from Forrester to buyers was indeed content focused:
"Deliver on the promise of reusable omnichannel content experiences…"
 
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2022/03/forrester-wave-agile-cmses-q1-2021.jpg" alt="Forrester Wave Agile CMSes Quadrant graphic Q1 2021" />
Further down they mentioned the importance of managing content and experiences centrally to drive reuse. In terms of vendors, they didn't include Salesforce in the report but instead Amplience and Contentstack. 
Forrester hasn't yet released an updated 2022 Agile CMS report, but instead a new report on "<a href="https://www.forrester.com/blogs/why-a-multi-cms-approach-may-be-right-for-your-brand/" target="_blank">Making The Case For A Multi-CMS Strategy</a>." That's back to the age-old discussion of best of breed vs. suites, but also a potential to focus more on where you actually manage your content. That is unless you want to manage your content in multiple systems?
Finally, there's G2, which has its "<a href="https://www.g2.com/categories/web-content-management" target="_blank">Best Web Content Management Software</a>" quarterly grid report. G2 has carved out its own niche with user-based reviews – providing an unbiased, real-world reflection of what content managers and CMS users actually think about different platforms. Interestingly (and confusingly), Hubspot is currently positioned as the Leader on the G2 Grid, but not even mentioned in the reports by Forrester and Gartner. 
We live in confusing CMS times. 
 
<h2>Market trends driving a focus on managing content</h2>
There's always the good advice of not just looking at what someone says, but also their actual behavior.  
The recent acquisition of <a href="https://www.bynder.com/en/press-media/bynder-acquires-content-operations-platform-gathercontent/" target="_blank">GatherContent by Bynder</a> is interesting as it signals an investment in Content Operations or the more hip permutation of "ContentOps." GatherContent was initially a platform designed to "gather content" from different sources (kind of like a pre-CMS, if you will) and has since been developed into a large-scale content operations platform. 
In my analysis entitled <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/blog/2022/3/gathercontent-joins-bynder-to-take-contentops-to-the-next-level" target="_blank">GatherContent Joins Bynder To Take ContentOps To The Next Level</a>, I predict a shift in the content toolstack. Where the past decade has been mostly focused on delivery, content management is really not a solved problem. 
Looking at Google search metrics, can tell you a thing or two about intent and where the market is right now. One telling example: there are many more searches for CMS than for DXP. In fact, we have vendors who have long abandoned the term "CMS" and analysts who have stopped talking about it, evolved its definition, or completely eliminated the category. Meanwhile, there are a huge number of potential buyers that are looking for a new CMS – and using that keyword in their searches. 
There are a few lesser known but still established vendors that are benefiting from this confusion and focusing on managing content. Here's just three examples:
<ul>
<li>Norwegian <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/vendors/enonic" target="_blank">Enonic</a>, with their low friction content platform. Or as they frame it: "The ultimate back-end for your digital experiences."</li>
<li><a href="https://www.coredna.com/" target="_blank">Core dna</a> comes from Australian roots and has invested heavily in being an alternative to legacy technology. Their focus is on making it easy "to build your content the way it makes sense for your business."</li>
<li>"Your content. Better, faster, at scale." This is the positioning statement by <a href="https://kontent.ai/" target="_blank">Kontent by Kentico</a>, the headless CMS that's rapidly growing in adoption on the back of the Czech-based Kentico mothership. </li>
</ul>
Another key market trend is the success of MACH and the <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/blog/2021/10/11/whats-the-mach-alliance-all-about" target="_blank">MACH Alliance</a>. This is indeed a technical focus (Microservices, APIs, Cloud-native SaaS, and Headless) but also opens up different conversations in the enterprise. Historically, many have found themselves having to compromise when making technical decisions, and with MACH becoming more established, it enables customers to look for tools that manage content really well while selecting something else for different use cases. 
One final trend worth mentioning: businesses have a huge focus on building their digital presence, whether its campaigns, new stores, new brands, or introducing new digital functionality, it's always build, build, build. 
While talking about building websites, <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/vendors/wordpress">WordPress</a> remains the world’s #1 CMS. Their Gutenberg Editor was introduced in late 2018 and has made creating and managing digital content much easier. It’s not without controversy, however – one industry blogger even described Gutenberg as a “monumental hack” that is worrisome as a future foundation for WordPress. Will this affect WordPress and its mantle of leadership? Only time will tell.
On the enterprise side of the spectrum, many platforms are doubling down on growth and announcing huge investment rounds, particularly in areas like e-Commerce and headless commerce. One example is Bloomreach, which is keenly focused on being the best SaaS CMS for commerce – and <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/bloomreach-reaches-2-2-billion-valuation-following-175-million-investment-from-goldman-sachs/" target="_blank">recently reached a $2.2 billion valuation</a> with an investment from Goldman Sachs. In the news from late February, Raj De Datta, CEO of Bloomreach, made an interesting comment:
"At Bloomreach, we believe that if the first 20 years of e-commerce have been about standing up the store or simply transacting online, then the next twenty years are about standing out from the crowd or differentiating in the face of increased digital competition and rising consumer expectation."
Besides using a tech solution that fits your needs, I would say that content and how you manage it is how you differentiate in the face of increased competition and rising expectations. That's the key market trend fueling huge investments. 
 
