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Press Release: Ephox Upgrades the Web Production Experience at the IBM Portal Excellence Conference

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CHICAGO, Ill. and PALO ALTO, Calif. — July 19, 2010 — Ephox, a leading provider of software for upgrading the web production experience, today announced the next version of WebRadar at the IBM Portal Excellence Conference. With WebRadar 2.0, companies gain critical insights into their Web Content Management (WCM) systems to improve the productivity of website authors and administrators.

Building on its track record in web authoring software and successful partnership with IBM, Ephox has developed a flexible reporting solution for IBM® Lotus® Web Content Management. WebRadar enables IBM Lotus Web Content Management customers to analyze workflow processes and resolve issues before they become problems. The version 2.0 release brings new report customization options and an improved look and feel.

 “Managing and publishing content, both internally and externally is becoming every organization’s second business and it is therefore increasingly critical for corporate operations to gain insight into their enterprise content and publication processes.” said Ian Truscott, Senior Analyst with Gilbane Group, a division of Outsell Inc. “Identifying inefficiencies, like process bottlenecks and obsolete content is not something we’ve found to be a strength of content management systems today, yet this level of reporting is essential for organizations to understand the performance of their content driven business activities.”

WebRadar 2.0 includes new reporting capabilities and metrics for more efficient website management.  Out-of-the-box reporting combines with new customization features to let administrators find information based on content metadata. WebRadar can determine which author is assigned to content, find outdated content, and expose publishing bottlenecks. Reports can then be saved and exported to Microsoft® Excel for further analysis. A new dashboard interface puts critical information at the fingertips of administrators.

 “Organizations have looked to analytics software to provide information on how automated business processes are performing, but there are huge information gaps on web content production processes themselves that can lead to content inaccuracies and unmanageable sites,” said Tim Thatcher, Senior Vice President of Products and Strategy for Ephox. “With WebRadar, Ephox is leading the way in providing metrics on the WCM system itself, which will enable organizations to identify and solve issues, while increasing site accuracy and relevancy."

Additional WebRadar features include a multi-edit wizard to easily make changes such as reassigning content authoring tasks, updating content expiration dates, adjusting permissions, or extending web campaigns. Interactive charts provide at-a-glance insights into WCM processes, helping administrators visualize content in the WCM while easily drilling down into relevant data. Specific changes can then be made with the new single edit option in the editing interface. With WebRadar, administrators can monitor web projects at every stage of development, utilizing essential information gained from reports and metrics that deliver successful websites. 

Availability

The current version of WebRadar is available at http://webradarwcm.com/try.  The full version of WebRadar 2.0 will be available August 30, 2010. For more information on WebRadar, please visit http://www.webradarwcm.com.

About Ephox

Ephox upgrades the web production experience with authoring and reporting software for business websites, wikis and blogs. The company’s technology is licensed by leading web content management vendors including EMC|Documentum, IBM, Oracle, Open Text and Percussion.  Ephox products are used by hundreds of thousands of web content authors in over 1,500 organizations across 35 countries.  For more information, please visit www.ephox.com or stop by the Ephox booth at the IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2010.

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See WebRadar at IBM's Portal Excellence Conference July 19-21

 

Upgrade Your Web Production Experience with WebRadar and EditLive! at the IBM Portal Excellence Conference
July 19-21 in Chicago

Join us for the preeminent Exceptional Web Experience event – IBM Portal Excellence Conference 2010.  This conference is dedicated to helping organizations be more successful by highlighting proven business solutions and technical strategies designed to keep pace with rapidly evolving Web user demand and expectations.

Stop by the Ephox booth, see a demo of EditLive! and WebRadar, and enter to win a fun radio controlled, radar-enhanced helicopter.  And don’t miss our speaking session on Web Content Intelligence on Monday, July 19 at 12:30.

Email us to schedule an appointment at the show at contact@ephox.com

Webinar: IBM Web Content Management Best Practices for the Insurance Industry

Webinar Presented by IBM, InfoSys and Ephox

Learn how IBM Lotus Web Content Management with Infosys Domisphere Portal Manager (DPM), and EditLive! can build significantly improved portal based web sites for the insurance industry. The webinar will show how you can improve content development, quality and publishing. You will see how your organization can make greater use of business knowledge and expertise, reduce costs and delays, and produce web content that is of far greater value to your business. 


