10 New Content Management Systems via CMS Focus

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Our CMS Focus page lists the top 30 content management systems that we want to discuss most here at CMS Report. It has been more than a year and a half since I made any changes to this list and so I decided it was time to make some significant changes. On this page you'll now find 10 new CMS that have been added to the list as well as ten previously listed CMS that were "retired" to the "Hall of Fame".

The applications listed under CMS Focus are not necessarily the biggest and most popular in content management, but instead are CMSs that for whatever reason have caught and kept my attention. If you find value in the CMS Focus page then that's great news and I'm glad I could help. If you find little value in lists such as these, that's fine too and I hope that you can find other content here at CMS Report that at least plays a role in your quest for a better CMS solution.

For those curious, the following ten web applications were added to CMS Focus:

Atlassian chooses Magnolia CMS for groundbreaking product training website

NEW YORK, NY — Atlassian, an award-winning developer of software development and collaboration tools including JIRA and Confluence, has chosen Magnolia CMS to build ‘Atlassian University’, a state-of-the-art product training site, as well as a new corporate site.

Magnolia is a Winner of the 2011 Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award

Magnolia is proud to be selected as a winner of the Red Herring's Top 100 Europe award, a prestigious list honoring the year’s most innovative European private technology ventures.

The Red Herring editorial team selected the most innovative companies from a pool of over 700 from across Europe. Finalists were evaluated on both quantitative and qualitative criteria, such as financial performance, technology innovation, quality of management, execution of strategy, and penetration into their respective industries.

Previous winners of the Red Herring Top 100 award include technology leaders such as Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Skype, Salesforce.com, YouTube, and Ebay.

“This year was very rewarding. The global economic situation has abated and there are many great companies producing really innovative and amazing products. We had a very difficult time narrowing the pool and selecting the winners. Magnolia shows great promise therefore deserves to be among the winners. We know that the 2011 crop will grow into some amazing companies that are sure to make an impact.” - Alex Vieux, publisher and CEO of Red Herring

Magnolia CMS Brings Centralized Management to 294 Sites at Texas State University

 New case study details additional collaboration benefits from recent Magnolia 4.4 upgrade

NEW YORK, NY — Magnolia, the open source content management vendor that delivers simplicity on an enterprise scale, today announced publication of a major case study detailing how Magnolia CMS brought centralized management to 294 web sites at Texas State University (TSU), winning over faculty and staff, and drastically reducing administrative overhead.

TSU, located in San Marcos, Texas, is one of the largest educational institutions in the U.S. with more than 32,000 students from around the globe. While it is ranked among America’s Best Colleges, website administration had gotten out of hand – with 250 sites built, hosted, and managed individually by departments and other entities. Each site worked differently – centralized coordination and updates were out of the question.

The university’s first attempt to implement a centralized CMS received a failing grade: after two years, they had managed to get only a dozen sites into the system, resulting in stale content and unhappy users. Since switching to Magnolia Enterprise Edition, they now dynamically coordinate updates to 294 sites, with increased reliability, and significantly reduced infrastructure costs. Moreover, users love to work with Magnolia.

“Our switch to Magnolia CMS brought tremendous operational benefits under budget, plus its simplicity and ease of use quickly won over the 1,000 faculty and staff with website editing privileges,” said Sean McMains, TSU’s Technical Lead for Enterprise Applications. “Its high quality open-source code, including its adherence to Java standards, allows our programmers to easily customize the system to our needs.”

TSU’s recent upgrade to Magnolia 4.4 brought additional benefits such as collaboration controls to coordinate simultaneous editing. “Our 4.4 upgrade was really simple,” continued McMains. “The new soft-locking feature helps editors coordinate their work, and deferred deletion lets us keep sites consistent when we activate lots of changes.”

“We are delighted that such a prestigious institution as TSU has been able to roll out hundreds of sites on Magnolia CMS, with only a small web team and within the typical budget constraints of higher education institutions. It shows that our focus on ease-of-use for authors as well as developers provides outstanding value for higher education content management requirements,” said Boris Kraft, President of Magnolia Americas.

TSU case study available online

The TSU case study is available for immediate viewing and download at http://www.magnolia-cms.com/clients/case....

