Kentico CMS 5.5 R2Full-featured Flexible Web Content Management System for All Your Needs

Content Management System - I

• What is a content management system?– Software that allows you to edit text and images

on your web site without calling your web designer.

• Why should I use a content management system?– You can edit your web site anywhere, anytime,

through your web browser.

Content Management System - II

• I can use Frontpage to create HTML pages, why should I use a content management system?

– With a content management system, you can create interactive web sites and communicate with your visitors through on-line forms, newsletters, blogs, forums or polls.

– You can add a shopping cart and sell your products on-line.

Content Management System - III

• Do I need a web designer if I use a content management system?

– The web designer needs to prepare the design and structure of your web site and create page templates. Then you can easily create new pages by yourself using the templates.

Kentico CMS Overview I

Kentico CMS Overview II

• Out-of-the-box solution for:– Corporate web sites– On-line stores– Community sites– Intranets– Extranets

• Built on the Microsoft .NET platform

Kentico CMS Overview III

• Main benefits– All-in-one solution for your Web site– Easy-to-use– Browser-based editing– High value for a reasonable price– SEO friendly– Manage multiple sites from one place

The most important features∙ On-line users∙ PayPal support∙ Personalized content∙ Personalized editor∙ Polls∙ Portal engine∙ Preview before publish∙ Project and Task management∙ Recycle Bin∙ Report Abuse∙ Reporting∙ Re-use content on several pages∙ Roles and Users∙ RSS feeds∙ SEO∙ Scheduled Tasks∙ Spell-checker∙ Starter Sites∙ Taxonomy - Categories, Tagging∙ Time-zones support∙ URL aliases∙ User contributions∙ User management∙ User registration and secured pages∙ Web analytics∙ Web farm support∙ WebDAV∙ Widgets∙ Windows authentication∙ Windows Live ID authentication∙ Workgroups∙ Workflow∙ WYSIWYG, browser-based editing∙ XHTML, CSS layouts, W3C WAI∙ Youtube integration

∙ 200 built-in web parts∙ Active Directory integration∙ AJAX support∙ Approving documents∙ Authorize.NET∙ Avatars∙ Bad words∙ Badges∙ Banned IP addresses∙ Blogs∙ Booking System∙ Branding∙ Complete documentation of the CMS∙ Content and object staging∙ Content locking (check-in/check-out)∙ Content Rating∙ Content/design separation∙ Controls caching∙ Custom document types∙ Custom document types with∙ Custom event handlers∙ Custom fields∙ Custom tables∙ Custom web parts in C# and VB.NET∙ Customizable Menu∙ Customizable page templates∙ Customizable permissions∙ Customizable settings∙ Deployment on shared hosting∙ Document-level permissions∙ Document management∙ Drag-drop development∙ Dynamic site map∙ Easy deployment

∙ E-commerce (on-line store)∙ E-mail queue∙ Event Calendar∙ Event Log∙ Export/import web sites or selected∙ Flexible content hierarchy∙ Flexible navigation∙ Forms authentication∙ Forums∙ Friendly (smart) URLs∙ Friends∙ Full source code∙ Full-text search∙ Fully customizable∙ Geo mapping (Google Maps)∙ Google sitemap∙ Groups∙ IE 6.0, IE 7.0 FireFox 1.0.5+, Mozilla

7.1+, Netscape 7.1+, Opera 7.52+ support

∙ Image gallery∙ Incremental deployment of site changes∙ installation and database∙ Integration with custom user and role

database, external authentication∙ Linked documents∙ Management and publishing of∙ Media library∙ Memory management∙ Message boards∙ Messaging∙ Multiple languages∙ Multiple sites using single code∙ Newsletters∙ Notifications∙ On-line forms (BizForms)

Editing Features I

• Easily edit web site content• Browser-based user interface• You can publish:

– Pages– Articles– News– Products– Blogs– Office locations– Job openings– Knowledge base– ... and any number of custom content types

Editing

Editing Features II

• WYSIWYG editor similar to Microsoft Word• Workflow, versioning and rollback• Multiple languages• Multiple sites• Upload files, images, video, music• Built-in browser-based image editor for resizing,

cropping, rotating and converting images• Taxonomy (tree hierarchy, categories, tags)

Editing – WYSIWYG editor

Web Site Features

• Flexible navigation and web site structure• End users can create and edit new pages

without developers• New pages are automatically displayed in the

navigation• Full-text search in both text and uploaded

documents

Multi-cultures web sites

Multi-lingual Admin UI

Full-text Search

• Full-text search helps visitors to find information on your web site

• The search can be limited to particular site section, content type and fields

• The search results are ordered by relevancy (rank) and they can show a preview of the documents.

