BOSTON, Mass. – Webiva, an open source Ruby on Rails content management system (CMS) designed to compete with the likes of Drupal, Joomla, and WordPress, today launched a new Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosting platform. Webiva.com allows web professionals to build websites on a load-balanced, backed-up and replicated cloud without the hassle of installing and maintaining a Ruby on Rails installation.

“Webiva has been absolutely critical to the growth of our business. We reviewed dozens of platforms to adopt, and have found nothing that compares in quality to Webiva,” said Jonathan Karush, CEO of Liberty Concepts, the nation’s largest provider of campaign websites to U.S. congressional candidates. “It has powered some of the nation's most recognizable advocacy campaigns over the past two years.”

Built from the ground up with a designer’s and a developer’s needs in mind, Webiva is a web 2.0 open-source website building system (WBS) that allows web professionals to build custom websites that look and operate the way they want them to. Based on a Ruby on Rails framework from a software perspective, Webiva does its best to build on the concepts and methodologies that Rails creates. It has an extensible module system that allows additional functionality to easily be dropped into the system. Webiva offers support for forums, e-commerce, social networking other mediums needed by web professionals building top-of-the-line websites.

“Until recently there were two CMS options: a blog engine that’s user-friendly but limited, or a full-stack CMS that’s powerful, but complex to manage,” said Webiva Partner and Developer Pascal Rettig. “Webiva offers the best of both, a Rails-based system with the accessibility of a blog engine and all the features of a big CMS on the back-end.”

With 18 years of combined web development experience, Pascal and Martha Rettig are the inventive developer-designer team behind Webiva’s creation. They have been using the system for more than four years. Every feature available on Webiva was added in response to a specific requirement that arose during its use. Key benefits to web professionals using Webiva include:

• Easy-to-Use - A user-friendly interface similar to a blog engine with all the features of a powerful open-source CMS
• Non-CMS Aesthetic Appeal - Webiva is transparent from a site’s front end, giving designers full control and easy access to site HTML and CSS with built in editors.
• Quick Click Site Creation - Build and deploy dozens of sites from a singe install- no need to FTP templates and assets.
• Well documented, Open-source Platform - Built-on and extensible with Ruby on Rails, web professionals can use core modules (including e-commerce, social networking, forums, etc.) or write their own.
  

CHICAGO, IL – March 23, 2010 – Businesses today are challenged with creating online experiences that engage web users at every turn. To meet the changing needs of today’s competitive online environment, EPiServer (http://episerver.com), the world’s fastest growing provider of platforms that drive online engagement, today introduced its next generation content management system (CMS). EPiServer CMS delivers a powerful suite of solutions via an open, intuitive platform, including a new OnlineCenter that makes it easy for businesses to develop, manage and measure all aspects of their online presence.

 “To stand out on the web, we need tools that increase traffic and keep visitors coming back,” said Tom Kracht, CTO of The Bancorp, Inc., a bank holding company that operates The Bancorp Bank, an FDIC-insured online commercial bank that delivers a full array of financial services and products nationally, both directly and through private-label affinity programs. “EPiServer CMS lets us quickly develop a compelling online presence and easily manage that presence to ensure we are meeting the needs of our customers. The new EPiServer OnlineCenter provides a centralized dashboard that allows us to be efficient in utilizing all aspects of our website, so that we may support our current clients while growing our business."

EPiServer CMS is the only platform on the market today designed to support content, commerce and community. It goes beyond traditional content management systems to deliver a powerful set of solutions that include social media and community applications, as well as SEO, personalization and rich internet applications. OnlineCenter was designed into the platform to make it simple for web developers, editors and content owners to monitor, manage and measure numerous sites and online communications channels via a customizable dashboard. Instead of merely storing content and publishing online, EPiServer CMS delivers extended functionality that enables businesses to more effectively engage with target audiences at the right time to improve sales conversions.

The I-Metrics CMS is a complete web content management system that can be used for start-up businesses, blogs, personal sites. It includes advanced features to create, group and associate text pages and image lists, effective SEO modules, a plugin manager, a helpdesk and various tools to manage a webiste.

The base web engine of the I-Metrics CMS is osCommerce MS2.2 simplified and striped of e-commerce features. The package is extremely light, very easy to learn and expand, suitable to both novice and advanced web-developer.