Kentico Announces Web Content Mgmt Solution For SharePoint

Kentico Software, a Web content management system vendor, has released a Kentico CMS Connector for Microsoft SharePoint. The Connector allows business users to create content on their SharePoint intranet and publish.

The fast adoption of Microsoft SharePoint leaves many organisations in a difficult situation. As SharePoint doesn’t provide a complete solution for public-facing websites, they have to manage their online content in other systems. Kentico CMS solves this issue by allowing business users to create content in the SharePoint environment they are already familiar with and publish it automatically on the public websites instead of duplicating content in several applications. It enables organisations to publish content faster, with lower costs and with a better control over its life-cycle.

“While SharePoint was designed for intranets, Kentico CMS for ASP.NET provides a complete solution for public-facing websites. It complements the SharePoint functionality and enables organisations to leverage their existing investments into SharePoint and the Microsoft .NET platform,” says Petr Palas, Kentico CEO. “If a marketing manager wants to publish news, she may need to get it approved by several people. Until now, she had to go through the internal SharePoint workflow and then copy and paste the content manually on the website. Using the new Kentico Connector for Microsoft SharePoint, she can do everything in SharePoint and automatically publish content on the public website,” he adds an example.

Kentico CMS Connector for Microsoft SharePoint is available as a free download from the Kentico website. It can be used with any edition of Kentico CMS, including the Free Edition. It means companies with simple Web publishing needs can extend their SharePoint to the Web without additional investment into a Web Content Management System.

Kentico CMS Connector works with both Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0. It supports publishing of SharePoint document libraries, files, lists and pictures.