“For too long CMS systems have been considered closed applications offering specific functionality to specific users” says Dennis Tilgenkamp, Director Xaton. “The open source products of Hippo enable us to realize solutions for our customers in a quick and reliable manner, in which it is not only possible to maintain information, but also possible to share this information between processes, users and systems.”

Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, Chief Commercial Officer Hippo: “The partnership with Xaton is a great addition to our network of technology partners, since Xaton focuses on both Web and Mobile applications. In a world where increasingly the site visitor selects the channel, multichannel capabilities have become essential. At Hippo we build software that recognizes each channel behaves differently, and makes the most out of each in line with the organizations goals. With Xaton we found the ideal partner for the increasingly important mobile channel”.

About Hippo:
By leveraging Content Management and Portal technologies, Hippo helps companies to manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs. With the combination of enterprise-class support and open source technology, Hippo provides its users with the best of both worlds: the flexibility, innovation and robustness of open source software combined with the stability, reach and service quality of an established vendor.
Hippo was founded in 1999 and today has a global base of over 150 customers across multiple industries including education, publishing, manufacturing, financial services and government. Hippo was recognized by Deloitte in its Fast 500 for 2007, 2008 and 2009 based on revenue growth. To support the rapidly expanding Hippo community, Hippo has over 50 employees located in its European headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and North American headquarters in San Francisco, California.

For more information please visit: http://www.onehippo.com

About Xaton:
Xaton excels in the delivery of web and mobile technology based solutions. The teamwork of our functional, technical and visual specialists enables us to realize projects within time and budget. We have vast experience in the successful implementation of CMS systems, specifically when these systems form an integrated part of a complete solution. Next to integration and implementation, Xaton also maintains the solutions for its clients.

For more information please visit http://www.xaton.com

For additional Questions:

Hippo
Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer
Tel: 020-5224466
e-mail: t.brenninkmeijer@onehippo.com

Xaton
Paul Arkenbout
Tel: 020-4043982
e-mail: paul.arkenbout@xaton.com

• Allow site users to 'discover' and slice and dice content through the faceted navigation mechanism 
• Click an edit button in the (preview) website and automatically open the cms interface at the right location to edit - no more searching or browsing in the content structure. We call this 'surf and edit'
• Easily build web-forms straight from the CMS interface 
• Define easy readable, search engine friendly URLs for your web-pages 
• Employ a smart, rule-based, replication process to guarantee security and speed up your system

Hippo CMS 7.3 and HST Highlights
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Faceted navigation
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Hippo CMS 7.3 features secure real-time faceted navigation on the repository content. The new faceted view enables users to browse through any content in a loosely structured manner, drilling down or 'slice and dice' as they wish on certain combinations of tags and characteristics.

This function helps to find content faster and encourages users to spend more time on the site as they discover interesting content and topics. Faceted navigation really excels in a world with more and more user generated content, where predefined browse structures are inadequate. Check out the HST demo site to see a real life example.

Surf and Edit 

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Hippo CMS offers editors a preview website where they can view unpublished content as it is going to look in the real life website. When editors are browsing this preview website the new 'surf and edit' feature offers a quick and convenient way to jump directly to the corresponding document in Hippo CMS to quickly fix a typo or add a different image.

With surf and edit, there is no need to do a search for the original document from the CMS interface: clicking the edit button is sufficient to open up the exact content piece ready for editing in the familiar CMS interface.

Web-forms 

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Web-forms functionality allows you to quickly put together a form published on your web page with all the familiar elements. When forms are filled out they can generate emails sent to a predefined e-mail address. With this functionality being in the usual interface of the editor of web content, it becomes much easier to manage forms through Hippo CMS workflow and to seamlessly integrate forms with other content in your Hippo templates.

Pretty URLs 

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Hippo CMS 7.3 automatically suggests an easy to the eye and SEO-friendly URL name based on the document name inputted by the user. Alternatively, the editor can also manually change the URL, to reflect personal preferences and company policies.

Improved Search 

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Hippo CMS 7.3 has been enhanced such that the search is natural part of the navigation area. You can effortlessly search for documents in certain locations and get instantaneous results. The search improvements have also been applied to the image and link picker.

Smart Replication 

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Hippo now allows administrators to specify which subsets of content will be replicated automatically to repositories running elsewhere in a distributed environment. This allows you, for instance, to restrict the replication of confidential documents to domains within the firewall or to replicate localized language versions to localized servers.

