What is Kentico CMS for ASP.NET?
Kentico CMS for ASP.NET is a full-featured enterprise-class Web Content Management System for
building websites, intranets, extranets, on-line stores and community sites. It's easy to use for
both site owners and developers. It features WYSIWYG editor, workflow, permissions, multilingual
support, full-text search, on-line forms, newsletters, e-commerce, blogs, polls, web analytics and
other modules. Kentico CMS is used by more than 4,000 websites in 83 countries.
What's in it for Site Owners?
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Manage websites through a web browser anytime, anywhere
Easily edit text and insert images using Word-like editor
Choose from a wide range of built-in modules
Build highly interactive sites that generate leads for your business
Increase customer loyalty using social networking features
What's in it for Developers?
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Leverage flexible framework for building dynamic websites
Rapidly create websites using web browser or Visual Studio
Extend it with your own C# or VB.NET code and modules
Keep full control over HTML code, design and navigation
Detailed documentation and full source code available
What's in it for Partners?
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Get more clients by offering a complete, top-class solution
Deliver websites faster, with less resources and with lower costs
Join our Partner Program to get recognition and partner benefits
Rebrand the CMS with your logo and design
Get a responsive technical support
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Table of Contents
Feature Overview ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3
Content Management ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 4
Website ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9
Build Websites for Global Audience ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 12
Security and Membership .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 13
Modules ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 15
Blogs .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 16
Booking System and Event Calendar .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 17
Content Rating ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 18
Content and Object Staging............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 19
E-commerce ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 20
Forums ........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 24
Geomapping .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 25
Social Networking: Groups, Friends and Private Messaging ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 26
Image Gallery ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 29
Media Library ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 30
Message Boards ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 31
Newsletter ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
On-line Forms and Surveys (BizForms Module) .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 33
Polls ............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 35
Reporting ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36
Microsoft SharePoint Connector .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Taxonomy ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 38
Widgets.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 40
Wiki (User Contributed Content) .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 41
Web Analytics ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 42
Kentico CMS Performance and Scalability ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 43
Who Uses Kentico CMS .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 44
About Kentico Software ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 45
More Information .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
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Feature Overview
What is a Web Content Management System?
A Web Content Management System (CMS) is software that allows you to manage content of your website.
Unlike static websites, CMS-driven websites (also called "dynamic websites") allow you to edit text and
images using a graphical user interface, without technical knowledge. Once your website design is prepared
by developer, you can manage content by yourself. An important feature of a CMS is that it stores content in
a structured format separated from design, so you can reuse it when you decide to change your website look.
Content Management
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Browser-based WYSIWYG (What You See Is
What You Get) editor similar to Word
Customizable workflow, versioning and
unlimited rollback
Schedule content for publishing in future
Content/design separation
Customizable document fields and metadata
Multiple languages, UNICODE and RTL support
Manage multiple sites and share their content
and settings
Publish Flash, YouTube, video and music
Widgets for building new pages by editors
Website
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Fully customizable design
SEO-friendly (Search Engine Optimization)
Flexible, dynamically generated navigation
Advanced full-text search based on Lucene
Web standards: XHTML, CSS, WAI (AAA),
Section 508
Compatible with all major browsers
Support for mobile websites
Flexible caching for excellent performance
Development
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Easy development through web browser or
using Visual Studio
Short implementation and deployment time
Smooth integration of custom code, web parts
and modules written in C# or VB.NET
Custom ASPX pages
Page templates and master pages
Open and well-documented API
Detailed documentation and tutorials
Full source code available
Easy customization of database fields
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Security and Membership
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Forms, Active Directory, LiveID, Facebook,
OpenID or custom authentication methods
Membership management
Customizable roles
Document-level permissions
Secured areas with personalized content for
members
SSL support
Tested for SQL Injection and XSS attacks
Built-in Modules
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Blogs
Event calendar and booking system
Content staging
Content rating
E-commerce (shopping cart)
Forums
Image gallery
Maps (Google, Yahoo, Binq)
Media libraries
Message boards
Newsletter
On-line forms
Polls
Reporting
RSS, Atom and XML feeds
Sharepoint Connector
Social networking (friends, groups, messages)
Taxonomies
Wiki (user contributed content)
Web analytics
Robust Platform
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Runs on Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0
Uses Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008 database
Unlimited scalability with web farms and SQL
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Content Management
Easily Edit Your Website in a Browser
Do you need to call your web designer every time you want to make a change to your website? With
Kentico CMS, you can edit your website by yourself anytime, anywhere. All you need is a standard web
browser, such as Internet Explorer, FireFox or Safari, and an Internet connection. Then you sign in with
your user name and password and you can start editing your website.
