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Discover Unlimited Website Possibilities Prague, October 18-20, 2010 Kentico CMS Roadmap 2010 2011 2012 November/December Q2/Q3 H1 Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 • Intranet Solution Kentico CMS 6.0 • On-line Marketing Kentico CMS 7.0 • User experience improvements • WebDAV • Document Management • Project Management • SharePoint 2010 Connector • Enterprise features • E-commerce • Many improvements • Windows Azure • Integration What’s Planned for KENTICO CMS 6.0 Enterprise Features • Health Monitoring – Integration with Microsoft System Center, availability monitoring , performance monitoring – Automatic e-mails to administrators for chosen errors – Report of recent errors (based on event log) + widget – Performance monitoring – identification of slow pages • Load balanced SMTP mail servers • Scheduler Windows Service • Granular backup/restore – Export (backup)/Import (restore) only chosen items/sections in the content tree • Advanced workflow On-line Marketing Features in Kentico CMS 6.0 • Contact Manager – Centralized management of contacts and accounts with information from all modules – Important for integration with CRM systems • A/B and MVT testing – Optimization of page content for higher conversions (sales/registrations/…) • Segmentation – Grouping contacts based on attributes or behavior • Lead Scoring – Identification of potential valuable clients for sales team (based on segmentation) • Content personalization – Personalization of content based on segmentation • Campaign management – Tracking campaigns, visitors and conversions; evaluation of campaign return on investment • CRM Two-way Integration – Dynamics CRM, Salesforce.com • Improvements: Web Analytics, E-mail Marketing (Newsletters) Product Lines • d Kentico CMS V6 – More Power for Your Website Improvements for Content Administrators • • • • Multi-file upload Improved text editor (CKeditor) Improved image editor (cropping, undo/redo) New “Live Edit” mode - simplified editing mode for basic users – “navigate, modify, save” • Customizable dashboards in CMS Desk, CMS Site Manager and in some modules • New field types – “linked documents” and “related documents” Improvements for Content Administrators • Content Quality Assistance – – – – • • • • Link checker SEO Advisor HTML Validator Accessibility Validator Content snippets Place widgets into the text Hiding documents in content tree based on permissions Indicating icons in content tree (workflow, archived, check-out, etc.) E-commerce improvements • Many improvements in the user interface • New product types: – Downloadable electronic products – Paid membership – Donations • Multi-lingual products • Product image galleries E-commerce Improvements • More flexible taxes and shipping calculation: – Taxes per state and zip – Shipping Calculation Base on weight etc. • Support for more payment gateways: – eWAY – IDEAL • • • • • Easier integration and improved customization model Separation of data per site Improved product options/variants Text product options Import/export of products – make updates in Excel Improvements in Multi-lingual Support • Side-by-side editing of two language versions • Better SEO for multi-lingual content – Now: http://KenticoCMS60/Home.aspx?lang=cs-CZ – With 6.0: http://KenticoCMS60/cs-CZ/Home.aspx • Better support for translating UI strings (CMS Desk, export/import) • Multi-lingual page templates Translation Workflow • Mark document that requires translation • Translation as a part of workflow • Import/export in XLIFF • UI for translators (translation jobs) • Tracking of translation costs for every job + reports (per language, per service provider, per editor) • Integration with Translation Web Services (machine or human translation) System Integration System Integration Bus System Integration • Robust synchronization between systems, not just realtime providers • Import/Export queue based on XML objects stored in the database • Choose what you want to integrate • Useful for Content, Membership, E-commerce, Contact Manager, Newsletter, BizForms, etc. • Optional transformation using XSLT to another format Advanced Workflow • Multiple workflow branches • Support for integrating custom events and decision making code into the workflow • Support for time-triggered events (e.g. automatically publish if not approved within 7 days) • Windows Workflow Foundation Improved Staging • Moving Kentico Staging to a new level – Bidirectional (scheduled) synchronization of servers between multiple data centers (e.g. U.S. company with websites in Europe, China, Australia) • New features: London – Synchronization profiles – Synchronization scheduling Sidney Seattle Performance Improvements • Automatic compression of JavaScript and CSS files • Output caching in the file system for large sites with many pages that get small number of views Improved Developer Experience • • • • • • • • • • Object versioning and check-in/out Syntax Highlighting Layout webparts New Installation Manager for easier management of multiple projects and upgrading/hot-fixing existing installations with a button click Custom Settings in Site Manager API – improved business layer LINQ support “extra-blank” site HTML transformations and layouts Import Toolkit Improved Team Development • Support for local instances of Kentico CMS synchronized with central server (similar to TFS) – Check-in – Check-out – Get latest version • Based on existing staging code Platform Support • 3 project types: – Website Project – Web Application – Windows Azure Project • Native support for Windows Azure • .NET 3.5 SP1 and 4.0 • Changes in libraries (CKeditor , Microsoft Charts.NET) Support for Combining ASPX Templates and Portal Engine User control Widget Widget Webpart Widget Widget DEMO – PREVIEW OF 6.0 AND THE WINNER IS… QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS THANK YOU FOR COMING!