 For the full release notes, check the community pages

Hippo's CCO, Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer said: “We see a wave of companies looking to replace their existing closed source solutions for Hippo's CMS 7. Driving this development are cost saving on licensing and the maturity of our Open Source ECM products as well as a wave of consolidation among vendors, often leaving the client empty handed for updates and upgrades. The migration process to a new solution is an important aspect that is all too often under-addressed. We look forward to work even closer with Kapow to bring their products and expertise to the Hippo customer eco-system.” 

 Both companies officially launched the partnership at the Gilbane Content Management Conference in Boston today. An introduction video is available showing Kapow Technologies and Hippo software at work.

“More companies are turning to Kapow Technologies because they are under extreme pressure by extensive cost and time constraints associated with getting their new CMS into production.” said Stefan Andreasen, founder and CTO of Kapow Technologies. “Kapow Web Data Server is the only product on the market with visual automation technology that can eliminate these migration burdens. The result is unmatched data quality and for a fraction of the cost and time.”

About Hippo
Hippo helps companies manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs through its Content Management and Portal technologies.  Combining enterprise-class support and open source technology, Hippo provides its users with the best of both worlds: the flexibility, innovation and robustness of open source software combined with the stability, reach, and service quality of an established vendor.

The company was founded in 1999 and today has a global base of over 150 customers across the education, publishing, manufacturing, and financial services industries, as well as government agencies. Part of the Deloitte EMEA Fast 500 in 2007, 2008 and 2009, Hippo has over 50 employees located in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and San Francisco, California.

For more information visit: http://www.onehippo.com

About Kapow Technologies

Kapow Technologies provides Fortune 1000 companies with industry-leading technology for accessing, enriching, and serving real-time enterprise and public Web data. The company’s flagship Kapow Web Data Server powers solutions in Web and business intelligence, portal generation, SOA/WOA enablement, and CMS content migration. The visual programming and integrated development environment (IDE) technology enables business and technical decision-makers to create innovative business applications with no coding required. Kapow currently has more than 300 customers, including AT&T, Wells Fargo, Intel, DHL, Vodafone and Audi. The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. with additional offices in Denmark, Germany and the U.K. For more information, log on to www.kapowtech.com or call toll-free at 1-800-805-0828.

Contacts

For Hippo
Lars Peters, EVP North America, +1-707-773-4646
info@onehippo.com

For Kapow Technologies

Carolina Grimm, Bateman Group +1-415-503-1818, ext.16

kapow@bateman-group.com

Tjeerd Brenninkmeijer, CEO of Hippo said, “Lars has the perfect mix of operational knowledge, management experience, enthusiasm and drive. We have very ambitious plans for the North American market, where we are already seeing a great demand for our open source enterprise content management and portal software, especially in an economic climate where businesses are looking to lower operational costs, without large up front investments. Lars will help the US team to constantly innovate, deliver and to stay several steps ahead of the competition.”

Lars Peters, Hippo’s newly-appointed Executive Vice President North America said, “Not only does Hippo have an incredibly exciting roadmap that demonstrates its commitment to innovation, the team has shown an enviable leadership in the open source industry in terms of both its community and its contribution to the definition of open standards. I’m proud to be part of the team and plan to contribute everything possible to ensure the company maintains and expands its lead in the enterprise content management space.”

Version 7.0 features a completely new technological core based on Apache Jackrabbit, introducing full JSR 170 compliancy. The GUI technology moved to Apache Wicket enabling a modern AJAX GUI with drag drop and auto-save functionality. Version 7.0 is highly extensible, allowing organizations to choose from a wide variety of plug-ins in order to address their precise needs for managing and utilizing their enterprise content. This flexible architecture also allows developers to easily add custom functionality if no suitable plug-in is available.

The Hippo architecture introduced in the previous version (6.0), with strong separation of concerns and its content driven repository, has been further improved, introducing a high performance faceted repository based on Apache Lucene and Apache Jackrabbit. The faceted repository introduces 'drop and start' dynamic categorization of content; allowing organizations to significantly speedup implementation resulting in a dramatically improved ROI compared to traditional CMS.