Create/delete/ copy/
move/sort pages.
Browse web pages in the
navigation structure.
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Edit/Preview/Live site view
This is your site.
Change font, create link,
insert image, etc.
You can modify the text in the editable
regions specified by web designer, so
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Browsing Website Structure
You can browse the website structure using the content tree on the left. The content is organized in the
same way as your website which makes it easy to find pages you want to edit. As you can see on the
figure below, the Services section in the content tree contains sub-pages Web Development, Web
Design and Network Administration. The website on the right contains section Services in the main
menu and links to Web Development, Web Design and Network Administration in the sub-menu.
WYSIWYG Editor
You can easily edit the content using WYSIWYG editor. WYSIWYG stands for What You See Is What You
Get, which means you can see what your page will look like as you edit the text:
Editor Features
 Bold, Underline, Strikethrough,
Italics
 Choose font face, size, color and
background
 Choose from predefined font styles
 Align paragraph
 Bulleted and numbered lists
 Create a link to another page or
another website
 Upload and resize image, flash,
YouTube, video or music
 Create tables
 Paste from Microsoft Word
 Edit HTML source if necessary
 Integrated spell-checker
The live website is updated as soon as you save the page. If you create a new page, it's displayed in the
menu automatically – no need to call a web master.
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Content Scheduling
For every page, you can choose the time when it goes live and when it expires. It means you can
schedule your news to be displayed on your website on Monday morning, at 8:00 a.m.
Content/Design Separation
An important feature every real CMS system must provide is content/design separation. Although it
may sound complex, it's a very simple and useful concept. Compare these examples:
Mixed content and design
in a single box
When you change the site
design, you have to rewrite all news items :(
Content cannot be re-used.
Structured content
When you change the site
design, you only change the
style of the site, without
modifying the content.
You can re-use the same
news item on home page,
in a "Latest news" box and
in the News section. You
can also easily share the
same news on multiple
websites that use a
different design.
Customizable document fields and metadata
Kentico CMS goes an extra mile as it allows you easily customize the fields of news items, product
specifications, office locations, etc. You can easily define your own document types and use any fields,
such as textbox, rich text box, integer or decimal number, date and time, file upload, drop-down list,
checkboxes, etc. It means you're not limited to pre-defined types of content and your website can
accommodate to your business needs, not vice versa.
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Workflow, Versioning and Rollback - Take Control over Your Content
One of the advantages of a CMS system is that you can delegate content editing to your team
members. If you leave them editing the site you may, however, end up with website containing
inaccurate and misleading information or with inconsistent design.
That's why you need a workflow. Workflow allows you to organize the content lifecycle and enforce
content review and approval process. Here's an example of such workflow:
Bob, Product Manager,
creates a press release.
Alice, Marketing
Manager, reviews the
content and style.
Joe, CEO,
adds his quote and
approves the press
release.
The press release gets
published on the live website.
With Kentico CMS, you can customize the workflow process based on
your real business needs; you're not limited to some predefined approval
process. You can also apply different workflow to news, product catalog or
home page.
When someone approves a document, an e-mail notification is
automatically sent to the person who created the document and to the
next person who should review it.
Before you approve the document, you can easily preview it on the site so
that you know what it will look like when it gets published.
The workflow history is tracked and users can add comments to every action they take. They can also
reject the document and send it back to the author with comments.
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Versioning and Roll-back
When you use workflow, all versions of the document are stored in the CMS. It allows you to see what
the previous version of the document looked like. You can also roll back to the chosen version.
Joe published the document (1.0)
Alice modified the document (0.3)
Bob created a new document (0.1)
Content Locking (Check-in/Check-out)
If your team members edit the website, it may happen that two of them edit the same document at the
same time, which may result in losing one's changes. That's why we implemented a feature called
content locking. It allows users to lock (check out) the documents their working on and unlock (check in)
them once they're ready.
Publish Word Documents, PDF Files or Images
Kentico CMS allows you to upload any type of file, such as DOC, PDF, BMP, GIF, JPG, Flash, MP3, WMA,
MPEG and others, to the web server and then insert them into the text:
2) Choose the image on your
computer and click Open.
3) The image is inserted into
the text and you can resize it.
1) Click the "Quickly
insert image" button.
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Website
With Kentico CMS, you're not limited to some predefined design, website structure or page layouts.
Everything will accommodate to your needs.
Site Structure and Navigation
Kentico CMS organizes all content into a tree structure that represents the website navigation. When
the editor creates a new page, such as the Network Administration page in the following example, it's
automatically displayed in the site structure:
You can choose from several types of built-in navigation controls:
Navigation Controls
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Drop-down menu
Breadcrumbs
List menu (UL/LI + CSS)
Tree menu
Tree view (dynamic loading)
Tab menu
Site map
Each menu item can have an image, mouse-over image and its own CSS style. A menu item can execute
a JavaScript or redirect the user to some other page or external URL.
