Generis has completed our 2012 survey of CMS plans and requirements. We had many more responses this year than last, with over 60 companies responding. While far from being a comprehensive, scientific study, it shows some interesting trends compared to 2011, while companies continue to suffer some of the same challenges with their existing CMS platforms.
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Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook Announced
Packt Publishing, one of the world’s foremost publishers of Microsoft SharePoint titles, announces Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Development Cookbook. Written by Microsoft MVP, Ed Musters, the book and eBook is scheduled for publication in December 2011.
HarperCollins Uses Axceler FileLoader for SharePoint 2010 To Populate First Intranet Quickly and Easily
WOBURN, MA – January 17, 2012 –Axceler®,the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migrationsoftware, today announced that
New release of Smartlogic’s Content Intelligence Platform offers contextual navigation and improved multi-lingual capability
Smartlogic has released the latest version of its Content Intelligence Platform, Semaphore. Semaphore 3.3 includes ‘semantic visualization’ tool, enterprise metadata management, new user review and feedback facility, and exceptional integration with SharePoint 2010.
Axceler, Jornata Announce Partnership in SharePoint Solutions Market
WOBURN, MA – January 10, 2012 –Axceler®, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migrationsoftware, today announced that it has entered a partnership with Jornata®, a leading business and technology services provider, to help organizations better manage their SharePoint environments, particularly those in the financial services, healthcare and life sciences/pharmaceutical industries.
CMS Report's Top Ten Content Management Stories of 2011
When I read the stories we post here at CMS Report, I am reminded how quickly the CMS market continues to evolve and mature. Every year, I worry that there is nothing "new" to write about in this information system niche only to have the developer, user, or owner of a CMS push another new story idea toward my screen. This time around when looking for the top ten content management stories of the year, I concluded we didn't have ten great CMS stories for 2011. Instead, I found more than two dozen great CMS stories for 2011.
Below are the top ten stories of 2011 that were posted here at CMSReport.com. The stories in this list are ranked based on the rate they were viewed since they first appeared at CMSReport.com.
Top Ten Content Management Stories of 2011
- The 2011 Open Source Awards
- Google+ first week of use review
- 10 New Content Management Systems via CMS Focus
- Another new term: Social Content Management
- CMS Expo 2011 Series
- Liferay Marketplace and Liferay Portal 6.1
- CMS Redefined: Cloud. Mobile. Social
- CMS Report upgrades to Drupal 7
- DotNetNuke, Drupal, Liferay, and SharePoint in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals
- CMS in the Fast Lane: Joomla! 1.7
Axceler, Nintex Announce the Availability of Axceler’s Davinci Migrator 2.0 to Migrate Nintex Workflows
Woburn, MA and Seattle, WA – Axceler,the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migration software, and a Technology Partner of Nintex, the world’s leading SharePoint workflow company, today announced the general availability of Axceler’s Davinci Migrator 2.0 for SharePoint 2010. Axceler is the first Nintex Technology Partner to provide a full-fidelity Nintex Workflow migration including Nintex Workflow history and settings. Axceler and Nintex will demonstrate the building of Nintex workflows and the migration of the workflows using Davinci Migrator in a webinar on Thursday, December 8, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. EST.
Axceler ControlPoint Sweeps 2011 Windows IT Pro SharePoint Awards
Wins Both 2011 Editors’ Best and Community Choice Award
Following Best of Connections Award
Woburn, MA – November 18, 2011 – Axceler,the leader in Microsoft SharePointgovernance, administration and migrationsoftware, today announced that the company’s ControlPointproduct was named by Penton Media’s Windows IT Promagazine as a gold medal winner of the “2011 Editors’ Best Awards” and a bronze medal winner of the “2011 Community Choice Awards” in the SharePoint category. This announcement follows on the heels of another recent win by Axceler: ControlPoint 4.5 was named the winner in the SharePoint category of the “2011 Best of Connections Awards” from Windows IT Pro and SharePoint Prothis month.
DotNetNuke, Drupal, Liferay, and SharePoint in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals
A couple weeks ago, Liferay's marketing and communication folks sent me an email mentioning that Liferay was included as a "Leader" in Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals. After my usual procrastination I finally got around to reading the report and what follows in this blog post are some impressions that jumped at me while reading the report. I'm not convinced the randomness of these personal thoughts make up a blog post (at least a well-written blog post) but I'm going for it since my public note taking often turns out better than a well polished article.
The report offers some fascinating insights regarding the state of portals. I want to respect Gartner's terms and copyrights so no graphics or direct link to the actual report will be available from this post. If you want to read the report, Liferay is providing access to the reprint of this report via a link provided on their Award and Recognition page (click on the "Read Magic Quadrant" link). The Magic Quadrant is Gartner's graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. The graphic depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace. In this case, Garner is measuring the portals strength in "completeness of vision" as well as "ability to execute".