Key features of the current release include:

• A faceted repository allowing users to label their content in multiple ways to make it easier to order, find and use
• Java Content Repository (JSR-170) support to access content repositories in a standardized manner
• Support for JavaServer Pages (JSP), JavaServer Faces (JSF), Cocoon, Portlets and easy template editing to make the software extensible for developers
• Extensibility through plug-in architecture and configurations to allow users to extend and modify the CMS as their content management needs change
• Node granularity, making data more manageable
• Indexing external repositories making it easier for content to be pulled from various / incompatible sources and indexed centrally
• More 'tools' in CMS: http://forge.onehippo.org/

Arjé Cahn, CTO of Hippo, said “Hippo CMS 7.0 is designed to help organizations that need to manage a lot of data. It provides them with an intuitive, flexible and enterprise-class content management system that will meet the unique contentmanagement needs of their business, with no data lock-in or excessive costs. The new product was designed with ease of implementation and extensibility in mind.”

In the coming months, Hippo will further expand on the new concept of secure facets based on this new repository; allowing for non-hierarchical security and knowledge-driven workflow. Hippo CMS 7.0 is open source software that is free to download at http://www.onehippo.org.

The new version of Hippo CMS, version 7, is an enterprise class management system that includes the first faceted repository to feature enhanced categorization of data. It provides an easy-to-use, intuitive and practical drag-and-drop interface that encourages users to tag content with multiple qualities, giving organizations better control over important content and more flexibility over how to view and search it. Plug-ins extend the software to organizations’ individual needs, while the underlying open source code is modular and easily customizable. Hippo CMS 7 is free to download and use from www.onehippo.org.

CorraTech provides professional services to help transition organizations to open source software. CorraTech’s objective is to help organizations lower total software acquisition and support and maintenance fees and drive higher quality code and security into its clients IT environments. .CorraTech’s Open Source Center of Excellence (OSCOE) evaluates open source software for enterprise adoption readiness. As part of its evaluation process, the OSCOE measures system scalability, architecture flexibility, interoperability, usability as well as licensing and support capabilities, including the commitment to the open source community.

“We are very pleased to include Hippo in our applications solutions set. Hippo CMS version 7 is a true enterprise-class content management system, designed to deliver a superior user experience with a high level of control over content. The company has a solid management team with a serious commitment to openness. By working with Hippo we will continue to achieve our goal to drive down IT related costs while adding business process innovation for our clients, ” said Ron Bongo, CEO of CorraTech.

About CorraTech

CorraTech is the leading open source software services firm, providing open source system integration, support and outsourcing to software companies and mid market and enterprise level customers since 2002. CorraTech optimizes software costs, improves user productivity, frees business processes and reduces redundancies using open source software.
http://www.corratech.com

About Hippo
Hippo helps companies manage and access information, protect sensitive data, share knowledge, optimize collaboration and reduce operational costs through its Content Management and Portal technologies. With the combination of enterprise-class support and open source technology, Hippo provides its users with the best of both worlds: the flexibility, innovation and robustness of open source software combined with the stability, reach, and service quality of an established vendor.

Hippo is actively involved in several key standard-setting efforts such as JSR 283, 286 and 301. Ten members of the Hippo team are committers/members for The Apache Software Foundation.

The company was founded in 1999 and today has a global base of over 150 customers across the education, publishing, manufacturing, and financial services industries, as well as several government agencies. Hippo has over 50 employees located in its European headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands and North American headquarters in San Francisco, California.

For more information visit: http://www.onehippo.com

With the new HST, Hippo managed to pair rapid and flexible web development required by today's fast-moving organizations, with control and oversight, manageability and security. HST coupled with Hippo CMS 7.1 effortlessly blends in with the existing IT infrastructure of organizations that need to manage large amounts of content, such as Fortune 500 companies, publishers and governmental bodies.

Under the hood, both products stay close to their roots of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) projects they are built on. By developing the HST as a standalone product, the content and business logic are clearly separated from a presentation layer that delivers a flexible, best of breed approach to content management. Each layer is based on Open Standards, such as the Java Content Repository specification (JSR-170), and therefore easily accessible and customizable. To speed up the implementation process, HST and Hippo CMS are designed to work together out-of-the-box with Apache Jetspeed Portal 2.2, within the same security model.

