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

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Nintex, the global standard for process management and automation, today announced new competitively priced automation apps – Nintex Drawloop DocGen® and Nintex Drawloop DocAutomation™ – designed to increase productivity for sales professionals worldwide.
“Every sales team can benefit from automation,” said Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. “By automating the creation, routing and execution of data-driven documents with our Nintex Drawloop DocGen and DocAutomation apps, sellers can generate accurate proposals, quotes, invoices, welcome letters, contracts and NDAs, and execute any document requiring electronic signature fast with built in Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign.”
<h2 id="new-productivity-apps-for-sales-professionals">New Productivity Apps for Sales Professionals</h2>
Nintex Drawloop DocGen works behind the scenes to merge data entered via customizable forms with any custom or standard object stored in a company's CRM system or in any system of record. The information easily flows into pre-approved templates in Word, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF formats to ensure every document is accurately generated. Pricing starts at $20 per month per user.
Nintex Drawloop DocAutomation accelerates end-to-end sales processes with Drawloop DocGen®, Nintex Forms, and Nintex Mobile Apps with built-in Nintex Workflow routing to eliminate delays, drive collaboration and make the capture of electronic signatures fast and secure with new <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2375365-1&amp;h=902548351&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintex.com%2Fworkflow-automation%2Fe-signature%2F&amp;a=Nintex+Sign%E2%84%A2+powered+by+Adobe%C2%AE+Sign" rel="nofollow">Nintex Sign™ powered by Adobe® Sign</a>. Workflows can be easily customized to sales tasks like updating CRM records, storing or routing documents for internal reviews and approvals. With the app, users can auto-assign tasks, alerts and follow-ups to ensure sales activities are prioritized and completed. Pricing starts at $40 per month per user and includes 500 free Nintex Sign transactions in first year contracts. Volume-based pricing is also available.
“Seventy percent of organizations are in the midst of digital transformation initiatives,” says 451 Research VP Sheryl Kingstone. “Apps that automate time-consuming, error-prone processes and document-centric workflows help sales teams realize greater revenue performance and deliver better customer experiences.  In conjunction with CRM systems and other sales-oriented applications, Nintex's Drawloop DocGen and DocAutomation offerings eliminate the manual processes that distract sellers from identifying, nurturing and closing deals.”
The automation of document-centric business processes also helps sales organizations accelerate sales-to-cash, increase sales effectiveness and realize higher ROI from CRM investments. Additionally, it helps sellers capture and better utilize customer data, improve compliance, identify process inefficiencies, simplify document execution and quickly onboard new customers.
Download 451 Research's Business Impact Brief “<a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2375365-1&amp;h=3601599003&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintex.com%2Fresources%2Fdocument-automation-sales-success%2F&amp;a=The+Impact+of+Document+Automation+on+Sales+Success+and+Digital+Transformation" rel="nofollow">The Impact of Document Automation on Sales Success and Digital Transformation</a>” to learn more or to start a free trial of Nintex Drawloop, visit <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&amp;l=en&amp;o=2375365-1&amp;h=1341199014&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintex.com%2Ftrial%2F%23salesforce&amp;a=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintex.com%2Ftrial%2F%23salesforce" rel="nofollow">https://www.nintex.com/trial/#salesforce</a>.

Nintex Introduces New Automation Apps for Sales Professionals

mike-johnston

<a href="https://www.contentstack.com/?utm_source=prnewswire&amp;utm_medium=press%20release&amp;utm_campaign=2019_02_13_contentstack_best_year_history">Contentstack</a> today announced that sales grew by 300 percent year-over-year in 2018, with 100 percent customer retention. The results were fueled by strong market demand for headless content management systems (CMS) to replace outdated, inflexible content management systems from legacy vendors.
According to Forrester, content microservices and APIs point toward the future architecture of digital experiences. Compelled by the need to deliver content-rich digital interactions on mobile, web, and everywhere, companies are taking an API-first approach and adopting headless CMS.
“2018 was a historic year for us — we set an impossible goal and then exceeded it,” said Neha Sampat, chief executive officer for Contentstack. “We accomplished this by expanding our sales team, hiring top talent into our marketing, product management, and customer success departments, and making operational improvements that enabled us to onboard new customers in record time. Based on our early 2019 efforts, we are already strongly positioned to deliver another record-breaking performance this year.”
<h2>Customer Wins and Funding for Global Expansion</h2>
Leaders across industries such as retail, financial services, energy, gaming and aviation joined Contentstack’s roster, which now includes customers in every geography around the world. Beyond websites and mobile apps, major companies are powering voice, virtual reality, support, and in-game experiences with Contentstack.
Validating the company’s growth trajectory, Contentstack secured funding, led by Illuminate Ventures and backed by GingerBread Capital. The funding enabled Contentstack to double go-to-market operations and open new offices in Austin, New York City, Phoenix and San Diego in the U.S. and Pune in India.
“Contentstack has attracted dozens of marquee customers based on its API-first content management technology that creates personalized experiences across the web, mobile, chatbots and more,” said Cindy Padnos, founder and managing partner at Illuminate Ventures. “We are confident that Contentstack will continue to innovate and grow at the impressive speed they’ve already demonstrated and we are excited to be an early partner.”
<h2>Product Innovation and Accolades</h2>
Contentstack won the 2018 Aragon Hot Vendors™ Award in Dynamic Experience Management: From Headless CMS to Personalized Customer Journeys. The awards recognize new and emerging technology providers that are noteworthy, visionary, and innovative. Contentstack was praised for having extensive support for both developers and business users, support for workflows, automated publishing schedules, and project spaces, and a rapidly growing partner network — it was chosen as the preferred API-first CMS for the SAP Cloud.
On the product front, Contentstack delivered 120 releases to customers in 2018, including many “first and only” innovations, including its award-winning Experience Extensions for turnkey integrations with third-party technologies. The company now offers in-line insights and tools – such as personalization and recommendation engines, analytics suites, and translation software – and Modular Blocks for drag-and-drop creation of sites and apps.
“Our approach is paving the way for Digital Experience Platforms,” added Sampat. “We now live in a time where businesses expect flexible content management and publishing capabilities that break away from the content being tied to the design. With our amazing team, we are constantly bringing to market countless features and enhancements for enterprises to manage their content and create a better customer experience.”
<h2>About Contentstack</h2>
Contentstack™ – the pioneer in API-first, headless CMS technology and a leading Digital Experience Platform – accelerates and simplifies content management across today's and tomorrow's digital channels, including web, mobile and IoT. Contentstack's award-winning technology has been recognized by leading industry analysts as a catalyst for a new generation of digital customer experiences and for its ability to power omnichannel content management. From desktops to smartphones, from kiosks to smartwatches, from billboards to jumbotrons, from dashboards to VR headsets – content is delivered with the push of a button and optimized for every screen, device and channel. Learn more at <a href="https://www.contentstack.com/?utm_source=prnewswire&amp;utm_medium=press%20release&amp;utm_campaign=2019_02_13_contentstack_best_year_history">www.contentstack.com</a>.

