Falcon-Software specializes in eBusiness Website Design & Development, Web Content Management and eCommerce Solutions

Kentico provides web content management software on the Microsoft .NET platform. Kentico is constantly developing and improving their flagship product – Kentico CMS for ASP.NET that allows you to set up the whole website, online store and intranet or community site through a browser-based user interface. Kentico allows you to configure built-in modules rather than programming them from scratch or integrating third-party modules. The product was created with developers in mind and it was designed as a flexible solution that can be easily customized or extended with custom code when required.

Kentico CMS version 5.5 was released earlier this year and it brings several new features and improvements, and significant performance improvements through code and database optimizations.
including:   

• Support for VS 2010 and .NET 4.0
• Support for creating mobile websites
• Facebook connect and OpenID authentication
• Easy creation of RSS feeds from any content using web parts
• Template scopes for different site sections
• Improved paging in the administration interface
• Global administrators may be denied access to the Site Manager
• Support for Bing and Yahoo maps
• Out-of-the-box integration with Microsoft SharePoint Server
• Out-of-the-box MetaWeblogAPI interface that enables you to use editors like Windows Live Writer of MS Word to write your blog posts.

What’s coming next?

2011′s Version 6.0 will be one of Kentico’s biggest releases ever and will include:

• New On-line Marketing Package (campaign and lead management, improved web analytics)
• Windows Azure support
• Dashboards within user interface
• On-site editing – new simplified editing interface for basic users
• Widgets placed into text and support for widgets in ASPX page templates
• Multi-file uploader
• Bi-directional staging
• Improvements in Newsletter module –double opt-in, click tracking
• Object versioning and locking for development objects (stylesheets, transformations, etc.)
• Show and edit language versions side by side
• E-commerce improvements – taxes per state and ZIP, better shipping calculation, and many others
• Export data into Excel, CSV and XML
• CKEditor integration instead of FCKeditor
• Microsoft Chart Controls integration

Kentico Compares to

Ektron, EPiServer, Sitefinity and Sitecore.

Strengths

• Feature-rich product, with a plethora of modules (including various community and collaboration facilities), at a relatively modest price point.
• Well suited for multi-site management from one instance.
• Good support and documentation.
• Adheres to modern .NET standards.

Technical

• Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows
• Repository Database: MS SQL
• Client: Browser.
• App Platform: .NET

License costs

Based on options, number of sites, and servers, which ranges from one website base license at US$1,999, to one server ultimate license for unlimited sites at US$22,499.

Falcon-Software is a Gold Certified Kentico CMS Partner offering full creative design, development, training and hosting services. We invite you to get started today, at no cost. Call us for a free Kentico CMS consultation at 1-800-957-1126.