Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in the Norwegian enterprise content management company eZ Systems – financing round opens path for global growth.
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eZ Systems wins 2009 Web Idol Award in Philadelphia US
eZ Systems proudly won the 2009 Web Idol Award for the third time. Bård Farstad, co-founder of eZ Systems, showed eZ Publish´s features and functionality, specifically eZ Flow, integration with MS Word, and multiupload extension for uploading of pictures and movies.
eZ Systems scales up product development investments
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".
Christian Science Monitor chooses partners for print to web conversion
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
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
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.
eZ Systems improve their Partner Program
Due to growing demand around the eZ Publish Content Management System, eZ's Professional Partner Network has experienced incredible growth over the past two years. eZ recognizes the important of its Partner Network and is introducing an updated program.
Changes include an updated training and certification program for partners, a clearer distinction between the different partner levels, and a stronger commitment from Gold Partners around the subscription model.
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eZ Systems' Open Source business model achieves profitability
With a 583% growth in new subscription sales and a renewal rate above 90% for the first half of 2008,
eZ Systems has proven its Enterprise Open Source business model with two straight profitable quarters.
Based on the freely downloadable Content Management System eZ Publish, eZ's business model focuses on
yearly subscriptions that include support, maintenance, and guarantees, sold through eZ itself and
third-party eZ Partners.
eZ's profitability comes after 8 years and more than 10 million USD of investments, all going towards building the scalable Open Source business model.
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Blend Interactive featured in eZ Publish magazine
I have to admit that when someone submits a story and I trust them...I sometimes don't read the whole article before I publish it. So until I read Dean Barker's Gadgetopia, I didn't realize his company, Blend Interactive, was featured in eZ's SHARE! magazine. The irony is that if I had read an article posted at my own site by one of eZ System's own people...Dean's post wouldn't have been new news to me. Sigh, I have been just too busy...
You may not have heard of Blend Interactive, but they do sport a decent portfolio of sites they have developed and designed. Probably the most likely well known work from the company is the home site for the instant messaging client, Pidgin. The SHARE! magazine features Blend Interactive, in part, because it is one of the most enthusiastic users of the eZ Publish CMS in the United States. eZ Publish's roots is in Norway and the software is more popular in Europe. But, as the eZ article implies, there is a push to generate more users in the United States.