<h2>Inconvenient truths in the CMS marketplace</h2>
There is no "best web content management system." But there is probably a good Web CMS for what you're trying to do, and that's exactly what we focused on at a provocative session at the <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/past-conferences/2005-2009#2009">Boye Aarhus 2009 conference</a> some 13 years ago.
Much has happened since then, but unfortunately, customers still look for the best CMS. That's an inconvenient truth right there, and navigating the marketplace is not much easier these days. I wrote about that confusion in my post last year and offered some hopefully helpful advice: <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/how-to-make-sense-of-the-cms-market-in-2021/" target="_blank">How to make sense of the CMS market in 2021</a>. 
A big part of the problem, and a problem that's been around for a very long time, is how many customers keep creating checklists and producing Request-for-Proposals that ask questions that achieve nothing. Specifically, on selecting a CMS, you might find the open selection process by the web standards committee, W3C, interesting – in particular as accessibility was a key selection criterion. For more read: <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/what-can-we-learn-from-the-w3c-cms-selection-process/" target="_blank">What can we learn from the W3C CMS selection process.</a>
Another key indicator of an immature marketplace, even though this thing has been around for 20 years, is that buyers are not talking to each other as much as they should. That's why we have peer groups; that's why conferences are so important, and that's also why CMS Critic has a big value: so that you can find balance between the vendor marketing and the real story. 
When it comes to managing content, it's interesting that many CMS vendors are also struggling to keep up with the pace. Content migration is still not an easy thing and probably the biggest inconvenient truth that still exists in this marketplace – particularly when it comes to managing content in your CMS of choice. More often than not, it's actually more of a people problem. It's the people and the team who builds your site and, in the process, makes some key decisions – and it's down to the team that designs and implements the content experience afterwards to make it work. 
A bad team without a driver's permit will navigate their CMS of choice into a wall, while a good and experienced team will make almost anything work. 
 
