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The Web CMS Report 2008 looks at... Ektron CMS400

"Although user management is relatively straightforward, there a couple of things to be aware of. For example, you need to be a super-user to perform certain mundane managerial tasks, like deleting or moving images and other files. The natural temptation is to get around this by granting departmental managers admin privileges, but in that case the persons in question will all have godlike access to all content and services. "

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Ektron joins the forms-as-content race

02-Jun-2004

It was perhaps inevitable that e-forms and content management would begin to converge at some level. For the past couple of years, various CMS vendors -- especially the hosted solutions, but also some traditional software players -- have been offering the ability to develop forms as just one more content type, and even manage the incoming flow of data as yet another content type. Now Ektron joins the fray with its latest version of CMS300, which sports a nifty interface for business users to create forms and then direct the data inputs hither and yon. We didn't see native XML output in this first version, but suspect it is coming...
Check out Ektron's form generator

- Submitted by: Tony Byrne, Analyst

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