Kentico CMS empowers the websites of 60 companies from the Fortune Global 500

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Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, April 10, 2012 – Kentico Software (www.kentico.com), the Web content management system vendor, announced that Kentico CMS is actively used by 60 companies from the Fortune Global 500 list for 2011. 

Kentico CMS is currently used by 60 of the top 500 corporations worldwide, according to last year’s Fortune Global 500 annual ranking, compiled by Fortune magazine. Clients span most industry verticals with the strongest positions being in Automotive (14), Electronics (9) and Food (6). Most client headquarters are in Europe (28), the US (19) and Japan (8).

 “We are happy to observe a growing number of major brands and solid companies recognizing Kentico CMS for the scalable, adaptable and intuitive content management system that it is, joining the 12,000 other websites currently leveraging the product to maximize online sales, marketing capabilities and ROI. With 12% of Fortune Global 500 companies using Kentico, it is proof of its dependability and scalability; able to serve both the smallest of shops and the largest, most significant global players such as Microsoft, McDonald's, Hewlett-Packard and Mazda.” says Petr Palas, CEO and Founder of Kentico Software.

CMS Report's Ten Additional Stories for 2011

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The problem I have with top ten lists is that inevitably there is a story that should have made the list but didn't. Last week, I posted CMS Report's Top Ten Stories of 2011 and wished I could have included additional stories. The articles listed were ranked by popularity based by how many times viewed and the rate that they were viewed through the year. Popular stories do not always signify well written articles and they aren't always an indication of my personal favorites.

In case you missed these stories the first time around, below are ten additional content management articles we published in 2011. Every article deserves a second chance to be highlighted or tweeted again.

Hippo sites score high in Top 100 Online Find-ability research

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

This is the conclusion of the research work of iProspec. Since 2006, IProspect investigates every year what websites are best findable via search engines. 

The ANWB website is developed with Hippo CMS.

Websites Built With Drupal Take Top Spots on 2011 Inc. 5000 List

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Volacci’s Extensive Study Confirms 4% of Companies on List Are Drupal Users – A Significant Growth Over Previous Years

Austin, TX – Volacci, the search engine marketing company that leverages Drupal content management system technologies to create customers from Web visitors, recently conducted extensive research to identify websites built on the Drupal Content Management System (CMS). The findings confirmed what has been an identified trend in corporate website governance--that more and more high profile and scalable sites are migrating to Drupal.

Nick Lewis: 40+ Essential Drupal Modules

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Nick Lewis posted his list of 40+ Essential Dupal Modules. The majority of the contributed modules on his list should be well known by most Drupal users.

If you are new to drupal, then this list is for you. These are some of the best of the best drupal modules. Everything from standard framework modules, to location and mapping is covered.

Since I've been around Drupal long enough, I don't expect these type of lists to provide me with a whole lot of new information. However, there is still great value in providing these lists for old and new Drupal users alike. For me personally, essential lists provide confirmation for whether or not I'm moving in the direction of more experienced users. Nick's list has inspired me to consider updating in the near-future my own outdated list of essential Drupal modules.

CMS Report's Ten Additional Stories for 2009

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A couple days ago, I posted CMS Report's Top Ten Stories of 2009. The articles listed were ranked by popularity based by how many times viewed and the rate that they were viewed through the year. Popular stories do not always signify well written articles or are always an indication of personal favorites. Each year, I write a number of content management or IT related articles that I love but for various reasons you the people didn't have interest in reading and sharing.

Below are some of my favorite articles written in 2009 that were not a part of the previously posted Top Ten list. If I had a Top 20 Stories list the articles in both of these listings would be included.

CMS Report's Top Ten Stories of 2009

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The level of interest in content management systems astounds me. Each year, I continue to see at CMS Report an increase of visitors looking for information on content management. Our stories tend to focus on open source CMS more than proprietary applications and evidently that's the subject matter that our readers want to read.

Below are the top ten stories of 2009 that were posted here at CMSReport.com. As you can see, stories involving Drupal, WordPress, Joomla!, Alfresco, and Nuxeo took center stage. These stories might not have been the ten I would have personally picked for this list, but I'll respect the numbers behind their ranking.