Contentstack Delivers Best Year in Company History

Joomla 3.9.3 is now available. This is a security fix release for the 3.x series of Joomla which addresses 6 security vulnerabilities and contains 30 bug fixes and improvements.
<h2 id="what-s-in-3-9-3">What's in 3.9.3?</h2>
Joomla 3.9.3 includes 6 security vulnerabilities fixes and several bug and improvements, including:
<h3 id="security-issues-fixed">Security Issues Fixed</h3>
<ul>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Lack of URL filtering in various core components (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/765-20190201-core-lack-of-url-filtering-in-various-core-components.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Browserside mime-type sniffing causes XSS attack vectors (affecting Joomla 1.0.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/766-20190202-core-browserside-mime-type-sniffing-causes-xss-attack-vectors.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Additional warning in the Global Configuration textfilter settings (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/767-20190203-core-additional-warning-in-the-global-configuration-textfilter-settings.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Stored XSS issue in the Global Configuration help url #2    (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/768-20190204-core-stored-xss-issue-in-the-global-configuration-help-url-2.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – XSS Issue in core.js writeDynaList (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/769-20190205-core-xss-issue-in-core-js-writedynalist.html"> More information »</a></li>
<li>Low Priority – Core – Implement the TYPO3 PHAR stream wrapper (affecting Joomla 2.5.0 through 3.9.2)<a href="https://developer.joomla.org/security-centre/770-20190206-core-implement-the-typo3-phar-stream-wrapper.html"> More information »</a></li>
</ul>
<h3 id="bug-fixes-and-improvements">Bug fixes and Improvements</h3>
<ul>
<li>Prevent renaming/deleting the template index.php file <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23654">#23654</a></li>
<li>Smart Search improvement <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23736">#23736</a></li>
<li>Contacts banned fields removed <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23585">#23585</a></li>
<li>Improvement of the Integration tab display <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23711">#23711</a></li>
<li>Fix the category filter for featured articles <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23454">#23454</a></li>
<li>Fix for the Template Style field in the menu manager <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23556">#23556</a></li>
<li>Breadcrumbs for tags <a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/pull/23599">#23599</a></li>
</ul>
Visit GitHub for the full list of<a href="https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms/milestone/41?closed=1"> bug fixes</a>.

