Web Content Management: Ektron Introduces Social Networking Platform With Launch Of CMS400.NET Version 7.5

Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in web content management software, recently unveiled Version 7.5 of Ektron CMS400.NET, featuring industry leading search and forum enhancements, the most comprehensive and complete Web 2.0 toolbox and full support for social networking.

The new social networking platform provides out of the box functionality for communicating with friends and colleagues, discovering people, groups and information, interaction with content and people, and developing your own personalized workspace, making Ektron CMS400.NET the industry's most powerful solution of community themed features for Web sites of all sizes.

William Rogers, Ektron's CEO and founder said, "Social networking is not just for teenagers anymore; it has real business value in many different applications and Ektron CMS400.NET Version 7.5 supports them all.

"Social networking can transform a business's public facing Web site into an online destination. By giving visitors their own place to create an online persona, establish groups and invite their friends to join, businesses will increase their site's stickiness. Participation in online social networking encourages the type of interaction and viral marketing that has real business value.

"Social networking is also a powerful collaborative tool for corporate intranets," Rogers continued, "allowing coworkers to create project workspaces through which colleagues can efficiently find information and work together, from any location."

Ektron's new release also adds taxonomy support to its threaded discussions. This allows Ektron CMS400.NET customers to build community driven knowledge bases where posters categorize threads and rate posts, helping others find answers to questions and saving the cost of needless customer service calls.

Search also gets some additional functionality with Version 7.5 and empowering site visitors with the powerful navigation tool they rely on most often. Now Ektron CMS400.NET can support keyword selling with its suggested results and synonym search functionality.

About Ektron
Since its founding in 1998 Ektron has been committed to providing affordable Web content management and authoring solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET empowers non-technical business users by providing an intuitive user interface for managing their Web site's content and messaging. Ektron has a complete set of social networking tools and fully supports all Web 2.0 functionality. An open API provides web designers and developers all the tools to extend Ektron's solution. Ektron understands what a successful Internet, intranet or extranet site needs and has built the solution to make that success a reality. Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Ektron has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including NASA, Kodak and Johnson & Johnson. For more information visit: www.ektron.com.

SOURCE: Ektron Inc.