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CMSReport.com was founded in 2006 on the belief that information technologists, website owners, and web developers have a deep desire to visit online news site where they could learn about content management systems without the sales pitch. The primary focus of this site is Web content management systems (CMS) as well as on the people that are involved developing and using content management solutions. CMS Report has a healthy interest in opinions and stories that involve open source and proprietary CMS solutions.

Most of the activity here at CMS Report involves informing readers of the latest happenings in the world of content management systems followed by discussion (comments). We currently provide the information we do through three sources:

Have a story idea that you would like to see posted here at CMS Report? See our Submit Story page for details. In brief, all you need to do is register an account here at CMS Report.  Any stories or links you submit will need to be reviewed by the editor before we publish it on the site.  More than likely, you will see your article or link posted within a day or two after you have submitted it to us.

Global Collaboration Software Provider eXo Platform Opens US Office and Names New Board of Advisors

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By chantaly - Posted on 09 October 2009

France-based eXo Platform announced this week that it has opened its first U.S. office to serve the North American market. The company provides open source collaboration software that integrates content management, communications, workflow and social applications on a portal platform. This gives it a unique position at the intersection of open source, collaboration and social computing.

Considering that its first customer -- and the impetus behind the formation of the company in the first place -- was the U.S. Department, this move can be considered long overdue. But Founder and CEO Benjamin Mestrallet wanted to do this right.

First, he inked a partnership with open source leader Red Hat. Then he recruited some well known software industry veterans onto a newly formed advisory board. These include:

* Bob Bickel, co-founder of Bluestone Software, former head of Hewlett-Packard Middleware and, most recently, head of strategy at JBoss and board advisor to Hyperic (acquired by SpringSource), JasperSoft and Funambol, among others;

* Edwin Khodabakchian, co-founder of Feedly, and former Oracle vice president of product development and CTO of eCommerce at AOL; and

* Sacha Labourey, most recently co-GM of Red Hat’s JBoss Middleware business and former CTO and European GM of JBoss, Inc.

Mr. Bickel has a long history of working closely with promising young companies and taking them to impressive exits. On why he's working with eXo, he explained: “eXo has the proven technology, talent and market potential that I look for when considering which companies I’d like be involved with at a strategic level.

Mailbag: ocPortal

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By Bryan - Posted on 17 July 2009

During the past couple months I've had a number of email exchanges from Chris and Allen regarding their PHP based CMS, ocPortal. Their company recently relaunched ocPortal under an open source license in hopes of growing their user base. Both gentleman are very enthusiastic about ocPortal and have a strong desire to see more community involvement with their CMS.

In one of those emails, Chris had something to say about ocPortal's move to open source.

I've been following you on Twitter for a while and it was good to see you commenting on my blog post recently. I'd like to see if we can work with you to get some more ocPortal coverage on CMS report - we've got a lot to say and offer, and everyone who comments on our product gives really glowing reviews. I really want to get our project out of the obscurity it's always suffered; it's always a downer to read about things other groups do if we've done it already and not had news of it leave our community. From my personal perspective I feel we should really be up with the most popular CMS's, as we are ahead of them in about every category except community size. We started out commercial but are now OSS - I think in our initial years people weren't motivated to advocate us much because of that.

In a few other emails from Chris, he also discussed some of the frustrations with getting open source ocPortal some attention while the IT media is often focused on the  bigger open source projects. How does a small project compete against the bigger CMS projects such as Drupal, Joomla!, and Wordpress? I don't know the answer to that question, but I do know ocPortal deserves a chance.

In the coming months we'll focus on ocPortal for some of our stories. The next time our CMS Focus page gets a refresh, you can expect ocPortal to be in our Top 30 list. That also means you can expect a CMS or two that we're less enthusiastic about off the list.

AAMC's MedEdPORTAL running on CoreMedia CMS

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By Bryan - Posted on 01 June 2009

CoreMedia LogoCoreMedia announced today that the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has launched a sophisticated interactive content portal powered by CoreMedia’s CMS that harnesses the power of social media. The name of AAMC's new site is MedEdPortal.