Joomla 3.9.3 Released

<a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/cc-sitejet">Sitejet</a> is a comprehensive website builder that combines web design, content management, and project management into one complete platform. The brains behind the operation are a group of friends from Germany who initially developed the product as an in-house tool to support their own web design agency before deciding to launch it to the public in 2018.In this review, we will give you an overview of how Sitejet actually works so you can decide if it’s the right fit for you.<h2>Getting Started</h2>Setting up your Sitejet account is a simple process of filling in a few fields with your name, email, and company details. It’s as easy as that. You’ll start off with a 14 day free trial which gives you full access to “try before you buy”.<h2>Usability</h2>As soon as you log into Sitejet you’ll notice that it appears much more advanced than the standard website builder. This indicative of its primary market of designers and agencies.There are an extensive range of customization options available which could be overwhelming for newbies and the WYSIWYG editor uses some technical terms that may initially confuse the less experienced user. However this shouldn’t be an issue for the professional market that Sitejet is targeting.For the web design pros who aren’t interested in the drag-and-drop feature, manual coding is also available with HTML, CSS, or Javascript coding options.It’s also worth noting that new users are presented with a checklist guide to help navigate the website creation process step-by-step, so the learning curve is manageable regardless of your level of experience.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2019-02-11-at-12.png" />Editing the website is pretty intuitive once you get started and everything is very cleanly laid out. When you’ve chosen your template (see next section below), its added to a list in your dashboard where you select the “edit” button to view your site. At this point you can add/replace images and/or text blocks, move elements, change backgrounds, and more, in just one click.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/screen-shot-2019-02-11-at-13.png" />I did notice one particular issue with usability which was the menu font size. The font is very small and might be difficult to read for some users.<h2>Templates</h2>To begin building your site, you can select a template out of the selection available or choose a blank template to work from. I’ve heard people say that the range of templates isn’t great, but I thought there was a good selection of high quality options. Personally, I’d rather be given the option of 70+ top-notch templates than have to navigate through 1000s of often dubious options on WordPress.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sitejet-review---5.png" />If you’re not happy with the selection available or need help with building your own custom site, you can work with one of the Sitejet design team by contacting them directly.<h2>Dashboard</h2>The Sitejet dashboard will take you from start to finish on each of your website design projects. This is an impressive system that facilitates collaboration, project management, and site maintenance all in the same place.You can work with multiple websites at once, manage the status of each project, create a to-do list that checks off each stage of development, and monitor the progress of each project you’re working on.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sitejet-review---3.png" /><h2>Collaboration Features</h2>Sitejet makes client management a breeze for web designers. There are three collaboration options available depending on your requirements:Collaborate With Colleagues: This function is allows design teams to work together on projects by leaving notes for each other, etc. without the need for individual logins.Collaborate With Customers: With this function, customers can follow your workflow through each stage and leave project feedback as needed during construction.Customer Self-Service Portal: Using the self-service portal, designers can hand the website off to the client whilst retaining control of the account and limiting any potential damage by restricting the access the client has to site elements.<h2>Customer Support</h2>The customer support available to users is better than I’ve seen in many other website builders. The Sitejet support system includes a wide range of tutorials (including video), a comprehensive FAQ section, and a step-by-step onboarding system. The support team is also on hand 24/7 on live chat.<h2>Pricing</h2>There are three plans to choose from after your 14 day free trial has ended: Professional, Team, and Agency.Professional: Manage 1 website with free hosting and an automatic website generator. $5 p/mTeam: White label tools, all professional features, and multi-user permissions for up to 3 users. $19 p/mAgency: White label tools, all professional features, multi-user permissions for up to 10 users, and an additional website export option. $89 p/mThe Professional plan is a good starting point but you’ll need to upgrade to the Team or Agency plan if you want to avail of the collaborative features available.<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sitejet-review---4.png" /><h2>The Final Verdict</h2>Score: 4/5<a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/cc-sitejet">Sitejet</a> is a refreshing alternative to WordPress and an excellent tool for any designer or agency to have in their kit. The interface is clearly designed with its target market in mind and offers powerful customization tools that really set it apart from the rest. The high quality templates also demonstrate that this product was developed by designers for designers.Sure, there’s a bit of a learning curve in comparison to less comprehensive website builders on the market. But this is more than just a website builder. It’s a CMS, website builder, and project management system combined. So the extra bit of time it takes to get used to navigating the platform is definitely worth it.I highly recommend <a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/cc-sitejet">checking out Sitejet</a> if you’re in the web design game. Have you tried it out yet? Let us know in the comments section below.

Sitejet Review - A Website Builder for Designers

Elcom today unveiled the new version of its Digital Transformation Platform – Elcom V11. This release supports the need for staff to consistently deliver meaningful and superior digital experiences, by giving them the enterprise tools to elevate their performance.
Ryan Bloch, COO and General Manager at Elcom, explains, “Both internal and external audiences are demanding improved digital experiences. Our goal has always been to make it easier for all staff to meet this need efficiently and securely. With 80+ enhancements to existing functionality, as well as the addition of several new capabilities, organisations can now execute their digital strategy faster and smarter, without sacrificing the usability they have come to expect of the platform.”
This feature-rich update provides a new level of flexibility and security to the content creation and management experience. Some highlights organisations can look forward to:
· New Suite of Enterprise Reporting. Several new reports enable administrators to easily keep track of system errors, as well as security permissions for groups and individual users on both a granular and high level. Publishers and content owners gain detailed insights into digital assets across their sites including content downloaded and updates made, to monitor content activity and drive smarter insights for the future.
· Enhanced Security. An extra layer of security can be added to the login process with Two-Factor Authentication. This requires a user to enter a secure pin, one-time QR code or other information only known to that user, protecting private account information from external threats.
· Powerful Compliance Tool. Highly customisable, the new Acknowledgements module can be used for an external audience to request consent to use cookie tracking or to request staff or other internal audience acknowledge they have read an important article or message. Coupled with detailed tracking, Acknowledgement is a powerful and easy way to meet both regulatory standards and corporate compliance.
· More Identity Management Options. Along with integration to SAML and Active Directory, administrators can now use Okta as an identity provider. This offers administrators a new way to securely and automatically import users into their Elcom platform, as well as providing single-sign on capabilities to offer end-users a seamless experience across their connected platforms.
· Full Video Sharing Support. V11 offers full support for popular video sharing platform, Vimeo, to easily share Vimeo hosted videos on an Elcom site.
· Flexible Corporate Directory. Emerging from a major revamp, the new corporate directory brings with it completely configurable fields and organisation charts. Administrators can easily display information where and how they want it, with complete flexibility over the look and feel, making it easier than ever for staff to find the right person to assist them.
To learn more about how Elcom V11 can help elevate your digital performance, <a href="https://hubs.ly/H0gxKC00">click here</a>.

