Under 35: The Top Five CMS Executives

Art — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:29:01 +0000

Content management systems (CMS) have become a vital part of the internet for storing large media files like photos and videos as well as text content. Although there are many in existence, a few have exploded and are the most popular in the virtual world.

The top content management system executives have either invented the particular system or have improved it to the success it is today. The top five CMS executive list includes:

Arje Cahn
David Nuescheler
Dries Buytaert
Eric Barroca
Niels Hartvig

Born near Amsterdam, Netherlands, the current Chief Technology Officer of One Hippo is the intelligence behind Hippo CMS. As the co-founder of One Hippo, he offers a product that appeals to end-users and developers. At the University of Amsterdam, Cahn studied Artificial Intelligence and wrote robotics software for motion controlled cameras. Ironically he never finished his degree and instead started his own business.

David Nuescheler is the Chief Technology Officer of Day Software which is a global content management solution company. Born in Basel, Switzerland and studying computer science at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, he entered the CMS industry through a transition from Interactive CD-ROW manufacturer to an interactive web agency.

Dries Buytaert is the primary brain behind the popular open source Drupal CMS and is also the Chief Technology Officer of Acquia. He started Drupal accidentally when needing an internal message board that evolved into a content management system. The combination of experimentation and intelligence allowed Drupal to evolve into the success it is today.

At age 28, Eric Barroca is the youngest on the list. As the current CEO of Nuxeo, which is an enterprise open source CMS, he started his career as a freelance developer during the dot com boom. A high school dropout, Barroca joined Nuxeo in 2001 and advanced from sales to VP of operations and finally to CEO.

Finally, Niels Hartvig is the founder of Umbraco which is another open source content management system. Umbraco had over 250,000 downloads in 2009 and hosts 7,000 active community members. Hartvig began his career in 1997 as a web developer before content management systems existed; they were referred to as online administrative systems. He enjoyed the job so much, he never left.

As the youngest CMS executives, they all display high intelligence, good programming skills and excellent business sense. These traits allow the five youngest CMS executives to continue to prosper in this ever-growing industry.

CQ5 CMS Review

Art — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:23:55 +0000

Created by software company Day Software, CQ5 is a content management system centered around a powerful set of management features and various Web 2.0 technologies. This CMS is geared towards webmasters who want to distance themselves from the complexities of IT and simply have an enjoyable environment to work in. According to Kevin Cochrane, Day CMO, content management should no longer be just about functionality and ease of use, but fun and unleashing innovation from within. These are benefits that also extend to developers as CQ5 gives them their chance at new ActionScript and JavaScript API’s as well as an infrastructure based on many open-source technologies and standards. However, the inexperienced user may have a tough time finding themselves around.

Primary Features

When looking at the list of features, you can tell that Day put a lot of sweat into the most recent version of CQ5. While many CMS vendors are steering clear of Web 2.0, fearing it will soon be eclipsed by the Semantic Web 3.0, Day is one company that puts a huge emphasis on it. Some of its key features enable blog, forum and calendering functionality to help users incorporate that community like feel into their sites. The application also comes included with a number of pre-installed widgets for site enhancement. Web forms, comments, tags, slideshows, RSS feeds and wikis are just a few of the elements that can be used to encourage visitor interaction on you website.

Media Management Tools

CQ5 has a nicely integrated facility that makes it easy to maintain a variety of digital media assets. Some of the most notable features allow you to manage audio and video, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF file formats, watermarking and format transcoding. One of CQ5′s best qualities from a user aspect is image editing. The platform allows full image rendering and has some pretty nice editing features. Unlike many other content management tools, CQ5 offers a browser-based cropping functionality for getting the most out of your photos as you can easily crop, rotate, map and flush images.

Backup and Recovery

CQ5 truly excels in terms of its backup and recovery functionality. The newest version offers a hot backup utility that allows you to create backups of your entire file system. This includes content, configuration files, modules and web scripts. Restoring a complete CQ5 instance is a simple as extracting the backup from the zip file and restarting the system. This could be a great benefit that saves a company a lot time, money and valuable resources. All it takes a single click and all data is sent to Quickstart bundled file for disaster recovery purposes, allowing you to backup and restore your business environment in minutes.

Conclusion

While the new and improved GUI brings some user-friendliness to the product, CQ5 is a CMS best suited for advanced users. Developers can truly benefit from this tool as it packages together a powerful set of web technologies. It is the sophisticated and robust environment that takes away from its usability and makes this tool a little much for beginners.

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