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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.
Kentico CMS 6 is Coming!
Version 6.0 will be a huge step for Kentico, adding a new product line – Enterprise Marketing Solution (EMS), currently in Beta – that will bring additional enterprise and on-line marketing features. This product will be focused on medium and large clients.
Kentico will not be making any changes to the current CMS licensing. All the features that are available in Kentico CMS will be still available for the same price. Plus, Kentico is adding many new features and improvements to version 6.0 and will continue adding new features in the future as well.
The following figure shows how both products will coexist in version 6:
The new product Kentico EMS will be based on Kentico CMS and it will enhance it with additional features focused on two areas:
Online Marketing Features:
- Contact Management – single point for managing all contacts received through your website and tracking their activities on the website
- Segmentation – identifying customer interests and profiling visitors based on their behavior and attributes
- Lead Scoring – scoring the value of the contacts, identifying hot leads
- Content Personalization – delivering relevant content customized to the particular visitor based on visitor behavior and profile
- E-mail marketing – advanced features enhancing the Newsletter module: open e-mail tracking, click-through tracking, bounced e-mails. These features will be also available in Kentico CMS in version 6.0, but some additional e-mail marketing features added in later versions may be only available in Kentico EMS.
Additional Enterprise Features:
- Health Monitoring – tracking system health through performance counters in Microsoft Windows
- Load Balanced SMTP Mail Servers – ability to send e-mails through multiple mail servers for higher performance
- Scheduler Windows Service – execution of scheduled tasks using an external service running as a Windows Service rather than in web application context
The new Kentico EMS aims at the mid-market and enterprise CMS segments and with the goal of providing a product that is more attractive and competitive.
Upgrades for Existing Clients
Every client who owns Kentico CMS 5.x and a valid maintenance will be able to upgrade to Kentico EMS for the price difference with 50% discount by the end of 2011 and 20% after that.
On September 15th, Drupal will go up against Sitecore
For the past five months CMS Connected (http://www.cms-connected.com) has hosted great CMS vendor product debates via live webinars. The turnout for these has been amazing, with hundreds of registrants and attendees each month. Even the participation on Twitter has been healthy, with over 250 tweets generated during our Hippo vs. Plone webinar in June.
Now, after months of build-up, we bring you a CMS Connected webinar for the ages. Since the mid-90′s, open source and proprietary CMS platforms have been positioning for supremacy of the content management landscape. Now… two powerhouse solutions prepare to meet on the CMS-Connected battlefield to see who will reign supreme!
CMS-Connected: Sitecore vs Drupal from CMS-Connected on Vimeo.
On September 15th at 12p ET, Drupal will go up against Sitecore in a one-on one debate for the ages. Don’t miss this exciting event with Hosts Veronica Cooper from CHEK TV and Scott Liewehr, Outsell Gilbane WCM Analyst, in a lively and interactive 90-minute debate.
About CMS-Connected:
CMS-Connected digs past the glossy brochures, flashy websites and sales-speak buzz-words, focusing on what the buyer definitely needs to know and what’s really driving the top CMS platform solutions on the market. During the 90-minute event, Veronica and Scott will be asking our guests some hard-nosed questions about their products and business strategies, allowing each vendor guest an opportunity to reply. Then, the attending audience has the opportunity to ask a few ‘no holds barred’ questions
of their own.
The event will cover various topics such as:
- Product performance & differentiators
- What are the analysts saying
- What’s really under the hood
- How much will it cost to deploy
- What’s included and not included for that price
- And much more!
- Visit us at www.cms-connected.com
- Follow us on Twitter: @cmsconnected
Falcon-Software works alongside Elcom to deliver web content solutions
Falcon-Software will be supplying Elcom’s flagship CMS, CommunityManager.NET as part of its suite of solutions to the North American Market.
Read Full Press Release: http://www.elcomcms.com/News/Falcon-Software-ElcomCMS_Aug11