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Jumpstart Guide:Moving from Ektronto Ingeniux CMSContent beyond boundaries
ContentsIngeniux Delivers on the Promiseof Ektron.42. Get the Most Modern .NET CMS on the Market.63. Easier Upgrades.64. Built-in Synchronization.75. Designed to Integrate.76. Easy migration using Ingeniux Site Import Utility .87. Built-In Enterprise Search.88. Lower TCO.8The Time to Talk to Ingeniux is Now.9
If you use Ektron CMS, you are probably wondering if it’s timefor a change. At one point Ektron looked like a viable option forweb content management. It had an innovative roadmap, upto-date technology, and a strong customer base.But things have changed. Ektron was sold to a private equityinvestment firm. It was then merged with Episerver, a competingsoftware vendor. Episerver is a European Web CMS company.Clearly developing two Web CMS products is not a priority forEpiserver.While Ektron may be headed for a sunset or purely maintenancereleases, the importance of managing your digital content anddelivering modern web experiences is only growing. Episerveris an option for your Web CMS, but it’s not the only option. Itmay not even be the best option.If you liked the idea of Ektron, you should look at Ingeniux CMS.In many ways, Ingeniux CMS is a modern version of Ektron, onlybetter. A pure .NET CMS platform, Ingeniux CMS offers an openplatform for web development, is very easy-to-use, includes afull suite of engagement and web experience capabilities, andis available in affordable on-premise packages or software-asa-service subscriptions.3Ingeniux Jumpstart Guide: Moving from Ektron to Ingeniux CMS
Ingeniux Delivers on the Promiseof EktronEktron had some good ideas. It was tryingIngeniux delivers a more friendly andto move towards a vision of a super agilefunctional editing experience that will be.NET CMS application. Ektron wanted tofamiliar to your users. The Ingeniux CMSsupport MVC for development, decoupleduses similar functionality such as in-contextarchitecture, more responsive userediting and visual page building, but with aexperience, and other capabilities. But itmuch easier and efficient UX.couldn’t make it happen.Ingeniux also offers a truly decoupled4Ingeniux CMS is already there. The Ingeniuxoption, with the CMS software managedCMS client is a cross-platform web-basedseparately from your front-end website. Itapplication. It’s easy to use, powerful, andprovides more flexible publishing options toyou can customize it to fit the needs of yoursupport your websites, apps, print, mobile,teams and users.and other channels.Ingeniux Jumpstart Guide: Moving from Ektron to Ingeniux CMS
#1 Reason to Choose Ingeniux:Customer SatisfactionIngeniux is dedicated to customer success.our reviews online: https://www.g2crowd.We are a stable, privately owned, Americancom/products/ingeniux-cms/reviews andcompany, with 15 years of experience.see the great things our customers areCustomers love Ingeniux CMS (and thesaying about us.feeling is mutual).But our commitment to our customers’In independent customer reviews onsuccess is just one reason Ingeniux CMSG2 Crowd, Ingeniux customers awardedmay be the best option for your webIngeniux CMS over four stars. You can readcontent management needs. Here areseven more reasons to consider Ingeniux.“Ingeniux provides a full-featured CMS with modern user experiences.These features will satisfy content/marketing specialists as well as back-enddevelopers. It provides the power of ASP.NET MVC on the backend and theflexibility to use modern JavaScript frameworks that also unlock incrediblyflexible tools for authors working in the system.”—James S.Director of Web Initiatives at Knox College “We have created and host approximately 170 sites, in 27 languageswith Ingeniux. Because of the flexibility, and ease of use of the CMS, we’veaccomplished this with an extremely small internal team. In addition, thesupport we received during our build was exceptional. Maybe more importantlyis the ongoing support from the Ingeniux team. They have truly been, andcontinue to be, an important partner for us, not just a vendor.” —Cyndi D.Web Producer/Content Manager at MoneyGram International5Ingeniux Jumpstart Guide: Moving from Ektron to Ingeniux CMS
2. Get the Most Modern.NET CMS on the Marketflexibility to deploy it to multiple deliverychannels, regardless of the technology thatdelivery channel is built on.Ektron built its CMS interface on oldMicrosoft ASP.NET technology: WebWith a mobile-first architecture, IngeniuxControls. This alone locked you into theprovides a responsive visual template andMS roadmap for your front-end, with noweb page tool called Page Builder. Pageflexibility at all. And if you customized thoseBuilder enables technical and non-technicalWeb Controls? If Microsoft updated the Webusers to visually create templates that areControls and you installed the updates, yourautomatically mobile-friendly.interface would break.Ingeniux completely rewrote its CMS3. Easier Upgradessoftware using the latest version ofMost implementations of Ektron resultedMicrosoft .NET. Ingeniux CMS is built toin tightly coupled presentation and contentsupport Microsoft’s MVC (Model, View,administration. In many cases, theseControl) approach to .NET development. Itwebsites required customization of thesupports the Razor View Engine, which is aEktron application. This customizationmuch easier, and web standards-friendly,resulted in complex and painful upgrades,development approach. You don’t have towhich meant that