Elcom Version 11 Brings New and Enhanced Digital Performance Capabilities

<a href="https://umbraco.com/apps/">Umbraco Apps</a> launched today at Umbraco.com, offering web developers and content editors easy access to “best of breed” extended features and functionalities for the open source Umbraco content management system (CMS). The new online catalog of Umbraco-compatible extensions—both free and fee-based—provides third-party software that has been selected as the best among the 1000+ available from Umbraco’s vast and active community of independent developers and commercial technology partners.
Umbraco Apps demonstrates the versatility of the “Friendly CMS,” which gives developers the flexibility and freedom to build websites, apps and other solutions with the look and features they want, while enabling editors and content creators to easily and quickly get content in front of their customers.
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“We believe in a ‘best of breed’ strategy, so as a company, Umbraco focuses on making our CMS the easiest and friendliest available for developers, content editors and end-users alike,” said Niels Hartvig, founder and chief unicorn, Umbraco. “At the same time, we recognize that many end-users want additional capabilities such as e-commerce and personalization solutions built into their sites, so we embrace third-party software that adds these features to Umbraco. While Umbraco can do much on its own, adding functionality from one or more of our trusted partners gives users the ability to accomplish even more tasks so they can get exactly what they want from their websites.”
</blockquote>
Umbraco Apps starts with 20 extensions offering capabilities such as analytics, translations, e-commerce, personalization, Intranet, SEO, communications and social media. Several dozen more apps will be added to Umbraco Apps over the next few months.
“While other companies boast thousands of extensions, this makes it incredibly difficult for end users to pick the right one for them; and in any case, a good number of those may be outdated, redundant, and unsecure,” Hartvig added. “While more than 1000 solution providers have built Umbraco-compatible solutions, we are limiting Umbraco Apps to those that meet a certain quality standard, with documentation, so end-users can trust they’re getting real value.”
Umbraco Apps will be available as “Community Apps,” extensions created by the community and offered without cost or product support, and “Premium Apps,” which are created by the community or third-party technology companies, offer professional support and have a commercial purpose, with some requiring a fee.
<h3>Become an Umbraco App Partner</h3>
In addition to providing easy access to the Umbraco Apps, the catalog opens a new promotion channel for the featured apps and their providers. Companies interested in submitting their own solution to become an official Umbraco App Partner must have a solution that: * Completes a task or solves a problem for an Umbraco end-user. * Is not provided “out of the box” with the core CMS. * Is compatible with one of the latest versions (3 minor) of Umbraco CMS, ideally also Umbraco Cloud. * Offers user-friendly documentation.
More details on requirements can be found here: <a href="https://umbraco.com/become-an-umbraco-">https://umbraco.com/become-an-umbraco-</a> app-partner/
<h3>About Umbraco</h3>
Umbraco is an open source CMS built on the Microsoft .NET platform. Often referred to as the “Friendly CMS,” Umbraco gives developers the flexibility and freedom to build website, apps and other solutions with the look and features they want, while enabling editors and content creators to easily and quickly get content in front of their customers. Created in 2005 by Danish developer Niels Hartvig, Umbraco also offers the Umbraco Cloud, providing all-in-one Azure hosting and predictability in cost, performance and time. More Than 500,000 websites run live on Umbraco CMS and the Umbraco Cloud, supported by more than 220,000 very active Umbraco community members.  For more information, visit <a href="http://www.umbraco.com">http://www.umbraco.com</a>

Umbraco Apps Launches with ‘Best of Breed’ Extensions for Open Source Content Management System

Standing in the way of fresh digital products and speed to market are outdated workflow and business processes bound by legacy technology and siloed content.
Companies need to move beyond traditional waterfall models of product development, where each team waits in line to contribute their part. The modern model is agile, as people work in parallel on a cross-functional team that includes anyone who plays a part in the customer lifecycle—each doing his or her part in what can be likened to a “digital factory.”
Customers are now accustomed to a continuous stream of innovative digital products that are tailored for their individual needs. Companies that can meet these expectations are repaid with a highly engaged customer base whose interactions with the aforementioned digital products feed the targeted development of new digital products—not to mention the bottom line.
It’s the best kind of virtuous cycle, but it doesn’t come easily. In fact, for some companies it doesn’t come at all.
The demand chain and digital factories
Digital products — ranging from apps and services to websites, digital signage and customer touchpoints that haven’t even been invented yet — are now core components of businesses, brands, markets and customer value.
Organizations are spinning up new digital products on a continuous basis in response to market demand. Some of these products may be a way to build loyalty with a customer base, expand current market share, take risks and enter new markets or product lines. And it’s not just startups causing this disruption,, incumbents are striking back by building these digital factories as well. Companies that fail to do so risk losing time, money, market share, customers and even staff as talented existing and future employees look for dynamic (and profitable) workplaces using the most current technology.
The digital factory approach enables the kind of agility and flexibility this dynamic model requires. However, for many companies this means a complete re-evaluation of how teams, processes and technologies interact.
Why? For one thing, it’s likely that existing monolithic systems and architectures run counter to the digital factory concept. The goal of digital factories is to unleash teams to spin out digital products quickly. Creating a viable product with plenty of features requires not only a transformation in processes and culture, but supporting technology that compliments developer workflows, speed and agility.
Most monoliths either address a fraction of customer needs by supplying millions of unused and cumbersome features that do not necessarily reflect the goal of organizational agility and velocity, or the monolithic solutions require significant modification and customization. Worse yet, monolithic systems being operated today within the enterprise may not be able to handle the needs of customers even a year down the line – even with massive customization efforts. Right when a customer has completed one endeavour for a particular touchpoint or audience, the next touchpoint or audience is already interacting with their competitor that is already in that next space.
Spinning up a new product or service could take weeks or even months in this model. If something isn’t quite right with the product and it has to be tweaked, the entire cycle begins again, leading to huge deficits in time and expenditure for the company.
Building the digital factory
The cloud brings companies a big step closer to a working digital factory because it enables them to decouple services and continuously deploy software using a stack of primitives. Organizations can pick and choose solutions based on how well they accomplish a specific task, rather than playing catch-up with technology and trying to add feature upon feature to an already bloated offering.
Companies can make the final leap to a larger digital transformation with a digital factory that breaks down silos and connects developers, designers, content creators and other strategic digital contributors.
Some of the major benefits include:
<ul>
<li>A digital factory’s modular, services-oriented architecture enables continuous deployment — not to mention speed and resiliency — by breaking everything into small pieces.</li>
<li>Teams are encouraged to experiment — the digital factory model enables teams to fail fast and inexpensively.</li>
<li>Digital factories mitigate the risk that comes with vendor lock-in and the need for significant customizations, putting companies in a position to change direction quickly and lead emerging markets and channels.</li>
<li>Digital factories increase internal morale, innovation, and the quality and quantity of talent coming inbound to help these organizations in this new world.</li>
</ul>

