Features per release

GX WebManager 9160

Social Buttons and Widgets

GX Software empowers marketers to let website visitors spread their content across social networks and to provide social experiences on their website in order to achieve their online goals with the following new features:

• Web content sharing on social networks (Facebook and Twitter)
• View content recommendations from the website user’s social networks (e.g. comments, page likes, activity feeds, follow button, live tweet streams etc.)
• Social publishing from editing environment
• Social monitoring tweets in editing environment

With these GX WebManager features, visitors are encouraged to share content across their social networks and spread information by word of mouth. This will lead to increased traffic on web and social channels. 

The publishing tools within the editing environment will increase the productivity of the web editor. Social monitoring allows you to measure and optimize the performance of your web content.

Social Login

Marketers can offer social login service on their websites (Twitter and Facebook). This enables online visitors to log in with their social credentials. With Social Login, website visitors do not need to register separately anymore. The conversion rate of the website will thereby grow: more registered visitors means more signups which leads to increased loyalty.

Media RSS Support

With Media RSS support, marketers can better syndicate their multimedia content for reuse in external channels. They can also provide richer descriptions of the syndicated content.

Online Maven Repository

An online Maven Repository offers a standardized development model, makes development easier and offers a faster download of the SDK. The Online Maven Repository therefore saves costs for developers and partners.

GX WebManager 9150

Localization support

• A fully localized GX WebManager editor environment that allows marketers and editors in your enterprise to collaborate across different regions and time zones. 

  • Uniform date and time formatting based on the edit environment language for all date and time fields in GX WebManager. 

  • Time zone support

By localizing the editor environment of GX WebManager we provide an environment which suits the regional and cultural specific needs of marketers and editors across the globe enabling them to work productively.

Infrastructure support

• Official support for MySQL 5.1

• Official support for Oracle 11.2g

• GX WebManager supports IPv6

By supporting the latest versions of databases and network protocols, we meet enterprise customers’ needs for maintaining GX WebManager in an environment which is secure, robust and up-to-date.

GX WebManager 9140

Scalable Editorial Environment

• Easy and robust scaling of the content editing side of GX WebManager (back-end)
  As already equipped with a scalable content delivery technology GX WebManager has been enhanced with the possibility to scale the content editing side.

Simply said, add additional servers to your editorial environment to guarantee availability for large groups of editors. Since the workload of many editors will be spread across multiple servers, the capacity of all these servers can be used to increase performance. At the same time you eliminate the one-server bottleneck whenever a server goes down.

GX WebManager WebUsers and BlueConic User Profile Integration

Synchronizing profile information between GX WebManager and BlueConic. Synchronize to enrich, not data export. The profile database in the WCM system will continue to exist.

• Using profile information from BlueConic to personalize content in GX WebManager
  Enrich your existing WCM system with cutting-edge profile information gathered by BlueConic in real-time. Traditionally, your WCM system only collects profile information over websites it controls. By enriching this profile with data from BlueConic, you have an improved opportunity (strengthening the personalization capability within GX WebManager) to provide highly personalized content on the website, based on profile information that was collected over channels that the WCM does not control (BlueConic monitors these other channels).

• Feeding acquired profile information from GX WebManager into BlueConic
  Your WCM system has collected and stored profile information over your websites. This valuable information can now be shared with BlueConic in real-time and used for personalized interactions across other (non-WCM controlled) channels (and the WCM controlled website). This also works for the Interactive Forms module. It inserts the registration data collected in the form in real-time into the BlueConic profile.

Optimize the website visitor experience over your websites with personalized content in the most compelling fashion. Because you have merged profile information from different sources in real-time, the content you can show to visitors increases in relevancy. By using BlueConic, you can use this synchronized and enriched profile information to improve the experience of the individual visitors across multiple channels and devices.

GX WebManager 9130

Segmentation Dashboard - The Segmentation Dashboard gives you a visual overview of data which makes it easy to analyze and track. The information is presented by the new Report content element. Using this form element, you select the data you want to visualize and the type of visualization to use to display it. By default, the Report content element contains the following overviews: Visitor Registrations, Anonymous Visitor Segmentation, Registered Visitor Segmentation, Newsletter Subscriptions and Visitor Registrations per Day. Through the easy-to-use API, you can add your own extra custom reports to the Dashboard.

Performance Enhancements - In addition to the normal attention we usually pay to improving performance in each release, this release contains performance enhancements for a few common use cases that editors perform in the edit environment. These use cases include navigating through the pagetree, creating a new page, deleting a page (including all its versions) and adding/updating the content of a page. These enhancements also benefit the (one time) generation of a modified page on the frontend of the website.