A single page may be placed into multiple site sections (categories) by creating a linked document. A
linked document works like multiple copies of the same document, but when you edit it, all "copies" are
updated as well.
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Design
All you need to know about website design is this: there's no limit in design. If you can convert your
design ideas into HTML, you can use them in Kentico CMS. You have full control over HTML and CSS
styles. Below, you can see a few examples of websites created with Kentico CMS:
Full-text Search
You can easily integrate the full-text search into your website. You can choose which documents and
fields should be searchable and you can also configure the system so that it searches uploaded
documents, such as DOC, XLS, PPT or PDF files. Kentico CMS uses the Lucene search engine.
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Multi-site support
Kentico CMS is not a tool for editing single website. It's a complete platform for managing your on-line
presence. If you have multiple websites or micro-sites for different brands and markets, you can manage
all of them in a single Kentico CMS installation. It means you manage a single CMS system, you have all
users and passwords in one place and you can share code, content or design elements between
websites. So if you for example create a press release on one site, you can display it on all sites of your
company.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Friendly URLs
If your website cannot be found through the search engines, such as Google, easily, you may be losing
lots of visitors and potential clients. Kentico CMS was designed so that your website can be easily
indexed by search engines:
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Friendly URLs and unlimited URL aliases
Every page has its own URL address – e.g. http://www.mycompany.com/products/nokia, you
can configure the system to use your own extension, e.g. .aspx or .html or you can use
extension-less URLs. You can also use multiple aliases for the same page which is useful if you
need to keep old links working or if you need to create shorter links for marketing campaigns.
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Page Metadata - Title, Description, Keywords
You can specify the title, description and keywords metadata for whole website, site section or
single page. You can also define a "dynamic" title that consists of global title and of the name of
the current page, so the editors do not need to enter the page title manually for every page.
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ALT and TITLE attributes
You can add ALT and TITLE attributes to images and links, providing an extra description for the
search engines.
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SEO-friendly controls
All Kentico CMS controls render a valid XHTML code that usually results in a better SEO results.
Also, Kentico CMS comes with SEO-friendly navigation controls that ensure the search engine
can find the links to other pages and crawl the whole website.
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Non-duplicate content
The CMS automatically uses permanent redirects to avoid duplicate content that would lower
your page rank.
Standards – XHTML, CSS and Accessibility
Kentico CMS allows you to build websites using valid XHTML and CSS, which may improve your SEO
results or, if you're a web developer, deliver a really professional website. Kentico CMS websites are
compliant with W3C WAI standard at the AAA level (general accessibility standard) and with Section
508 (U.S. government accessibility standard every federal agency must follow). It enables people with
disabilities to use your website with screen readers.
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Build Websites for Global Audience
Creating a website for global audience in multiple languages brings many challenges. But you don't need
to worry about it since we solved this issue for you. Whether you live in a bilingual region or your
company has a Chinese office, you can rely on Kentico CMS internationalization support.
Kentico CMS allows you to manage multiple language
versions of your website. Each language version may
use a different site structure. You can also specify the
default language (typically English) and choose to
display the default language version if the given page
is not translated to the visitor's preferred language.
Eastern Languages, UNICODE and RTL support
Kentico CMS uses the UNICODE standard for
storing all content. It allows you to work
with any language without worrying about
content encoding (code pages). You can
manage content in Chinese, Japanese,
Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, German or EasternEuropean languages.
If you're creating a website in Arabic or
Hebrew, you can use right-to-left (RTL)
layout on the live site as well as in the
administration interface. You can even mix
left-to-right and right-to-left languages in a single website.
Translation of the User Interface
Beside content translation, Kentico CMS allows you to use localization macros throughout the system.
So if you create an on-line form or a poll, you can easily enter the field captions or poll answers in
multiple languages. When the form or poll is displayed on the website, its captions are displayed using
the translations you have entered.
Kentico CMS administration interface is available in English, German, Spanish, Italian, French, Dutch,
Czech and Slovak and you can create your own translation or overwrite any strings in the administration
interface.
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Security and Membership
Users and Authentication
You can use either Forms authentication or Windows Authentication. When using Forms
authentication, you can choose to store passwords in plain text or hashed for higher security. You can
also create your own security provider that will authenticate the user against an external database.
