CrownPeak Technology Introduces Advantage ES, Market's First On-Demand Content Application Development Platform.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MARINA DEL REY Del Rey may refer to:
Powerful New Platform Targets Developers, Partners, End-Users; Represents New Level Of Maturity For Hosted Content Management Systems CrownPeak Technology (www.crownpeak.com) today introduced Advantage ES(TM), an Extended Suite of developer tools and customization capabilities, enabling CrownPeak's On Demand content management solution to compete on even footing with installed applications. The culmination of more than a year of concentrated software development, Advantage ES offers solution developers the ability to build and customize integrated content management applications -- without installing software or purchasing any hardware. Advantage ES consists of a new range of developer tools, a greatly expanded API (Application Programming Interface) A language and message format used by an application program to communicate with the operating system or some other control program such as a database management system (DBMS) or communications protocol. , a full suite of gateway interfaces with sophisticated configuration tools, and a complete set of pre-configured customizations for applications like extranets, intranets, workflow engines Workflow engine is a software application meant to manage and execute modeled business processes. It is a key component in workflow technology. It will typically make use of a database server. , document and/or asset catalogues, e-commerce systems and more. In addition, CrownPeak is announcing support for development in external platforms and connections directly into the CrownPeak application suite via Web Services (1) Loosely, any online service delivered over the Web. Such usage appears in articles from non-technical sources, but not in IT-oriented publications, because definition #2 below describes the correct use of the term. (SOAP). Clients and system integrators See systems integrator. can now integrate their own applications seamlessly with CrownPeak, as well as configure See configuration. (software) configure - A program by Richard Stallman to discover properties of the current platform and to set up make to compile and install gcc. Cygnus configure was a similar system developed by K. the CrownPeak environment to suit their needs. The first major platform supported in this program is Microsoft's .NET. Developers using the Advantage ES solution can begin the development process immediately with a powerful content management platform, complete with a fully documented and supported publishing engine, workflow engine, database back-end and fully-realized user interface. The development environment supports the full customization and implementation of unique business requirements for the application at hand. The new platform is aimed at three target markets: developers who want to create unique content management applications and are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a platform on which to build them; partners who seek to develop customized and/or private labeled content management applications for their customers and need the infrastructure, framework and support to deliver them; and 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. buyers whose technology requirements for content management are sophisticated and who want to deploy a flexible, powerful content management system without the cost and support requirements of traditional on-site software. "If you can envision your content management application, you can build it with CrownPeak's new on-demand development platform," 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. "Our integration capabilities and our API technologies are far more flexible and more advanced than any other product on the market. We're delivering all the benefits of a completely customized application, without the headache of building and managing the software application environment. Developers, partners and end-users now have the power and flexibility to develop unique content management applications with extraordinary speed. "Because Advantage ES is an on-demand solution, our customers' applications immediately enjoy the strengths of a hosted solution," Howard said. "There's nothing to install, no software to buy, automatic feature enhancements, 24/7 managed security, data backup and disaster recovery, and the cost and support advantages of on demand systems. In a very real way, we're turning over control of our Advantage CMS(TM) software to our customers -- and their developers." The Advantage ES platform relies on the company's track record of more than 300 unique implementations. The new offering also draws on the capabilities of such CrownPeak partners as IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Microsoft, Salesforce.com, DoubleClick, EmailLabs, LionBridge and NTT/Verio, among others. As part of the CrownPeak ES launch, the company is unveiling a new section of the CrownPeak site for developers, with code samples, documentation, and integration support. CrownPeak has also launched a complete developer training and support program. In the field, CrownPeak's Advantage CMS is proving increasingly versatile. Among the unique content management applications built with Advantage CMS: sophisticated event calendar and project management systems, document and digital asset repositories, email campaign and marketing engines, knowledge management systems, internal workflow The automatic routing of documents to the users responsible for working on them. Workflow is concerned with providing the information required to support each step of the business cycle. systems, online commerce and subscription services, online ad management and marketing platforms, and foreign language translation engines. About CrownPeak Technology Based 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. , CrownPeak Technology is the first company to provide world-class Web content management software as a service. The company's Advantage CMS platform is the only solution that combines enterprise-level power and flexibility with the cost and speed-of-implementation of a hosted software application. Advantage CMS features the easiest-to-use interface of any CMS, and is the only hosted CMS to offer a full API and developer environment. Serving such clients as Crain Communications, Honeywell, Hyundai Motors, the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission , and the State of Virginia, Advantage CMS supports thousands of users and manages and publishes hundreds of thousands of Web pages. CrownPeak has been named to eContent's 100 most influential companies list, has won eWeek's prestigious Analysts Choice Award and is a 2003 and 2004 SIIA (Software & Information Industry Association, Washington, DC, www.siia.net) A trade organization devoted to the health and welfare of the software and digital content industry by providing support in government relations, business development, education and intellectual property Codie Award finalist as Best Content Management System. |
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