Contensis continues its innovation in content management systems with the launch of the latest version of its market-leading web CMS. R7.1 is the very latest release of the Contensis Enterprise CMS and the first using its new release schedule that sees a new version every 4 months.

Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Enterprise Applications on Windows Phone 7 is a new book from Packt that helps integrate Windows Phone 7 capable web pages into SharePoint websites. Written by Todd Spatafore this book examines Windows Phone 7's enterprise capabilities and helps create enterprise-ready websites and applications to access Microsoft SharePoint.

Windows Phone 7 is a mobile operating system developed by Microsoft and is the successor to its Windows Mobile Platform. Microsoft Sharepoint is a Web technology-based server that can be used to build portals, collaboration sites, and also content management sites.

This book introduces the reader to the improvements found over the desktop version of Internet Explorer 7. It gives an overview of the features of Windows Phone 7 and the capabilities of Internet Explorer Mobile for Windows Phone 7. Topics such as SharePoint Communities, Windows Phone 7 Web Development, and building SharePoint Sites for Windows Phone 7 are also spoken of in detail.

The .NET 4 based Composite C1 CMS project – which became available as Free Open Source six months ago - released its first major update based on the “going open” feedback and experiences. This release addresses practical issues like having trouble setting up the system behind corporate proxies to delivering requested features like support for SQL Server and IE9/Chrome and also capture some of the innovation generated via the community like ASP.NET Master Page and Windows Azure support.

Here are the most noteworthy improvements in the new release:

• Move your site from XML files to SQL Server – a migration tool literally execute the process in a few minutes and thanks to our data API's your code very seldom need any tweaking. See video.
• Chrome, IE7-9 and Firefox 3.6-4 support – we now support all the major modern browsers and the speed they provide is excellent.
• Move your site to Windows Azure - a migration tool literally execute the process in a few minutes and thanks to our data and file API's your code very seldom need any tweaking. See http://docs.composite.net/Azure for details.
• Get 30 days free trials on premium packages – install and setup directly from the C1 Console and evaluate premium features for 30 days. Try before you buy, no strings attached.
• ASP.NET Master Page support via contrib project – if you prefer the ASP.NET Web Forms approach to templates you have this option.
• Build in page performance profiling – pinpoint what feature is making your page slow simply by adding ?c1mode=perf to the page URL. http://twitpic.com/48myzg/full
  

Sydney, Australia – 16 February 2011– Elcom, one of Australia’s largest independently owned Web Developers, today announced the latest release of CommunityManager.NET (Version7.3) – its flagship enterprise Web Content Management software.

CommunityManager.NET is utilized by over 500 organizations worldwide, and provides a secure and scalable framework which supports websites, intranets, ecommerce platforms, membership systems, mobile platforms and online training capabilities.

Underpinning this latest version of CommunityManager.NET is a variety of updates and additional new features, designed to increase efficiency and reduce costs through an improved user-experience for clients and end-users. At the core of this latest release is the addition of A/B testing to Elcom’s existing Online Marketing offering.

According to Elcom’s Product Director, Anthony Milner, “This new feature was developed in response to industry trends and by really listening to what our clients wanted”. It allows users to test a baseline control sample webpage and compare it to a variety of single-variable test samples, in order to better evaluate and improve response rates. This ultimately enables the execution of “smarter marketing” through testing, evaluation, better resource allocation and enhanced tracking ability – thereby significantly improving Return on Investment.

DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind a popular Web Content Management Platforms for Microsoft .NET, has announced the release of DotNetNuke 5.6. Version 5.6 of the DotNetNuke Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition includes the new DotNetNuke Site Search feature, which enables more effective web site content search, and Enhanced Analytics Support, which provides greater performance and control over the monitoring of web site traffic. It also includes significant enhancements to the Content Approval Workflows feature, which extends the ability of organizations to control changes to their web site content. In addition, a new perpetual license option is now available for the DotNetNuke Web CMS in addition to the existing annual subscription license.

Some of the details on the features and improvements regarding DotNetNuke 5.6:

• Site Search: Exclusive to the Professional and Enterprise Editions, the new Site Search engine allows site users to quickly locate files and pages in the site. The search engine includes rich query syntax with support for Boolean searches, phrase searches, relevance searches, wild cards, fuzzy searches, and groupings. Based on Lucene, the system includes a true web spider that is capable of indexing any site, whether it is built on DotNetNuke or not.