Full-text Search

Modules

• BizForms (on-line forms)• Newsletters• Image gallery• E-commerce (on-line store)• Forums• Blogs• Polls• Event Calendar• Booking system• Private Messaging• Geo Mapping (Google, Bing,

Yahoo maps integration)• Web Analytics• User Contributions (Wiki)• Reporting

• Content and Object Staging• Web Farm Support• Message Boards• Groups• Friends• Message Boards• Content Rating• Taxonomy (Tags and Categories)• Media Library• Document Library• Project and Task management• Workgroups

BizForms (On-line Forms)

• Create on-line forms without programming• Publish forms on the web site• Capture data from web site visitors• Review data and export them to Excel• Send data to specified e-mail• Flexible form options:– custom layout– wide variety of fields (textbox, checkbox, drop-down

list, ...)– custom field types

BizForms (On-line Forms)

Newsletters

• You can manage multiple e-mail newsletters• Subscribers subscribe to one or more newsletters

(mailing list)• You can author new newsletter issues based on

templates created by web designer• Personalization – Dear John,...• Scheduling – send newsletter on Tuesday morning• The subscribers can subscribe on the web and

unsubscribe using the link in the newsletter e-mail• Automatic newsletters – send out specified page to

subscribers on a regular basis.

Newsletters – Editing

Newsletters – E-mail

Image Gallery

• You can quickly publish an on-line gallery of images

• The thumbnails are generated automatically, you do not need to resize them manually

• Bulk import of images• You can rename the images and add

descriptions

Image Gallery

E-commerce I

• Sell products on-line• Shopping cart and checkout process• Custom product fields• Configurable shipping options• Configurable payment methods• Configurable taxes for every country/state• Discount coupons• Discount levels for partners• Volume discounts• Multiple currencies• Wish list• Inventory status• Reports

E-commerce II

• Support for integration with existing systems• Product options/product configuration• Customer credit (e.g. customer loyalty points)• Built-in gateways for credit card payments:

– PayPal– Authorize.NET

• You can also customize the behavior using custom providers like:– Custom product provider that allows you to use your existing product

database– Custom shipping calculator– Custom tax calculator– Custom invoice generator– and others.

E-commerce - Products

E-commerce - Cart

E-commerce – Orders

Taxonomy

• 3 ways how to categorize and organize content:– Tree hierarchy of repository with document links

that enable placing single document at multiple places (categories)

– Tagging and tag clouds– Categories (additional system of categories)

Taxonomy

Event Calendar

• Display events, news, articles or any other content in a calendar format

• Optionally combine with event registration in the Booking system module.

Event Calendar

Booking System

• Manage bookings for on-line or off-line events, such as community meetings or webinars

• Limit the capacity of the event• Manage the registered attendees• Send e-mails with event updates to all

attendees• Export event information to Outlook

Booking System

Geo Mapping

• Display content on the map – e.g.:– office locations– stores– partners– real estates– points of interest in the city

• Uses Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps

Geo Mapping

User Contributions (Wiki)

• Enable visitors to create content on your web site without access the administration interface

• Typical scenarios:– Community sites – members share knowledge– Partner directory – partners manage their profiles– Local business directory – business owners manage the

profiles of their companies• Flexible security model:– Any visitor– Only site members– Only document owners– Only users with appropriate permissions

User Contributions (Wiki)

Web analytics

• Track visitors, on-line campaigns and conversions:– Visits– Page views– Most visited pages– Referring web sites– File downloads– Countries– Campaigns– Conversions (orders, registrations, newsletter

subscriptions, etc.)

Web analytics

Reporting

• Create reports from data stored in the Kentico CMS database• Examples:

– Created/modified documents– Site member reports– Sales

• Customizable layout of the reports• You can use:

– bar chart– pie chart– table– value

• Create custom filters• Print or save reports

Reporting

Reporting

Content and Object Staging

• Synchronize development, testing and live web sites• Create and test content, design and functionality on

the staging (development/QA) server and then publish it on the live server over a secured web service

• With staging, the document life cycle looks like this:– Document is created– Document is approved in the workflow process– Document is published on the staging server– Review and approval by site manager -> synchronization– Document is published on the live server

Content and Object Staging

Social Networking Features I

• Kentico CMS provides a complete and flexible framework for social networks and on-line communities

• Why on-line communities?– Engage customers and increase their loyalty– Start more personal and open communication– Present and test new ideas– Get feedback from clients– Identify and eliminate sources of negative PR early– Market research, polls and focus groups– Decrease support costs – let customers help each other

Social Networking Features II

• Available features– User registration and management– Forums– Blogs– Message Boards– Groups– Friends– Polls– Private messaging– Media Libraries– Ready-to-use Community Starter Site– Community points and user badges– Integration with LiveID, OpenID and FaceBook Connect

