Hippo, the company setting new standards for how Commercial Open Source Web Content Management can empower audiences and change the way organizations manage Web content is very proud to announce today that it has been selected as a finalist for Red Herring’s Top 100 Europe award. This award honors the year’s most promising private technology companies from all throughout Europe.

Hippo is proud to announce that it has partnered with comSysto GmbH, an enterprise IT solutions company focused on Java technologies and based in Munich.  comSysto and Hippo will team together to provide Hippo’s Enterprise Open Source Content Management System (CMS).

Hippo, the company setting new standards for how Open Source Web Content Management can empower audiences and change the way organizations manage Web content is proud to announce that AutomatiseringGids.nl – an online publication for IT professionals is utilizing Hippo CMS for their new site.

The new website was designed and implemented by Dayon a company that designs, builds and manages content-driven online and mobile applications.

There has certainly been a lot of debate about Web Experience Management. Some analysts like Janus Boye have called it "meaningless vendor jargon". Some others like Scott Liewehr of Gilbane have said that understanding Web Engagement Management is "crucial to your business". Forrester has attempted to create its own definition – calling it "customer experience management". And, finally, others such as Julie Hunt – have written how Web Engagement Management even extends into the intranet of Enterprise 2.0 – and how content should be utilized to engage employees.

So here’s my take on it:

The trend in Web Content Management for the last couple of years has been Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - and it was all about getting your audience to your site. Period. Just make sure they find you. But then what? What happens once they get there? How do you keep them on your site? How do you make sure they come back later, how do you get them to start doing business on your site? How do you make your visitors fall in love with your site?

That’s Web Experience Management. It’s whatever comes after they’ve found you.

At Hippo, we’ve got more than 60 people on our team now – and all of them are committed to the innovation that comes out of collaboration.

And, the partnership that we have with our developer community has helped us to innovate a powerful context aware web content management platform. Hippo has already long been proud of our history of technology leadership - and this is why we are particularly proud of the fact that Hippo now has 11 of our team members that are committers within the Apache Software foundation.

The website of ANWB is for the second time in a row the best findable website of the Netherlands.

Integration between Hippo and PugPig provides a powerful and easy framework for managing and publishing to iOS-Powered Mobile Devices.

Hippo, the company setting new standards for how Commercial Open Source Web Content Management can empower audiences and change the way organizations manage Web content announced today that it has completed a seamless and complete integration with PugPig - a new framework that enables you to publish HTML5 content to iOS powered mobile devices. This integration provides Hippo CMS users with a complete content management and publishing framework to easily create beautiful and optimized magazines for the iPad and iPhone platforms.

Hippo is pleased to announce its ongoing commitment to a passionate and loyal developer community by focusing almost the entirety of its new release of Hippo CMS Version 7.6 on new developer and architect focused features. Hippo's Java Web Content Management system is setting new standards for how web content can be managed and delivered.