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Ephox CEO Wins Young Entrepreneur Award

We are proud to announce that Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox, has won the 2008 Richard Joel Young Export Entrepreneur Award. This special award was part of the The Premier of Queensland's Export Awards ceremony in Queensland, Australia. The awards program provides an opportunity for Queensland businesses of all sizes to showcase their export achievements.

The Richard Joel Young Export Entrepreneur Award acknowledges the success of younger people who are leading exporting businesses. Business owners who are 35 years of age and under are eligible. 

In addition to Andrew’s award, Ephox was recognized as a finalist in the Queensland Export Small to Medium Services Award for outstanding export achievement in a services industry with total annual sales of less than $15 million.

Ephox was founded in Brisbane, Australia, in 1999 and has key offices in Silicon Valley and London.  Our committed team, customers and partners have also helped Ephox achieve recognition as one of the Inc. 5,000 – an index of the fastest growing companies in the United States.

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Webinar: Upgrading to Lotus Quickr 8

Lotus expert Warren Elsmore shows you how you can easily take advantage of new features in Lotus Quickr 8 and walks you through an upgrade of an existing Lotus Quickplace server to Quickr.

To register and learn more: http://www.ephox.com/quickr/lug1.html 

Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Time: Noon ET/9:00 am PT
Duration: 60 minutes (including Q&A)

Hosted by THE VIEW, sponsored by Ephox

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Webinar: Deliver Compelling Web Content with EditLive! for RedDot

View the recording: https://reddotevents.webex.com/reddotevents/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=EC&rID=1140582&rKey=A848EEC4AF72F0D4

Recorded on: 22 Oct 2008 02:00 EST

RedDot and Ephox Partner to Help Customers Deliver Compelling Web Content

There are two seemingly paradoxical trends in the WCM industry today: The need to enable business users to self-publish and the increasing demand to create compelling and appealing web content. RedDot and Ephox have partnered to help customers meet this challenge by giving non-technical authors the tools they need to quickly and easily create content, as well as stylish effects, while still adhering to corporate standards.
On Wednesday, October 22nd we invite you to join Michael Fromin, Ephox's Director of Products to learn how you can deliver compelling web content and extend the capabilities of your RedDot CMS with the easily-integrated rich-text editor from Ephox, EditLive!. This interactive webinar will highlight ways to achieve additional strategic advantage from your CMS investment with the added functionality in EditLive! With powerful features that include:

• Word-like interface with familiar toolbar menus, keyboard shortcuts and right click menus.
• Copy and paste clean XHTML from Word in one click
• Customize and extend the editor interface
• Preview and apply a wide range of styles with a true WYSIWYG dropdown menu
• Fast and reliable table and list editing
• Word-like review and collaboration features
• Create 100% XHTML compliant
• Spell check and Thesaurus a in 12 different languages
• Support for sections (DIVs) makes complex layouts simple

 

 

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Econtent Magazine: Ephox’s EditLive! Brings Easier Content Creation to Life

From Econtent Magazine: http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/News/News-Feature/Ephox%e2%80%99s-EditLive!--Brings-Easier-Content-Creation-to-Life-50764.htm

Those who work in content management systems (CMSs) know that the content creation process can often be time-consuming and unwieldy. Ideally, the best content management system should enable the user to post content to the web seamlessly, without having to click back and forth between different programs. After all, it’s difficult—or, at the very least, annoying—to be in two or three places at once. However, as wonderful as this utopian ideal may sound, it is very rarely the case. Web content creators are usually required to collaborate with one another in a wiki, edit images for the web in Photoshop or a similar program, and then upload everything into the CMS. Functionality is lost in the quest for a visually compelling website with top-notch content.

Ephox—a provider of software solutions that enable creators of web content in wikis and content management systems to achieve better productivity—addresses these problems with its suite of EditLive! products. On Sept. 10, the company released its latest update, attempting to streamline the content management and production processes one step further by adding enhancements to its EditLive! Enterprise Edition.

EditLive! is a browser-based, rich content HTML editor with a Word-like interface that is designed for nontechnical business users. It is integrated into WCM systems, including IBM, Vignette, Oracle, and RedDot. Its basic features include inline spell check, cross-platform support, and inline linking—tools that not only aid collaboration within the CMS but help to ensure that what’s being published to the web is high quality. Each of these features was already available in both the EditLive! base product (which is integrated in Ephox’s partners’ software) and the enterprise edition (an upgrade of the base product).