  1. Mollom: A solution for comment spam
  2. 2009 Best Open Source PHP CMS: Drupal wins, Wordpress and Joomla! not far behind
  3. Serving a home for my Drupal site
  4. WordPress leads the Packt as 2009 Overall Best Open Source CMS
  5. Allen Ellis: Why the Packt CMS Competition is Broken, and How to Fix It
  6. Google PageRank
  7. Alfresco Module Obtains U.S. DoD 5015.02 Records Management Certification
  8. Using Wordpress city saves $19,000
  9. Cheryl McKinnon, Nuxeo, and Open Source
  10. Drupal Gardens preview video by Acquia

The interest in Nuxeo took me by surprise and I'll be adding the CMS to my top 30 CMS Focus page as time allows. As always, our thanks to all those who continue to return to this site to read the stories, join in on the conversation, and even submit articles. As I've said before, I'm not sure we would be doing this if it wasn't for the interest shown by others visiting the site.

Google PageRank

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CMS Wire's Barb Mosher reported about a forum posting by a Google Employee explaining why PageRank has been dropped from the Google Webmaster Tools. Barb writes:

Do you constantly watch the Google toolbar in your browser to see if your Google PageRank has changed? Do you worry constantly about why your rank is less than that of a competitor? Well, there may not be any reason to worry any longer.

Google has dropped PageRank data from Webmaster Tools.

Google has for some time discussed that PageRank is a very small factor among many factors that they look at for placing a particular indexed page on a search results page. Dropping PageRank from the Webmaster Tools appears to be just one more step in moving PageRank away from everyone's attention.

We've been telling people for a long time that they shouldn't focus on PageRank so much; many site owners seem to think it's the most important metric for them to track, which is simply not true. We removed it because we felt it was silly to tell people not to think about it, but then to show them the data, implying that they should look at it. :-)

I have observed that indeed PageRank doesn't matter for placement on Google's search pages. I've seen CMSReport.com's front page ranked from as low as "3" to as high as "7" over the years. Although the page rank has varied over time, the placement of my web pages on the search pages have stayed about the same. Relevancy of the page to the search terms being used seems to have a much greater impact on how well your site ranks with the search engine. Additional details on why Google doesn't see PageRank as a good measurement for a site can be found on one of their Webmaster FAQ.

Ektron, FatWire, ocPortal and Sitecore added to CMS Report's top 30 list

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During the past few weeks, I have been quietly updating CMS Report's CMS Focus page. CMS Focus is a list of the top 30 Web applications representing what I see as the Web applications of today and tomorrow which interest me the most. In a world where niche CMS news sites try to cover it all for their readers, I feel one of the strengths of CMSReport.com is limiting our focus on a certain number of CMS. The CMS on this list are applications I recommend site owners first look at before moving into the deeper waters of content management and social software.

Recently added to this list of content management systems are Ektron, FatWire, ocPortal, and Sitecore. The new additions are heavily weighted toward enterprise content management systems and are a reflection of my shifting focus from Web CMS for the Internet to those applications that run on an organization's intranet. Don't worry though, I still plan on talking about some of our favorite Web CMS such as Drupal, Joomla!, mojoPortal, and SilverStripe as I'm broadening not limiting my interests.

I bumped five CMS off the list and placed them into the "Hall of Fame". Those CMS no longer being listed under CMS Focus include SMF, OpenEdit, eGroupWare, e107, and dotCMS.

Frog CMS and Socialtext in CMS Report's Top 30 List

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I recently added Frog CMS and Socialtext to CMS Report's CMS Focus page.  CMS Focus is a list of the top 30 Web applications that represent what I feel are the Web applications of today and tomorrow.  In a world where niche CMS news sites try to cover it all for their readers (more power to them), I feel one of the strengths of CMSReport.com is limiting our focus on a certain number of CMS.  The CMS on this list are applications I recommend site owners first look at before moving into the deep waters of content management and social software.

As I mentioned late last year, my latest obsession is the implementation and use of CMS and social software in the enterprise.  For many organizations it can be more challenging to implement content management and collaboration solutions on their own Intranet than it is for the Web.  Wanting to continue expanding our topics on Enterprise 2.0 is why I've put Socialtext on the list.  Frankly, I'm learning about Socialtext just as much as everyone.  Instead of putting Socialtext into CMS Focus, I did consider Opentext and even Ektron.  Socialtext made the list because they seemed to be more transparent with news about their product.  My advice to companies and their Web sites...keep those RRS feeds updated and accessible.

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