One of the benefits of conferences such as last week's CMS Expo are the opportunities to come across content management systems you know nothing about. Such was the case for me when I was introduced to Wondercode, a content management and e-commerce solution developed by a Norwegian company. Wondercode has its eyes set on North America.
CMS Expo: Introducing the Wondercode CMS
One of the benefits of conferences such as last week's CMS Expo are the opportunities to come across content management systems you know nothing about. Such was the case for me when I was introduced to Wondercode, a content management and e-commerce solution developed by a Norwegian company. Wondercode has its eyes set on North America.
Quoting IT: Innovation
"Innovation is an art, but it is an art where “managerial” interventions can accelerate or retard the rate of progress. Much of this concerns the sources from which ideas originate, the speed by which ideas move through an organization, the invitations to participate, the attitudes of the key decision-makers and the sources of inspiration that they draw from." - Bill Fischer
Contensis signs money-saving agreement with Manchester councils
In this age of austerity, Contensis has signed a money-saving agreement with public authorities in Greater Manchester.
The framework agreement with AGMA – the Association of Greater Manchester Authorities – could see possibly up to 18 councils and other local public bodies signing-up to use the Contensis web content management system.
Public procurement is an expensive business and when Government is trying to improve efficiency and make saving throughout the public sector, framework agreements are one area which can help.
CMS Expo: Telerik Sitefinity CMS Flyover
I finally got my introduction to Telerik Sitefinity! I was not only the moderator for a panel at last week's CMS Expo, but I also had a chance to attend a few of the many sessions being offered during the conference. One of the first sessions I attended was a presentation focused entirely on Telerik's Sitefinity CMS with Pat Harlow as the presenter for this flyover session.
Telerik Sitefinity CMS is a modern online business platform which adapts to any business requirement and works equally well for online marketers, developers and IT managers. This session will cover different capabilities of the system – Mobile Web, Form builder, and built-in Ecommerce. Pat Harlow will also highlight the Module Builder and Sitefinity Thunder, which makes developers more productive than Santa’s elves. Join this session to see what’s coming up for the next Sitefinity releases!
For busy people, these sessions are productive and valuable by giving attendees a great overview of a vendor's CMS within a one hour time frame. Despite Telerik being a sponsor here at CMS Report, I never before sat down with their sales people to go over Sitefinity's features. Below are some of notes I took during the presentation as well as my "first" impressions of the Sitefinity CMS.
SilverStripe helps win a presidential election; this time in France
François Hollande won the presidential election in France last week, with the help of an impressive campaign and content management system SilverStripe.
Hollande’s website http://francoishollande.fr was the web-based focal point of the door to door campaign and functioned as the main communication tool throughout the whole election period. In the month before the election, the site had three million unique visitors and ranked 15th most visited information site in France.
OpenCms Days 2012 - Call for papers still open!
OpenCms Days 2012 will take place from Monday, September 24 to Tuesday, September 25, 2012 in Cologne, Germany.
Conference Program - First topics have been fixed
Experts from around the world will share their experiences with this latest OpenCms release. The first sessions of the conference program are already fixed and give an overview on the multiplicity of OpenCms 8. Nevertheless we are still looking for session proposals, bringing up project-reports and experiences around OpenCms 8.
Kentico Introduces Integration with Jigsaw in the New Data.com Connector
Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, May 10, 2012 – Kentico Software, the Web content management system vendor, announced today integration of their Enterprise marketing Solution (EMS) with Jigsaw’s database, the world's largest database of complete contact and company information. The Kentico Data.com Connector enables website to easily importation contacts’ details into Kentico EMS.
dotCMS 2.0 Improves Java-based Web Content Management
dotCMS, an open source, Java-based web content management system, is pleased to announce the release of v2.0. This latest release continues dotCMS’s pursuit of providing one the most scalable, powerful and easy-to-use web content management platforms in the marketplace today. No spin or catchy titles, just good, meaningful tools and functionality for both commercial-grade and multi-tenant content driven web applications.
“dotCMS 2.0 is our response to the on-the-ground, real needs of both business users and developers,” announced Will Ezell, CTO of dotCMS. “We have exciting plans for the 2 series, which will continue to rapidly improve upon our already robust enterprise content platform”.
MODX Revolution 2.2.2 Released
Jay Gilmore tweeted me this morning to be sure that I made a note of the latest version of MODX Revolution that was released a couple days ago. MODX Revolution 2.2.2 includes a number of important fixes, some performance improvements, and two new wizards to make it easier to create User and Resource Groups in the CMS.
If you're using MODX Revolution and have not upgraded to 2.2, you will find that it has been one of biggest releases for the MODX folks to date. There were also notable improvements and enhancements included in Revolution 2.2.1.
Some of the highlights in the MODX Revolution 2.2.2 release:
- New wizards for creating User and Resource Groups
- xPDO change to improve performance, specifically with getResources
- Upgrades from command line no longer require all settings in the config file
- Added User duplication for the easy creation of Users and to preserve settings
- New prompt to login to regain access to work in progress after timeout
- Improvement to URL handling
- Further performance enhancements via xPDO method changes.
For further details, please read the release announcement found at MODX.com. MODX Revolution can be downloaded via the MODX download page.
Tiki Releases 8.4
The Tiki Community is proud to announce the release of Tiki 8.4. This release, with more than 150 code contribution by eight Tiki Community members, includes several fixes and updates.
Among the new features are:
- Several new, detailed user permissions
- Support for stateful SOAP sessions
- UI enhancements
You can refer to http://doc.tiki.org/Tiki8 and the Tiki 8.4 Release Notes for details.
This is the last planned release of the Tiki 8.x branch. Tiki Administrators using the 8.x version are encouraged to upgrade to this latest release, and then to Tiki 9.0 when it become available.
For information on these releases and future Tiki plans, see http://dev.tiki.org/Roadmap. You can obtain Tiki 8.4 (as well as all other Tiki releases) from http://tiki.org/download .
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