Kentico CMS 5.5 R2

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Kentico CMS 5.5 R2

• Full-featured Flexible Web Content Management
  System for All Your Needs

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Content Management System - I

• What is a content management system?
• Software that allows you to edit text and images
  on your web site without calling your web
  designer.
• Why should I use a content management system?
• You can edit your web site anywhere, anytime,
  through your web browser.

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Content Management System - II

• I can use Frontpage to create HTML pages, why
  should I use a content management system?
• With a content management system, you can create
  interactive web sites and communicate with your
  visitors through on-line forms, newsletters,
  blogs, forums or polls.
• You can add a shopping cart and sell your
  products on-line.

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Content Management System - III

• Do I need a web designer if I use a content
  management system?
• The web designer needs to prepare the design and
  structure of your web site and create page
  templates. Then you can easily create new pages
  by yourself using the templates.

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Kentico CMS Overview I
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Kentico CMS Overview II

• Out-of-the-box solution for
• Corporate web sites
• On-line stores
• Community sites
• Intranets
• Extranets
• Built on the Microsoft .NET platform

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Kentico CMS Overview III

• Main benefits
• All-in-one solution for your Web site
• Easy-to-use
• Browser-based editing
• High value for a reasonable price
• SEO friendly
• Manage multiple sites from one place

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The most important features

• On-line users
• PayPal support
• Personalized content
• Personalized editor
• Polls
• Portal engine
• Preview before publish
• Project and Task management
• Recycle Bin
• Report Abuse
• Reporting
• Re-use content on several pages
• Roles and Users
• RSS feeds
• SEO
• Scheduled Tasks
• Spell-checker
• Starter Sites
• Taxonomy - Categories, Tagging

• 200 built-in web parts
• Active Directory integration
• AJAX support
• Approving documents
• Authorize.NET
• Avatars
• Bad words
• Badges
• Banned IP addresses
• Blogs
• Booking System
• Branding
• Complete documentation of the CMS
• Content and object staging
• Content locking (check-in/check-out)
• Content Rating
• Content/design separation
• Controls caching
• Custom document types

• E-commerce (on-line store)
• E-mail queue
• Event Calendar
• Event Log
• Export/import web sites or selected
• Flexible content hierarchy
• Flexible navigation
• Forms authentication
• Forums
• Friendly (smart) URLs
• Friends
• Full source code
• Full-text search
• Fully customizable
• Geo mapping (Google Maps)
• Google sitemap
• Groups
• IE 6.0, IE 7.0 FireFox 1.0.5, Mozilla 7.1,
  Netscape 7.1, Opera 7.52 support
• Image gallery

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Editing Features I

• Easily edit web site content
• Browser-based user interface
• You can publish
• Pages
• Articles
• News
• Products
• Blogs
• Office locations
• Job openings
• Knowledge base
• ... and any number of custom content types

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Editing

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Editing Features II

• WYSIWYG editor similar to Microsoft Word
• Workflow, versioning and rollback
• Multiple languages
• Multiple sites
• Upload files, images, video, music
• Built-in browser-based image editor for resizing,
  cropping, rotating and converting images
• Taxonomy (tree hierarchy, categories, tags)

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Editing WYSIWYG editor
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Web Site Features

• Flexible navigation and web site structure
• End users can create and edit new pages without
  developers
• New pages are automatically displayed in the
  navigation
• Full-text search in both text and uploaded
  documents

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Multi-cultures web sites
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Multi-lingual Admin UI
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Full-text Search

• Full-text search helps visitors to find
  information on your web site
• The search can be limited to particular site
  section, content type and fields
• The search results are ordered by relevancy
  (rank) and they can show a preview of the
  documents.

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Full-text Search

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Modules

• BizForms (on-line forms)
• Newsletters
• Image gallery
• E-commerce (on-line store)
• Forums
• Blogs
• Polls
• Event Calendar
• Booking system
• Private Messaging
• Geo Mapping (Google, Bing, Yahoo maps
  integration)
• Web Analytics
• User Contributions (Wiki)
• Reporting

• Content and Object Staging
• Web Farm Support
• Message Boards
• Groups
• Friends
• Message Boards
• Content Rating
• Taxonomy (Tags and Categories)
• Media Library
• Document Library
• Project and Task management
• Workgroups

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BizForms (On-line Forms)

• Create on-line forms without programming
• Publish forms on the web site
• Capture data from web site visitors
• Review data and export them to Excel
• Send data to specified e-mail
• Flexible form options
• custom layout
• wide variety of fields (textbox, checkbox,
  drop-down list, ...)
• custom field types

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BizForms (On-line Forms)
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Newsletters

• You can manage multiple e-mail newsletters
• Subscribers subscribe to one or more newsletters
  (mailing list)
• You can author new newsletter issues based on
  templates created by web designer
• Personalization Dear John,...
• Scheduling send newsletter on Tuesday morning
• The subscribers can subscribe on the web and
  unsubscribe using the link in the newsletter
  e-mail
• Automatic newsletters send out specified page
  to subscribers on a regular basis.