For intranet or extranet sites, you can choose to use the Windows Authentication against Active
Directory. When the user signs in to the network, she is automatically recognized by Kentico CMS
website or administration interface, so she needn't enter her password again. Users and groups from
Active Directory can be easily kept synchronized with Kentico CMS using the Active Directory Import
Tool. Kentico CMS also support authentication against LiveID, Facebook and OpenID out-of-the-box.
Permissions
One of the important advantages of using a
content management system for your website
is the ability to delegate website management
to other people in your company. When you
allow multiple users to edit the content, you
may need to set up different access rights for
pages. For example, a Product Manager may
edit the product catalog, but she may not be
allowed to edit the home page or company
information. Kentico CMS allows you to grant
users or roles with permissions for chosen
content type (News, Articles, ...), site section or
even a single page. The permissions can be
inherited to the underlying documents.
Kentico CMS modules have
their own permissions that can
be assigned to roles using a
permission matrix. It means
you're not limited to some
built-in roles.
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Auditing Log
All activities in Kentico CMS are tracked in the auditing log. You can see who signed in and when, who
deleted a document, etc. Application errors are also tracked in the internal Event log.
Membership and Secured Areas
If you create a community site, extranet or portal, you can
create secured site areas accessible only to site members.
The users need to register and sign in to see the content.
The secured areas can be easily defined through a user
interface.
Personalization
The members visiting secured website areas can be displayed
with personalized content according to their read permission
for the displayed content. For instance, it allows you to
personalize the navigation so that Silver and Gold Partners
can see only content appropriate to their partner level.
HTTPS Access (SSL)
You can choose that the content is only accessible over HTTPS (SSL-secured) protocol. It can be
configured for the whole site, particular site section or only for a single page (such as logon page). When
a user visits the page over unsecured connection, she is automatically redirected to the same page
displayed over HTTPS.
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Modules
Some content management systems are focused only on content publishing. If you need to add a
newsletter, shopping cart or some other functionality to your site, you often need to undergo a painful
process of purchasing and integrating third-party products.
Kentico tries to deliver a complete solution out-of-the-box and it comes with many built-in modules,
depending on the edition (you can find the feature matrix with edition comparison at the end of this
brochure):
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Blogs
Booking System
Content Rating
Content and Object Staging
E-commerce
Event Calendar
Forums
Geomapping
Image Gallery
Media Library
Message Boards
Newsletters
On-line Forms
Polls
Reporting
RSS, Atom and XML feeds
Social Networking - Groups, Friends, Private Messaging, Abuse, Bad Words
Taxonomy (tags and categories)
Wiki (User Contributed Content)
Web Farm Support
Web analytics
Widgets
Please note that we do not mention modules like "Articles", "News" or "Press Releases" since these are
just another content types managed by Kentico CMS.
The Corporate Starter Site comes with built-in content types and templates for pages, articles, news,
products, job openings, knowledge base articles, office locations, events, FAQ items and press releases.
You can easily create your own content types with custom fields without programming, through the
browser-based interface.
You can also develop and integrate your own modules and leverage Kentico CMS user management and
security infrastructure.
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Blogs
Today, enterprise blogging is a part of the communication mix for companies of all sizes. A blog is a great
way how to inform your clients about new products, your activities and get client feedback. Kentico CMS
allows you to easily publish a blog on your website. You can choose if the post can be commented and
you can optionally moderate the comments. You can also publish your blog content through an RSS
feed. The blog layout and graphic design is fully customizable by web designer.
You can publish multiple blogs on your
websites or you can have a single blog
contributed by multiple editors. If you don't
want your employees to publish sensitive
information by mistake, you can enforce a
workflow process and publish blog posts only
after approval. Blogs leverage the content
management
infrastructure,
including
permissions, multilingual support and full-text
search.
Blog posts can use tags (with tag clouds) and
categories for easy navigation.
You can also use trackback URLs that allow
other users to send a comment to your blog if
they write an article referencing your blog
post. Similarly, you can "ping" other blogs to
inform them that you wrote a blog post that is
related to their topic. The blog post can also
include links to social bookmarking services,
such as Digg it, Facebook, delicio.us and
others.
Kentico CMS comes with a Personal Starter
Site that allows you to quickly set up your own
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Booking System and Event Calendar
Whether you organize a conference, concert, community meeting or on-line webinar, you can use the
event calendar to display events in a calendar format.
The event calendar can be used for any content with a date field, such as news or press release.
The event calendar can be combined with a
booking system that allows users to register
for the event. You can specify when the
registration is open and the maximum
capacity of the event. You can manage the
list of registered attendees and send them a
mass e-mail.
The visitors can import the event to their
Outlook calendar through their web browser.
When visitors register, they receive a
customizable confirmation e-mail.
