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Tell us your EditLive! story and boost your WCM success

Has EditLive! improved your web content management experience?  We are convinced that your word is stronger than any advertising budget, so we ask you to share your EditLive! success story. In return for your time, we will offer the top two entries EditLive! consulting services tailored specifically for your requirements that will allow you to maximize your WCM performance.

By sending us your entry, all or parts of your testimonial could be used on Ephox’s web site or in our marketing brochures.  Only your name and company will be published (no email address or phone number).  The two winners will be selected by a panel of Ephox judges on or around June 9, 2008.  The entries will be judged on the content of the testimonial as outlined in the guidelines below.

To submit an entry, include the following information in the body of your email to Emily McAuliffe at Emily.mcauliffe@ephox.com by June 6, 2008

Name:

Title:

Company:

Phone:

Using the questions below as a guideline for your comments, please tell us more about your experience with EditLive!:

• How has web content management user adoption improved since implementing EditLive?
• How has your end users’ web content creation experience improved since implementing EditLive?
• How has your web content quality improved since implementing EditLive?
• How has your IT department’s workload improved since implementing EditLive?
• Do you have quantitative results of your success?  For example, tell us how much money you have saved, the amount your pages have increased, or how many additional users you have gained since implementing EditLive. 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 6, 2008

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EditLive!'s Release with Oracle's Universal Content Management

See the positive remarks on Brian 'Bex' Huff 's Blog regarding EditLive!'s release with Oracle's Universal Content Management.   

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CMSWire.com: Ephox Chalks-up Tasty CM Results

http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-publishing/ephox-chalksup-tastey-cm-results-002598.php

Barb Mosher for CMSWire.com - April 28, 2008

We often bring you news of financial successes and troubles of content management vendors in the industry. This time, happy cheers come from a related product line — online HTML editor tools — produced by Ephox. With the line up of integration partners, it’s no wonder they are doing well.

Ephox produces a browser-based authoring tools called EditLive!. These tools provides rich content authoring capabilities for even the most technically challenged. They are embedded into some of the most advanced WCM products on the market today including, Vignette, Stellent, EMC Documentum and Percussion. Now that’s pretty impressive!

With this in mind, it’s no wonder Ephox has announced a record-producing fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2008. Their sales have grown by more than 200% over the same quarter a year ago. Now we can’t tell you what that means exactly because they don’t give actual numbers. But it does sound good doesn’t it?

Ephox EditLive! products are Word-like authoring tools that is used in content management systems and wikis. From the look of it’s feature set, it’s the most comprehensive tool we’ve seen to date.

The products are JAVA based, so you know they are pretty stable. Some of the key advantages of this product line include:

• Provides complete control over the authoring experience
• Many Word-like editing features including spell check as you type and track changes
• Over 200 APIs that enable completely customization and extensibility
• Seamless integration with any CMS or application platform

According to Ephox, “User adoption is a critical issue as many organizations move to a self-publishing environment where content creators have to create and publish rich content with no help from the IT department.” They are definitely in the right market.

Ephox has been providing enterprise-class authoring solutions since 1999. They now support over 300,000 web content authors in 1500 organizations across the world. You can read more about their EditLive! product line on their website.

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Ephox Achieves Record Revenues and Profits in Q1 2008

Wide-Scale Customer Deployments Drive Rapid Growth in Revenues

SAN MATEO, CA and BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA—(April 23, 2008) - Ephox, the leading provider of authoring software for web content management (WCM), announced its best ever performance for the fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2008. The company's success validates its strategy of maintaining and expanding its position as the leading authoring tool for the leading WCM platforms.

Ephox's Q1 sales have grown by more than 200% over the same quarter a year ago. The company has added over 100 new customers in the past year. Ephox's software is used by thousands of small and large customers in a variety of industry verticals. Ephox has strong partnerships with leading WCM vendors including IBM, EMC, Vignette, Oracle, Percussion, and others.

"Many of our new customers are household names and it is exciting to see our software being used to power their internal and external web sites," said Ephox CEO Andrew Roberts. "As we accelerate our revenue growth, we plan to invest more in product development and expand our sales and marketing efforts."

Ephox's management believes that the company has a unique opportunity for future growth. $2.9 billion is spent each year on content management initiatives that often fail to deliver on their initial promise because of poor business user adoption. User adoption is a critical issue as many organizations move to a self-publishing environment where content creators have to create and publish rich content with no help from the IT department. Ephox's EditLive! is the only browser-based product that enables non-technical users to easily contribute rich content to a website.