Magnolia Selects Vaadin for Revamped CMS User Interface

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Magnolia 5.0, the upcoming release of the Java-based open source Magnolia CMS, will have a new user interface based on Vaadin, the popular open source framework for Rich Internet Applications (RIA). Vaadin was selected after an exhaustive review and community discussion due to its agility, security, efficiency, theming, collaboration, and community backing.

Tech Brief: Search Engine Optimization using Magnolia

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Magnolia CMS is offering a free tech brief that shows how to apply search engine optimization (SEO) to enterprise websites by employing best practices together with the built-in tools in Magnolia CMS. They take the key SEO factors identified by the SEOmoz.org consulting group, and pair them with various Magnolia features. The intended audience is online marketers, people employing web communications, and anyone interested in increasing their site rank.

Learn how Magnolia can help optimize your site with the following SEO best practices:

  • Creating W3C compliant code
  • Providing a sitemap
  • Enabling secure crawler access
  • Creating search-friendly URLs
  • Providing a shallow site architecture
  • Inserting HTML links
  • Preventing broken links
  • Categorizing content
  • Redirecting traffic
  • Optimizing images
  • Managing multi-language and multi-regional sites
  • Inserting keywords in page titles and description meta elements
  • Enhancing your site's link popularity
  • Attracting visitors to your site

The PDF is free to download with no registration required and is available at magnolia-cms.com.

The Magnolia CMS and the U.S. Navy

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A couple weeks ago, one of Magnolia's press people gave me a sneak preview of a case study for how the Magnolia CMS was being used by one of their partners in redesigning the recruitment website of the United States Navy, Navy.com. I was given the opportunity to write a story about the redesign before the case study was published online. It was a great opportunity I was being offered but I just wasn't able to find the time in my schedule to write the story.

Magnolia CMS LogoSo it is only fitting, that I at least talk about this case study on the Navy's use of the Magnolia content management system on Veteran's Day. The recent Navy.com was redesigned to be more interactive, more responsive to user needs, and better integrated with social media communities nurtured by the U.S. Navy. Additionally, the site needed to support the Navy’s recently launched new brand, “America’s Navy. A Global Force For Good™”.

As mentioned in the case study, integrators spent six months researching and evaluating open source content management systems. Their evaluation was platform-agnostic; they considered Java, PHP and Python solutions in their research. Key evaluation criteria were:

  • Easy to learn and easy to use for content authors
  • Short learning curve for designers and developers
  • Easy to integrate with custom business objects
  • Compliant with Web standards and accessibility guidelines
  • Scalable and robust

Magnolia CMS Enterprise Edition, together with the Magnolia STK and Blossom module, met all of these criteria. Navy.com is now running on Magnolia CMS Enterprise Edition with Magnolia STK and Blossom, Magnolia's instant Spring integration. The infrastructure supporting this site includes an Apache Web Server, Tomcat Application Server, MySQL Database, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Magnolia Conference 2010 Rides Upsurge of Interest in CMS

NEW YORK, NY — Magnolia, the open source content management vendor that delivers simplicity on an enterprise scale, today announced that its Magnolia Conference 2010 was a huge success, with 50% more participants – 240 vs. 160the year before – who came to exchange experiences and attend a packed dual-track agenda of business and technology talks. Those who missed the conference can view the presentations on www.magnolia-cms.com/conference.

“Rarely is there a conference where you have unfettered access to the entire company behind the product,” said Brian Warrick, Director of Product Solutions of NRG Edge, a Magnolia partner in the U.S.“Also in evidence was the strong and growing Magnolia community, which is a positive for the product and all of its users.”

“The conference was a great chance to meet the Magnolia software team and connect with the community,” said Matthew Arriaga, Software Designer, ManateeCounty, Florida.

“Magnolia 2010 was very interesting and the atmosphere was friendly. I was impressed by the quality of the presentations and the speakers’ technical expertise,”said Maurizio Müller, R&D Manager, of Tinext, a Magnolia partner in Switzerland.

“The event was well-organized,and participants had a high level of expertise,” said Rico Jansen, Software Developer, of VPRO, a public broadcaster in The Netherlands.

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