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Newsletters Editing
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Newsletters E-mail
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Image Gallery

• You can quickly publish an on-line gallery of
  images
• The thumbnails are generated automatically, you
  do not need to resize them manually
• Bulk import of images
• You can rename the images and add descriptions

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Image Gallery
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E-commerce I

• Sell products on-line
• Shopping cart and checkout process
• Custom product fields
• Configurable shipping options
• Configurable payment methods
• Configurable taxes for every country/state
• Discount coupons
• Discount levels for partners
• Volume discounts
• Multiple currencies
• Wish list
• Inventory status
• Reports

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E-commerce II

• Support for integration with existing systems
• Product options/product configuration
• Customer credit (e.g. customer loyalty points)
• Built-in gateways for credit card payments
• PayPal
• Authorize.NET
• You can also customize the behavior using custom
  providers like
• Custom product provider that allows you to use
  your existing product database
• Custom shipping calculator
• Custom tax calculator
• Custom invoice generator
• and others.

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E-commerce - Products
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E-commerce - Cart

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E-commerce Orders

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Taxonomy

• 3 ways how to categorize and organize content
• Tree hierarchy of repository with document links
  that enable placing single document at multiple
  places (categories)
• Tagging and tag clouds
• Categories (additional system of categories)

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Taxonomy

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Event Calendar

• Display events, news, articles or any other
  content in a calendar format
• Optionally combine with event registration in the
  Booking system module.

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Event Calendar

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Booking System

• Manage bookings for on-line or off-line events,
  such as community meetings or webinars
• Limit the capacity of the event
• Manage the registered attendees
• Send e-mails with event updates to all attendees
• Export event information to Outlook

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Booking System
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Geo Mapping

• Display content on the map e.g.
• office locations
• stores
• partners
• real estates
• points of interest in the city
• Uses Google Maps, Bing Maps, Yahoo Maps

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Geo Mapping
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User Contributions (Wiki)

• Enable visitors to create content on your web
  site without access the administration interface
• Typical scenarios
• Community sites members share knowledge
• Partner directory partners manage their
  profiles
• Local business directory business owners manage
  the profiles of their companies
• Flexible security model
• Any visitor
• Only site members
• Only document owners
• Only users with appropriate permissions

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User Contributions (Wiki)
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Web analytics

• Track visitors, on-line campaigns and
  conversions
• Visits
• Page views
• Most visited pages
• Referring web sites
• File downloads
• Countries
• Campaigns
• Conversions (orders, registrations, newsletter
  subscriptions, etc.)

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Web analytics

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Reporting

• Create reports from data stored in the Kentico
  CMS database
• Examples
• Created/modified documents
• Site member reports
• Sales
• Customizable layout of the reports
• You can use
• bar chart
• pie chart
• table
• value
• Create custom filters
• Print or save reports

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Reporting

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Reporting

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Content and Object Staging

• Synchronize development, testing and live web
  sites
• Create and test content, design and functionality
  on the staging (development/QA) server and then
  publish it on the live server over a secured web
  service
• With staging, the document life cycle looks like
  this
• Document is created
• Document is approved in the workflow process
• Document is published on the staging server
• Review and approval by site manager -gt
  synchronization
• Document is published on the live server

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Content and Object Staging
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Social Networking Features I

• Kentico CMS provides a complete and flexible
  framework for social networks and on-line
  communities
• Why on-line communities?
• Engage customers and increase their loyalty
• Start more personal and open communication
• Present and test new ideas
• Get feedback from clients
• Identify and eliminate sources of negative PR
  early
• Market research, polls and focus groups
• Decrease support costs let customers help each
  other

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Social Networking Features II

• Available features
• User registration and management
• Forums
• Blogs
• Message Boards
• Groups
• Friends
• Polls
• Private messaging
• Media Libraries
• Ready-to-use Community Starter Site
• Community points and user badges
• Integration with LiveID, OpenID and FaceBook
  Connect

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Forums I

• Create on-line communities
• Main features
• Moderation
• Access rights for posting (anonymous/registered/ch
  osen roles)
• E-mail subscriptions
• Full-text search
• WYSIWYG editing (optional)
• Signatures and user images (avatars)
• Threaded/flat/tree view modes

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Forums II

• Main features - continued
• CAPTCHA verification (optional)
• Document-related forums (e.g. article comments)
• Lock forum
• Post attachments
• BB-editor text formatting
• Inserting images
• Quoting
• Question Answers mode Mark post as answer

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Forums
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Blogs

