OpenCms from Alkacon Software is a professional content management system that helps content managers worldwide to create and maintain websites fast and efficiently.
Interactive Knowledge Stack (IKS) is an EU founded project about the future of the semantic web in content management systems. Alkacon Software is an industrial partner in the IKS project.
Last weekend, digital agency water&stone, released their 2011 Open Source CMS Market Share Report. I consider this report one of the few non-bias and detailed surveys that come across my desk each year. The report isn't perfect, but the report does help give a good snapshot on the state of who's who in the world of open source content management systems.
You are most definitely going to want to take a look at the details in the report. The findings in this year’s report were based on a survey of more than 2,500 CMS users and additional research into a wide variety of measures of market share and brand strength. I'm still combing through the survey and taking note of the interesting individual nuggets of information that can be found in the results of the survey.
Not surprisingly, the report confirms the ranking position of open source's three most dominate Web content management systems in the market. The press release itself summarizes the results this way:
PHP-based systems WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal continue to dominate the web content management space. But, while the Big Three remain unchanged from last year, the Report concludes that WordPress retains a clear lead in the face of decreasing competition from Joomla!.
The decreasing competition from Joomla! can be seen most noticeably in the decrease of installations reported by the survey respondents in 2011 compared to 2010. The survey does note that this dramatic drop is likely due to the Joomla! community aggressively promoting the survey last year. This year, the promotion efforts were not coordinated and less influential. I only point this out because this is an example of where the report isn't "perfect" via inconsistencies in the yearly survey sample introducing a margin of error in the trend comparisons.
OpenCms 8.0.3 is now ready and available for download and was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the OpenCms developer community. OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements.
With version 2.0 of the OAMP GeoMap Module, which is available now for download from alkacon.com, you can add a full-featured and highly customizable Google map widget to your OpenCms 8 installation without knowledge of HTML. Add a GeoMap to any page in OpenCms 8 just by Drag & Drop. With the ADE Editor all changes are made directly on your website.
The new OpenCms 8 training courses of Alkacon Software provide the best possible introduction to OpenCms 8 development, right from the creators of OpenCms.
OpenCms 8 training courses are available at different skill levels and offer an introduction to the new OpenCms 8 concepts including Advanced Direct Edit, usage and creation of Templates, formatters and containers.
All Alkacon OpenCms courses have been developed specially for OpenCms and contain a variety of slides, lessons and exercises.
The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions are a commercial extension for the popular open source web content management system OpenCms that offers support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance.
The Alkacon OpenCms Enterprise Extensions consist of several OCEE modules and are available in tailor-made packages to meet functional and budgetary requirements. The OCEE Cluster package contains all available OCEE modules.
OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements. The "Advanced Direct Edit" mode allows content managers to create page content by drag & drop. The new sitemap editor allows creating new pages and rearranging the navigation tree by drag & drop.
Version 2.0 of the popular OAMP Webform Module is available now for download from alkacon.com. Moreover there is a new version of the OAMP Survey Module, which is based on the Webform Module. They extend an OpenCms 8 installation with the capability to easily create highly configurable online input forms without knowledge of HTML. In OpenCms 8 a webform or a survey could now be added to any page just by Drag & Drop.
Cologne, Germany – Alkacon Software GmbH now supports mobile.de in the development of OpenCms projects. The first project was the optimization of the existing mobile.de OpenCms infrastructure.
Alkacon Software has moved its software repository from CVS to Github. Github is based on the popular distributed revision control system (DRCS) Git. The web-based hosting service Github is very popular amongst Open Source Developers.
Alkacon Software has chosen Git as revision control to keep its software development process based on the best available technology (since CVS is technically out-dated) and to achieve a better collaboration with the OpenCms community.
The Development Demo Module is a set of well documented, easy to understand use cases for OpenCms 8.
In comparison to the "Template III" the Dev Demo Module is limited in functionality and design, but makes a good reference for developers looking at the source code.
Main features of the Dev Demo Module:
Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website.
The latest OCEE release version 3.0 is a compatibility update to work with the new OpenCms 8. OCEE 3 comes with some new functions and improvements.
Please see the OCEE release notes for a full description about the new features and changes in this version.
OpenCms 8 is now ready and available for download! OpenCms is one of the most popular Open Source Content Management Solutions. This new version was developed by Alkacon Software GmbH with the support of the international OpenCms developer community.
OpenCms 8 contains a greatly improved user interface for content managers and numerous other enhancements.
The Alkacon OAMP ExcelImport Module provides functionality to import an Excel file into OpenCms and create XML contents from the contained Excel records automatically.
The ExcelImport Module could be used for quick content creation from large offline data collections like news, events, address lists or list of employees or even stock of products. Excel sheet column names get matched to XML tags in a defined but freely configurable way. Existing XML content gets updated if a set of balanced quantifiers reaches a threshold value. Direct publishing can be switched on with a check box.
Now available for download from www.alkacon.com.
The Alkacon OAMP ExcelImport Module features:
The module is available with full source code and documentation.
All Alkacon OAMP modules are released as full Open Source under the GNU GPL version 3. The source code of the modules is freely available in the public CVS of cvs.opencms.org.
Alkacon OCEE for OpenCms is a commercial extension for OpenCms that offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. Full information about OCEE is available on the Alkacon website.
The latest OCEE release version 2.1.4 is an important update that comes with several new functions and improvements and fixes a few issues that persisted in the last release.
