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EPiServer (news, site) is on the way to boost its existing Web CMS and Relate+ community platform product offerings with an eCommerce integration via a partnership with Mediachase. The new “trifesta” is aimed at companies with online presence in the retail and B2B verticals.

The eCommerce integration is based on Mediachase’s eCommerce Framework (ECF), which is built in ASP.NET and complements EPiServer’s technology stack. Being able to tap into the ECF .NET API should allow EPiServer customers and developers to build online stores that also utilize integrated CMS and community features.

Mediachase calls the ECF the “No. 1 Alternative to Microsoft Commerce Server” and touts its “adaptable architecture and extensibility model.” Some of the capabilities of the ECF include catalog management, order management, customer management, merchandising and promotions.

Mediachase sells ECF under a variety of licensing models from source code to production deployment. The EPiServer deal seems to fall under the “OEM and Other Licensing” type.

One of previous integrations of ECF with a Web CMS was with Sitecore CMS, but that appears to be a single case for now. Open source DotNetNuke CMS is also in the mix of third-party plug-in/add-on ecosystem. On the community side, Mediachase also integrates with Telligent Community Server.

The EPiServer integrated eCommerce platform is expected in 1H 2010. Until then, the two products are available separately.

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Atex’s baby, Polopoly Web CMS (news, site), came around for round 9.14 last week. The highlight of the new version is the inclusion of widget plug-in framework, which aims to make tacking on third-party website components that much easier.

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Polopoly Web CMS Supports 3rd Party Widgets with New Plug-In Framework

Many of us these days are Google lovers, including MediaBeacon (news, site), who just announced that the next release of their Digital Asset Management suite will utilize the latest version of the Google Web Toolkit.

The Google Web Toolkit aims to do handy things like make it easier for developers to build faster apps and to speed up the overall development cycle. For MediaBeacon, the incorporation aims at four specific areas:

• User Experience: This one is stock. With the kit customers to change their environments in a reported 30 minutes.
• Portability: Thanks to Google’s popularity, the solution will be supported by all major operating systems and internet browers.
• Open and Easy: MediaBeacon customer can now plug-and-play into a widget environment. For example, a user can now add Google Docs as a widget into a MediaBeacon environment.
• Scalability: MediaBeacon reports better server scalability and network efficiencies because of how Google Web Toolkit serves up the widgets in a client’s workspace.

“Google Web Tooklit radically improves the web experience for users by allowing developers to create exactly what MediaBeacon has done in the next release of their product,” said Andrew Bowers, Product Manager for GWT for Google. “We are pleased about MediaBeacon using our web framework in an enterprise solution with such a rich user experience.”

MediaBeacon DAM 3.0 is scheduled to ship at the end of this year, but if you’re dying to get more information before then, hit up the webcast about the implementation on December 17th.

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There’s no sign of enterprise content management investment decreasing in the coming year. At least not according to new Forrester (news, site) research.

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Collaboration, Search and Compliance Key Areas for ECM Investment in 2010

Oracle (news, site) has gone beyond their regular Governance, Risk and Compliance Suite with the release of a new platform and updated Enterprise GRC Controls. The tools aim to complete the cycle by providing integration, automation and the consolidation of activities under one big umbrella.

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