We are sometimes surprised how our clients use Kentico CMS. Although it was designed primarily for public facing websites, we have recently seen quite a few clients choosing Kentico CMS for their intranet, including Brussels Airlines or Shaw Industries who use Kentico CMS for over 80 departmental sites accessed by 30,000 users (read the case study here). And I'm not talking about clients who would do that accidentally. In fact most of them considered several other solutions, most often Microsoft Sharepoint. However, they discovered that Kentico was a better fit for them, whether it was for its ease of use, content management features, flexible development model or for its cost efficiency.
Following this trend, we decided to better support the intranet scenarios and added a new set of features into the next version, Kentico CMS 5.5 R2:
- Document libraries
- WebDAV support
- Workgroups
- Project management
- Sharepoint 2010 integration
- Kentico Intranet Portal Solution - a ready-to-use intranet site
You can learn more about the upcoming new version in this blog post .
We have just released a beta version of Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 that is available for Kentico Partners in the Partner Portal. Now we are doing the final testing and the final version is scheduled for the middle of December 2010.
Kentico Best Site of the Year - On-line Voting Started
You can
vote for the best web sites created in Kentico CMS in 10 categories, from November 4th to November 30th.
This year, we received
155 submissions and it wasn't easy to choose only three finalists in each category.
Click her for more information and the list of finalists
Competitive Upgrade Special Offer
Because the CMS market is highly saturated and deals with complex requirements, some customers might have ended up with a CMS that doesn’t meet their requirements or long term goals. In some cases, they might have found out that the system they’ve bought doesn’t provide the level of functionality needed, or is inextensible, inflexible or unscalable. It might be unreliable or simply buggy—or just so confusing for end users that they never really start to use it.
Switching to a new CMS might be a painful process, due the cost of human resources and balancing the additional costs.
Kentico has decided to make this process easier by offering customers who have bought a CMS system such as Sitecore, Episerver or Ektron the opportunity to purchase a discounted Kentico CMS license.
The
Upgrade Your Web Possibilities offer is intended only for companies that have already purchased a competing CMS. This offer is available until
the end of 2010. For more information, contact the sales team at:
sales@kentico.com.
10 Rules to Make Sure Your Security Is Set Up Right
Time to time, we provide support to a client that is all about setting up the website, the website is looking pretty and clean, but they somehow forgot about setting up the security which puts them in vulnerable place without them even knowing.
Make sure your security is configured correctly using the guidelines in this blog post: 10 Rules to make sure your security is set up right
In today’s Internet connected world, mobile websites are becoming an important part of everyone’s life. With the slew of Internet connected devices being released; you can almost guarantee that your site will be consumed by some type of mobile device. In this eBook we will look at building a mobile website with Kentico CMS 5.
Click here for download
Enter Your Project in the SXSW Interactive Awards 2011
Nominate your website for
SXSW Interactive Award and receive a discount for the next purchased Kentico CMS license.
The
SXSW Interactive Awards uncover the best new digital work, from websites to web applications and beyond, while celebrating those who are building tomorrow's online trends.
Click here for more information
Limited Support Hours during Season Holiday
We would like to inform you about the
support hours during December.
Support hours will be limited on these days:
• December 10 (due to technical maintenance): 2am – 2pm EST (New York); 7am – 7pm GMT (London)
• December 23: 2am – 2pm EST (New York); 7am – 7pm GMT (London)
• December 31: 2am – 6am EST (New York); 7am – 11am GMT (London)
Support will be closed on:
• December 24 (Christmas Eve)
Kentico Certified Trainings
Our
Training Partners offer certified training for developers and content administrators. If you want to become more productive in using Kentico CMS, choose one of the trainings in the upcoming weeks:
North America
Kentico Certified Content Administrator Training
Kentico Certified Developer Training
Europe
Kentico Certified Developer Training
Middle East
Kentico Certified Content Administrator Training
Kentico Certified Developer Training
A complete training schedule is available
here.
Did You Miss any of Kentico CMS Focused Videos?
Since version Kentico CMS 5.0, we are providing a new series of Webinars and Screencasts focused on new features in Kentico CMS. If you missed any of them you can look at the following video recordings:
What's New on Kentico Marketplace
We have recently received several nice submissions to
Kentico marketplace:
- Share Your PPT - this webpart allows us to embed a SlideShare within your Kentico CMS website (by Anubavam LLC)
- Language Switch - enhances the default language selection webpart that ships with Kentico CMS (by r42 communication Inc.)
- Dealer Locator - enables site visitors to submit a Zip code, dealer type, and search radius. They are then presented with the search results and a Google Map of nearest dealer locations. (by Firestorm Media)
- Link Checker and Validation Module - gives users the ability to validate (X)HTML content of documents for markup errors, broken links, accessibility problems and mobile device friendliness.(by Zbysek Nemec (Kentico))
More Great Sites Using Kentico CMS
Upcoming Events and Webinars
You can meet us at the following events:
Click here for the whole list