Sitecore, the leading provider of .NET Web Content Management System (CMS) software, today announced that its Web CMS solution can be integrated with Telligent CommunityTM. Telligent, a leader in community, collaboration and social analytics software, allows organizations to create interactive communities to listen to and engage internal and external audiences.

Telligent Community enables customers to build online social networking platforms where users can blog, share photos and create groups and forums – for improved online engagement and collaboration. Combining these solutions gives organizations the ability to harness all of their rich, community based content within the rest of their Web properties, quickly and easily, while significantly enhancing their site visitors’ experience.

 ”Through this integration with Sitecore, we will enhance the way Telligent Community enables organizations to interact with their customers.” said Patrick Brandt, Telligent CEO. “We look forward to strengthening our relationship with Sitecore and continuing to offer organizations a secure, comprehensive Web solution.”

Telligent Community helps users create channels for direct customer engagement, build brand awareness and loyalty, increase market share and improve customer support. The goal of the Sitecore integration package is to provide seamless, centralized security handling and the ability to interchange the content between Sitecore and Telligent Community solutions. With the security integration providing single sign-on functionality, the user signs into the Sitecore CMS and is simultaneously signed into Telligent Community. The user experiences a fully transparent Web solution. The security integration also simplifies the user creation, so users only need to be created in Sitecore CMS and are automatically transferred to Telligent Community upon first login.

“From the technical perspective it’s a great match, since Sitecore and Telligent Community are based on Microsoft .NET technology and both offer flexible integration with extensive APIs and customization options,” said Darren Guarnaccia, VP Product Marketing, Sitecore. “Creating more channels for customer engagement is the natural evolution of CMS software. We have already seen results from a number of projects, where customers have reported a significant increase in site traffic, improved SEO and higher lead conversion rates.”

The content sharing features provide the ability to mix social media applications and Web content seamlessly within a website, giving users a naturally combined experience of both types of content. The integration module supports content repurposing for Telligent Community forums, blogs and media galleries as well membership information. Social content can either be reused directly or it can be filtered based on the current user’s rights and group memberships.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA  – 10/26/09 — Today, Sitecore announced the availability of a new version of its Web Content Management (CMS) software. Sitecore CMS 6.2 offers features including native RSS feeds, Microsoft Outlook-based workflow management, drag and drop media and document management, authoring enhancements and advanced marketing Web forms, offered as part of the CMS solution with the latest product upgrade.

Many organizations are successfully expanding their revenue, membership and service levels with Sitecore’s CMS solutions. Sitecore offers the architecture, power and personal usability to work within any organization to deliver results through Web properties and campaigns.

“To keep pace and excel in today’s marketplace, websites have to provide more than just content and marketers and content editors demand more capabilities to stay competitive,” said Darren Guarnaccia, VP Product Marketing, Sitecore. “The latest version of Sitecore CMS gives our customers the tools to deliver websites that compel visitors to take action.”

New in Sitecore CMS:

Web Forms for Marketers: The new Web forms puts marketing teams in complete control of the forms creation, campaign integration and optimization processes. The tool allows non-technical users to build rich interactive forms, configure campaigns and conversion goals and provides a suite of reports to better understand user behavior for usability analysis and optimization. The tool also allows marketers to capture incremental data from abandoned forms and track form dropout statistics.

Outlook-Based Workflow Management: New Outlook integration allows users to receive workflow notifications from within Outlook in real-time, and take action on those workflow requests without ever having to log into the CMS. All workflow actions, status and version comparison information is provided to the user, and dynamically adjusts should a workflow state change.

Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Media and Document Management: Drag and drop image uploads are now available — upload files to the media library without upload wizards. Files can be uploaded directly in the page editor and can be stored within Sitecore CMS. Files can also be edited with native applications such as Microsoft Word, Photoshop and PowerPoint and version controlled automatically.

Inline Word Editing: Natively edit content inline using full Microsoft Word functionality with full support of rich content pages.

 Yesterday was the official release date of Sitecore’s new Partner Network.  This portal will provide Sitecore partners with exclusive access to:

• Leading analyst reports and industry-focused whitepapers, webinars and other marketing materials,
• News and events taking place in your region,
• Up-to-date product information on Sitecore’s industry-leading CMS software,
• Sales lifecycle resources to present and create successful solutions for your clients,
• and much more!

 To join the new SPN portal, please visit spn.sitecore.net and log in using your SDN/SPN credentials. (Don’t have an account? Create one quickly and easily here: http://portal.sitecore.net )

Oshyn, Inc. Launches The Southern California Sitecore User Group.

