RSS/ATOM/XML Syndication • Kentico CMS supports RSS/ATOM/XML syndication for any content stored on the website
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)
Security
External Authentication • Kentico CMS contains fully customizable authentication system • Kentico CMS supports out-of-the-box integration with: – Live ID – Open ID – FaceBook Connect
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
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
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
Portal Engine
Web parts
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
ASPX Page Templates
Hosting • Kentico CMS is running in: – Shared Hosting – Medium trust – Mosso Cloud hosting – Preparing for the Windows Azure platform – Special Cloud hosting licensing
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
• Doesn’t support file-system
Windows Azure - Limited feature set • Due to the missing Windows Azure features Kentico CMS 5.5 R2 Windows Azure has the following limitations: – Doesn’t support any file based operations (import/export, Smart Search, Media libraries) – Web Farms => Supports only Single Instance – Manual setup & deployment to Windows Azure
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-netfeatures/Feature-Matrix.aspx
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
System Requirements •
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Server:
– Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2008R2, Windows XP, Windows Vista Home Premium/Business/Enterprise/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)
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
Kentico CMS Major Clients
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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