The new version 4.2 of the content management system FirstSpirit™ is now available. The feature release from e-Spirit (www.e-spirit.com) offers compelling new functionality for simplifying and automating editing processes and managing content, thereby significantly improving the efficiency of CMS for businesses.
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e-Spirit AG is celebrating its tenth birthday. The manufacturer of the content management system FirstSpirit™ can look back on a successful decade with continuous growth. The start-up has grown into an internationally active technology leader.
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With the addition of the food service company Deli XL
e-Spirit AG has acquired its first customer in the Netherlands. At the same time, the maker of the Content Management System FirstSpirit™ is also expanding its partner network in the Benelux. With Colours
and Unic B.V.
, e-Spirit is expanding its network with two additional Dutch specialists for e-business solutions.
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e-Spirit will attend the J. Boye Conference in Aarhus, Denmark from November 3-5 as an exhibitor, sponsor, and contestant. The developers of the FirstSpirit™ Content Management System (CMS) will focus on the topic of usability in their conference presentation.
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The Content Management specialist e-Spirit has expanded its product range with the FirstSpirit™ module "DatabasePool". This product, which was developed for the FirstSpirit™ Content Management System by the IT experts at ARITHNEA GmbH, is used for distribution and synchronization of database content - such as news and events - among FirstSpirit™ projects.
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e-Spirit AG is expanding its international partner network: with TopForce B.V., the High-End Content Management System (CMS) vendor FirstSpirit™ welcomes the first Dutch company into its partner program. After extensive training of its CMS experts by e-Spirit, the Netherlands-based TopForce team will be an officially recognized FirstSpirit "Trained Partner".
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e-Spirit CEO Jörn Bodemann comments the recent developments at Open Text in an article on TheContentWrangler.com.
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The FirstSpirit™ Content Management System (CMS) from e-Spirit consolidates the websites of 30 women's magazines from Bauer Media Group. The publisher follows its previous launch of the food portal, Lecker.de, with Wunderweib.de, a comprehensive portal it created to serve an additional segment.
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Solution developers face a balancing act between the design and the usability of their products. e-Spirit CEO Jörn Bodemann highlights a recent trend in software development, that becomes more and more apparent: The user experience and demands are changing – users are not looking for intelligent user interfaces anymore, but for cool design. And with this drive towards modern product design, usability takes a back seat, often to its detriment. Manufacturers of software solutions have to be aware about how design and usability aspects are connected and how both result into a specific user experience.
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The City of Dortmund website has been thoroughly revamped using FirstSpirit, the high-end Content Management System from Dortmund-based e-Spirit AG. On August 11, 2009, the city’s Lord Mayor, Dr. Gerhard Langemeyer released the new city portal for publication.
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After an extensive redesign process, the e-Spirit AG company website has just been relaunched with a new look and feel. With its relaunch of www.e-Spirit.com, e-Spirit has successfully completed the first project based on FirstSpirit™ 4.2, the new version of its high-end Content Management System to be released this fall.
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ECM Connection, a leading online publication covering news and events in the enterprise content management industry, published an article by Robert Bredlau, e-Spirit’s International Business Development Manager. He is looking at the much discussed topic of content reuse and the difficulties for companies to measure their efficiency in this area.
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The Extranet developed by insurers BGV (Badische Versicherungen) based on the high-end content management system FirstSpirit has been honoured with the Eisenhut Marketing Software Award as the best brokerage portal.
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AGRAVIS Raiffeisen AG is making its website fit for the future and in the process has decided on the FirstSpirit Content Management System (CMS) from e-Spirit. The high-end solution will, in the future, manage the content of around 40 different websites for the agricultural trade and service company with a turnover of over 5.8bn euros and more than 4,700 employees.
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e-Spirit is taking part at the Web Content Conferences in Chicago on June 15-16. On the second day of the event CEO Joern Bodemann will hold a presentation on “Usability Matters… Or, Why On Earth Did They Design It That Way?”.
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e-Spirit UK Ltd. has been accepted as a member in IBM’s PartnerWorld: The manufacturer of the High-End Content Management System FirstSpirit™ is now officially listed as an Advanced Partner.
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e-Spirit has received the IBM WebSphere Software seal of approval for its FirstSpirit™ Content Management System. FirstSpirit™ is now an IBM-approved solution and has been awarded the IBM trademark and logo.
The endorsement by IBM assures customers that FirstSpirit™ is a trusted and validated CMS solution that they can integrate easily into their IBM WebSphere infrastructure and e-commerce platform. The certified solution is listed in the IBM WebSphere Portal Business Solutions Catalogue ad Global Solutions Directory which gives e-Spirit additional exposure to IBM customers.
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e-Spirit AG (www.e-Spirit.com) expands its presence in Europe: The manufacturer of the high-end content management system FirstSpirit™ has opened its first Austrian office in Vienna end of April.
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Joern Bodemann, CEO of e-Spirit AG (www.e-Spirit.com) will be speaking on “User-generated content and Web 2.0” at one of the largest European business events for online business and digital marketing. Bodemann will give a presentation at the 17th Internet World conference in London and address the real world quality of user-generated content and whether it is important for companies. The presentation, at 10:00 am on April 29, also discusses voting as a Web 2.0 component and its use on the Intranet to gather information from employees. The focus will be on the advantages of using voting to obtain staff feedback, as well as why this information is often of limited value.
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