Roadmap

We are constantly enhancing Kentico CMS for ASP.NET and we usually release one major version every year.

Version 7 - End of Q2/2012

• User Experience improvements
  • Faster Content Management UI with less frames
  • Replacement of modal dialogs
  • Better status notifications
  • Grids will remember page, filter and ordering when the user comes back to the listing from the item editing form
  • Campaign parameter in link creation
  • New design mode toolbar for easy drag-and-drop of web parts
  • Preview of transformations and CSS stylesheets while editing
• On-site Editing
  • highly simplified user interface for casual users and mobile devices
• On-line Marketing improvements
  • Visual macro designer for end users in dynamic Contact Groups and in Personalization
  • Optional separation of the On-line Marketing database
• E-mail Marketing improvements
  • New UI
  • A/B testing
• E-commerce
  • New UI for product administration
  • 30+ new reports on sales, customers, inventory, etc.
  • New, easily customizable e-commerce starter site
• Workflow Enhancements
  • Standard workflow: additional configuration options
  • Advanced workflow (new in Kentico EMS 7): Visual designer for complex workflow with rule-based branching, custom actions, etc.
• Translation Management
  • Integration with translation services and import/export to XLIFF for translation
• Social Media Integration
  • Various enhancements to integration with social networks
  • Automatic publishing of content to Facebook or Twitter
• Mobile support enhancements
  • Device detection
  • Mobile layouts
  • Content administration on mobile devices (using the new On-site Editing interface)
• SEO enhancements
• Integration of the modules that were or will be released on Kentico Marketplace:
  • Banner management
  • Chat
  • Data.com Connector – import of Data.com contact details into Contact Management
  • Salesforce.com Connector – import of leads from Contact Management into Salesforce.com leads
  • Amazon S3 support (storing files in the Amazon storage)
• Windows Azure Support Enhancements
  • Support for Kentico Windows Service in Windows Azure
• Security
  • Account locking after N failed logon attempts
  • Password strength policy
  • Password expiration

Other features that we plan to release later this year and that won't be included in version 7:

• Marketing Automation
• Microsoft Dynamics CRM Connector
• Enhancements to our SharePoint Connector

Please note: all information on this page is tentative and subject to change. Also, some features will be only available in higher editions of Kentico CMS/Kentico EMS. We will provide more details as we come closer to the release.

If you'd like to suggest a new feature, please use this form or you can vote for them at http://kentico.uservoice.com.