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How to Select a Web CMS Solution
On December 16th, 2011 three expert panelists from industry leading CMS consulting firms will get together on CMS-Connected to discuss the complexities of selecting a CMS solution, with the goal of providing industry insights that will help you to effectively evaluate and differentiate CMS solutions and ultimately make a more informed purchasing decision.
Kentico’s New Enterprise Marketing Solution
All You Need to Manage Customer Experience across Multiple Channels
Kentico Enterprise Marketing Solution (EMS) is an integrated Customer Experience Management (CXM) solution that extends the Kentico CMS Ultimate Edition with additional enterprise and marketing features. It empowers marketers to deliver and optimize real-time customer centric marketing across multiple channels.
Unlike other CXM products, Kentico EMS doesn’t require overly complex configuration and delivers results almost instantly. It provides a complete on-line marketing solution fully integrated with CMS which means you don’t have to use several applications and spend money on painful integration. It gives you a unified view of your marketing activities and customer data.
Kentico EMS provides marketers with a fully integrated set of on-line marketing tools, including:
- Web Analytics
- Campaign Management
- E-mail Marketing
- A/B and MVT testing
- Contact Management
- Lead Scoring
- Personalization
- Segmentation
Live from New York… it’s Elcom vs. Kentico!
With hundreds of Intranet platforms on the market, picking the one that’s right for your business can be daunting. Many vendors, old and new, are more than willing to show you their wares through online flash demos, brochures and webinars. All of them seem to have great features and functionality.
Arguably, two of the most affordable and feature rich mid-level .NET CMS products on the market today, Elcom and Kentico go head-to-head on CMS-Connected in this lively and interactive 60-minute debate at the Intranet Global Forum on November 10th. This interactive show will help you get beyond the glossy brochures and marketing web pages, asking the real tough questions you want to know.
Representaing Elcom will be Josh Anstey, VP Partner Engagement and representing Kentico will be Eric C. Webb, President of Sales & Operations.
During the session, CMS-Connected host Scott Liewehr will be asking Eric and Josh a series of questions about their products and market strategies. Then the audience has the opportunity to ask the vendor guests a few ‘no holds barred’ questions of their own. The show will also be video tapped by The Pulse Network.
All Websites are not alike… Neither are all Web CMS Solutions
Here’s help with finding the best fit for your company.
There are a lot of features and functions to consider when searching for web content management solutions. Ensuring the best product fit for your company’s particular needs is an essential part of the process. That’s why our vendor partner Sitecore is pleased to present this scorecard from Ars Logica founder, Tony White.
The featured Web CMS vendor scorecards rate the industry in an easy-to-understand, quantitative format and include recommendations to help companies find the right CMS solution to meet their business needs.
See how leading Web CMS vendors score in key criteria including:
- usability – relative ease of learning and using
- scalability – ability to function well as system demands increase
- marketing and sales tools – the presence and quality of tools that engage customers
Elcom CMS keeps getting better with the release of 7.5
Social is here!
Elcom has just launched v7.5 of their flagship product the elcomCMS. As well as enhancements to key features within the system; Elcom’s excited to be launching an enhanced layer of Social functionality across the system.
The new social layer provides intuitive and easy to use Facebook like functionality, giving users the ability to publish status updates, share information, comment and invite colleagues or members. This builds on the elcomCMS’s existing social features which include blogs, forums and wikis.
Commenting on the development, Anthony Milner, Elcom’s Product Director said “Bringing FaceBook like functionality to the enterprise concerns some HR teams but in reality an effective and well managed social layer can significantly enhance productivity through improved communication and collaboration. It can also reduce the need for formal meetings and improve communication across geographically disperse teams.”
In addition, Elcom have also introduced a framework to easily integrate external content such as YouTube. This allows authors to automatically extract and store video metadata as indexed objects without the need to actually store the video asset on their site. The content can then be integrated with the elcomCMS’s taxonomy engine, dynamic content widgets and search. This provides a quick and powerful way to enhance existing content with external content; and reduces the duplication and maintenance often associated with managing multiple content sources.
For marketing and campaign managers, Elcom have also integrated in version 7.5, the outstanding email marketing software, Campaign Monitor. This is a third-party online email marketing tool that lets marketers send “professional and engaging email campaigns, track results and manage subscribers”, to provide powerful email campaign management.
To find out more or to arrange a private Elcom demo contact Falcon-Software at 800-707-1311.
Cartella – A New Intranet for a New Workforce
Today employees expect business software to be as friendly and productive as the social tools they use every day on the web. According to Ingeniux… now it is. The Ingeniux Intranet Edition is a new kind of intranet for a new kind of workforce. It supports mobile phones and tablets out-of-the-box, provides a full suite of business and social software tools that encourage employee participation, and makes critical information instantly accessible.
You can use the Ingeniux Intranet Edition to launch employee directories, manage documents, create secure work-groups and collaboration, and turn your content into conversations with forums, blogs, and comment moderation. Secure, affordable, and easy to manage, the Ingeniux Intranet Edition could be the answer to the modern Intranet.
Intranet Home
The Intranet home page features user images dynamically pulled from the user profile pages. The images rotate upon screen refresh and link back to the user profile. The home page also features content that can be
customized based on the organization’s needs, such as announcements, forum posts, social media feeds, and weather updates.
Directory
The Intranet directory provides quick, easy access to all Intranet users. The directory can be viewed for the entire Intranet community, or categorized based on department. Information appearing on the directory list
view is dynamically pulled from the users profile page. Directory data can be queried from an external database.
Departments
Each department can create their own micro-site within the Intranet, featuring documents, events, announcements, directory information, and other information specific to that department within the organization.
Forums
Intranet forums provide a collaborative communication space. Intranet users can create a forum category and topic, post comments, and follow other users comments in one thread. In addition, forum post updates can
be delivered to Intranet users via email notification so a comment never goes unnoticed.
Galleries
Intranet galleries give users a space to store and share photos and images with other Intranet users. Users can create a gallery for a collection of images and store that in the gallery index for other users to browse.
Profile
Each user in the Intranet community can create a profile page to store their contact information, share a biography, and view their recent activity within the Intranet.
Mobile
The Intranet is accessible anytime, anywhere on web-enabled mobile devices. With the mobile Intranet users can access documents, post to forums, update their profile information and stay up-to-date
on the latest Intranet activity.
Want To See More?
To learn more about the Ingeniux Intranet Edition contact Falcon-Software to request an online demo or schedule a call to discuss your project.