 
Certified Sitecore Partner Oshyn, Inc. creates user group to bring together current and potential users, partners & Online Marketing Experts to share & discuss best practices.

Los Angeles, CA October 20, 2009 — Oshyn, Inc. (www.oshyn.com), an Enterprise Technology Agency with a reputation for delivering innovative business solutions for the web, mobile devices and enterprise technology platforms, today announced the formation of the “Southern California – Sitecore CMS Users Group”.

The new group was created to bring together current & potential Sitecore users, partners and online marketing experts to provide an opportunity to network, share best practices and learn more about the popular .NET Web Content Management System. The Southern California Sitecore CMS User Group is co-led by Garrav Bhatt, who manages Oshyn’s certified Sitecore team and Web Content Management thought leader, Christian Burne – both from Oshyn, Inc.

The new Sitecore Meetup is open to anyone using or considering the Sitecore Content Management System, or anyone with an interest in .NET CMS platforms, regardless of technical proficiency. During Meetups the group will discuss all aspects of the platform, from marketing use cases and benefits to logistics and programming. Sitecore will participate based upon availability or request.
The Southern California Sitecore CMS User Group hosts meetings the second Thursday of each month in downtown Los Angeles at Oshyn, Inc headquarters located at 523 W 6th Street, Suite 303, Los Angeles, CA 90014. Parking is validated and free.
To register and join the Southern California Sitecore CMS User Group visit: http://www.oshyn.com/partners/southern-california-sitecore-cms-user-group.html.
For more information regarding the user group please contact Gaurav Bhatt at gbhatt (at) oshyn (dot) com or 213.784.5321.

Please note that Sitecore will be attending the Gartner show in Orlando from October 18- 22. More information can be found here

IT Expo 2009

Sitting here in the “dry” heat of Scottsdale, the Sitecore team has enjoyed the great interest in our new Online Marketing Suite (OMS) and our CRM integrations.  Of particular interest to the floor have been the discussions around truely driving a 360 degree view of web visitors with multi faceted technologies.  We have found this to be a great event for meeting with our exisiting clients and partners as well as meeting a few new ones.  Although the attendence was light at around 250 attendees, we enjoyed a steady flow of interested parties.

 

Thanks to all those whom stopped by!

As you know, Sitecore focuses its efforts on creating the best content management system available, thereby recommending taking a best of breed approach to applications related to your website visitors experience. That being said, Sitecore does offer a number of modules both built by the Sitecore development team, as well as modules built by the Sitecore developer community. The modules built by the developer community, after being tested by Sitecore, become part of the Sitecore Shared Source Library and available to the Sitecore client base. There are more than 50 of these modules available.

Today Sitecore announces the availability of the Community Server Integration module, available in the Shared Source Library.

The module allows users from Sitecore to log into community applications and community users to access Sitecore web site for content.

The integration module also provides an API layer to get data from community server as well as a few examples on how to get started. This is all available when you check out the content from the trunk of the project room.

Community Server Integration project room: http://trac.sitecore.net/CommunityServerIntegration

Package download: http://trac.sitecore.net/CommunityServerIntegration/browser/Trunk/Data/packages/CSSC%20Integration%20-%20Sitecore%20side-1.0.x.zip

Community server download: http://svn.sitecore.net/CommunityServerIntegration/Trunk/CS/CSSC Integration – Community Server side-1.0.x.zip

Sitecore has announced the availability of a new version of CMS 6 (full version number: CMS 6.1.0 Update rev. 090821, also known as 6.1.0 Update-2) and OMS 1.0.1 (full version number: Sitecore Online Marketing Suite 1.0.1 rev. 090821). 

6.1.0 Update-2 is not currently the recommended version .  Sitecore advises additional caution when deciding whether to leverage a non-recommended version, especially in production environments.  However, it is appropriate to do so when the version includes fixes to issues that influence your site.

For more information about the changes included in 6.1.0 Update-2, please click here to visit the SDN change log . 

To download 6.1.0 Update-2, please click here to visit the SDN download page .

Please note that customers running earlier releases of Sitecore with hot fixes applied should check with Sitecore Customer Service, to ensure that 6.1.0 Update-2 includes changes applied by their hot fix, before performing the upgrade.

For more information about the changes included in OMS 1.0.1 rev. 090821, please click here to visit the SDN change log .

To download OMS 1.0.1 rev. 090821, please click here to visit the SDN download page .

Sitecore is a proud sponsor of the Gartner CRM show.

Please stop by our booth at the Gartner CRM show in Scottsdale, Arizona.