Why your organization’s ability to compete depends on its ability to reinvent itself as a digital factory

As an advertiser or marketer, you have a lot on your plate. And it’s not just you; <a href="http://www.thedrum.com/news/2017/03/10/the-drum-launches-webinar-tackle-overworked-marketers">53% of marketers</a> say they have “too much to do with too little time.”
You’re probably looking for ways to streamline your work and get marketing results faster. You don’t want to spend hours monitoring and analyzing metrics like time on page, bounce rates, etc. to determine the quality of traffic coming into your site.
And you don't have to anymore.
The <a href="https://www.finteza.com/en/integrations?utm_source=www.cmscritic.com&amp;utm_campaign=0773.en.finteza&amp;utm_medium=articles&amp;utm_term=finteza.wordpress.plugin&amp;utm_content=learn.more">Finteza WordPress plugin</a> provides a faster and better way to track traffic quality.
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It saves you hours you’d have wasted monitoring multiple metrics to determine traffic quality. It does this by analyzing visitors’ behaviour on your pages, showing you what percentage of them — from specific sources — are relevant and non-relevant.
Finteza displays traffic quality this way:
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The colours in the traffic quality bar represent the following:
●      Green represents quality traffic.
●      Yellow indicates visitors coming from proxy servers, VPN, Tor Browser, etc.
●      Red symbolizes traffic you don’t want; it covers traffic from spammy IP addresses or hackers and visitors trying to falsify request parameters and cookies.
●      The grey colour represents traffic from social networks, instant messengers, and search engine bots.
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You can also dig deeper by tracking the quality of traffic from specific sources like Facebook Ads, Instagram Stories and so on.
For example, here’s how the tool shows the rate of quality vs inferior traffic from Facebook Ads for a certain site:
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This way, you get the real gist of how much quality traffic is coming from every channel you’re spending your advertising and marketing budget on.
Even more, the plugin is free; you can download it <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/finteza-analytics/">here</a> or simply search for the Finteza plugin from your WordPress admin dashboard and install it.
To use the Finteza WordPress plugin, you’d need to get a website ID which you can easily register in the plugin’s settings page.
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Once you’re registered, you can begin tracking your site traffic quality right away.
<h2>In conclusion</h2>
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With major enhancements in areas such as artificial intelligence (AI), integration to leading productivity and creative applications, and extended content connectivity options, LTS 2019 reinforces Nuxeo’s focus on helping enterprises transform their businesses with content and data.
“Nuxeo has long been a widespread exponent of artificial intelligence and LTS 2019 delivers cutting-edge capabilities that raise the stakes in the AI game for CSP vendors,” said Chris McLaughlin, chief product and marketing officer at Nuxeo. “The improvements we’ve made in AI and other areas enable us to deliver the industry’s most modern and extensible Content Services Platform, but they’re only the beginning. With a move to a continuous delivery mechanism in 2019, we’re striving to ensure that new features will be rolled out even faster than ever before.”
Updates and enhancements featured in <a href="http://mailstat.us/tr/t/ioxeugnhjrhphki1/6/https://www.nuxeo.com/about/what-is-new/?utm_source=LTS2019&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;utm_campaign=LTS2019%20announcement&amp;utm_content=Press%20Release#lts-19" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener">LTS 2019</a> include:
●      Strengthened AI framework. A streamlined pipeline is now available to make building and training AI models much more accessible. Nuxeo customers can employ custom data models as well as train 3rd party AI engines (i.e., Google Vision, Amazon Rekognition or Amazon Comprehend) on their own data sets to deliver real business insights, even on business-specific content.
●      Federation Blob Provider: The Nuxeo Platform can now manage binary content “in place” (i.e. content stored in external ECM or EFSS systems). In addition to extending Nuxeo’s content federation strategy, this enables its customers to get all the benefits of a modern CSP (scale, search, workflows, automation, permissions) without the cost and pain of forced migrations.
●      Office365 Integration: Nuxeo users can now benefit from advanced metadata management capabilities, deep AI functionality, powerful search, permissions management, and more – all while transparently editing files from within the Office 365 suite.
●      Enhanced Annotation Capabilities: LTS 2019 includes enhanced capabilities for annotations, including the ability for users to annotate office documents, images, videos, and PDFs for review/validation processes or for media enrichment.
●      New Adobe CC Connector: A new Adobe Creative Cloud connector has been rebuilt from the ground up to improve the user experience and leverage the full capabilities of Adobe CC 2018.
●      Pluggable Accelerated Transfer for Upload Services: Nuxeo can now be easily plugged into any direct upload service that provides file or object transfer acceleration. As a result, Nuxeo users will enjoy faster uploads of large content assets like 4K video files via Web UI (the Nuxeo Web client). Transfer acceleration is now available for AWS S3, and connections to additional services can be easily created (such as for Azure or other specialized vendors).
●      Identifying Similar Content: Nuxeo now supports “More Like This” type queries, which enables intelligent searches across a repository for content that’s close to the content of a given image, document, case or other business object. This is particularly useful in case management projects where finding similar cases can reduce resolution time.
●      Bulk Actions Framework: Nuxeo has streamlined bulk operations with a Bulk Action Framework built on a Kafka-based streaming infrastructure. This allows customers to execute custom actions on millions (or even billions) of content items easily, and in a highly-scalable and robust manner. This can be particularly useful for enterprises that have high-availability solution requirements, or that have specific needs around bulk or volume processing of content or data.
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The sad truth of the matter is that there are plenty of ways for intruders (and those with bad intentions) to cause website owners a ton of grief. This can range from attacking your website for the purpose of simply taking it down to attempting to hack it to spread malware. To combat this, it's important to be prepared. In this article, we'll share with you how to secure a website in 5 steps.
In fact, a <a href="http://www.wpwhitesecurity.com/wordpress-news/statistics-70-percent-wordpress-installations-vulnerable/">study conducted by WP White Security</a> found that 73% of all WordPress installations contained known vulnerabilities that would have quickly and easily been found through the utilization of automated tools.
It’s these types of security holes that have resulted in cyber criminals hacking into over 170,000 back in 2012 alone – a number that is probably even higher by now.
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<h2>What makes websites vulnerable to hacking?</h2>
Websites are appealing targets to hackers for a wide variety of reasons, mainly the number of weak entry points – such as the numerous plugins available for CMS like WordPress.