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Content Rating
The Content Rating module allows you to get feedback from your site visitors and see how they like the
content or products on your website. They can give 1 to 5 stars (or 1 to 10 - the range is configurable) to
your content. This can be applied to blog posts, articles, products, etc.
Rating is also supported in the Message Boards module that allows you to implement content rating
where site visitors can add comments to their rating.
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Content and Object Staging
The Content and Object Staging module allows you easily synchronize content from one installation of
Kentico CMS to another. A typical scenario may look like this:
Development Server
Staging Server
Firewall
Live Server
The developers create a new functionality on the development server. Once it is working, they use the
Staging Module to deploy the changes to the staging server.
The staging server is used by content editors to create and test content. They can edit content here, see
what it looks like on the site and test new functionality or design created by developers. After they
check the new version of the site, they approve the changes and the Staging Module deploys changes to
the live site.
As you can see, the Staging Module gives you a higher level of control over the changes made to your
website and avoids situations when your developers make changes directly on your live server.
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E-commerce
The E-commerce module allows you to build on-line stores. It can scale from a simple ordering system
for a single product to a large store with thousands of products.
Product Catalog
The product catalog is tightly integrated with content management repository which allows you to
leverage the standard Kentico CMS features, such as permissions, full-text search, friendly URLs and
others. The products can use custom document fields which allows you to easily publish technical
specification of the products (e.g. a size of an LCD panel, resolution of a camera, etc.).
Product categories are defined as sections of the website and they can be nested up to 14 levels deep.
You can also choose which products should be displayed as "featured", "new", etc.
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Product Options
The E-commerce modules allows you to
sell configurable products, such as:
 t-shirts of various sizes and colors
 computers with various memory
sizes, CPUs, graphic cards, etc.
You can easily define your own sets of
option categories (colors, sizes, hard
drives) and the way the customer
configures the product – drop-down list,
checkboxes or radio buttons. Every
product can have its own options.
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Shopping Cart and Checkout Process
The customers can add the products to the shopping cart and then order them on-line. You can
configure the steps of the checkout process and required information. Website developer can also
create custom steps to collect additional information from the clients (e.g. add an extra question).
The customers can review their order, submit it and then continue to the on-line payment (if it's
enabled).
On-line Payments
The E-commerce module comes with native support for Authorize.NET payment gateway (for credit
cards) and PayPal. You can also integrate custom payment gateways.
Order Management
Once the order is placed, an e-mail notification is sent to both customer and store owner. The store
owner can see all orders in the administration interface and change their status as she processes the
orders (e.g. new, waiting for vendor delivery, sent, paid, canceled, refunded, etc.)
Discounts
You can set up two types of discounts:
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discount levels for partners or loyal customers on specified departments of your store; when
the customer logs on, she is automatically displayed with discounted prices
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Shipping
You can configure the shipping options and the shipping costs for every option. The customer can decide
how the products should be delivered during the checkout process.
Taxes
You can configure the E-commerce module for various types of sales taxes, value added taxes (VAT),
special fees, etc. You can choose countries or states where the tax is applied.
My Account
Customers can review their orders and print invoices in the My Account dialog which allows them to
check the order status without calling you.
Wish List
Customers can add products to their private wish list and buy them later.
Customer Credit
Customers can collect customer credit (e.g. through a customer loyalty program) and then purchase
products using their credit.
Integration and Customization
The E-commerce module has been designed for a high level of customization. Web developers can:
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fully customize the store structure, categories and design
override the calculation of the taxes, shipping and product price with custom procedures
integrate external product catalogs
implement custom payment gateways
define custom fields for products, customers and orders
add custom steps to the checkout process
The E-commerce module also comes with an E-commerce Starter Site that can be easily customized and
with many built-in web parts that allow you to build a complete on-line store without programming.
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Forums
Discussion forums are a basic tool for
every on-line community. You can use
them to start dialogs about your
products, get feedback or provide
support to your clients. Kentico CMS
comes with advanced forums module
that allows you to easily set up, run
and moderate any number of forums
on your website. The forums are
organized into forum groups that
contain forums.
Alternatively, you can use ad-hoc forums, that are connected with some particular document and that
are created at the moment when someone starts the first post. Ad-hoc forums can be used for
discussions under articles or products.
You can choose who can read the forum or post to the forum anybody/only authenticated users/only chosen roles. The forums
can also be moderated which means new posts need to be
approved before they are displayed on the website. Users can
also subscribe to receive e-mail notifications when a new post is
added to a forum or particular thread.
Post authors can have their avatars and they can also configure their signature that is displayed in all
posts. The forum posts may also contain attachments, links and images. The forum topics can be hidden
and you can lock them so that there cannot be more posts.