As an upgrade, EditLive! Enterprise Edition offers features that the base product doesn’t, such as track changes, a thesaurus, rich-text editing, and a mathematical and scientific equation editor. According to Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox, "I think the track changes feature is key; if a user wants to make a suggestion, the editor can pick up the username and the time and date the change was made, and either accept or reject those changes." He continues, "Customers aren’t using their CMS the way it was intended, but with track changes, our users can do more collaboration online right in the content management system."

Ephox’s newest release offers enhanced functionality to the enterprise edition, with new features such as inline image editing and autocorrect. Inline image editing is designed to keep content creators and web publishers from having to drift between programs in order to publish images to their site. Image editing features allow the user to crop and rotate images, as well as add effects such as drop shadows, reflection, and rounded corners to pictures—all right there in the CMS. "If someone inserts a large image, they can easily re-size and sample that image without having to go over to Photoshop," explains Roberts. "Just training people on how to fix images, add effects, and then put those images back in the CMS is a time-consuming process," he adds. "We decided to cut out the middle man."

Ephox aims to provide users with the tools to enhance the look and content of their website. And it allows them to do so in a functional space that doesn’t require much outside travel. Roberts notes, "Users can create a more visually compelling website in less time, and with less clicks."

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Ephox Quarterly Product Update - November 2008

http://liveworks.ephox.com/events/ephoxtv/product-update-nov-2008

Get the most out of your Ephox investments by viewing the Quarterly Product Update Webinar from November 5.  See the latest enhancements to EditLive! and find out what is coming in the future.  This update covers:

• Details on some exciting new offerings for IBM WCM clients and how they can bring enhanced productivity and collaboration to your WCM deployment
• The new functionality delivered in EditLive! 6.5 and what's coming in future releases, including accessibility enhancements
• Our new integration with IBM Quickr

Hosted by Adrian Sutton, CTO of Ephox.

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Press Release: Ephox Helps Non-technical Users Create Compelling Web Content With the Latest Release of EditLive!

SAN MATEO, California and Brisbane, Australia—Sept 10, 2008— Ephox, the leading provider of authoring software for web content, announced the latest release of its online rich text editor, EditLive!. The significant new feature in EditLive! 6.5 is the image editing tool that helps non-technical users quickly and easily create compelling web content.

EditLive!’s inline image editing feature crops, resizes and rotates images with the click of a button, in addition to creating special effects like drop shadow, reflection and rounded corners. Images are automatically re-sized and re-sampled to ensure web appropriate file sizes. There is no need to manipulate images in a separate window or use complicated image editing software – a real time-saver for web authors and a money-saver for IT departments.

“EditLive! 6.5 breaks new ground by enabling business users to create the sophisticated, rich and interactive web sites needed to be successful in today’s marketplace,” said Ephox Director of Products Damien Fitzpatrick. “Today’s business users demand seamless text and image editing performance and Ephox recognizes this.”

In addition to usability improvements, some of the new features in EditLive! 6.5 include the ability to customize the color palette for greater consistency, auto-correct for fixing common typing errors, and added dialects for a total of 28 user interface and international language libraries.

All of the features in the latest release are included in the EditLive! Enterprise Edition which adds advanced productivity, multimedia and collaboration tools like the new image editor, track changes, thesaurus, auto correct, and an advanced Java API library.

About Ephox

EditLive! is the leading cross-platform rich text editor. It is built into leading Web Content Management Systems including IBM, Vignette, Oracle, EMC|Documentum, Percussion, RedDot and Ektron. 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:

Emily McAuliffe

emily.mcauliffe@ephoxdotcom

Ephox Corporation

Main: 650.292.9659 x721

www.ephox.com

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Your feedback matters

Last week I got out of the Ephox office and into the offices of several of our clients and partners, as well as a few people who were evaluating EditLive! for the first time. This is something I try to do at least once a quarter and I think it’s one of the most important things I do at Ephox. It’s important because we believe in delivering software that works for you and we want to work with you to solve your web content challenges.  

It’s not just when I visit clients that we’re busy listening to your feedback. Every week, I personally see at least three feature or improvement requests and every one of those is replied to and logged in our internal feature management software.