Many people assume that, because CMS like WordPress and Drupal are highly popular and recognized names, there must be some form of protection. They can’t just leave all of their users vulnerable, right?
Think again.
CMS are inherently open to attack because of the fact their foundation is an open source framework. These types of shared development environments have myriad benefits, but they also come with just as many issues.
Because of the popularity of the top CMS available out there, the security holes within these systems are actively being identified and targeted, both by the good guys (security research teams) and the bad guys (cyber criminals).
Once these holes have been found, they turn that particular CMS into treasure troves of data for cyber criminals, even to the point of creating an entry point for automated attacks on a massive scale.
To add salt to the wound, there are users who use the same passwords for all of their accounts, or even just use weak passwords. These leave their admin accounts open to attacks, even if they aren’t aware of it. This can result in their websites being injected with all sorts of malware and escalating the issue beyond the point of control.
These issues can even result in the websites becoming blacklisted by Google and other search engines, which adversely affects their business or brand as a whole.
<h2>How to get started securing a website</h2>
There are numerous things users can do to secure a website against vulnerabilities and fortify their systems from attack.
These include:
<h3>Using a strong password</h3>
To begin with, if your website is powered by a popular CMS such as WordPress, you want to makes sure that you secure it with a very strong password. Hackers and anyone using a WordPress website themselves are very familiar with how to access the administration interface and begin attempting to login.
Even if you are not using WordPress, it doesn't take much effort to scan a website for a login / admin interface so be sure that if someone DOES find this interface, they have no chance of logging in and taking over your website.
<h4>How to set up a strong password to secure a website</h4>
Always secure with a strong password to make this process harder for hackers and other cyber criminals. Additionally, you’re going to want to hash the password(s) you use by implementing a <a href="https://auth0.com/blog/hashing-passwords-one-way-road-to-security/">slow hashing algorithm</a>.
BONUS: Block the IP for at least one minute after x amount of password authentication failures. Three is the recommended amount of attempts before IP blocking.
Use a secure password generator to create something that is next to impossible to guess: <a href="https://www.lastpass.com/password-generator">LastPass Secure Password Generator</a>
<h3>Having a firewall in place is another important way to secure a website</h3>
Setting up a firewall will not only further secure your website / CMS, but it will also help you keep an eye on suspicious activity and track them by providing a related IP address for the source of that activity.
Once you’ve detected and found suspicious activity, you can then blacklist the IP the firewall provided.
Having said that, if you are not the type who wants to have to do these things manually, then it's a good idea to put in place a security service to do so for you. Most of the offerings out there are relatively reasonable in price and will save you a lot of headaches.
<h4>Our recommended website security company:</h4>
SiteGuarding.com
I recommend putting in place a website security service such as <a href="http://bit.ly/cc-siteguarding">SiteGuarding.com</a> to keep your website safe from hacking attempts. SiteGuarding is a security service that protects your website against malware and hacker exploits.
<h3>3 . ALWAYS Backup your CMS</h3>
This is one of the most essential aspects of CMS and website security and is actually just an overall good habit to have.
Have a backup system in place that will make it possible to recover your website in the event something happens. Always make sure your backups are updated as much as possible to avoid any security vulnerabilities or further problems down the road.
BONUS: Make sure your CMS and any extensions it may have are updated. These upgrades should be double-checked to ensure they are fully compatible with your system before you allow or make them. Of course, you’re always going to want to backup your CMS before conducting these updates.
If you currently don't have a means of backing up your website, we recommend going with a solid hosting company that offers this service for free.
Here are a few we recommend that have daily backups:
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<li><a href="http://www.anrdoezrs.net/click-7040701-10833186">GoDaddy</a></li>
<li><a href="https://kinsta.com?kaid=QQMMZOGRMCQE">Kinsta – If you run WordPress</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.bluehost.com/">BlueHost</a></li>
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<h3>4 . Protect against SQL-injections</h3>
An SQL-injection is a cyber attack that embeds malicious code within your CMS and its backend database. Once it’s in there, that malicious code then creates database query results and / or actions that you definitely do not want executed.
There are several types of SQL-injections and they enable the cyber criminal to do a whole variety of things. These include:
<ul>
<li>Editing, deleting, reading, or adding to the content of your CMS</li>
<li>Accessing and reading source code from the files on the CMS server</li>
<li>Write files to the server</li>
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While it is true that any one of those things relies heavily upon the capabilities of the cyber criminal, any SQL-injection can still lead to you losing control of your database and web server.
In order to prevent this from happening, <a href="https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/understanding-sql-injection-protection/">use prepared statements</a>, as these separate the structure and data. This allows the SQL server to interpret them without being open and vulnerable to a hacker that is trying to alter the structure of the SQL query for their own malicious purposes.
The best way to protect against these is to implement a website security service that will keep your site protected against attacks. Here's an example of an excellent one: <a href="http://bit.ly/cc-siteguarding">Site Guarding</a>
<h3>5 . Get an SSL Certificate</h3>
An SSL certificate (secure sockets layer) is the standard security technology that is used to produce an encrypted link that goes between the web server and the browser. It is this link that will ensure that the data that goes between the server and the browser will stay private and secure.
Adding an SSL certificate to your domain will not only add an additional layer of security to your CMS, but will also help with SEO because it tends to get your website ranked higher in search engines.
If you don't yet have an SSL certificate, <a href="https://shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=1188781&amp;u=407830&amp;m=46483&amp;urllink=&amp;afftrack=">get one here</a>.
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<h2>Final Thoughts</h2>
Website security is one of those things that can truly be considered a “Catch-22” type of situation.
The more cyber criminals are out there trying to gain access into people’s CMS, the more security researchers crack down on it and come with new methods of protection. The greater the security becomes, the harder the cyber criminals will work to gain access – and they do like challenges.
It’s really an ongoing battle that is seemingly without end.
But, where does that leave you and your CMS?
It’s hard to say for sure where your CMS lies within the cyber criminal-infested waters, but there are things you can do to ensure your CMS is as secure as you can possibly make it. These five methods of security will help reduce threats to your CMS and help keep your data out of jeopardy.

