Ektron builds SharePoint Connector for Ektron CMS400.NET

Allows customers to maximize their investment in SharePoint

Nashua, N.H. – February 5, 2008 – Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in web content management software, today announced it has built a SharePoint Connector for Ektron CMS400.NET. Using this tool Ektron’s customers can take full advantage of SharePoint’s collaborative workspace to create documents. These documents can then be delivered to a public facing Web site, corporate intranet or extranet enabled with all the latest search, navigation, Web 2.0 and social networking functionality provided by Ektron CMS400.NET.

Using its SharePoint Connector—included with any purchase of Ektron CMS400.NET at no additional cost—Ektron customers can maximize their investment in Microsoft SharePoint. The Connector is integrated fully into the menu structure of SharePoint and allows SharePoint users to distribute documents to their corporate intranet or public facing Web site—through a simple wizard—without ever leaving the SharePoint environment.

Ektron CMS400.NET adds tremendous value to SharePoint-created documents including enterprise search and taxonomy technology; “social bookmaking” favorites to personalize how users interact with the assets; and Web 2.0 functionality like, content ratings and discussion boards, that allow users to provide feedback on documents.

“With the SharePoint connector you can have the best of both worlds,” said William Rogers, CEO, Ektron Inc. “Customers get to take full advantage of SharePoint’s collaborative workspace to create assets and then easily deploy those assets onto a state of the art distribution platform—their Ektron CMS400.NET Web site,” Rogers added.

About Ektron
Since its founding in 1998 Ektron has been committed to providing affordable Web content management and authoring solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET empowers non-technical business users by providing an intuitive user interface for managing their Web site’s content and messaging. Ektron has a complete set of social networking tools and fully supports all Web 2.0 functionality. An open API provides web designers and developers all the tools to extend Ektron’s solution. Ektron understands what a successful Internet, intranet or extranet site needs and has built the solution to make that success a reality. Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Ektron has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including NASA, Kodak and Johnson & Johnson. For more information visit: http://www.ektron.com.

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