This roadmap is intended to outline the scope of the upcoming product release and is continuously updated through milestones corresponding to our development iterations. Ongoing milestones outline the MVP expected to be delivered during the current iteration while planned milestones will be updated as new priorities are agreed upon.
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Release Vision
Kentico 11 provides organizations with a digital experience platform that concentrates on excellent usability and feature simplicity for increased effectivity and productivity of non-technical users, and interoperability with existing technology ecosystems. The release focus is on external marketing and e-commerce scenarios.
Please refer to the roadmap below for more details.
Milestone #1
In planning until November 30th, 2016.
In development from December 1st, 2016 to March 28th, 2017.
E-commerce
Solution owned by Michal Kadak, PO Platform & E-commerce.
Cart calculation model
There is a strong need for a robust and flexible e-commerce solution tightly integrated with mature and reliable CMS solution. Kentico's build-in E-commerce solution is going to see the following improvements:
If the out-of-box cart calculation capabilities of Kentico 11 are not going to fit required scenarios, Kentico 11 is going to provide an enhanced customization model for greater flexibility.
Platform
Solution owned by Michal Kadak, PO Platform & E-commerce.
Faceted search
Enhancing Kentico's search capabilities to display a number of search results in each category per applied search filter.
Enhanced support for HTML 5 input types
Providing support to create form controls utilizing new textmode types such as phone, email, number, datetime, url and others to improve UX when filling out forms on mobile and other non-web platforms.
Online Marketing
Solution owned by David Komarek, PO Content management & Online marketing.
E-mail builder
A new easy-to-use email builder is going to change the way emails are created in Kentico 11. The new email builder is going to feature clean HTML output with inlined CSS styles, support drag & drop widgets, preview mode, images and attachments, macros for contextualization and other features to help non-technical users produce modern and responsive e-mails.
Campaign channel reporting
Marketers are going to see how various channels have contributed to the campaign conversions and what the contribution of individual messages within a channel is. Individual messages are going to be recognized based on the utm_content parameter.
Marketing insights
Kentico 11 is going to provide new reports including new email marketing, segmentation and campaign reports.
Email marketing and Campaign insights
Contact touch points
Personas history
Salesforce CRM Connector - Technology Partnership Program
Kentico 11 is going to help you to integrate your digital marketing and sales efforts by connecting Kentico to Saleforce CRM.
Milestone #2
In planning until February 10th, 2017.
In development from March 29th, 2017 to July 4th, 2017.
E-commerce
Solution owned by Michal Kadak, PO Platform & E-commerce.
Faceted search
Enhancing Kentico's search capabilities to display a number of search results in each category per applied search filter via integration with Azure Search.
Multiple coupons per order
Kentico 11 is going to allow multiple coupon codes assigned to a single order.
Google Analytics E-commerce tracking
With Google Analytics E-commerce tracking support, business owners can correlate sales data with website usage data like sessions, bounce rate, traffic source/medium, and landing pages to better understand the performance of website landing pages and marketing campaigns.
Catalog categories
Kentico 11 is going to provide options to categorize product catalog items into different groups, including brands, collections, and styles.
Online Marketing
Solution owned by David Komarek, PO Content management & Online marketing.
MVC Widgets
Building on new Kentico MVC development support introduced in Kentico 10, Kentico 11 is going to feature widget support for Kentico MVC. MVC widgets enable non-technical roles to build and manage pages using Kentico MVC.
GDPR Support
The GDPR is going to have a profound impact on how organizations conduct digital business. Kentico CMS/EMS is an integral part of the digital technology stack and plays an essential role in delivering contextually relevant experiences. Kentico 11 is going to feature critical capabilities to support efforts to comply with the GDPR legislation.
Catalog categories
Kentico 11 is going to provide options to categorize product catalog items into sections and sub-sections.
Google Analytics E-commerce tracking
With Google Analytics E-commerce tracking support, business owners can correlate sales data with website usage data like sessions, bounce rate, traffic source/medium, and landing pages to better understand the performance of website landing pages and marketing campaigns.
Payments -Delayed capture
Kentico 11 is going to allow to authorize the availability of funds for a specific commerce transaction, but delay the capture of funds until a later.
Questions?
Please feel free to reach out to us at productmanagement@kentico.com.
* The information included on the Kentico product roadmap is not a commitment, promise, or legal obligation to deliver any final material, code, or functionality.