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If blogging is your profession, you need to build yourself a personal blog. A blog which you update on topics which are important to you, or perhaps on topics which you wish to write about for clients. However, not only does your blog need to look good, but it also needs to work well for you when you’re typing up content and it needs to work well for your visitors when they eventually read through it.
This then begs the following question, “Which content management system (CMS) is best for blogging?”
Here are my top picks.
<h2><a href="https://wordpress.org/" target="_blank">WordPress (Self Hosted)</a></h2>
Most bloggers do so from a WordPress-powered website.. There’s a good reason for that.
WordPress is quick to set up (especially when using <a href="http://bit.ly/cc-godaddy" target="_blank">GoDaddy</a>), allows you to manage content and digital assets easily, and has a pretty simple admin panel to boot. The learning curve is there, but it’s relatively minimal.
However, the main benefits of WordPress lie in its flexibility. Because it is the most popular CMS in the world, you will find thousands upon thousands of templates and plugins to make your blog look and feel unique. Many WordPress plugins can also be used to extend WordPress' functionality, allowing you to create online stores, communities, and so forth. There's almost nothing it can't do.
Does this mean it's the best blogging platform? Not at all. Some blogs end up overloaded with plugins, bloat and unnecessary addons that are unnecessary and one thing WordPress has started doing is trying too hard to be a full scale CMS. As such, it's virtually impossible to use it without any plugins (none of which are vetted by WordPress themselves) therefore, for those wanting a simple blogging platform that works well and doesn't require tons of plugins to get things done, it's not the best choice. (<a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/wordpress-joomla-and-drupal-are-not-the-best-cms/">learn more about these issues here</a>)
<h2><a href="https://ghost.org/" target="_blank">Ghost</a></h2>
Launched in in late 2013, Ghost is designed with one purpose in mind; to be the best blogging platform out there and it does this well. So well in fact, that I've switch this very website over to it entirely this year so now CMS Critic is entirely powered by Ghost.
Dedicated to being a platform for bloggers specifically, Ghost has been built around the needs of a wordsmith. The admin panel is nothing less than beautiful. Ghost maintains a deep focus on content creation above anything else. It really is built for blogging.
There are already a fair number of sleek (and free) <a href="http://bit.ly/ghost-templates">Ghost templates</a> on offer and new platform features are released regularly. With time, I can see Ghost becoming a serious player in the blogging world – if it isn't so already. You can opt to either self host Ghost, or make use of their cloud-hosted solution, Ghost Pro.
<h2><a href="http://www.medium.com/">Medium</a></h2>
Medium is a very interesting and unique alternative. What's nice about it is that it is designed to help you find an audience and to help you write better content. With a very simple and easy to use interface, Medium is a pleasure to use and gets rid of distractions such as sidebars, widgets and plugins while focusing on allowing you to share your stories and quips with the world.
Rather than overwhelm you with formatting, Medium offers you just enough to do what you need to do and nothing more. This makes the writing process painless and so distraction free that you'll likely want to write more just so you can use the editor. It truly is a beautiful setup. Furthermore, you don't need to worry about whether your website on Medium is responsive. Everything scales to all devices so you will never need to worry about how it's going to look on your phone or tablet again.
It's also a collaborative tool that lets you share your drafts with others and collaborate with them to produce better content. You can even thank those who helped you proof read or add ideas to your content.
<h2>Weebly</h2>
For those looking for a simple and easy way to launch a blog quickly, <a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly">Weebly</a> is a great choice given how easy it is to choose a theme and get something up with little to no technical knowledge.
<a href="https://www.cmscritic.com/weebly">Weebly</a> offers the ability to expand your blog in the future and incorporates a lot of necessary elements such as analytics, stock photography and a whole lot more. If you need a quick website, Weebly is definitely something to consider.
<h2><a href="https://withknown.com/" target="_blank">Known</a></h2>
Known is a relative newcomer to the blogging sphere. It allows any number of users to post to a shared site with blog posts, status updates, photographs, and more.
Its robust open source framework can be used to build fully-fledged community sites, or a blog for a single user. It's up to you. It's fully responsive and works on any device with ease and is generally quite nice to work with. If you haven't given it a shot, you should (at least to try it out).
<h2><a href="https://write.as/" target="_blank">Write.as</a></h2>
Write.as is an interesting beast. The intent here is not to help you build some elaborate blog but rather to give you a way to quickly get your thoughts down and share them with the world. It offers a very minimalistic writing interface thats sole purpose is to get your content online fast and easily.
Your writing automatically saves as you type. It'll always be waiting, even if you don't “save” before leaving. You can choose to write without a blog or put all of your thoughts together in one place. It's rather cool and worth a look.
<h2><a href="https://postach.io/">Postach.io</a></h2>
Postach.io lets you store your content in either Dropbox or Evernote or both. This lets you choose whichever interface suits you the most (Dropbox files obviously needing to be edited in a text editor and uploaded whereas Evernote has a built in text editor) and work on your content within.
Publishing a post with Evernote is as simple as connecting your account to Postach.io, telling it which notebook in Evernote will contain your posts and then simply writing in that notebook and using the tag “published” when you are done. This tells Postach.io to put the post up on your blog and that's all there is to it. To add images, simply attach them to the note and it will be inserted in your blog post instantly.
The nice part to using the Evernote connection for Postach.io is you can take advantage of the many awesome Evernote apps for mobile devices and tablets that already exist which makes blogging with it a true pleasure.
<h2><a href="http://www.typepad.com/" target="_blank">TypePad</a></h2>
Typepad has been around for a while, and it's a reliable option more than anything else. It's known to be a very secure platform, one that hackers tend to avoid.
It is a hosted solution, comes with integrated analytics, easy design customization features and a relatively small but highly dedicated community. Joining Typepad kind of feels like you joined a writers club, especially since all Typepad blogs have the chance to be featured on the Typepad website. It feels very inclusive and homely.
The downside here is that for its limited functionality, it comes with some fairly heaving pricing. TypePad isn't exactly much of a looker compared to other platforms either
<h2>“But What About MY Favourite CMS?”</h2>
Many of you will now be wondering why I didn’t include the likes of Blogger, Tumblr, Joomla and Drupal somewhere on this list. I can already hear the screeches of, “How are they not even honourably mentioned?!”
The fact is, Blogger and Tumblr aren’t considered robust enough to be worthy of competing with WordPress, Ghost and the rest on a professional scale. If you want to blog about how much you love your kittens, they may be viable options. But I’d never recommend them to serious bloggers.
As for Joomla and Drupal, The former is clunky and not exactly optimized for blogging, whilst the latter is far better suited to large-scale websites. Neither belong on this list, despite having their own uses and strengths.
So, with that being said, I’d recommend sticking to the names listed above. Each one is respected, easy to use, feature rich and optimized for being your blogging playground.