<h2>Manage content like a pro</h2>
Let's wrap up this 2022 post by trying to learn from the best, in particular when it comes to content. 
To a digital leader, there's actually some good news in the world right now, even though the pandemic and the war in Ukraine are both inescapable realities. Digital strategies and playbooks, which used to be gathering dust and a low-priority thing, are increasingly being put to good use. And the importance of a digital mindset is no longer questioned.
To quote Ashley Budd from Cornell: "<a href="https://www.boye-co.com/blog/2020/4/23/we-cant-rely-of-the-content-strategy-of-the-past">We can't rely on the content strategy of the past</a>." The new approach that she advocates includes:
<ul>
<li>creating various ways for people to help and make it easy for them to contribute </li>
<li>providing content themes to showcase the breadth of what your organization can offer</li>
</ul>
There's also progress when it comes to identifying content gaps – that's content you are missing on your website as customers are searching for it or because you've designed your site to focus on health and wellness but are short on authoritative content. There are guides and tools in the marketplace to help you, including from SEO experts like <a href="https://backlinko.com/hub/seo/content-gap" target="_blank">Backlinko</a> and ahrefs that come with a <a href="https://ahrefs.com/academy/how-to-use-ahrefs/site-explorer/content-gap" target="_blank">Content Gap report</a>. Website governance vendor <a href="https://littleforest.co.uk/" target="_blank">Little Forest</a> also has an interesting approach to identifying the content you need to be creating. 
There's also the term "content design." What is that, really? 
According to Melinda Belcher at Mastercard, content design focuses on the objective of driving preferences for their products and services. In other words, content design drives great customer experience through storytelling, clarity, and relevance. Still, content design is far from an established practice as compared to user experience design. Read more in this post: <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/blog/2020/11/13/content-design-drives-great-customer-experience-at-mastercard" target="_blank">Content Design Drives Great Customer Experience At Mastercard</a>. 
When it comes to managing content – and why I firmly believe this will be the year – the single biggest reason is the topic of trust. The <a href="https://www.edelman.com/trust/2021-trust-barometer" target="_blank">2021 Edelman Trust Barometer</a> speaks of a "failing trust ecosystem unable to confront the rampant infodemic, leaving the four institutions – business, government, NGOs and media – in an environment of information bankruptcy."
Content is key to addressing it. To quote <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/speakers/tim-walters" target="_blank">privacy and trust expert Tim Walters</a>, you need to: 
"Embody, demonstrate, and project trustworthiness."
It's not just about compliance. It's not just about designing a better cookie banner or protecting consumer data privacy. In fact, it's what Tim Walters calls a "Global Data Privacy Revolution" – and this also impacts how we manage content and enhance growth. It's <a href="https://www.boye-co.com/blog/2022/3/6/the-necessary-shift-from-privacy-to-trust" target="_blank">the necessary shift from privacy to trust</a>. 
In closing: the best, in my humble view, are the ones who are sharing their work openly. Whether epic successes or that project that could have gone more smoothly, those are the heroes and the stories that drive us forward. If we continue to work together, it might also remove some of the confusion we're experiencing at the moment. 
Good luck with your projects this year! Hopefully, you've learned something about change and how we aspire to manage content. And if you're evaluating a CMS, remember to think about what it means to truly manage content.

Will this be the year where CMS is finally about managing content?

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<a href="https://www.joomla.com/" target="_blank">Joomla</a>, one of the world's most popular content management systems, has opened its digital doors wider than ever before by offering up free, hosted website solutions.
Make no mistake, this is big news from one of the biggest players in the CMS world. Joomla is an open-source, award-winning platform, powering millions of websites and online applications across the world.
Now, thanks to a partnership with hosting company Siteground, anybody can sign up for a free Joomla website via <a href="https://www.joomla.com/" target="_blank">Joomla.com</a>.
<h2>Joomla In Just A Few Clicks</h2>
<a href="https://www.joomla.com/" target="_blank"><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-19700x0.png" alt="Joomla.com" /></a>
To make Joomla.com removes hosting fees, lengthy installations and some expandability options. The result is that a Joomla website is now just a few clicks away from the average person and business. Here are the feature highlights:
<ul>
<li>Hosting for all Joomla.com websites is totally free.</li>
<li>Free site name at the joomla.com subdomain (for example: mywebsite.joomla.com).</li>
<li>Comes pre-installed with additional extensions, templates, and all available languages.</li>
<li>Automatic updates.</li>
</ul>
Joomla.com doesn't offer everything that <a href="https://www.joomla.org" target="_blank">self-hosted Joomla</a> users can get, though.
As of right now, Joomla.com includes a set of pre-selected templates and several very useful pre-installed extensions like Google analytics, Google maps integration, Disqus powered comments and social media sharing options. However, Joomla.com wouldn't be suitable for a user looking to build an advanced website with custom code and a wider choice of templates and extensions. Then again, that's what Joomla.org is for.
Having said that, Joomla has claimed that websites started at Joomla.com can easily be developed later into full-fledged self-hosted Joomla projects without any limitations on extendability.
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The President of Open Source Matters Inc. (which provides legal and financial support to the Joomla project), Sarah Watz, made these comments upon the release of Joomla.com:
<blockquote>“I’m very excited because the new service at joomla.com makes Joomla! CMS a more accessible option than ever.”</blockquote>
I take my hat off to Joomla, for this step towards greater accessibility is precisely <a href="/cms-in-2015-what-we-want-to-see/" target="_blank">what I called for from the world of CMS in 2015</a>.
For more information on this release, <a href="http://www.joomla.org/announcements/general-news/5580-joomla-offers-free-hosted-website-solution-on-joomla-com-in-partnership-with-siteground.html" target="_blank">check out the Joomla announcement</a>. To get your free Joomla website, head over to <a href="https://www.joomla.com/" target="_blank">Joomla.com</a>.
Also, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/joomla/" target="_blank">Joomla via our CMS Directory</a>.