• Any number of blogs authored
• Each blog authored by one of more people
  (enterprise blogging)
• Integrates with standard content management and
  security features (workflow, friendly URLs,
  search, etc.)
• Tagging, tag cloud and categories
• Moderated comments
• RSS feeds
• Fully customizable design
• Rating
• Trackbacks and Pings

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Blogs
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MetaWeblog API

• Kentico CMS enables to use editors like Windows
  Live Writer or MS Word to write blog posts

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Message Boards

• Flat list of messages from users
• Customizable permissions (anybody can post/only
  registered members/only chosen roles)
• E-mail subscriptions
• Moderation (optional)
• Can be used for article or product comments

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Message Boards
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Groups

• Create groups of members who share similar
  interests such as users of some product or fans
  of some music band
• Groups can share ideas and create content
• Message boards
• Forums
• Pages (Wiki)
• Polls
• Media libraries for sharing pictures and videos

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Groups

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Friends

• Build personal or professional social networks

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Polls

• Get visitor opinions and feedback
• Any number of answers
• Single-choice or multiple-choice voting
• Choose who can vote (anonymous/registered/chosen
  roles)

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Polls
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Private Messaging

• Enable site members to send private messages to
  other members.
• Useful for community sites.
• Inbox/outbox/contact list/blocked users

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Media Libraries

• Create media libraries and upload documents,
  images, music or video
• Support for user-created content visitors can
  upload their own content

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Media Libraries

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Widgets

• Allows the editor / group administrator / site
  visitor to personalize specific parts of the page
• Every Web part can be set as the Widget
• There are separate groups of Widgets for
• Group administrators
• Content editors
• Web site visitors

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Widgets
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Enterprise Intranet 2.0 Features

• Project management
• Task management
• Document management
• WebDAV support
• Workgroups
• MOSS integration

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Project and Task Management

• Users with appropriate rights can create and
  manage a project
• Project includes particular tasks
• There are owners and assigned users of the task
• Project progress is based on the progress of all
  underlying tasks
• Integrated with Workgroups
• Fully customizable statuses and priorities
• Ready to use on the live site

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Project info
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Document Management

• Management of any file in the content tree
• Based on the Document library webpart
• Integration with WebDAV
• Workflow support
• Check-in/check-out support
• Copy/Delete/Open/Edit of any file
• Permissions management per document library and
  per each file
• Version history
• Documents archiving
• Fully supported at the live site

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Document Management
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Workgroups

• Efficient vehicle for the team collaboration and
  co-operation
• Workgroup documents can be private (workgroups
  members only) or public
• Any user can create and manage workgroup
• Workgroup admin can modify homepage of workgroup
  home page
• Support Project and Task management

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WebDAV support

• Enables direct edit of files from the site
• The file is directly opened by the client
  application and saved directly back
• E.g. MS Office files are directly editable in the
  MS Office 2003

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SharePoint integration

• Kentico CMS Connector for the WSS/MOSS 2007/2010
  shows on public web from the SharePoint
• Lists
• Files
• Document libraries
• Picture libraries

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Enterprise Intranet 2.0 Solution

• Out-of-the-box ready-to-use solution for your
  Enterprise 2.0 Intranet that boost your team
  collaboration and co-operation
• It covers all necessary functionality
• Corporate identity, policy documents, canteen
  menu, employees directory,
• Blogs, Forums, Wikis, News, Corporate events
• Document libraries, Media libraries
• Project management
• Team workgroups
• Company Departments
• and many others ..
• Fully customizable any part of the Intranet
  website

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Intranet Solution - Main portal
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Intranet Solution - Department
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Intranet Solution - Workgroup
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Intranet Solution - MyDashoard
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UI Personalization

• Customization of available features for
  Administration tools and WYSIWYG Editor per given
  role
• The administrator can enable different features
  for each role
• E.g. web designers will have available only
  web-design based features
• Authorized users can access only My Desk etc.

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UI Personalization
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Mobile devices support

• Kentico CMS allows to create websites optimized
  for mobile devices
• The mobile websites can use formatting and
  navigation optimized for smaller screens and less
  capable mobile browsers.
• They can also re-use existing content from your
  main website so you don't have to copy it and
  keep it updated manually.
• When the CMS recognizes a mobile device, it can
  automatically redirect the visitor to the
  optimized mobile site.

