eZ Publish 4.3 Released

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eZ Systems announced yesterday the release of eZ Publish 4.3. Lots of new features and improvements in this new version of the open source CMS. The most significant changes include:

  • A new Administration Interface that improves usability for editors and administrators
  • An expanded User Generated Content module (commenting system) which boosts end-user generated content
  • The TeamRoom collaboration solution has joined the ranks of certified eZ Publish extensions
  • An updated eZ Find with better multi-lingual handling, facets, and performance enhancements
  • A new eZ Script Monitor extension for background script processing
  • Updates to the eZ JS Core, eZ Multiupload, and eZ Survey modules
  • Improved LDAP login handler
  • An updated iPhone Web Application

CMS Report's Top Ten Stories of 2009

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The level of interest in content management systems astounds me. Each year, I continue to see at CMS Report an increase of visitors looking for information on content management. Our stories tend to focus on open source CMS more than proprietary applications and evidently that's the subject matter that our readers want to read.

Below are the top ten stories of 2009 that were posted here at CMSReport.com. As you can see, stories involving Drupal, WordPress, Joomla!, Alfresco, and Nuxeo took center stage. These stories might not have been the ten I would have personally picked for this list, but I'll respect the numbers behind their ranking.

  1. Mollom: A solution for comment spam
  2. 2009 Best Open Source PHP CMS: Drupal wins, Wordpress and Joomla! not far behind
  3. Serving a home for my Drupal site
  4. WordPress leads the Packt as 2009 Overall Best Open Source CMS
  5. Allen Ellis: Why the Packt CMS Competition is Broken, and How to Fix It
  6. Google PageRank
  7. Alfresco Module Obtains U.S. DoD 5015.02 Records Management Certification
  8. Using Wordpress city saves $19,000
  9. Cheryl McKinnon, Nuxeo, and Open Source
  10. Drupal Gardens preview video by Acquia

The interest in Nuxeo took me by surprise and I'll be adding the CMS to my top 30 CMS Focus page as time allows. As always, our thanks to all those who continue to return to this site to read the stories, join in on the conversation, and even submit articles. As I've said before, I'm not sure we would be doing this if it wasn't for the interest shown by others visiting the site.

eZ Publish 4.2 noted for Usability, Scalability and Enterprise Search

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This week, eZ Systems announce the immediate release of eZ Publish 4.2, the new version of its Open Source Content Management System. The new release brings important improvements to the heart of eZ solutions, the eZ Publish engine, as well as major advances and new features for eZ Flow and eZ Find. A new extension, eZSI, makes its debut in the 4.2 package providing full support for the Edge Side Include standard to eZ Publish.

Bård Farstad, CTO and Founder of eZ Publish, described the motivation underlying the new release: "Our team focused on Usability for both end-users and editors, as well as Scalability and Performance for customers using eZ Publish in extremely high-traffic installations ". Farstad emphasized that "in those two focus areas, eZ Find (the enterprise-grade search plugin for eZ Publish) has become a key element for achieving the best results".

The 4.2 release was developed by eZ Systems with contributions from eZ Publish partners and trusted community members, and is immediately available as certified software, which benefits from eZ System's Premium support and maintenance services, including the unlimited bugfix guarantee.

The 451 Group analyzes eZ's WCM strategy and positioning

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eZ Systems has been analyzed by the 451 group which is a technology industry analyst company focused on the business of enterprise IT innovation. The company’s analysts provide critical and timely emerging-technology insight to clients at vendor, investor, services and end-user organizations – insight that aids both strategic and tactical decision making for competitive advantage. 

The 2009 International eZ Conference

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Today, eZ Systems, releases the program of the annual eZ Conference. This years conference is a special edition marking the 10th anniversary of eZ Systems as Open Source Content Management vendor.

For the first time, the conference will be held outside Norway. On June 25th and June 26th, 300 people from more than 30 countries will celebrate in Paris, only a few meters away from the Champes Elysées. There are three different tracks to provide relevant content for a mixed audience. The tracks focus on:

eZ Systems scales up product development investments

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eZ follows the release of eZ Publish 4.1 with an aggressive hiring plan for eZ Labs, the firm's core development team, with the aim of accelerating eZ Publish development.

"We are looking for talented software engineers, testers and documentation editors in Leuven (Belgium), Skien (Norway) or possibly in other eZ offices" says Paul Borgermans, head of eZ Labs.

Naming Roland Benedetti, the former Managing Director for eZ Western Europe, as VP Product Management is an important step for the eZ Ecosystem, helping to clearly delineate Project Management from Engineering.

"This new organization is the result of a long internal project", says eZ CTO, Bård Farstad, adding, "We were very much focused on making eZ a profitable company in 2008 but wished we'd been able to invest more in development. eZ Find 2.0 and eZ Publish 4.1 were great accomplishments, but 2009 will be even better. Splitting Product Management and Engineering will improve our communication with our community, our customers, and our markets to deliver a professional road map, as well as optimize the use of our core resources".