The significance of this process really hit home for me last month when I was preparing the EditLive! roadmap through to mid-2009. Every feature that we’re releasing in EditLive! from now until then has been requested by at least one client, most of them have several requests against them. This attention to your feedback and our commitment to engineering excellence ensure that we will continue to deliver software that addresses your business challenges.

We have some great releases lined up for the rest of this year and into next. I know that because they’re the releases that you asked for. They’re packed with the productivity improvements that you asked for. They’ll have the intuitive user interfaces you asked for. Most of all they’ll deliver you the user adoption that you need to see your web content initiatives be more successful. If you want a sneak peek, I’d recommend you check out our latest Quarterly Product Update.

Damien Fitzpatrick
Ephox Product Manager

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Press Release: Ephox Continues to Achieve Record Growth through Strategic Partnerships and Product Enhancements

SAN MATEO, California and Brisbane, Australia—July 28, 2008— Ephox, the leading provider of authoring software for web content management (WCM), announced continued record growth for the fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2008 – with sales rising 114% over the previous year. Contributing to the company’s success are strong partner relationships with leading WCM vendors, in addition to recent enhancements of EditLive!, Ephox’s web authoring software.

Ephox has successfully integrated EditLive! into the platforms of the top WCM vendors - allowing end users to create and publish content more efficiently. Ephox OEM and solution partners include EMC|Documentum, IBM, Oracle, Percussion, RedDot and Vignette.

“We are pleased that the top WCM vendors continue to adopt EditLive!,” said Ephox’s VP of Marketing and Sales, Antony Awaida. “EditLive! has become the tool of choice for the vast majority of WCM users and we expect this will create further momentum for Ephox in the market.”

In May, Ephox released EditLive! version 6.4, after six months of developing and testing. This new version offers enhanced style sheet support and gives users the ability to create sophisticated looking web documents with more control over the layout.

“The need for creating professional quality websites without using IT is much more important now than it has ever been,” said Ephox CEO Andrew Roberts. “EditLive! 6.4 is another milestone in our long-term vision of enabling business authors to create high-quality websites, quickly.”

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.

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Partners in Web Content Management

Analyst firm Gartner recently updated their Web Content Management report in which they discussed trends and took a look at the software companies successfully serving the market. Gartner’s report gushed that "the prospects for web content management are overwhelmingly positive" and I am very happy to agree with them given that we have just finished one of our most successful financial years.

Among the many Ephox highlights of this past twelve months I believe that the hallmark of our success was partnering. Partnering is easy to say but hard to do and Ephox is unique in how we compliment and offer value-added technology to the WCM market.

Our long-held belief in partnering has resulted in us now working closely with 7 of the 17 vendors in Gartner’s report: Ektron, EMC Documentum, IBM, Open Text, Oracle, Percussion and Vignette. Hopefully more will follow shortly.

Of particular note is the strong partnership we have with our friends at IBM to improve the content authoring capabilities in the IBM Lotus Web Content Management system. We now have over 100 joint customers with IBM and generally enjoy partnering with Big Blue. The Ephox-IBM hosted Australia Day party at Lotusphere in January was particularly good fun!

This past year we also entered into expanded agreement with EMC Documentum. Our partnership extends back to 2004 when we worked with EMC to integrate EditLive! into WebPublisher. We have always been impressed with their engineering and product management teams and we are very happy to see our partnership expand into more products.

Last month we also signed a renewed agreement with Oracle. We had originally worked with their Stellent team to integrated EditLive! prior to their acquisition by Oracle. In May, the Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM) product shipped with EditLive! and we entered into an expanded relationship where we would work together on a new Enterprise Edition of EditLive! that will be coming out later this year.

And finally this year has also seen the launch and initial customers of EditLive! for RedDot. Open Text's RedDot is an impressive WCM solution known for its ease of use. With the new EditLive! integration we hope we can take usability to even greater heights.

For the WCM market to truly thrive it needs innovative software vendors who can develop complementary technology to the out-of-the-box platforms. There is a very large scope for innovation in the web content management market and we are happy to be part of it.

Quarterly Product Update Recording Available

Below is the recording of the July Quarterly Product Update for those who missed it. This was a recording of the North American time slot, hosted by Michael Fromin our Director of Products.