Microsoft Sharepoint 2010 is an Enterprise Content Management System (ECMS). Using Sharepoint 2010, businesses can set up websites and share information quickly and easily. It enables users to create, manage and publish documents and reports.
A content management system or CMS is an electronically or manually operated system used to manage workflow on an Internet system where more than one person can alter or add to a page. Basically, without a CMS, reports would have been difficult to write, data storage would not be possible, internet users would find it nearly impossible to edit content and communication between users would have been less effective. A CMS also has the crucial ability to prevent repetition of data to further save storage space.
I have been wanting to do this for quite some time and finally decided to open it up.
Piwik is an open source downloadable web analytics software which aims to provide an alternative to Google Analytics that you can run on your own server. The project was previously known as phpMyVisites and is currently maintained by OpenX, the company behind the free OpenX ad server . Piwik provides you with detailed reports on your website visitors: the search engines and keywords they used, the language they speak, your popular pages … and much more. Piwik could be integrated with your website as JavaScript code that you insert manually or using one of the existing plugins . With Piwik you will have your own data, you can build your own custom plugins, and you will have a fully customizable interface where you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display and create a report especially tailored to you. The solution allow you also to embed your stats in your website, that’s great if you want to share live stats about your visitors for advertisers. Require PHP 5.1+ and Mysql, the installation process is automatic and takes less than 5 minutes. Released under a GPL license.
Interspire have just announced the availabilty of their Knowledge Manager solution version 5.0 , previously known as ActiveKB ( reviewed here ). Mitchell Harper, Interspire Product Manager, wrote in product announcement : This new version marks a significant step in our product strategy, turning the product from a simple web-based, self-service FAQ system into a fully-featured, enterprise-grade knowledge management tool which can be used to reduce customer support, share company-wide knowledge and reduce staff training costs. New features in version 5.0 include: Microsoft SQL Server & LDAP support – Easily integrate Interspire Knowledge Manager with your existing Windows-based Active Directory network and databases. Complete workflow support – Setup content publishing rules and processes which allow knowledge workers and their managers to efficiently publish and approve knowledge items. Integrated news posting and syndication – Post news items, information and upcoming event details directly to the front page of your knowledge base.
LivePerson announced this week an interesting integration of Live Chat statistics with Google Analytics, which will help measuring the impact of Live Chat interactions on conversion rates. Some of the new reports available thanks to this integration include : Map Overlay Report: Displays volume and quality metrics of live chat interactions by geographic region Search Engines Report: Reveals the sources and keywords that drive interactive chats (and resulting conversions) Reverse Goal Path Report: Lists the navigation paths that lead to the most chats Automatically included in LivePerson’s small & midsized business (SMB) products, this new, value-added feature helps customers pinpoint which keywords and marketing campaigns drive visitors to chat; measure and track the impact of these interactions on conversion rates; and develop an accurate profile of visitors who interact via chat and subsequently make an online purchase. “Small and medium businesses want easy-to-use tools that demonstrate ROI,” said Philippe Lang, Vice President of LivePerson. “This integration with Google Analytics supplies our 6,000 SMB customers with the data they need to better understand their website visitors and act on accurate information in real time, so they can measure the success of their investments and maximize the efficiency of their marketing spend.” Complete press release is available here .
Two great news for the PEAR community, now the PEAR project got an official blog available at blog.pear.php.net . The blog will be used for announcements, sharing ideas with the community, and general information about the PEAR project. The second good news is that PEAR Installer 1.6.0 have been released with some bugfixes and improvements including : minor improvements to the output of list-all, list, list-upgrades, search. Channel is displayed for many of these commands by default, and with an optional switch for the others implementation of code coverage reports using xdebug for .phpt-based tests with the pear run-tests command
Sponsored Post: SoloSEO is a great collection of web-based tools to manage your SEO project. The service aims to provide a set of useful tools to help your site rank higher in search engines. You can start by adding a new project, then from the Dashboard you will have access to different informations like Active tasks, tools, stats, reports and checklists. SoloSEO allow you to watch easily your competitors so you can monitor your or their progress in one place with information like indexed pages, backlinks, PageRank, and Alexa rating. For someone working regularly with SEO and marketing tools I find it extremely simple and easy to use
TechCrunch just reported that StumbleUpon just signed a term sheet with eBay to be acquired for a price ranged between $40 and $45 million. We have posted last month about StumbleUpon and how it will hit the advertising market , but seeing eBay in the acquisition is a bit surprising and wondering how they will manage this new acquisition for the profit of their business. According to ComScore StumbleUpon generated 6 million U.S. page views in March, doubling from the prior month and increasing daily with more than 2 million users and 4+ million sites stumbled daily
One of the great pear packages Services_Weather, it offer an easy access to weather services such GlobalWeather from CapeScience, Weather XML from EJSE (US only), a XOAP service from Weather.com and METAR/TAF from NOAA. This is already a great collection !! I used to print some weather reports in some special periods of the year, and it’s one of the annoying task that I was doing before but not anymore ! I decided to implement a weather printing report service and used PEAR Weatherdotcom class to communicate with the webservice more easily. The only problem that the package isn’t well documented, but here is how to proceed for weather forecast.