You will also be able to see the newest features available in Domisphere Portal Manager (DPM), EditLive! and IBM Lotus Web Content Management:

-    Easier and much more friendly URLs for passing web page addresses to others
-    Greater leverage of search engines
-    Construction of sites with far greater flexibility and responsiveness to business
-    The ability to graft sections of a site together making web site development far more flexible
-    The ability to test multiple page layouts in a live and real web environment helps you to better identify the optimum layout and content for your web pages.
-    Easily create quality content, collaborate with others, and adhere to corporate policies with the EditLive! rich text editor.

Join the European webinar on July 1, 2010 at
-    UK Time 14:00 & 18:00
-    Central European Time 15:00 & 19:00
-    Eastern Standard Time 09:00 & 13:00 



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Get more information from Infosys on the webinar by emailing them at events@infosys.co.uk

Recorded Webinar: Best Practices for Creating High Quality Web Content with Vignette Content Management 8.0 and Ephox EditLive!

 

Creating high quality web content can be a challenging task that spans many tools, departments, standards and processes. Open Text and Ephox EditLive!, the rich text editor inside Vignette Content Management 8.0, come together to help you overcome these challenges

 

Please contact marketing@ephox.com with questions.

Meet Ephox at Oracle Collaborate in Las Vegas

Meet the Ephox team in person at the Independent Oracle User Group conference Collaborate 2010 on April 18-22, 2010 in Las Vegas.

Visit booth 717 and see how EditLive!'s class-leading features can extend and improve the rich text editor inside Oracle Universal Content Management. UCM users can upgrade the editor to the EditLive! Enterprise Edition which adds advanced word processing and web publishing capabilities to the embedded version. 

Features like track changes, commenting, inline image editing, international language support, and accessibility reporting enhance the web content creation process within Oracle UCM.

Meet the Ephox team in person at the Independent Oracle User Group conference Collaborate 2010 on April 18-22, 2010 in Las Vegas.

Visit booth 717 and see how EditLive!'s class-leading features can extend and improve the rich text editor inside Oracle Universal Content Management. UCM users can upgrade the editor to the EditLive! Enterprise Edition which adds advanced word processing and web publishing capabilities to the embedded version. 

Features like track changes, commenting, inline image editing, international language support, and accessibility reporting enhance the web content creation process within Oracle UCM.

Meet Ephox at the Gilbane Conference in San Francisco

Meet the Ephox team in person at Gilbane San Francisco on May 18-20, 2010:

 

Visit our booth and see the latest and greatest features in EditLive! or attend the Ephox Product Lab on May 19 at 2:40pm "Web Content Intelligence for WCM" and see our new WebRadar tool.

Entry to the technology showcase is free - just enter the word "Ephox" when you register.   Or use the same code to get $200 off the other registration options.

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Webinar: Web Content Management for Banking with IBM and Ephox

Banks and financial institutions must create and manage information on corporate Web sites and trading communities using open, standards-based tools. Further, those sites need to integrate with existing Web infrastructures and backend databases.  Using real-world examples, we will discuss how Web sites in the Banking Sector are using Lotus Web Content Management with Ephox EditLive! to include data from back office systems, integrate with other Web applications, and custom tailor information to individuals through personalization. 

View the Recording from April 13, 2010

Ephox Unveils New EditLive! Content Authoring Software at Lotusphere 2010

Company’s Rich Text Editor Enhances Usability for IBM Lotus Web Content Management Software Customers

LOTUSPHERE, ORLANDO, FL. — Jan. 18, 2010 — Ephox, a leading provider of online authoring software, today announced the latest version of the company’s rich text editor, EditLive! V 7. Tightly integrated with IBM Lotus Web Content Management and IBM Lotus Quickr software, EditLive! allows business users to create content in a straightforward desktop word processing environment. With numerous new features that increase user productivity, team collaboration and website quality, EditLive! V7 lets non-technical users keep company web sites, blogs and wikis up-to-date with relevant online content.

EditLive! V7 is now the only web-based editor to support Autosave. This functionality will preserve content, even if the web browser crashes, or the server session times out. V7 also includes templating functionality, giving content administrators the ability to create reusable content templates for consistent web site styles and standards that can be employed by business users.

The HTML editor also improves collaboration for online documents with new context-based commenting capabilities, in which users can comment directly on any text or object in a document and track conversations related to specific comments.  For increased quality of content in web sites and wikis, EditLive! adds broken hyperlink reporting.

The new version of EditLive! includes enhanced integration with IBM Lotus Web Content Management and now deploys as an application in the portal environment.  In addition, significant performance improvements of up to 70% have been achieved through a series of optimizations to caching, configuration and compression mechanisms.

