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What is Tridion? Or is it Trillian, Trideon or Tridian? What can we say, it’s tough being a Euro web content management vendor in the U.S. market.

After conquering most of Europe, SDL Tridion started its Web CMS quest in the U.S. in 2006 with their flagship CMS product — R5 — an offering that has received accolades from such critics as analyst firm, Gartner. R5 comes with a myriad of standard Web CMS features, like inline editing using SiteEdit and some unique functionality such as the Translation Manager.

This Quick Take Review is an overview of SDL Tridion R5.2 with a detailed summary, full of “meat,” at the tail end of this article.

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Quick Take Review: SDL Tridion R5 Web Content Management System

Ektron CMS400.NET may soon become very popular in the manufacturing and retail industries, as it is now the foundation of MResult Corporation’s Starter Site+ package.

Starter Site+, built on CMS400.NET, is a product designed specifically for manufacturers and retailers looking for speedy redesign solutions coupled with a low cost of ownership.

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Ektron Teams Up to Provide Custom Manufacturing Solutions

Sitecore recently announced the coming version of their flagship web content management system and today the product is officially out the door.

Our technical and editorial teams had an opportunity to test drive the new Sitecore 6 product last week. And with this latest version out of the gates today, we thought it apropos that we share a bit of what we saw.

In a very few words, version 6.0 is a nice corner-rounding release that demonstrates both that the company cares about its customers and that it has a successful process of building client feedback into the product development cycle.

Web CMS: Sitecore 6 - Customer Driven Usability

Next up on our coverage of the Gilbane Conference in San Francisco was the “mini keynote” for the “Web Content Management” track which was a panel discussion with some big names in the WCM space, moderated by Tony White, a Lead Analyst for the Gilbane Group.

The panelists present were Yogesh Gupta, President and CEO of FatWire; Erik Aeyelts Averink, of SDL Tridion; Bjarne Hansen, President, Sitecore USA; David Graham, CIO, Vignette and Jim Howard, CEO of CrownPeak. The first round of the panel consisted of each panelist discussing what they thought were the most pressing issues when picking a potential Web CMS provider.

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Gilbane SF: Selecting a Web CMS Provider