Ektron CMS400.NET Version 7 Available

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October 30, 2009

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Ektron CMS400.NET Version 7 Available

Ektron unveiled the latest version of CMS400.NET, whichenables organizations to create, deploy, and manage interactive Web, intranet,and extranet sites. CMS400.NET 7 enables customers to do what is most importantto them build highly interactive sites that foster a strong online community,and include features such as advanced navigation and built-in taxonomy to getinformation into the hands of site visitors as quickly as possible. CMS400.NET7 introduces geo-encoded mapping and wiki collaboration features, which providenavigational taxonomy structure to articles and interwiki links.

 

CMS400.NET 7 features several enhancements. Customers willbe able to:

 

Build their online communities:

  • Sites designed for interactive sharing: Ektron sCMS400.NET Wiki enables organizations to create Web sites specifically designedfor communication, collaboration, and sharing information. By adding Ektron sWiki capabilities to public Web sites, site visitors will be encouraged to participatein online communities and promote openness in reading and authoring content.

  • CMS400.NET 7 adds new features to the forumscontrol, including: paging, IP address restriction, automatic restricted wordreplacement, predefined signature lines, upload and attachment capabilities,RSS subscriptions, history of a member s posts, user rankings, and a terms andconditions disclaimer.

  • Ektron s built-in blogging technology isenhanced to support blog creation and moderation by registered site members. Italso now includes a standard blog API to interface with and get updates fromMicrosoft Office 2007 and integrate with other desktop blogging tools.

 

Design professional-looking, easy-to-navigate sites:

  • Easy to build, better-looking design: CMS400.NET sEktron Markup Language (EkML) makes it easy for Web developers and siteadministrators to manage the formatting and presentation of dynamic contentelements using simple and familiar HTML markup.

  • Advanced navigation tools: CMS400.NET s newsearch language API enables the generation of dynamic summaries based oncontent and assets. Index search technology searches content for site visitorsseeking information, ensuring a richer user experience, including: betterperformance delivering more accurate search results quickly, result rankingdisplays only the most relevant content listing, and customized search queriesfor drilling into relevant areas of Web sites.

 

Provide site visitors with the information they need:

  • Ability to tag and classify content: Ektron shierarchal taxonomy classifies and structures Web pages and managed documentsinto logical groupings based on their content. Ektron s taxonomy provides theoption of tagging one piece of content with many different categoryassociations. It can also be used to limit the scope of a search to reduce theamount of irrelevant content returned, providing a very powerful sitenavigation tool.

  • GeoMapping: CMS400.NET 7 brings GPS mappingtechnology to Web content management. Ektron s GeoMapping functionality enablescontent to be tagged with longitude and latitude coordinates to leverageMicrosoft Virtual Earth and Google Earth.

 

Ektron, Inc.

Price: ContactEktron

Web Site: http://www.ektron.com

 

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