often, the upgradesworry about the overhead and legacy ofweren’t applied at all.Web Forms development.Ingeniux, on the hand, is decoupled.6Ingeniux is built on an agile architecture.There is a complete separation of theYou can create your complete webpresentation layer from the backendexperience within the Ingeniuxcontent administration. Decoupled CMSenvironment, or you can build your front-products have dramatically easier upgradesend using a completely different technology.because they don’t require you to modifyIf you want to provide content managementthe product code to implement the website.capabilities for your web applications orThis means that when the Ingeniux CMS ismobile apps, Ingeniux provides content-upgraded, your websites are not affected,as-a-service, giving you managementsaving you countless headaches, as well asand governance of your content and thetime and money.Ingeniux Jumpstart Guide: Moving from Ektron to Ingeniux CMS
INGENIUX CMSINGENIUX DSSPERSONALIZATIONPAGES ODEWEBSITESGOVERNANCESSO / IDENTITYORCHESTRATEDELIVERENGAGE4. Built-in Synchronization5. Designed to IntegrateEktron does provide a contentEktron does provide integrations with third-synchronization option – e-Sync.party applications, but they are proprietaryUnfortunately, e-Sync was a premium add-and closed.on, so you had to pay to keep your contentsynchronized. To make it worse, you hadIngeniux offers built-in integration with keyto install the e-Sync feature on each servermarketing automation and CRM providers,where you had content.as well as eCommerce providers. In eachcase, the source code is included. TheIngeniux provides native synchronization soIngeniux integration model is easy toyou can easily keep your content updatedunderstand and includes a 100% publicacross locations. With Ingeniux CMS, youREST API and a native .NET API, all fullydo not need to install a full copy of thedocumented.software on every instance in your network.Content is delivered using a lightweight .NETapplication.7Ingeniux Jumpstart Guide: Moving from Ektron to Ingeniux CMS
6. Easy migration usingIngeniux Site ImportUtilityarchitecture that enables you to leverageNeed to get your content out of Ektron? Nonavigation. In addition, Ingeniux search isproblem. Ingeniux includes a Site Importsecurity aware and globalized so you canUtility that lets you map and import yoursearch regardless of language. And, if youcontent into Ingeniux CMS.have a lot of content, Ingeniux search issearch throughout your website, from basicsearching, to faceted and guided search,to recommendations and search-basedultra-high-scale, up to tens of millions ofIngeniux provides a flexible database modelcontent items.based on NoSQL. This allows Ingeniux topull in content from the Ektron databaseor consume Ektron websites as HTML andmodify them once they are in Ingeniux. TheSite Import Utility also supports Ektron’sasset structure so you can migrate allcontent and metadata.CMS when you purchased it, but multiplerequired add-ons soon added to the cost.Add to that painful upgrades that usuallyand your TCO went through the roof.Ingeniux has a much better TCO. It providesIf you wanted search with your Ektronimplementation, you typically integrated athird-party search engine. While that’s notcompletely bad, what was frustrating wasthat Ektron had no native content modelawareness, so all you could do was full-textindexing.easier upgrades that take under thirtyminutes. It is API driven, and you don’tneed a DBA to manage the database. Also,Ingeniux is built for the Cloud, so you can gowith a managed solution that significantlycuts your costs.You also save on content administration inCompare that to Ingeniux, which doesintegrate with third-party search engines,but also provides a native search engine.8Ektron might have seemed a cost-effectiveresulted in expensive re-implementations7. Built-In EnterpriseSearchIngeniux provides a search-based8. Lower TCOa number of ways. In Ingeniux it takes lesstime to manage the little - but-important things such as redirects (they are automatic)and linking (also automatic).Ingeniux Jumpstart Guide: Moving from Ektron to Ingeniux CMS
The Time to Talk to Ingeniux is NowThe decision to move to a new Web CMS isYou know you can do much more with yournever a simple one. But if you’re like manydigital customer experience, and you needother Ektron users we’ve heard from, you’vea CMS that can go the distance, one that isstruggled with Ektron for the past fewcommitted to innovation, growth and theyears (if not more), and now you are at asupport of its customers.crossroads – migrate to Episerver as Ektronreaches its end of life or select a new WebIngeniux is that CMS provider, and theCMS that provides the functionality andIngeniux CMS is the best choice for yoursecurity you want and need.next CMS. We invite you to learn moreEktron was far from a perfect CMS, butcan support your content managementyou’ve built your team’s expertise on therequirements today, and into the future.Microsoft stack, and you want to stay there.To learn more, visit us at http://www.ingeniux.com.PO Box 21466Seattle, WA 98111info@ingeniux.com877 445 82289Ingeniux Jumpstart Guide: Moving from Ektron to Ingeniux CMS
3 Ingeniux umpstart Guide: Moving from Ektron to Ingeniux CMS If you use Ektron CMS, you are probably wondering if it's time for a change. At one point Ektron looked like a viable option for web content management. It had an innovative roadmap, up-to-date technology, and a strong customer base. But things have changed.