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<a href="https://www.nintex.com/">Nintex</a> today announced a strategic partnership with Adobe to bring new native electronic signature capabilities, called Nintex Sign™ powered by Adobe Sign, to Nintex partners and customers.
Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign, the leading e-signature solution used by over half the Fortune 100, meets the growing worldwide demand of Nintex customers and partners for affordably priced, trusted and fully integrated e-signatures within the Nintex Process Platform to securely complete transactions. Thousands of partners, public, private, and government organizations leverage the powerful, easy-to-use Nintex platform daily to quickly build process apps, automate their most sophisticated workflows, and generate all kinds of documents from disclosures, to orders, to closing contracts leveraging responsive Nintex digital forms and templates.
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“The new offering produced by this partnership powerfully extends the native capabilities of our Nintex Platform, trusted as the global standard for process and document automation, to now include industry-leading Adobe-backed eSignatures,” said Nintex CEO Eric Johnson. “Nintex Sign, powered by our strategic partnership with Adobe, will bring tremendous value to our thriving Nintex process management and automation community.”
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Ashley Still, vice president and general manager, Adobe Document Cloud, added, “We believe great experiences for customers and employees start where the document does. With Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign, we’re excited to bring these two best-in-class solutions together, making it easier for Nintex’s global partner network and customers to transform digital document workflows.”
Aragon Research CEO Jim Lundy, the leading analyst covering the fast-growing, multi-billion dollar Digital Transaction Management and Workflow and Content Automation markets commented, “This strategic partnership brings together two of the leading providers in Documents, eSignatures, Process Management, Workflow and Content Automation.”
Nintex is offering current customers who sign up for Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign with a special introductory offer. Nintex customers should contact their Nintex account manager for details.
To learn more about Nintex Sign powered by Adobe Sign visit <a href="http://www.nintex.com/workflow-automation/e-signature">www.nintex.com/workflow-automation/e-signature</a>/.

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