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The Next CMS-Connected Live Show on March 14th
CMS-Connected is a monthly webcast featuring news, trends and commentary related to the content management industry. Streamed live on The Pulse Network, the show features experts in the field discussing topics relevant to practitioners everywhere. The program showcases the top products and platforms on the market, innovations, mergers & acquisitions and best practice commentary and advice.
March 14th Show:
- Hosts Scott Liewehr and Tyler Pyburn discussing the top news & events from around the CMS industry.
- Seth Gottlieb from Lionbridge will be joining the show to discuss Content Management for a Global Business.
- Jamie Anderson from SAP will be skyped in from London England for a quick chat on Forrester’s 2012 Customer Experience Index.
- Lisa Welchman from WelchmanPierpoint will also be joining the show to discuss Who Owns Your Website from a Governance Viewpoint.
- Elcom CMS is In the Vendor Spotlight.
- And finally, Rapid Fire with Scott Liewehr.
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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.
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
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly of SharePoint
The Good, The Bad & The Ugly of SharePoint WCM with Scott Liewehr and Tyler Pyburn on The CMS-Connected Show.
Joining us on CMS-Connected is Tim Walters from Forrester Research, to help us dive into a discussion on where SharePoint WCM aligns in the marketplace from a Web Content Management perspective. What are its strengths, its weaknesses and how does it stack up with the other top WCM .NET solutions?
Also joining us on CMS-Connected is Michael Alden the President and CEO at Axceler to discuss articles and surveys posted by his organization on why companies are not coming to grips with SharePoint governance.