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Lights, Camera, Action! Jahia's first ever conference being held in the City of Lights, Paris is getting ready to begin. With double the expected attendees, this is sure to be an event to please.
This first ever conference is being held at the beautiful  <a href="http://www.pan-piper.com/"> Pan Piper conference center </a> in downtown Paris.
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The event opens with an introductory keynote from Elie Auvray (CEO of Jahia) and Mick MacComascaigh,  Research VP with Gartner and the Lead Analyst for Web content management, this event is sure to bring the latest knowledge about the goings on at Jahia and the future of their position within the content management industry.
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Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia
The program for the event can be found here: <a href="http://www.jahiaone.com/program">JahiaOne Schedule.</a>
Stay tuned for more from the conference throughout the day by <a href="http://twitter.com/cmscritic">following us on Twitter</a> or following the <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23jahiaone&amp;src=typd">#JahiaOne</a> hashtag on Twitter. Of course, we'll be offering up many posts throughout the event on the site as well.

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2014 was a busy year for the world of CMS.Another round of <a href="/cms-critic-awards/">CMS Awards</a> saw yet more platforms crowned champions of their sector by both the people and the appointed judges.Exciting new projects like The Grid were revealed for the first time, while existing powerhouses like Prestashop and Squarespace released major new versions. Ghost continued to grow, WordPress continued to dominate and the realm of open source continued to be awesome.The CMS Critic team, otherwise known as Mike Johnston and I, also made some waves. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.websitebuilderscritic.com/">Website Builders Critic</a> was launched, and <a href="/cms-critic-on-tour-paris-amsterdam-basel/">we traversed Europe to attend a range of events</a>, including Jahia One, Hippo Get Together and Magnolia.With that busy period now behind us, we can begin to look forward to another year's worth of excitement. So, what do we want to see?<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/macbook-480221_1280-1700x0.jpg" /><h2>1. More of Ghost</h2>Still relatively new to the scene, Ghost has impressed us thus far, and we'd like to see that continue.The blogging platform — which boasts a cloud-hosted as well as a self-hosted version — <a href="/blogging-platform-roon-io-acquired-by-ghost/">recently acquired Roon.io</a>, and is gaining traction are credibility all the time as a powerful, yet simple blogging solution.Quite frankly, Ghost is the most exciting platform to talk about at the moment. Not because it's the most powerful, or the most flexible, but because it has chosen an extremely popular niche (blogging) and has made it its sole aim to make life easier for those who take part in it. A bold and interesting mission.<h2>2. A Community Building CMS To Step Up</h2>Online communities and social networks are plentiful, and there are certainly a good number of enterprise solutions available to create excitingly powerful news ones.However, when it comes to the average startup looking for a cheap or even free solution, social networking and community CMS' are few and far between.Products like SocialEngine, PHPFox, Oxwall and Elgg are fine, but I'm not sure they're quite fine enough. In fact, they're quite equally not fine enough. I can't point at any of them as truly solid and encompassing solutions, and that's a big problem. I'd like to see at least one of them step up, or, failing that, another product step in.<h2>3. More Free &amp; Open source Awesomeness</h2>2014 saw the introduction of <a href="/hands-on-with-prestashop-ondemand/">PrestaShop Cloud</a>, the first truly free and open source cloud-hosted eCommerce solution. A massive milestone in the history of open source, in my opinion.Hippo CMS also showcased its contributions to the world of open source via its <a href="/how-open-source-software-transformed-a-nations-police-force/">digital reformation of the Dutch police force</a>. A riveting story about how open source software is changing the world.These are just two of the countless examples of free and open source awesomeness in 2014 alone, and we hope that awesomeness increases as we move into 2015.<h2>4. More Innovation</h2>All forms of software need to innovate in one way or another in order to survive. Nothing moves quite as fast as the Internet, so any CMS standing still is essentially committing suicide.Some notable examples from 2014 include <a href="/the-grid-artificial-intelligence-meets-web-design-or-does-it/">The Grid's supposed artificial intelligence</a>, <a href="/the-first-of-its-kind-pikock-launch-layout-slider-to-simplify-website-building/">Pikock's carousel style website builder</a>, and <a href="/remarkable-re-writing-the-content-management-experience/">Remarkable's “AXM”</a> release. Those kinds of innovations are great to see. New products with new goals, what else could we ask for?Also, with wearable technology now gaining traction in the real world, it will be interesting to see how the CMS world reacts as we move through 2015.