“Ephox’s EditLive! helps IBM Lotus Web Content Management customers to enable business users – the subject matter experts – to create and deploy rich content,” said Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox. EditLive! V7 offers a wealth of new features.”

The City of Helsinki uses EditLive! and IBM Lotus Web Content Management to manage a portal of over 50,000 pages of web content.  The portal offers essential services to the community, and provides information on the City’s administration including budget reports, school and library information, and health and social services. “The EditLlive! System is very easy to use and provides our web content editors with a stable and consistent experience,” said Leila Oravisto, City of Helsinki web services coordinator. “This means we can easily share content between our web content masters, while non-technical users can easily learn the system and update their own content.”

In addition to new functionality in EditLive!, the OEM version now includes several features that were previously only available in the Enterprise Edition. These capabilities include Auto-Correct for automatically correcting spelling errors, the ability to import Word documents), and Thesaurus.

Availability

EditLive! 7 is available immediately in OEM, Professional and Enterprise Editions. For a demo of EditLive, please visit http://www.ephox.com/products/editlive/demo/.

About Ephox

Ephox develops enterprise-class solutions for authoring content for business websites, wikis and blogs. The company’s technology is licensed by leading web content management vendors including EMC|Documentum, IBM, Oracle, and Percussion.  Ephox products are used by hundreds of thousands of content authors in over 1,500 organizations across 35 countries.  For more information, please visit the Ephox booth #726 at Lotusphere 2010, or www.ephox.com.

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Stephanie Morey
Ephox Corporation
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public.relations@ephox.com

Ephox Reports Record Revenues and Growth in Q3 2009

Company Marks 10-Year Anniversary With Strong Quarterly Earnings and Industry Recognition

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PALO ALTO, CA and BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - November 30, 2009) - Ephox, the leading provider of online authoring software, today announced record revenues for the quarter ending September 30, 2009, with revenues up 91% compared to the same quarter a year ago. EditLive!, the company's flagship product for online content editing, is now the best-selling software in its category with more than $5 million in sales over the past 12 months. Driving the growth were strong customer demand and enterprise partnerships with IBM, Open Text and others.

This month Ephox celebrated its 10th anniversary by bringing its US, European and Australian teams together "downunder" in Brisbane, Australia -- where the company was founded. Further, the company received strong recognition for its achievements in 2009. In the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing privately held companies in America, Ephox reached number 755, with 383% growth for the three-year period ended 2009. The Silicon Valley Business Journal also ranked Ephox as number 14 on the "Fast Private" list for the fastest-growing companies in Silicon Valley.

"Despite the challenging economic environment, 2009 has been very strong for Ephox," said Andrew Roberts, CEO of Ephox. "By partnering with the top content management vendors, we've been able to help the world's best brands and governments build web sites and intranets that are more effective than ever."

As businesses look to rebuild and generate revenue coming out of the economic downturn, many are increasing their web investments to increase sales and be more productive. By enabling non-technical staff to easily contribute compelling content, Ephox is uniquely positioned for continued growth. With the growth of wikis and blogs both publicly and on intranets, the company is seeing even more growth in the burgeoning market of social software.

About Ephox
Ephox develops enterprise-class solutions for authoring content for business websites, wikis and blogs. The company's technology is licensed by leading web content management vendors including EMC|Documentum, IBM, Oracle, and Percussion. Ephox products are used by hundreds of thousands of content authors in over 1,500 organizations across 35 countries. For more information, please visit www.ephox.com.

Contact: public.relations@ephox.com

Happy Birthday Ephox. It's time to party like it's 1999!

On November 12, Ephox will celebrate 10 years of success. Recently, many numbers have been used to describe Ephox, including:

• #1 – EditLive! is the leading online content editing software in the world by sales
• #14 on the Fast Private list for the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley (2009)
• #770 on the Inc 5,000 fastest growing companies in the US with 383% three-year growth (2009)

And now we have #10 – the years since our inception in 1999.

Which means it’s time to party!

The entire Ephox team will come together in Brisbane, Australia to mark this exciting landmark.  We invite our customers and partners to join us on November 12, as we offer thanks to all of the industry stakeholders, customers, seed investors, former staff and supporters who have allowed our company to succeed in such an extraordinary way.

When: Thursday 12th November, 2009 6.00pm – 10.00pm

Event Information:  For more event details, visit the event page: http://ephoxturns10.eventbrite.com