February 2012 - Posts

• elcomCMS version 7.6 is coming!

  thoughts and insight by Elcom's Product Director, Anthony Milner Posted by: Anthony Milner, Product Director Happy New Year and welcome to what is shaping up to be an exciting year for elcomCMS. The product team have been working hard and across multiple continents to deliver the latest edition of elcomCMS, codenamed “Mariana” after the deepest location on the planet, the Mariana trench. The product team were determined to dive into the deepest trenches of the elcomCMS to improve the experience in a number of high usage areas. In addition to this, the team significantly extended the Social, Real Time Personalisation and Multi-lingual publishing features and topped this off by making it even easier for developers to write and embed code blocks directly into content pages. Aside from the release I would also like to inform you about our new elcomCMS beta program. In an ongoing effort to improve release quality we are inviting partners and customers to be part of our beta program. The beta program will give you access to pre-release versions of the elcomCMS. To be eligible for the beta program you must have a test or staging environment and be in a position to provide us with important feedback in relation to enhancements and bug fixes. If you are interested in participating please email me anthonym@elcom.com.au Some of the deeper changes in the elcomCMS have been undertaken in the replacement or updating of older interfaces such as the folder tree (pictured). You’ll now notice a smoother and more responsive interface for dragging, dropping, opening and creating content as well as improved IE9 compatibility. In addition to this we’ve updated editor controls, folder search and date selectors. The Social module is now in its second release and with it comes support for replying, tagging, and privacy options of public, private or friends only. In addition to this we’ve added a social stream element that can be dropped into any page to support private group conversations. Our long term approach in this area will see the corporate directory profile, my account and social page come together to support a more seamless person centric interface. Another exciting development is the additional Real Time Personalisation capability now available in the elcomCMS allowing publishers to match target keywords with search engine referrer keywords. This allows you to present content which is more closely aligned with the search query. A practical example of this may be a home page rotator that has several promotional slides and can automatically start at the slide which matches the search query. Multilingual publishing in the elcomCMS has been made even easier by providing publishers with a dashboard view of all languague versions of a particular piece of content. Whenever changes are made to a piece of content for which several language versions exist, the system will immediately offer the publisher the option to check out all versions for updating. Additionally when creating new content the system will automatically create all language versions and check them out to the user, ready for editing. Developers, developers, developers sayeth Steve Ballmer and so do we. In every release we endeavour to make it even easier for developers to write their own apps for the elcomCMS and Embedded Code Blocks provides another mechanism to achieve this. Developers can write front end script that calls content objects direcly from the database, looping through that content and presenting it inside the page. A good example of this is the ability to create custom menus or lists within a page or series of pages. We hope you can trial this new edition soon and as always please contact me if you wish to discuss any product issues or future product enhancements. Posted Feb 08 2012, 08:14 AM by leesiay with no comments

• 2012 – Welcome Back!

  Posted by: Ryan Bloch, General Manager With Australia Day, The Australian Open and The Cricket Test series all behind us, one can officially declare the Australian holiday season over. On behalf of myself and the Elcom team, I hope you had a wonderful break and are ready for the great things to come in 2012! 2011 was an exciting year for Elcom with the opening of our New York office, the expansion of our global partner network, a product name change from CommunityManager.NET to elcomCMS, expansion of our product suite and features, and the continuous increase in our client base. But as exciting as 2011 was, 2012 is going to be even better: Roadmap - In 2012 you can expect our focus to be on the four main components of the Customer Experience Management framework; Personalisation, Corporate Social Networking, Usability and eCommerce. Personalisation – Content delivery based on defined conditional criteria such as geographic location, browsing history or referrer URL, as well as personalised workspaces and storage. Social – Providing a social networked layer throughout elcomCMS for social collaboration and knowledge sharing in open and closed groups. Usability – Improvements to the admin user interface, inline editing and the ability to manage the site from smart devices. eCommerce – Integration with best of breed ecommerce technology. User Group - Following on the success of our user groups, our first user group for 2012 will be held at the beginning of March in Sydney and shortly thereafter in Melbourne, where we will be show casing elcomCMS 7.6. Master Class & Webinars - 2012 is going to be the year where Elcom looks to solidify itself as WCMS experts. Together with our partners and various industry experts we will be hosting a number of Master classes and Webinars. Expansion in North America – We will continue to increase our sales momentum and drive the Elcom brand with our partners. Elcom Launches in Asia - Elcom officially launches in Singapore at the Singapore Management University on 2nd February.  For more information please visit, http://www.elcomcms.com/Campaigns/ElcomSingapore2012 Elcom has got off to a busy Marketing start already, with our commitment locked in to the following events.  iStrategy 2012 Sydney, Australia, 21 Feb – 22 Feb 2012 Gartner Portals Content and Collaboration 2012 Orlando, USA, 12 -14 March 2012 Gartner Symposium IT/XPO Gold Coast, Australia, Nov 2012 Feedback: We value your continued support and feedback. If you have any suggestions for improvement, please feel free to direct these to your account manager or our Marketing Manager Lee-Sia Yuen on leesiay@elcom.com.au. Thank you in advance. Looking forwarding to a working with you in 2012. Best Regards, Ryan Posted Feb 01 2012, 12:25 PM by leesiay with no comments