New eZ Publish 4.1 brings ease-of-use to powerful Enterprise scale websites

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eZ Systems has announced the release of the very expected eZ Publish 4.1, which is designed to power web properties working with rich and various content assets. Historically known as a flexible content management framework, eZ Publish enables web centric organizations to scale and to grow their online businesses while getting full support, maintenance and guarantees through eZ Publish Premium. This eZ Publish 4.1 release focuses on User Experience, Scalability and Performances, three axes of high importance for enterprise users of eZ. These enhancements are a result of the company’s work with the most demanding customers inacross all industries the publishing and finance industries.

“eZ Publish 4.1 marks yet another important milestone towards our goals", said Bård Farstad, eZ CTO. "It makes Enterprise customers more efficient via the Web with improved usability, performance and multi-platform support. The discussion with our customers and our community was key before this release and our Open Source model makes it possible to easily include their feedback and wishes. In eZ Publish 4.1, we included plug-ins made by the community and the updated version of eZ Flow part of this release is also a great illustration of this process. This strengthens the position of eZ Publish as the preferred tool for online digital media”

Read the whole story here.

eZ Systems releases Apache Solr-based Open Source Enterprise Search solution

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The next major version of eZ Find, the Open Source search extension for eZ Publish,
has a number of new features such as: tuning of relevance rankings;
facets for drill-down search result navigation; spell checking and
suggestions on search phrases; and much more.

Based on the Apache Solr Open Source Enterprise Search server, eZ
Find greatly enhances the search functionality on eZ Publish sites. eZ
Find already included features such as relevance ranking, native
support for eZ Publish access rights, keyword highlighting,
sophisticated multi-language support, and the ability to search
multiple sites containing millions of objects.

eZ Conference and Awards 2009 in Paris

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The 7th annual eZ Conference,
hosted by eZ Publish creator eZ Systems, promises to be as engaging and
vibrant as ever. This Web Content Management & Digital Media
conference is attended by hundreds of industry leaders and experts each
year. It will be held outside of Norway for the first time, in the
heart of Paris on June 25 and 26. All web professionals, including the
entire eZ Ecosystem, are invited.

This year's eZ Conference will also help to celebrate eZ's 10th
anniversary as a company. Years of innovation, a unique business model,
and collaboration with an ecosystem of developers and business
partners, have made eZ the leading Open Source Content Management
company.

eZ Conference 2009 has a wide but focused appeal. eZ's commitment to
free and Open Source software means that its ecosystem includes some of
the brightest, well-informed professionals worldwide. Past speakers
have included Open Source leaders Rasmus Lerdorf ("father" of PHP) and
David Axmark (Co-Founder, MySQL), as well as business and technology
experts from IBM, Lagardère, Mozilla, and Schibsted.

Gadgetopia's Deane Barker becomes a Drupal newbie

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During the past couple years I've had some brief but rewarding content management discussions with Deane Barker from Gadgetopia and Blend Interactive.  Dean has worked with quite a few Web content management systems over the years and appears to be most passionate to using eZ Publish.  Naturally, our discussions almost always involve Dean talking about ez Publish and me talking about Drupal.  Unfortunately, as I am more of a system administrator than a developer, the information I have been able to provide him about Drupal has always been limited.

Well, it looks as if Deane Barker has finally decided to get on the Drupal learning curve and find out more about this great CMS.

I’m working with Drupal for the first time on a hobby project I’m doing with Seth Gottlieb (about which you’ll hear much more later…). Adam Kalsey — Drupal ninja that he is — is advising us on the technical implementation, and he’s been a great help.

Why Drupal? Because I didn’t know it, and figured I needed to. Seth and I, after all, had the discussion
about how there are people like to feel smart and people that like to
feel stupid. Learning Drupal has made me feel plenty stupid, and that’s
exciting. And there’s no better time to feel stupid while learning than
on a project you’re doing for yourself.

I'm always excited to see very talented content management people discuss their initial experiences with a CMS.  If Deane writes more about Drupal, I suspect his writings will be very similar to the Drupal writings of Sacha Chua.

Christian Science Monitor chooses partners for print to web conversion

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The Christian Science Monitor, the first nationally circulated newspaper to replace its daily print edition with a Web-first strategy, has chosen Chicago-based web consulting firm Duo Consulting and Norway-based eZ Systems, the world’s largest Open Source web content management system software vendor and creator of eZ Publish, to implement their new Web-first strategy by Spring 2009.

eZ Systems organizes free "Enterprise PHP Framework Conference" in Barcelona in January 2009

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Every January, eZ Systems brings the members of the eZ Ecosystem together to recap the previous year and to look ahead into a new year.

On January 29, 2008, the day before its International Partner Conference, the creator of eZ Publish and eZ Components opens up its traditional developer day to the entire PHP community to discuss PHP within the enterprise landscape.

eZ Systems growing in Western Europe

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The eZ Systems Western Europe office in Lyon has served many countries since early 2006: France, United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland (French-speaking), Luxembourg, Portugal, and southern Europe. It started with Roland Benedetti as Managing Director and two employees: Bertrand Dunogier and Nicolas Pastorino. Today, eZ Systems Western Europe is the strongest region for eZ, as eZ Publish maintains a top position in the content management market. The video at the bottom of this article showcases eZ's presence with diverse companies and in diverse locations in Western Europe.

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