• Enhanced Analytics Support: The DotNetNuke Professional and Enterprise Editions include Enhanced Analytics Support, which allows users to take full advantage of Google Analytics. The system has been upgraded to the latest integration best practices from Google and now enables tracking of sub-domains as a single entity as well as the use of up to five segmentation rules per page.

• Content Approval Workflow Enhancements: The Professional and Enterprise Editions now allow managers to configure approvals in a top-down hierarchy at the site, page, and module level. In addition, content locking improves efficiency and reduces the chance of workflow conflicts. Approvals ensure that users throughout the organization that are impacted by a content change can review updates before they are published. The business rules engine enables workflows with an unlimited number of states and reviewers.

• Perpetual License Option: DotNetNuke Corp. now offers a perpetual license option for existing Professional and Enterprise Editions subscription customers. Current DotNetNuke Corp. subscription customers may purchase a perpetual license to use the DotNetNuke Professional or Enterprise Edition version they are running on their production servers. The perpetual licensing provides the right to use the commercial editions of the DotNetNuke software indefinitely. It must be used in conjunction with a valid product subscription in order to get access to the additional subscription license features such as unlimited technical support, the DotNetNuke Support Network online Knowledge Base and product documentation, email alerts for product updates and patches, or product copyright indemnification.

• The DotNetNuke Community Edition 5.6 includes new features such as:
  • An enhanced indexing capability which allows the standard core search feature to index page names, tag attributes and other metadata for improved search results
  • Optimizations to the database architecture and handling of web analytics tracking codes which will result in faster performance for all Editions of the product
    

Leading digital asset management software vendor, Daydream, have announced a public beta release of their DAM system, FocusOPEN under an AGPL open source licence, providing a tried-and-tested, fully featured .NET DAM system to more businesses at zero cost or risk.

London, UK, 14th September, 2010. Leading digital asset management vendor, Daydream, have announced a public beta release of their .NET open source digital asset management system, FocusOPEN under an Affero General Public (AGPL) open source licence.  Offering a public release marks a strategic change for Daydream, who have been providing high-end enterprise digital asset management software to corporations worldwide since 1995.

"Although traditionally we have concentrated solely on the enterprise tier of the DAM market, we found increasing demand for our software and services from smaller businesses and creative agencies.  We always offered our software with an open source licence, but until now we avoided a public distribution because our service delivery operations were oriented towards the needs of our enterprise clients.  Therefore, prior to a full public release, we made significant investments into our support infrastructure to ensure that the user experience is a positive one." said Ralph Windsor, Managing Director of Daydream.

"The Open Source (AGPL) Edition of FocusOPEN provides a ‘tried-and-tested’ fully featured DAM system derived from our existing enterprise product that users can download from our website without charge.  It has many of the features of its enterprise counterpart such as a dedicated asset transcoding server, embedded metadata support, multi-branding, full text search, faceted search, taxonomies, asset permissions and workflow for usage management as well as ingestion." Windsor continues.

FocusOPEN is the only fully supported .NET open source DAM system available and promises to radically shake up this segment of the digital asset management market, which has hitherto been characterised by a limited selection of expensive and proprietary solutions.  Daydream have set up a dedicated product website with a range of community support facilities.  All registered users are provided with their own account where they can also manage additional service subscriptions.

"We have a package of associated services like hosting, SaaS, priority support and consulting.  Users can also take advantage of some fantastic early bird offers, including sizeable discounts on any paid for services they might need to help them implement FocusOPEN in their organisation."

Daydream also plan to reach out to the developer community and channel partners with the FocusOPEN Developer Network and a reseller programme.  A public Commercial Edition is also planned for release shortly after the Open Source edition leaves the beta phase at the end of September 2010.

For further information, to trial or to download FocusOPEN Open Source (AGPL) Edition, visit the product website at http://www.digitalassetmanager.com or contact Daydream's  sales team on +44(0) 20 7096 1471.

DotNetNuke Corp., the company behind the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for Microsoft® .NET, today announced it has partnered with Engage Software to provide new training options to DotNetNuke users. The partnership will allow DotNetNuke Corp. to leverage Engage Software’s extensive training materials to establish a training group, which will offer live and recorded webinars and onsite training to DotNetNuke users worldwide. Chris Hammond, previously the Master Trainer for Engage Software, has joined DotNetNuke Corp. as Director of Training and is leading the new effort.