Forums I

• Create on-line communities• Main features:– Moderation– Access rights for posting

(anonymous/registered/chosen roles)– E-mail subscriptions– Full-text search– WYSIWYG editing (optional)– Signatures and user images (avatars)– Threaded/flat/tree view modes

Forums II

• Main features - continued:– CAPTCHA verification (optional)– Document-related forums (e.g. article comments)– Lock forum– Post attachments– BB-editor text formatting– Inserting images– Quoting– Question & Answers mode – Mark post as answer

Forums

Blogs

• Any number of blogs authored• Each blog authored by one of more people (enterprise

blogging)• Integrates with standard content management and

security features (workflow, friendly URLs, search, etc.)• Tagging, tag cloud and categories• Moderated comments• RSS feeds• Fully customizable design• Rating• Trackbacks and Pings

Blogs

MetaWeblog API

• Kentico CMS enables to use editors like Windows Live Writer or MS Word to write blog posts

Message Boards

• Flat list of messages from users• Customizable permissions (anybody can

post/only registered members/only chosen roles)

• E-mail subscriptions• Moderation (optional)• Can be used for article or product comments

Message Boards

Groups

• Create groups of members who share similar interests – such as users of some product or fans of some music band

• Groups can share ideas and create content:– Message boards – Forums – Pages (Wiki) – Polls – Media libraries for sharing pictures and videos

Groups

Friends

• Build personal or professional social networks

Polls

• Get visitor opinions and feedback• Any number of answers• Single-choice or multiple-choice voting• Choose who can vote

(anonymous/registered/chosen roles)

Polls

Private Messaging

• Enable site members to send private messages to other members.

• Useful for community sites.• Inbox/outbox/contact list/blocked users

Media Libraries

• Create media libraries and upload documents, images, music or video

• Support for user-created content – visitors can upload their own content

Media Libraries

Widgets

• Allows the editor / group administrator / site visitor to personalize specific parts of the page

• Every Web part can be set as the Widget• There are separate groups of Widgets for– Group administrators– Content editors– Web site visitors

Widgets

Enterprise Intranet 2.0 Features

• Project management• Task management• Document management• WebDAV support• Workgroups• MOSS integration

Project and Task Management

• Users with appropriate rights can create and manage a project

• Project includes particular tasks• There are owners and assigned users of the task• Project progress is based on the progress of all

underlying tasks• Integrated with Workgroups• Fully customizable statuses and priorities• Ready to use on the live site

Project info

Document Management

• Management of any file in the content tree• Based on the Document library webpart • Integration with WebDAV• Workflow support• Check-in/check-out support• Copy/Delete/Open/Edit of any file• Permissions management per document library and

per each file• Version history• Documents archiving• Fully supported at the live site

Document Management

Workgroups

• Efficient vehicle for the team collaboration and co-operation

• Workgroup documents can be private (workgroups members only) or public

• Any user can create and manage workgroup• Workgroup admin can modify homepage of

workgroup home page• Support Project and Task management

WebDAV support

• Enables direct edit of files from the site• The file is directly opened by the client

application and saved directly back• E.g. MS Office files are directly editable in the

MS Office 2003+

SharePoint integration

• Kentico CMS Connector for the WSS/MOSS 2007/2010 shows on public web from the SharePoint– Lists– Files– Document libraries– Picture libraries

Enterprise Intranet 2.0 Solution

• Out-of-the-box ready-to-use solution for your Enterprise 2.0 Intranet that boost your team collaboration and co-operation

• It covers all necessary functionality– Corporate identity, policy documents, canteen menu, employees

directory, …– Blogs, Forums, Wikis, News, Corporate events– Document libraries, Media libraries– Project management– Team workgroups– Company Departments– and many others …..

• Fully customizable any part of the Intranet website

Intranet Solution - Main portal

Intranet Solution - Department

Intranet Solution - Workgroup

Intranet Solution - MyDashoard

UI Personalization

• Customization of available features for Administration tools and WYSIWYG Editor per given role

• The administrator can enable different features for each role– E.g. web designers will have available only web-

design based features– Authorized users can access only My Desk etc.

UI Personalization

Mobile devices support

• Kentico CMS allows to create websites optimized for mobile devices

• The mobile websites can use formatting and navigation optimized for smaller screens and less capable mobile browsers.

• They can also re-use existing content from your main website so you don't have to copy it and keep it updated manually.

• When the CMS recognizes a mobile device, it can automatically redirect the visitor to the optimized mobile site.