Axceler Announces Davinci Migrator 2.0 for SharePoint 2010
Newest Version to Provide Support for Migration of Workflows from SharePoint 2007 to 2010, Including Nintex Workflow
ANAHEIM, CA – October 3, 2011 – Axceler,the leader in Microsoft SharePoint governance, administration and migration software, today announced Davinci Migrator 2.0 for SharePoint 2010, which will support the full-fidelity migration of all types of workflows to SharePoint 2010. Davinci Migrator reduces the risks, lowers overall costs and shortens the time required to complete a SharePoint 2010 migration. This next version of Davinci Migrator will enable the migration of out-of-the-box and SharePoint Designer workflows, as well as custom workflows built with Nintex Workflow. This builds upon recent enhancements which allow customers to migrate more quickly through improved performance and broader enterprise data and platform support.
Axceler Will Address Largest Ever D.C.-Area SharePoint Event
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administration and migration, will share its expertise in SharePoint governance, security and management for government and other public agencies as lead sponsor of the first “SharePoint Saturday The Conference ” (www.spstc.org) in the Washington, D.C.
DotNetNuke 6 Released (Screenshots included)
DotNetNuke Corp. today announced the availability of DotNetNuke 6 which they bill as "the world’s leading Web Content Management Platform (WCM) for Microsoft .NET". Over the years, I've been quite impressed with what DotNetNuke has to offer and I've been equally impressed with the DotNetNuke leaders I've engaged with in recent months. If you're looking at an open source CMS option for the .NET environment, you seriously need to take a look at DotNetNuke (especially if you haven't taken a look at this CMS in recent years).
DotNetNuke 6 has a lot of new feaures to offer longtime and potential users to one of the most popular web CMS on .NET. I'll let the attached press release (below the screenshots) speak for themselves. But in summary, this dramatic upgrade of DotNetNuke brings the following features to the content management system:
- A dramatically altered, user-friendly interface, with direct, one-click access to the online app store
- Built-in integration with cloud-based services such as Amazon and Azure
- A MSFT SharePoint connector
- A new eCommerce module
- The DotNetNuke core platform has been rewritten in C# which makes it more accessible to a larger developer community and simplifies the customization
DotNetNuke 6 also has features that are intended to help speed web site design and delivery, simplify content upgrades and assure full compatibility with previous versions of DotNetNuke. The open platform allows DotNetNuke to function as a content management system (CMS) and application development framework.
The Axceler Partner Program Expands Reach with Global Channel Partnerships
WOBURN, MA– July 5, 2011 –Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administration and migration, today announced expansion of its Axceler Partner Program, designed to support the company’s growing global roster of SharePoint solution providers, resellers and service firms. The Axceler Program expands on the company’s partner offerings, and to support that expansion Axceler has recently added channel managers Jill Kunkel, North America region, based out of its Boston headquarters office; John Nash, EMEA region, in the London office; and Vijay Raghvani, Asia Pacific region, in the Sydney, Australia office.
Axceler SharePoint Governance Products Now Available On GSA Schedule 70
WOBURN, MA – June 13, 2011 – Axceler, the leader in Microsoft SharePoint administrationand migrationsoftware, today announced its continued expansion into the federal government market through its partnership with IT Federal Salesand the addition of Axceler products to its General Services Administration (GSA) schedule (under contract #GSA is GS-35F-0494T). Now, government agencies can significantly improve their SharePoint security and governanceby using Axceler’s ControlPointor migrate their old deployments to the latest SharePoint version using DavinciMigrator for SharePoint 2010.
SharePoint users are increasingly putting sensitive, highly regulated data in the collaboration platform without considering the security implications. In addition, the native management tools in some versions of SharePoint are difficult to use for some types of deployments. Nowhere is this more important than in the government space, with strict regulatory requirements, big defense initiatives, and evolving security threats. The recent appearance of sites like “Wikileaks” that exploit security breaches demonstrates how important SharePoint security is to government agencies.
To fill this gap, many government organizations turn to Axceler’s ControlPoint, the award-winning SharePoint governance and administration product. The latest release 4.2 of ControlPoint, the award-winning administration product for SharePoint, offers interactive and powerful analysis and reporting, expanded SharePoint policy enforcementcapabilities for better SharePoint governance, and new permission and security features. Now, through the partnership with IT Federal Sales, all Axceler products including ControlPoint are accessible on the GSA Schedule.
“ControlPoint, a leader in SharePoint administration and control, will definitely enhance any SharePoint installation,” said Paul Cino, President of IT Federal Sales. “Our clients, especially in DOD, are looking for this solution. We’re excited to add Axceler products to our growing list of unique products available to US Government buyers.”
"We’re pleased to make Microsoft SharePoint solutions, and our firm's unique professional, training and maintenance services, available through the GSA program,” said Michael Alden, President and CEO, Axceler. “Being accessible on the GSA Schedule 70 reduces the procurement challenges our government clients face, and gives them the ability to resolve critical SharePoint security challenges quickly, efficiently and economically. This reflects our long history of successful collaboration with government entities."
Book for developing SharePoint websites and applications for Windows Phone 7
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.