<h2>5. More Accessibility</h2>Every CMS vendor in existence should be thinking about making their product more accessible.Although many website builders and other platforms have dedicated apps for mobile devices, Magnolia led the way for enterprise CMS by impressively releasing an <a href="/magnolia-the-worlds-first-mobile-optimized-cms/">iPad (and then a non-tablet specific) version of Magnolia 5</a>. It wasn't just responsive, it was functionally customized and tweaked for a mobile user's needs.Enterprising companies around the world are changing the way they work. Technology has eased the hours and days that the average employee spends at their desk or in front of a laptop. Modern enterprise platforms need to recognize this, and adapt accordingly.<h2>6. More Updates</h2>In 2014, both Ghost and LightCMS laid out an excellent example of how updates should be handled.Ghost <a href="/ghost-0-5-released-with-re-written-admin-ui-multi-user-support-more/">announced that it would release a small, yet worthy update every fortnight or so</a>, and they've stuck to their word. LightCMS didn't quite match that frequency, but they did success in releasing a flurry of updates throughout the year, each one relatively large, too.Understandably, not every product out there can match these two when it comes to constantly updating and improving. Each product has different teams behind it, different financial structures, different niches to serve, and so forth. However, I can't see any harm coming from my suggestion that more CMS should take a digital leaf out of Ghosts' and LightCMS' book.<h2>7. Less Fanboyism</h2>WordPress, Drupal &amp; Joomla fans, I'm looking at you in particular.Mike Johnston and I both touched on this topic a few times in 2014 (check out <a href="/wordpress-joomla-and-drupal-are-not-the-best-cms/">Why WordPress, Drupal &amp; Joomla Are NOT The Best CMS</a> as one example), but I think it's wise to really drive this point home. No CMS has a monopoly over any niche. Some products simply work better in certain circumstances, while others excel elsewhere. It's that simple.In 2015, I'd like to see the fanboy mentality ease off a little. Nuanced discussion trumps, “But WordPress/Drupal/Joomla rulez!”, every time.Well, that's everything on our list. What's on yours?

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Mobile Marketing is huge and businesses around the world are scrambling to find ways to reach mobile customers in new and innovative ways. There are an estimated four billion mobile phones in use around the globe, 75% are SMS-enabled and 27% are smartphones.  It goes without saying that this is the market to be in if you are an advertiser.
ExactTarget has foreseen this and has announced the release of their new mobile marketing tool, MobileConnect.
<h2>What is MobileConnect?</h2>
MobileConnect is a tool designed to make it easy to create, target, send, and track SMS marketing campaigns.It integrates with their <a href="http://www.exacttarget.com/interactive-marketing-hub.aspx" target="_blank">Interactive Marketing Hub</a> as well giving you a unified view of each customer across all your marketing channels.
Here are some screenshots to give you a better idea as to what it looks like / how it works:
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/mobileconnect-01-message-editor-620x430.png" alt="Send personalized SMS marketing campaigns and preview your messages." /> Send personalized SMS marketing campaigns and preview your messages.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/booking-image11_dfmdbb.png" alt="Store your customer data in the Interactive Marketing Hub to easily create email and mobile marketing campaigns." /> Store your customer data in the Interactive Marketing Hub to easily create email and mobile marketing campaigns.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/mobileconnect-03-message-details-620x465.png" alt="Gain access to real-time reporting on your SMS program performance." /> Gain access to real-time reporting on your SMS program performance.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/best-social-network-software_al3f93.gif" alt="Manage SMS marketing alongside other interactive channels with one central calendar. " /> Manage SMS marketing alongside other interactive channels with one central calendar.
The SMS functionality within the system allows marketers to send SMS messages in over 80 countries which makes it a valuable asset for those with either a local or global presence. Also, within the application, you can easily manage short codes,  add or remove keywords, and edit subscriber lists.
Looking to do some reporting? MobileConnect offers real-time reporting on your SMS program performance, including summaries of opt-ins, opt-outs, messages sent, and delivered. There is also the ability to utilize a host of template ranging from quizzes, surveys, and contests to mobile tickets, alerts, and coupons.
According to ExactTarget CEO, Scott Dorsey:
<blockquote>
“With the launch of MobileConnect, ExactTarget is democratizing mobile marketing, providing a new approach that makes mobile more accessible and easier to use than ever before. Our revolutionary approach to mobile enables marketers across all segments of the market to easily create and integrate SMS into interactive campaigns across email, social media and the Web – all through an intuitive user interface that serves both beginners and highly technical marketers.”
</blockquote>
Interested? You can learn more about MobileConnect on their website: <a href="http://www.exacttarget.com/products/mobile-marketing.aspx" target="_blank">ExactTarget MobileConnect</a>