Mobile part of the website

RSS/ATOM/XML Syndication

• Kentico CMS supports RSS/ATOM/XML syndication for any content stored on the website

Security

• Granular security model:– Users– Roles– Module permissions– Content permissions – all content/site section/single document

• Secured site areas for site members• Personalized content (e.g. for “clients”, “silver partners” and

“gold partners”)• SSL (HTTPS) can be configured for chosen site sections or

pages• Secured against SQL injection attacks and cross-site

scripting (XSS) and cross-site request forgery (XSRF)

Security

External Authentication

• Kentico CMS contains fully customizable authentication system

• Kentico CMS supports out-of-the-box integration with:– Live ID– Open ID– FaceBook Connect

Performance

• Kentico CMS can be used for web sites with large number of visitors and large number of documents – e.g.:– www.gibson.com – www.ireland.ie– www.medibank.com.au– www.yachtbooker.com

• Flexible caching options:– single web part caching– CMS content caching– full page caching– image caching

• Support for web farms• Support for SQL Replications

Development

• Browser-based development without programming (for web designers)

• You can also create ASPX page templates in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 with your own code

• Support for .NET 2.0/3.5 and 4.0• Easily extensible with your own:

– user controls (ASCX)– web parts (ASCX)– server controls– modules– event handlers– providers

• Easily integrate data from external systems

Portal Engine

• Full control over page layout, design and HTML code• Fully browser-based development, very easy to use

without deep .NET knowledge• Easily extensible with your own user controls (ASCX)

and web parts developed in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010 (C# or VB.NET)

• 250+ built-in web parts• Web parts are also user controls (ASCX), but with

standardized interface• Master page concept allows you to share header, main

menu and footer for all pages

Portal Engine

Web parts

ASPX Page Templates

• Standard ASP.NET (.ASPX) pages• Editable in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010• You can add any custom code and controls to

the page template• Support for ASP.NET master pages (.master)• Add any custom controls and code in C# or

VB.NET

ASPX Page Templates

Hosting

• Kentico CMS is running in:– Shared Hosting– Medium trust– Mosso Cloud hosting– Preparing for the Windows Azure platform– Special Cloud hosting licensing

Windows Azure

• Windows Azure is Cloud computing platform delivered by Microsoft Corporation

• Offers SQL Azure (based on SQL Server)– SQL Full-text is not ready for Windows Azure yet

• Supports ASP.NET development– Single instance session states• Webfarms synchronization requires custom provider

• Doesn’t support file-system

Windows Azure - Limited feature set

• Due to the missing Windows Azure features Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 Windows Azure has the following limitations:– Doesn’t support any file based operations

(import/export, Smart Search, Media libraries)– Web Farms => Supports only Single Instance– Manual setup & deployment to Windows Azure

Licensing

• 1 Web Site (single web site)• 1 Server (unlimited web sites for a single organization on a single

machine)• Editions:

– Free Edition (available for the commercial usage)– Base license (features based on selected additional packages)

• E-commerce package• Social networking package• Advanced package• Document management package

– Ultimate license includes all packages• Source Code available for the Ultimate license• Feature matrix available at

http://www.kentico.com/cms-asp-net-features/Feature-Matrix.aspx

Maintenance

• Each license contains 1-year maintenance– Support– New Kentico CMS releases– 7 days bug fixing policy

• Each license contains unlimited developer, testing and stage server licenses

• Available paid Consulting services and Remote Assitance

System Requirements

• Server: – Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2, Windows XP, Windows Vista Home

Premium/Business/Enterprise/Ultimate or Windows 7 (both 32bit and 64bit) – Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and higher– Microsoft IIS Server 5.0/6.0/7.0– Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 (including Express Editions)

• Client (for editors):– Internet Explorer 7.0/8.0– FireFox 3.5– Safari 4.0 or FireFox 3.5 on Mac OS

• Client (for visitors):– Generally any browser, depends on the used web parts, all major browsers supported (IE, FF,

Safari, Opera)• Developers

– Visual Studio Professional 2005/2008/2010 or Visual Web Developer 2005/2008/2010 Express Edition (if you need to write your own code)

About Kentico Software

• Founded in 2004 in the Czech Republic (European Union)• U.S. office since 2008• Privately held, no external funding• Named fastest growing Czech company in 2010 by Deloitte• Focused only on Kentico CMS• 2500+ clients in 84 countries• Kentico Solutions Partner network – over 1200 active

partners• More than 6000 web sites running on Kentico CMS, clients

include:– Microsoft– Mazda– Gibson Musical Instruments– ESPN– CTV– Vodafone

• More at http://www.kentico.com/Showcase.aspx

Kentico CMS Major Clients

How to reach us?

• http://www.facebook.com/KenticoCMS

• http://twitter.com/kenticocms

• http://kentico.uservoice.com/– Suggest new Kentico CMS features

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