If you're using forums for technical
support, you can have the visitors to
mark some post as answer to the original
question.
You can send private messages to
authors of forum posts if you do not want
others to see your message.
The forums can be managed completely
on-line, which is useful for community
sites where site members can create new
forum groups and forums and moderate
or delete posts.
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Geomapping
The Geomapping module allows you to combine web content with maps. It integrates with maps by
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft Binq, which allows you to display any content on a map. All you need to do
is to add geographic location (longitude and latitude) to the content.
It can be used for displaying:
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offices
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stores
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partner network
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friends
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real estates
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etc.
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Social Networking: Groups, Friends and Private Messaging
Kentico CMS allows you to create on-line social networks similar to Facebook. The Social Networking
functionality leverages several modules:
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Blogs
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Groups
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Forums
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Friends
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Wiki (user contributed content)
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Private Messaging
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Polls
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Abuse Reporting
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Media Libraries
Kentico CMS comes with ready-to-use, easily configurable Community Starter Site that allows you to
quickly set up your own social networking solution for your public website or intranet.
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Groups
The Groups module allows community members to create groups of users with shared interests. For
example, if you run a community site for travellers, you can create groups like "African travellers" and
"European travellers". Or if you have a community of people who use your products, you can create
focus groups for particular product
features, such as "Engine enthusiasts"
or "Car safety".
Groups
can
be
created
by
administrators or they can be created
and managed by site members. The
access to group content can be limited
to site members or only to group
members. The group members may
invite other site members to join their
group.
A new group can be created with a
default structure designed by the
administrator. The group content
includes: Message boards, Forums,
Pages (Wiki), Polls and Media libraries
for sharing pictures, music and videos.
Member Profiles
Users can create their own member profile with
configurable visibility. Other users can post messages to
their profile page (similar to Facebook wall).
Users can add friends, join groups, send private messages
or create their own groups.
Member Points and Badges
The members can be awarded with points for their
activities in the community, such as forum posts, blog
posts, etc. Based on the number of points, the members
get an appropriate badge. The rules and graphics for
badges is fully configurable.
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Friends
The Friends module allows you to build social connections - personal or professional. You can create a
community site where registered users can join their peers. Site members can request friendship with
other site members and once their request is approved by the other person, they can send the other
person a messages and see her complete profile.
Private Messaging
If you run a community site, your site members may need to communicate with others. They may want
to send a private message that won't be visible for other members (as it is in forums). But the members
do not know the e-mail address of the other members. The solution is private messaging.
Private messaging allows site members to send messages to other members. It's a "small Outlook"
integrated into your website.
Users can see their inbox, outbox, manage contact list and also block users from which they do not wish
to receive messages. They can be notified by real e-mail when they receive a new message.
Abuse Report and Bad Words Filtering
If someone posts an inappropriate content to your community site, other visitors have an option of
reporting an abuse by sending a notification to the administrator. You can also configure bad words that
cannot be used on your community site and that are automatically replaced.
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Image Gallery
The Image Gallery module allows you to quickly publish an on-line gallery of images, such as product
photos or photos of your team. The files can be uploaded through the browser or using the batch file
import module.
The gallery can display image thumbnails and detail images in required size. The thumbnails are
generated automatically, so you do not need to resize them manually. You can also publish additional
image information, such as name or description, in the gallery.
Kentico CMS supports several types of galleries - classis, "Lightbox" gallery that opens a preview of the
image on the top of the page or Sliding Image Gallery.
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Media Library
If you have lots of media files, such as images, video, MP3, PDF, Flash, etc. you can manage them using
the Media Library module. You can create multiple Media Libraries and upload files through browser or
using FTP. The files can be organized into folders. The files can be displayed in galleries.
The content can also be uploaded by site visitors, site members or group members.
The Media Library comes with built-in players for most common multimedia formats and you can also
integrate your own players for specific formats.
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Message Boards
The message boards represent a simple alternative to forums. They allow site visitors to post comments
in a flat structure. They are always bound to some page, so you can use them for article or product
comments. The comments can be moderated by authorized users. Site visitors can subscribe to receive
e-mail notifications when a new comment is posted in the message board.
The comments in Message Board can also be combined with content rating, which can be used e. g. for
product reviews in on-line stores.
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Newsletter
E-mail marketing became a standard part of marketing communication. Newsletters allow you to keep
in touch with your clients, inform them about new products and get new leads. Kentico CMS comes with
built-in newsletter module that allows you to manage several subscriber lists and send them newsletters
using graphic templates prepared by web designer. You only enter the text and send it. You can also
schedule the mail-out to a later day.
