Ephox Blog

Atech in the Blue

2008-07-18T17:47:31-07:00

My newly upgraded iPhone is bringing 'live blogging' to the Ephox blog for the first time. I am at Ascendant Technology's after-conference party at Buddy Guy's Legends Chicago that Ephox is sponsoring.

Today we heard from IBM WebSphere Portal's Chief Architect that 3-4 years ago that 'web content management was dead' and that now it is 'hot'.

Tomorrow I give two talks about why, if you think WCM is hot, that you should be thinking about EditLive! to make your WCM system really fly.

Partners in Web Content Management

2008-07-15T20:52:30-07:00

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

2008-07-04T05:07:28-07:00

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.

EditLive! is Now More Stylish

2008-06-10T17:42:43-07:00

Last month the EditLive! team released version 6.4 after six months of diligent developing and testing. Version 6.4 is an important release that focused on improvements to the cascading style sheet (CSS) rendering and editing engine of EditLive!

Improvements to the 'CSS rendering and editing engine' may sound rather technical and you would be forgiven for wondering what, if anything, this has to do with an average author's life?

The answer is that the web content management world needs to lift the bar when it comes to style. Using the words 'style' and 'web content management' in the same sentence might seem odd but it is a brave new Web 2.0 world. The need for creating visually appealing content is much more important now than it has ever been. Boring, static sites just aren't enough.

Modern web sites make use of many web design tricks to deliver a compelling experience. Take a look through Apple's new iPhone site for inspiration for your next web page. Side bars, floating boxes, tabbed tables, fancy lists and rounded corners are everywhere.

EditLive! 6.4 represents the start of many improvements to enable good looking effects to be created quickly and easily. Improvements such as displaying and editing floating 'div' elements are an example of what might at first seem like arcane developer-only features but will ultimately enable authors to easily create floating sidebars and callout boxes.

In the coming months we will be releasing style sheets that make the most of our new found style. Stay tuned as we put some sizzle back in the web content management world!

-Andrew Roberts, Co-Founder and CEO

Ephox's Quarterly Product Update Webinars in July

2008-06-10T13:06:21-07:00

Get the most out of your Ephox investments by attending our Quarterly Product Update Webinar. See the latest enhancements to EditLive! and find out what is coming in the future.

The update will cover:

The recent release of EditLive! 6.4 and what it can do for you today
Our newly released integration with RedDot
The upcoming EditLive! Enterprise Edition package with a collection of useful add-ons regardless of which system you're using.
A sneak peak at the upcoming integration with Lotus Quickr
A brand new product from Ephox that brings simplicity, productivity and the best technologies from Web 2.0 to your CMS

The webinar is hosted by Ephox's CTO, Adrian Sutton, Product Manager, Damien Fitzpatrick and Director of Products, Michael Fromin - who are directly tasked with steering Ephox's product strategy. There will also be plenty of opportunity for you to provide your feedback and ask questions of our product team.

To cater to a worldwide audience, the webinar will be run in three time zones, register for the most convenient one below:

Europe, July 2 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM BST (London Time): https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/623785051

US, July 2 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT (California Time): https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/800101784

Australia, July 3 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EST (Sydney Time): https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/399057551

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Tell us your success story and save on the renewal of your EditLive! upgrade and technical support subscription

2008-05-13T16:58:29-07:00

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 are offering a free or discounted Annual Upgrade Subscription (AUS). AUS entitles you to major and minor upgrades and access to our technical support. This is a limited time offer, so act now:

All you have to do is tell us about your experience with EditLive! by submitting an entry as described below. Your response may be used on Ephox’s website and/or in our marketing brochures. We value your privacy and no email addresses or phone numbers will be published – just your name, title and company name.

Customers who are willing to partner with Ephox to create a customer case study will have their AUS fee waived - up to $5,000. Customers who submit a testimonial will receive a 50% discount on AUS. After submitting your testimonial, we will issue you a credit towards next year’s AUS purchase.

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

Name:

Title:

Company:

Phone:

I would like to participate in a customer case study to receive a free year of AUS: (YES/NO)

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

Has web content management user adoption improved since implementing EditLive? If yes, how?
Has your end users’ web content creation experience improved since implementing EditLive? If yes, how?
Has your web content quality improved since implementing EditLive? If yes, how?
Has your IT department’s workload diminished since implementing EditLive? If yes, how?

Emily McAuliffe

Marketing Specialist

emily.mcauliffe@ephox.com

Ephox Corporation

Main: 650.292.9659 x721

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

2008-05-07T16:59:38-07:00

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

2008-04-30T13:54:12-07:00

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

2008-04-23T14:27:29-07:00

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

2008-04-02T11:47:17-07:00

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: