CrownPeak Technology Forms Strategic Alliance With Genex to Provide Hosted Content Management for Leading Internet Developer.Business Editors MARINA DEL REY Del Rey may refer to:
CrownPeak Technology, the premier content management ASP, today announced a strategic alliance with Internet consulting and development firm Genex (www.genex.com), to provide hosted content management services to Genex and its clients. Genex will integrate CrownPeak's Advantage CMS (1) See content management system and color management system. (2) (Conversational Monitor System) Software that provides interactive communications for IBM's VM operating system. (TM) hosted content management tool as a proven content management solution for select client engagements, thereby streamlining content management deployment and improving its clients' overall return on investment. The relationship is Genex's first with an application service provider. "This relationship aligns us with the largest Internet consulting and development firm in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. -- one of the industry's oldest and most respected -- and advances our strategic goal of working more closely with developers," said Jim Howard, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , CrownPeak Technology. "Increasingly, developers are looking to hosted services to improve their offerings. Genex is itself a technology powerhouse in Internet development, so it's especially significant for the company to recognize that the our high quality CMS solution provides both lower cost and dramatically shorter implementation cycles." "CrownPeak is a best-of-breed hosted CMS provider that will bring its robust content management technology to various client engagements," said Walter Schild, CEO and founder, Genex. "Advantage CMS is a remarkably powerful and flexible platform for the full range of content and digital asset management needs. For Genex, the relationship with CrownPeak promises both increased content management functionality and rapid CMS deployment -- both of which will substantially benefit our clients." Advantage CMS includes flexible templates and powerful developer tools, enabling Genex to customize each CMS implementation to a client's specific needs, eliminating the need to create a custom content management system from scratch. CrownPeak Technology's Advantage CMS provides all the powerful features of a world-class CMS at a fraction of the cost and time commitment required by packaged solutions. Its easy-to-use Web interface enables users to maintain and edit content in any format as text, images, movies or any hybrid medium. The administrative interfaces and application code are hosted on high-availability servers, where CrownPeak backs up, maintains and extends the system. As an enterprise-level content management system, Advantage CMS is highly inter-operable with other systems and applications. Connection options available to developers include SOAP, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , FTP FTP in full file transfer protocol Internet protocol that allows a computer to send files to or receive files from another computer. Like many Internet resources, FTP works by means of a client-server architecture; the user runs client software to connect to , HTTP HTTP in full HyperText Transfer Protocol Standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of the TCP/IP protocol. , SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) The standard e-mail protocol on the Internet and part of the TCP/IP protocol suite, as defined by IETF RFC 2821. SMTP defines the message format and the message transfer agent (MTA), which stores and forwards the mail. and ODBC (Open DataBase Connectivity) A database programming interface from Microsoft that provides a common language for Windows applications to access databases on a network. . About Genex Founded in 1995, Genex (www.genex.com) delivers Internet consulting and development services to Fortune 1000 companies seeking low-risk, high-value strategy, creative, and engineering. The company's focused solutions result in business innovations that enable everyday efficiencies and long-term effectiveness, and thereby increase client ROI (Return On Investment) The monetary benefits derived from having spent money on developing or revising a system. In the IT world, there are more ways to compute ROI than Carter has liver pills (and for those of you who never heard of that expression, it means a lot). and overall competitive advantage. A Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, Genex clients include American Honda Motor Co., Brown & Williamson, CitiStreet, 20th Century Fox, Herman Miller Herman Miller may refer to:
About CrownPeak Technology Based in Marina del Rey, Calif., CrownPeak Technology (www.crownpeak.com) is the first company to provide world-class content management as a service, so that secure, feature-rich, enterprise level technology can be made available economically. As the premier hosted application provider, CrownPeak offers in Advantage CMS a feature set that is helping to redefine the content management space. The company's comprehensive developer environment, industry-leading service levels and "risk-free" outsourcing options have made CrownPeak one of the fastest growing companies in its sector. |
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