The users can subscribe through your website and they can unsubscribe using a link in the newsletter email. When they subscribe, they automatically receive a confirmation e-mail that may contain
something valuable (e.g. a discount coupon or free e-book) that motivates them to subscribe to your
newsletter.
The newsletter can be personalized with subscriber first name and/or last name to achieve a more
personal feel.
You can also configure the Newsletter module so that it sends some content (such as "last week's
articles") on a regular basis.
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On-line Forms and Surveys (BizForms Module)
You website should allow visitors to communicate with you and help you generate leads. You may also
need to run a survey, create a registration form for some event, etc. In the past, such forms had to be
created by programmer. The BizForms module enables business users to create on-line forms or
surveys, publish them and view entered data. All without programming!
You just define a new form and its fields. For each field, you can specify its type, caption, tooltip,
validation rules, default value and if it allows empty values. There are several built-in field types, such as
textbox, checkbox, drop-down list, multiple options, radio buttons, e-mail address, phone number, etc.
Publishing form on the website
The form can be published by business users through the editor - they only click a button, select the
form and the system automatically inserts the form into the text. You can choose what happens when
the user enters form data (display text/redirect to page/continue editing) and you can optionally send
all entered values to some e-mail address or send an auto-reposponder to the person who filled-in the
form.
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Managing entered records
All entered records are stored in the database. They can be viewed by authorized users through the web
browser or exported to an Excel file.
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Polls
The Polls module allows you to publish polls on your website and get visitor opinions and feedback.
Every poll may contain any number of answers and you can decide whether the visitor can choose only
one answer or multiple answers.
You can specify if any visitor, authenticated users or only members of chosen roles can vote. You can
configure the polls web part so that it displays the results always, only after the user votes or not at all.
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Reporting
The reporting module is a universal module for creating reports from data stored in the Kentico CMS
database. It can be used for web analytics, but it can also be used for reports on documents in the
content repository, sales in the e-commerce module, most active forum posters and other custom
reports you can create.
The reports need to be created by a developer or administrator who knows SQL. Developers can design
the layout of your report and insert a bar chart, pie chart, line chart, table or scalar value that display
data specified by your SQL query.
You can also define a filter for your report using various fields, such as textbox, date-time picker, dropdown list and others.
The reports can be saved in report history or printed.
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Microsoft SharePoint Connector
Manage your content in SharePoint intranet and use Kentico CMS for your public-facing web sites.
Kentico Connector for Microsoft SharePoint allows you to seamlessly publish website content from the
SharePoint environment!
Kentico CMS can be easily set up by a web developer and connected to your SharePoint server.
While SharePoint is good for managing intranets, Kentico CMS is an excellent platform for managing
your public-facing websites. With Kentico Connector for SharePoint, you can leverage your investment
into SharePoint and enhance its functionality to the web.
Technical details
The Connector uses SharePoint Web Services to display lists, files, document libraries and pictures from
Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 or Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. It can be
used with any edition of Kentico CMS.
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Taxonomy
Kentico CMS supports three ways how to categorize and organize content:
Content Tree Hierarchy
All content in Kentico CMS is stored in a hierarchical repository. The documents can be organized into
folders or site sections that represent categories. A single document can be placed into multiple
categories by creating a "linked document", which is an analogy of a shortcut in Windows file system.
Tagging
Any type of document (not only blog posts) can be marked with tags. This allows you to easily group
articles, news, products and other types of content based on topic. Tags are organized into tag groups
and these can be displayed as a tag cloud. The tags can be predefined by administrator and the content
authors can define their own tags.
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Categories
Additional categories can be used at places where you need an extra categorization along with content
tree hierarchy and tagging. Categories can be defined by administrators and content authors can define
their own categories.
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Widgets
Widgets represent a powerful feature that gives more power to end users and lowers the work load of
developers. The widget technology allows content editors to add dynamic or interactive content, such as
on-line forms, latest news or newsletter subscription box. It allows them to customize the layout of
pages, so they can add boxes to a side column or change the featured items on the home page.
The technology is so
powerful that it allows the
end users to create whole
new pages with custom
layout without waiting until
the developer prepares an
appropriate page template.
The widgets can be placed
into widget zones defined
by the developer and the
developer or administrator
can also decide which
widgets are available for
particular user roles. Beside
built-in
widgets,
the
developers can easily create
new ones using ASP.NET.
Personalized Home Page/Portal Page
Widgets can be also used to create
personalized home pages or portal pages
customized by the site visitor. In this case,
the visitor can add, configure and move
widgets on her home page and these
changes are visible only to her.
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Wiki (User Contributed Content)
The Wiki module (also called User Contributions) enables site visitors to create content directly on your
website, without having access to the Kentico CMS administration interface. It can be used in many
scenarios, including:
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Partner section of your website where partners can manage their own profile.
