Ektron Announces CMS400.NET v7.6 and Introduces New Deployment Options to Align with Customer Needs

Advanced Enterprise-level Features Including eSync, URL Aliasing and Multi-site Support  Available with CMS400.NET Version 7.6 

NASHUA, NH September 30, 2008 - Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management software, today announced the availability of Ektron CMS400.NET v7.6, the latest version of Ektron's content management solution. CMS400.NET v7.6 comes equipped with new product features and a new deployment strategy to fit the needs of both the small and medium business (SMB) market segment as well as Ektron's enterprise-level customer base.

Ektron has enhanced CMS400.NET with features that distinguish it from competitive offerings, including new URL Aliasing based on its industry-leading taxonomy, advanced whole-site synchronization technology, and an innovative personalization framework. Multi-site capabilities have been enhanced as well.

• URL Aliasing - Provides SEO-friendly, human-readable addresses that are auto generated by CMS400.NET based on a Web site's taxonomy or folder structure. URLs generated by CMS400.NET v7.6 are not only more descriptive, but also enhance the site's performance by caching the alias.
  
• SEO Site Checker - This feature allows marketers to view how SEO friendly their site currently is. It provides such things as W3 compliances, Web site ranking, what type of keywords and descriptions are in the page as well as a keyword and phrase cloud and much more. This control creates benchmarks for marketing teams that allow them to keep an eye on maintaining their SEO and rankings.
  
• eSync - Ektron's advanced synchronization technology revolutionizes the process of deploying and updating Web sites, from single sites to global multi-sites to server farms.  Ektron's eSync simplifies the process of deploying, changing or updating your Web site and bi-directionally manages content, templates and code whether it is a single item or an entire site.
  
• Personalization - CMS400.NET v7.6 provides a framework on which to build and integrate personalized portals into Web sites. The Ektron Portal Framework lets developers easily build digital dashboards equipped with applications, widgets and tools that allow users to organize and customize their work space, accessing multiple sources of information from a single page.
  
• Multi-site - With eSync and new URL Aliasing, v7.6 offers a complete toolset to support a scalable multi-site environment. With Ektron Multi-site, numerous Web sites can be launched and managed simultaneously from a single work area.

"The advances we've made to our content management technology allow us to provide exactly the tools that our whole customer base needs, from SMBs to enterprise-level clients," said William Rogers, chief executive officer at Ektron. "With these new technologies, we are able to provide a variety of deployment options that are tailored specifically to the needs of our customers in each market segment."

In addition to the new product features, Ektron continues to offer its customer base a central interface to manage and support their marketing channels as well as unparalleled flexibility with new deployment options available with version 7.6. Customers can now choose from three deployment options including Standard, Professional, and Enterprise. Feature sets included in the deployment options are as follows:

• Standard: The CMS400.NET Standard deployment supports the core CMS functionality with features such as author-friendly content editing to Web 2.0 blogs, forums, polls and surveys. The Standard offering also includes Ektron's marketing-leading taxonomy, search and Smart Forms.
  
• Professional: The CMS400.NET Professional deployment encompasses all the features found in the Standard offering and adds document management and social networking to the core CMS technology. Features such as URL aliasing and widget based personalization are included to enhance user experience. Available options include eSync and Multi-site. 
  
• Enterprise: The CMS400.NET Enterprise deployment provides all of the functionality in both the Standard and Professional packages and includes multi-site support, and Ektron's eSync.

Availability
CMS400.NET v7.6 is currently available for download. Ektron Partners can access the latest product information on CMS400.NET by visiting the Ektron Partner Portal at http://partners.ektron.com/ [1].

For more information on CMS400.NET v7.6 please visit www.ektron.com/CMS400.NET [2] 

About Ektron
Founded in 1998, Ektron is committed to providing revolutionary, scalable Web content management and authoring solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET empowers developers and non-technical business users alike: developers can take advantage of built-in Server Controls to deploy a Web site out of the box or customize the deployment using CMS400.NET's well-documented API, and business users benefit from an intuitive user interface for managing their Web site's content and messaging. From enterprise level deployments to single sites, CMS400.NET ships with a wide array of functionality, including social networking, Web 2.0, SEO and synchronization tools. Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Ektron has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including LG, Sony, and Johnson & Johnson. For more information, visit: http://www.ektron.com [3].