ExactTarget Introduces MobileConnect to Help Businesses Market Across Mobile Devices

<a href="http://www.telerik.com/" target="_blank">Telerik</a>, which was recently acquired by <a href="https://www.progress.com/" target="_blank">Progress</a>, <a href="http://www.telerik.com/company/press-releases/2015/01/14/progress-launches-new-cloud-mobile-development-features-in-telerik-platform-release-highlights-great-momentum-in-first-year" target="_blank">has announced</a> the introduction of cloud mobile development features to its popular Telerik Platform solution.
Over 40,000 organizations across 94 countries make use of Telerik products, including around 450 of the Fortune 500.
The aim of these new features if to help make mobile development a faster, more powerful experience for Telerik users. Currently, the Telerik Platform is the only cross-platform mobile development platform that combines rich UI tools and cloud services to build compelling apps, regardless of operating system, device or technology.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/telerik_logo-1700x0.png" />
<h2>New Marketplace, New Templates &amp; A Screen Builder </h2>
Telrik has certainly paid attention to the needs and wants of the average marketer working within their enterprising target market. Here are some of the major updates introduced to the Telerik Platform:
<ul>
<li>The new <a href="http://plugins.telerik.com/" target="_blank">Verified Plugins Marketplace</a>, a first-of-its-kind gallery of Cordova/PhoneGap plugins, creating feature-rich applications using open source Cordova APIs</li>
<li>Screen Builder (currently in beta) accelerates PhoneGap app scaffolding and enables both developers and business users to create 80 percent of the mobile app from pre-built and pre-wired screens – without ever touching code</li>
<li>New mobile app dev quick-start templates, making mobile development easier and more guided than ever</li>
<li>NativeScript, (still in private beta), the Telerik open source project, now includes robust support for CSS styling of native app UI, an improved cross-platform JavaScript framework, support for third party native libraries and the ability to build native apps using Command Line Interface.</li>
</ul>
As you can see, Telerik Platform solution has opted to streamline and simplify the design and development process, with their, “Screen Builder” and quick-start templates. 
Aaron Mahimainathan, SVP DevTools &amp; Platform, Telerik, A Progress Company, made these comments:
<blockquote>
“The Telerik Platform solution demonstrates our capabilities within the mobile space and our ongoing commitment to the developer communities we serve. Making the development process a seamless experience–regardless of the development approach–is a top priority. After many successes, including thousands of apps built, a global customer base and a ‘Visionary’ position in the Gartner MQ for Mobile App Dev Platforms, the latest Telerik Platform release makes it by far the most robust platform in the market for creating beautiful enterprise and consumer apps.”
</blockquote>
For more details on this update, check out the <a href="http://www.telerik.com/company/press-releases/2015/01/14/progress-launches-new-cloud-mobile-development-features-in-telerik-platform-release-highlights-great-momentum-in-first-year" target="_blank">Telerik press release</a>, and the <a href="http://www.telerik.com/" target="_blank">Telerik website</a>.

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