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Mobile part of the website

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RSS/ATOM/XML Syndication

• Kentico CMS supports RSS/ATOM/XML syndication for
  any content stored on the website

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Security

• Granular security model
• Users
• Roles
• Module permissions
• Content permissions all content/site
  section/single document
• Secured site areas for site members
• Personalized content (e.g. for clients, silver
  partners and gold partners)
• SSL (HTTPS) can be configured for chosen site
  sections or pages
• Secured against SQL injection attacks and
  cross-site scripting (XSS) and cross-site request
  forgery (XSRF)

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Security
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External Authentication

• Kentico CMS contains fully customizable
  authentication system
• Kentico CMS supports out-of-the-box integration
  with
• Live ID
• Open ID
• FaceBook Connect

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Performance

• Kentico CMS can be used for web sites with large
  number of visitors and large number of documents
  e.g.
• www.gibson.com
• www.ireland.ie
• www.medibank.com.au
• www.yachtbooker.com
• Flexible caching options
• single web part caching
• CMS content caching
• full page caching
• image caching
• Support for web farms
• Support for SQL Replications

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Development

• Browser-based development without programming
  (for web designers)
• You can also create ASPX page templates in Visual
  Studio 2005/2008/2010 with your own code
• Support for .NET 2.0/3.5 and 4.0
• Easily extensible with your own
• user controls (ASCX)
• web parts (ASCX)
• server controls
• modules
• event handlers
• providers
• Easily integrate data from external systems

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Portal Engine

• Full control over page layout, design and HTML
  code
• Fully browser-based development, very easy to use
  without deep .NET knowledge
• Easily extensible with your own user controls
  (ASCX) and web parts developed in Visual Studio
  2005/2008/2010 (C or VB.NET)
• 250 built-in web parts
• Web parts are also user controls (ASCX), but with
  standardized interface
• Master page concept allows you to share header,
  main menu and footer for all pages

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Portal Engine
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Web parts
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ASPX Page Templates

• Standard ASP.NET (.ASPX) pages
• Editable in Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010
• You can add any custom code and controls to the
  page template
• Support for ASP.NET master pages (.master)
• Add any custom controls and code in C or VB.NET

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ASPX Page Templates
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Hosting

• Kentico CMS is running in
• Shared Hosting
• Medium trust
• Mosso Cloud hosting
• Preparing for the Windows Azure platform
• Special Cloud hosting licensing

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Windows Azure

• Windows Azure is Cloud computing platform
  delivered by Microsoft Corporation
• Offers SQL Azure (based on SQL Server)
• SQL Full-text is not ready for Windows Azure yet
• Supports ASP.NET development
• Single instance session states
• Webfarms synchronization requires custom provider
• Doesnt support file-system

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Windows Azure - Limited feature set

• Due to the missing Windows Azure features Kentico
  CMS 5.5 R2 Windows Azure has the following
  limitations
• Doesnt support any file based operations
  (import/export, Smart Search, Media libraries)
• Web Farms gt Supports only Single Instance
• Manual setup deployment to Windows Azure

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Licensing

• 1 Web Site (single web site)
• 1 Server (unlimited web sites for a single
  organization on a single machine)
• Editions
• Free Edition (available for the commercial usage)
• Base license (features based on selected
  additional packages)
• E-commerce package
• Social networking package
• Advanced package
• Document management package
• Ultimate license includes all packages
• Source Code available for the Ultimate license
• Feature matrix available at http//www.kentico.com
  /cms-asp-net-features/Feature-Matrix.aspx

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Maintenance

• Each license contains 1-year maintenance
• Support
• New Kentico CMS releases
• 7 days bug fixing policy
• Each license contains unlimited developer,
  testing and stage server licenses
• Available paid Consulting services and Remote
  Assitance

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System Requirements

• Server
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2,
  Windows XP, Windows Vista Home Premium/Business/En
  terprise/Ultimate or Windows 7 (both 32bit and
  64bit)
• Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 and higher
• Microsoft IIS Server 5.0/6.0/7.0
• Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 (including Express
  Editions)
• Client (for editors)
• Internet Explorer 7.0/8.0
• FireFox 3.5
• Safari 4.0 or FireFox 3.5 on Mac OS
• Client (for visitors)
• Generally any browser, depends on the used web
  parts, all major browsers supported (IE, FF,
  Safari, Opera)
• Developers
• Visual Studio Professional 2005/2008/2010 or
  Visual Web Developer 2005/2008/2010 Express
  Edition (if you need to write your own code)

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About Kentico Software

• Founded in 2004 in the Czech Republic (European
  Union)
• U.S. office since 2008
• Privately held, no external funding
• Named fastest growing Czech company in 2010 by
  Deloitte
• Focused only on Kentico CMS
• 2500 clients in 84 countries
• Kentico Solutions Partner network over 1200
  active partners
• More than 6000 web sites running on Kentico CMS,
  clients include
• Microsoft
• Mazda
• Gibson Musical Instruments
• ESPN
• CTV
• Vodafone
• More at http//www.kentico.com/Showcase.aspx

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Kentico CMS Major Clients
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How to reach us?

• http//www.facebook.com/KenticoCMS
• http//twitter.com/kenticocms
• http//kentico.uservoice.com/
• Suggest new Kentico CMS features

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• http//www.kentico.com
• http//devnet.kentico.com/home.aspx