“AAMC’s desire to create an interactive medical community that facilitates the exchange of educational content is a project that CoreMedia was excited about and well suited to enable,” said René Hermes, VP Marketing of CoreMedia. “The combination of our market leading CMS and extensible social software features made CoreMedia the obvious choice for AAMC.”

AAMC’s MedEdPORTAL is a free online peer-reviewed publication service provided in partnership with the American Dental Education Association (ADEA). MedEdPORTAL was designed to promote educational collaboration by facilitating the open exchange of peer-reviewed teaching resources such as tutorials, virtual patients, simulation cases, lab guides, videos, podcasts, and assessment tools. While MedEdPORTAL's primary audience includes medical professionals, health educators and learners around the globe, it is also freely accessible to the general public.

Mailbag: CMSity

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By Bryan - Posted on 25 April 2009

In the three years of running this site, I don't think I've ever been so far behind in responding to my emails.  My apologies for those that have tried to catch my attention over the past several weeks.  So let's talk about some of those emails I found in the neglected mailbag at CMS Report.

The first email is from Adam Strzelecki from nanoANT regarding his latest product, CMSity.

I am single person company nanoANT. I just wonder if you would mind posting some news about my latest project at your site.

Recently I have released my new CMS engine to the public at http://www.cmsity.com/.

CMSity is very small PHP CMS 200KB engine (150KB source code) + 40KB templates, but powerful. It gives you static pages, downloads, blog, forums, tags, attachments and RSS functionality out of the box absolutely for free (with Free license). While there's extra paid Pro version extending functionality with advanced access control, and multi-language sites.
It was written with flexibility and performance in mind all by myself. The objective was to satisfy most of the users with Free version while to have some small revenue on Pro from enterprise users.

You may have a look at latest most notable deployment of CMSity at http://www.allplayer.org/

Best regards, Adam.

Some of the features and requirements for CMSity include:

  • Engine code ~190KB, templates ~70KB
  • PHP 4.x, 5.x compatible, MySQL 4.x, 5.x compatible
  • SEO optimizations and user friendly URLs
  • Multi-language
  • Blog, forums and multiple users functionality
  • Page and user tags
  • Flexible templates
  • Template and tag based access control

Best of luck to CMSity.  I also hope people comment if they are aware of this CMS as well as sites that have been built on CMSity.

Bitrix and Parallels Announce Partnership to Deliver SaaS Applications

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By bitrix - Posted on 18 March 2009

Parallels, Inc., one of the world’s largest providers of virtualization and automation software, has partnered with Bitrix, Inc., a pioneer in the development of Content Management Systems and Portal Solutions. Parallel’s pioneering open Application Packaging Standard, also called APS™ has certified Bitrix applications. This allows any Bitrix application to integrate seamlessly into hosting environments and deliver SaaS solutions. The new SaaS solution dramatically reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) for businesses ranging from Startups to Enterprise level.

With more than 200 SaaS-applications available, the new Bitrix SaaS offerings will give the end-user an option to not purchase the application, but use the application as they need to when they need to. This ‘On Demand’ service will become a significant cost saver for users.

Certification with the APS program opens a new service model for independent software vendors like Bitrix by allowing them to serve their next generation applications through the web platforms of major worldwide service providers. The program also opens new opportunities in emerging markets and helps tap into core industry verticals that have been shy to adopt such technologies. In the present economic climate, businesses are seriously considering the value of of SaaS applications and how reducing TCO is a powerful option to increase bottomline.

nSynergy and Sharepoint: A one-stop management platform for e-government

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By Shirley - Posted on 20 February 2009

Our world is changing rapidly, and so is the ongoing relationship between governments and the customers it serves. Today, the demands on governments to serve citizens and businesses have never been greater. The e-government application comes with free templates to help implement technological solutions to some of the most common issues faced by governments.

nSynergy assist this with Microsoft technology including SharePoint solution and service, intended to integrate all the existing business application into the one SharePoint platform, thus providing a central point of information management and collaboration, and helping governments to deliver high quality, and highly efficient, service to citizens and businesses, everywhere.