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Community site where any community member can publish articles.
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Business directory where organizations can manage their profiles and contact details.
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Traditional Wiki site where site visitors can create and edit any content.
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Intranet/project portal where employees can add new content through the website without
going to the administration interface.
The Wiki module supports several security configurations:
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Any visitor can edit any content (traditional Wiki)
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Only authenticated visitors (site member) can edit content (community site)
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Only document owners can edit content (partner directory, business directory)
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Only visitors granted with permissions for given document can edit it (intranet, project portal)
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Web Analytics
The Web Analytics is a crucial part of any on-line marketing strategy. It gives you information about your
visitors and about the success of your website. The Web Analytics module allows you to track website
visitors and their behavior. You can track the following statistics on a yearly, monthly, daily and hourly
basis: Visits, Page views, Downloads, Invalid pages, Referring URLs, Conversions, Campaigns, Browser
types and Countries.
Tracking Campaigns
In order to get most out of your
on-line campaigns, you need a
system that will allow you to track
the number of visitors who come
from your campaigns. Since the
referring URLs may not be enough
for campaign tracking, the Web
Analytics module allows you to
specify a URL parameter that
contains the ID of the campaign.
Then, if you link your website using
URL
like
http://www.mydomain.com/?cam
paign=banner1_large, the statistics
will show you how many people
came from the given banner
campaign. You can also create URL
aliases for campaigns that use a
simplified, easy-to-read format, such as http://www.mydomain.com/novembersale.
Moreover, when the user registers on your website, the system stores the campaign and the URL from
which the user came to your website and you can later track orders coming from a particular campaign.
Tracking Conversions
The only fact that you get thousands of visitors doesn't mean your website is successful. What you really
need to track is the number of conversions. A conversion is something that gives you value, such as user
registration, on-line store order, sign up for your services or sign up for a newsletter.
You can then track the number of conversions and in combination with campaign tracking, you can also
see which campaigns lead to most conversions.
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Kentico CMS Performance and Scalability
Kentico CMS can scale from small websites of a few pages to large sites with dozens of thousands
documents. Some of our customers successfully use Kentico CMS to manage websites of 30,000+ pages
and we made a successful performance test of a website with 100,000 pages and 10,000,000 users in
the database.
If you need high performance to handle large number of visitors, Kentico CMS can handle up to 16,000
page views per second on a single web server using the Full-page Caching technology. This technology
saves often-used pages into memory. When another user comes to the same page, the CMS doesn't
have to look into database or generate the page HTML code. Instead, it just takes the whole HTML code
from memory and sends it to the client browser.
Kentico CMS has been optimized for high performance and it offers a variety of caching options that
enable granular configuration of caching and performance:
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web part-level cache
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page-level cache (Full-page Caching technology)
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website-level cache
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image cache
If you need extra high performance or if you're looking for a fail-over configuration, you can use the
built-in web farm support. It allows you to synchronize in-memory settings and uploaded files between
multiple web servers. The performance tests show that Kentico CMS scales linearly with every new
server added to the web farm.
Moreover, Kentico CMS supports SQL Server Replication which means you can distribute the load to
multiple database servers. Web farm and SQL Replication allow for virtually unlimited scalability and
performance.
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Who Uses Kentico CMS
Kentico CMS has been on the market since 2004 and it's currently used by more than 4,000 websites in
84 countries. It's delivered through a network of 1,000+ partners in 80+ countries which means the
clients have a wide range of Web design agencies to choose from and they do not get locked in with a
single partner. Below, you can find a sample of major brands that use Kentico CMS for their on-line
presence:
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About Kentico Software
Our Mission
We help our clients grow their business through better websites, on-line stores, intranets and social
networks created using our high-quality content management software.
Business Overview
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Founded in 2004
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Privately held company solely owned by the CEO
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No external funding, no debt, profitable every year since the first year on the market
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62 employees
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Headquarters located in the Czech Republic in European Union strategically positioned in Brno, the Czech
center of hi-tech industry with several technical universities
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Sales office in the United States (Nashua, New Hampshire)
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100 to 200% annual growth of revenues for several years in a row
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Around 50% of clients come from North America
Our Partnerships
Awards
In 2008 and 2009, Kentico was named one of the fastest growing
technology companies in Central Europe by Deloitte in the Rising Stars
category.
More Information
You can find more information at http://www.kentico.com where you can also download a free trial
version or try Kentico CMS on-line without any installation using the Kentico CMS Virtual Lab.
Should you need any help, please send an e-mail to sales@kentico.com or call +1 866 328 8998.
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