The HST has been developed in close cooperation with Hippo's network of implementation partners and the open source community. Alef Arendsen, principle consultant of JTeam, early committer of Spring and co-founder of SpringSource said, “As an active community member, JTeam has been fortunate to be involved in the development of Hippo Site Toolkit and to oversee a pre-release implementation. We have been impressed with the power and capabilities of the new software. The integration with web frameworks such as Spring MVC enables us to bring our products faster to the market. Hippo is a leader in its field and maintains this leadership through technical innovation and collaboration – this release demonstrates that commitment.”

Arjé Cahn, CTO of Hippo, said, “We understand the challenges users and administrators face in content-heavy organizations with multiple formats and versions. With our powerful combination of HST, Hippo CMS and Apache Jetspeed 2.2, we are giving users and organizations greater control over their content, combined with the tools to create enterprise sites in a fast and cost effective way. Our community of implementation partners has been key in bringing this release to the market. We strive to consistently lead the market with our innovation and focus on developing products that revolutionize content management.”

The key new features in HST/CMS7.1 include:
• Seamless Portal integration JSR 168/286, optimized for recently released Apache Jetspeed 2.2. HST website components run transparently in the Portal as native portlets.
• Faceted browsing of the content structures in the CMS – give users their own views for easy navigation and use
• Web framework independence, with support for JSP, Wicket and advanced support for Spring MVC and others

Jetspeed

 http://portals.apache.org/jetspeed-2/

Jetspeed is an easy-to-access open source Enterprise Information Portal using Java and XML to collect and present information from multiple sources via an intuitive and user-friendly interface. As a product of The Apache Software Foundation (ASF), one of the leading open source organizations dedicated to collaborative software development, Jetspeed is available for free under the business-friendly Apache License.

Hippo’s own product range is the first to feature full integration with Jetspeed 2.2, including Hippo CMS 7, the Hippo Site Toolkit and the integrated ECM suite. Its products provide organizations with an innovative and cost effective solution for content management and online collaboration. The new release, combined with Jetspeed’s track record of performance, stability and its unmatched support for open standards, is an ideal fit for the highly scalable collaborative intranet and web architectures built on Hippo’s products.

David Sean Taylor, Apache Member, founder of the Jetspeed 2 project and VP of Engineering for Hippo, said, “There’s been a build up of excitement behind the scenes as the open source community has been gearing up to complete and release Jetspeed 2.2. At Hippo, we’ve been busy contributing to the community effort while also planning how to ensure our customers reap the range of features and benefits available in the new version. It’s going to be a strong comeback for Jetspeed with a range of new capabilities in usability, scalability and extensibility that were previously only available for clients in custom projects – it’s a leap forward towards the next generation of enterprise portals.”

New features and improvements in Jetspeed 2.2 and Hippo’s accompanying product range include:

Open design for optimal interoperability

• Full Portlet API 2.0 support and compliance, built on Pluto 2.0.0

• New pluggable and extensible security model with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) synchronization to provide integrated secure environments

• Improved integration support for popular web development frameworks such as Wicket, Spring MVC, Struts and JSF (JavaServer Faces)

Facilitating truly interactive collaboration

• Inter-portlet communication through standards based eventing and shared state management

Fast, cost effective integration

• Fresh looks and improved usability with new administrative portlets and new skins

• New high performance preferences database storage

• Custom and customizable portal project templates and full Maven-2 build support

• Improved documentation including 5 new guides focused on users, admin, developers, building and deploying

These features provide a range of extensibility and usability enhancements. Together they dramatically improve the ease of adding custom functionality while increasing the control of end-users. Hippo expects Jetspeed 2.2 to reestablish Jetspeed’s position as the portal of choice for building performance oriented enterprise portals in a rapid and cost-effective way.

Hippo’s portal solution utilizes open source Java-based web components (JSR-168) and underlying application programming interfaces (APIs) that facilitate compatibility between applications and servers. With dynamic management of underlying databases, Jetspeed provides simple data management and simple data access.

The new release of Jetspeed's SOA and Web 2.0 architecture enables USC to integrate further within and outside of organizational boundaries. Additionally, the new release integrates out of the box with USC's university-standardized Federated Identity system for highly secure user authentication and authorization.

David Taylor, Hippo's Portal Product Manager, said, “Forward-thinking organizations such as the University of Southern California are deploying web-based technologies that allow employees to choose their user experience, with personalized applications based on role, context, actions, location, preferences and team collaboration needs. Apache Jetspeed software provides a composite application or business mashup framework and the advanced tooling needed to build flexible, SOA-based solutions, as well as the unmatched scalability required by any size organization.”