Whatâs New in Ektron 8.6?
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Companies, who take content marketing seriously, almost always end up using a content management system. What for? Well the answer is pretty simple; a CMS is one of the most essential and user-friendly module you will ever come across. It helps you reduce your dependency on IT and on your design team completely, to post content onto your website. It also ensures easy posting to multiple destinations and allows multiple people to manage the content work, which trust us, only keeps getting more comprehensive as your company grows. And yeah after you have spent a few days with the CMS, and although you may not be that sound technically, you can still make your CMS work wonders, through development. Err…ok that’s exaggeration, but something close to development, thanks to the multitudes of plug-ins available online. Yes, that’s how being open source helps; the entire web world is your market place!
Coming to Ektron! Ektron is considered as one of the most viable CMS solutions due to many reasons such as a reliable Microsoft ASP.Net platform, user friendly interface, easy compatibility with existing applications and facilitation of social media collaboration. Read more about these Ektron features.
Though this is just scratching the surface, these few advantages in themselves make Ektron an attractive proposition for a CMS. But just like any other good product, Ektron keeps evolving to meet its changing customer demands.
Here’s a little bit about Ektron’s latest spiced up avatar, christened the Ektron 8.6. The host of new features introduced, are deemed to prove useful for a number of people ranging from developers to common users. There is absolutely no compromise on the creative side either. Here is a list of features you can expect from the spruced up Ektron that is available now.
Mobile Internet paid due homage:
The latest CMS platform from Ektron has given due respect to the rising popularity of internet content streamlined through smartphones. Hence features such as adaptive resizing, which allows users to specify resolutions so that an even viewing experience is provided across smartphone screens.
FAST integration:
With FAST from Microsoft, Ektron allows you to access features such as profile ranking, Faceted Document archival and searching, etc that combines to provide a faster integration environment for the system.
SEO friendly URL:
The new version favors Search Engine optimised URL aliases that allow your pages to rank higher on search engine ranking indexes.
Automatic content synchronisation:
Users of the Ektron CMS can now have automatic synchronisation of dependant content. This implies that dependent files are synchronised simultaneously with the content associated with them. This is courtesy of the eSync enhancement available in Ektron8.6.
Support for HTML 5:
The latest version of Ektron has made its editing and control panel friendly to HTML 5 coding standards thereby allowing users to unleash the power of HTML 5 when it becomes popular in the not so distant future.
With all these new features Ektron is aiming to be the top enterprise content management solution available today.
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