About Ephox

Since 1999, Ephox has developed enterprise-class authoring solutions that improve the success of business web sites. The company's products are used by more than 300,000 web content authors in over 1,500 organizations across 35 countries. Customers include Red Bull, ANZ, Northrop Grumman, Swiss Re, Ahold, Kaiser-Permanente, Groupe Danone, and the Victorian Department of Justice. For more information, please visit www.ephox.com.

Press Contact:
Marco Gabbiani
650 292 9659 x704

 

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Ephox gets wings

This past quarter was truly fantastic for us as we almost tripled our sales from the same quarter a year ago. We have added over 100 new customers in the past year and more than twice that number in repeat customers. Our resellers and partners add many more thousands of companies and hundreds of thousands of users.

Many of our new customers are household names and it is exciting seeing them using our software to power their web sites. In just the past few months our customers have included Red Bull (energy drinks), ANZ (Australia’s third largest bank), AHold (a $30B Dutch supermarket company), Generali (an insurance company with over 60,000 staff), Tupperware (famous for their parties) and a healthcare company with over 150,000 staff.

The past few years have seen us grow by 30-40% each year – a commendable achievement for a bootstrapped company that has not taken any venture capital and funded growth internally. However, our recent 100%+ growth has put that performance in perspective. We are now doing about as much business in a three-month period as we did in the whole of 2005.

In my humble opinion, web content management gets a much-needed usability and productivity boost from the innovations that our team work on each day. Here’s a salute to the good work that they do and a call to action for all of the good things that we know we need to do in the future!

Our growth in trailing twelve-month sales over the past three years:

Quarterly Product Update Recording Now Available

Recently we held the first of our quarterly product updates and while we had a great turn out on the call, plenty of people couldn't make it. For those people, we're providing the recorded version below.

To answer a couple of common questions we got, you can request a fix pack from Vignette which includes an update to EditLive! 6 so you an access the features we demo. Additionally, the track changes data that EditLive! creates is stored directly in the HTML as an XML block so it gets stored and versioned with the rest of the HTML. It's designed to render in browsers as if all the changes had been accepted so you can see what the final intent was as this generally works best with version history systems. More information on the track changes data format is available on LiveWorks! and in the EditLive! SDK.

If you have any further questions please get in touch and we'll be happy to help out.

Quarterly Product Update Webinar

To help keep our clients and partners up to date with the latest developments at Ephox, we'll be holding quarterly product update webinars to give you an overview of what's new and what's coming soon. The first of these will be held Wednesday 5th March and will be presented by Damien Fitzpatrick our Product Manager and our CTO, Adrian Sutton. The webinar will be run twice to help avoid timezone issues:

US Timezone: 11am PST, 5 March 2008. Register for this session

European Timezone: 10am GMT, 5 March 2008. Register for this session

A recorded version will be posted at the Ephox Blog shortly after the webinar for those who can't make it.

See us at Lotusphere, 20 - 24 January 2008

Ephox is exhibiting and presenting at Lotusphere, Orlando, which runs from 20 to 24 January. We invite you to visit us  at booth 712 (see diagram below) or book a 10 minute session with our web content experts.

Signup: http://ephoxatlotusphere.eventbrite.com/

Adrian Sutton will also be hosting Birds of a Feather session on mashups of  Web 2.0 capabilities with Web Content Management at 7:00 - 8:00 am on Thursday 24 January in the Swan Hotel, Peacock 1.

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Video: The Convergence of Wikis and Content Management Systems

Rob Dawson, Senior Software Engineer and Collaboration Evangelist at Ephox, discusses some big trends of the convergence of wikis and web content management in this video of the content from our webinar this week:

See us at Gilbane Boston, Nov 27 - 29

Ephox is exhibiting and presenting at Gilbane Boston, which runs from 27 to 29 November at the Westin Copley Place. We invite you to visit our booth (RR) or book a 15 minute session with our web content experts.

Andrew Roberts, our CEO will be presenting at a session on Best-of-Breed Building Blocks for Constructing Ideal User Experiences at 3:30 pm Thursday November 29.

Speakers:
Dan Carmel, CEO, SpringCM
Phil Costa, Director of Product Management, Adobe
Andrew Roberts, CEO, Ephox
Bill Roth, Vice President, Tools, BEA

See also:
Conference agenda

 

CMPros on November 26

Rob Dawson will deliver a presentation at the CM Pros event on Monday 26 November at the same venue.

 

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