General Availability of the E-Commerce platform - The E-Commerce platform consists of two add-ons: the Product Manager and the Shop. The Product Manager allows you to maintain your products and present them in overviews and in detail on your website. The Shop adds transaction support by offering a Shopping Basket, a checkout flow and Order Management to GX WebManager. The Shop also offers a payment framework to which you can easily add your own payment provider(s). Both add-ons offer a complete API, which makes it very easy to connect to your back office (to import product information and to export order information).

GX WebManager 9120

General availability of Interactive Forms - The Interactive Forms WCB is now packaged with GX WebManager itself. Highlights of Interactive Forms include:

• Form Builder: create interactive forms by simply dragging and dropping the inputs that you want onto your form.
• Rich API: when programming your own WCB, the rich API gives you access to all areas of the Interactive Forms. It also allows you to program your own new types of inputs to place on forms.
• Import/Export: when exporting forms, the Export function offers you the choice to also export all required other content (that is, the subform(s) that a form uses).
• Easy yet powerful Handling: defining what should happen to data entered and how routing should take place is set up in a visual environment. For users that want to create their own business-specific rules, you can easily do so using JavaScript and Java.
• Multilingual: create a form just once and present it in several languages by simply translating the language labels that are used on the website.
• Versioning: create as many versions of a form as you need. Versions that are not yet live on the website can fully tested in a preview mode.

Improved robustness and upgrade speed - several enhancements have been made to improve the robustness and upgrade speed of GX WebManager, including:

• When deploying a large collection of WCBs at the same time, a check for the dependencies between the WCBs is performed to ensure that the WCBs start in the correct sequence.
  
• GX WebManager checks its own environment settings at startup and reports settings that are possibly incorrect/incomplete. This improves the stability of GX WebManager while it's running.
• Database configuration has been made simpler and the connection status of a database can be viewed and tested more easily.
• The upgrade speed has been significantly improved by only executing the minimum amount of upgrade scripts that are required.
  

GX WebManager 9110

Interactive Forms - Create web forms fast. Easy to use with many features for heavy forms users: drag & drop forms, full import/export, versioning, workflow, integrations features, visual conditions etc. Aimed at increasing the conversion and efficiency rate of forms.

Inline editing in the media repository - Inline editing for articles and other content types in the media repository, plus several efficiency improvements.

Personalization categories and API extensions - Additional features for organizations that use large scale personalization for their websites

Easier upgrades -The upgrade process will be even easier with more automated steps and a new upgrade and patch mechanism.

MS SQL 2008, Windows 2008 64 bits and Windows 7 support - Now officially supported and tested at the GX QA department

GX WebManager 9100

Inline editing update - Even more ways to use inline editing with options to change designs, SEO settings and meta information in the inline editing mode. Plus inline editing of page templates and personal configuration of inline editing per user.

OpenID - a WCB to support OpenID + Hyves logins and authentication for your website. By offering a OpenID or Hyves login it will be easier for users to have a personal login for your website. Very useful for e-commerce websites, communities and publishers.

URL match listener & Taxonomy listener - two brand new listeners that 'listen' to specific URLs that the visitor's viewing, plus a taxonomy listener that builds a user profile around the tags of articles that a visitors has viewed.

Decentrale Regelgeving & Bekendmakingen (for Dutch governments) - With the new CVDR WCB users can publish laws & regulations for the Centrale Voorziening Decentrale Regelgeving (CVDR) on their website. The new 'bekendmakingen' XHTML presentation allows indexing of the published 'bekendmakingen'. 

Media Repository versions - now it's possible to use versions for articles and all other media items, including custom media items/content types.

Improved redirects & aliasses - the panel to create and manage redirects and aliasses has been rewritten. It's fully focused on volume and contains search and browse functions plus an export to CSV option to keep track of all redirects and aliasses.

MyHomepage configuration - Editors can now set their personal homepage, i.e. the page they arrive after they login to GX WebManager.

GX WebManager 990

Inline editing update - the GX WebManager inline mode has some very useful new features. All content elements can be updated 'inline', which means while you're looking at a preview of the website. Elements like images, flash, tables etc. can be moved to other places using drag & drop.

Google Analytics inline dashboard - Launched in 2008 by GX the Google Analytics inline dashboard is finally available for everybody. We had to wait for Google to release their APIs to public beta in order to release this exciting new module. What can you expect: the essential website statistics right next to the page you're editing. So you can instantly see how many (unique) visitors were on the page, how long they stayed etcetera. More information:

2008 press release: http://www.gx.nl/About/News/GX-WebManager-first-with-embedded-Google-Analytics.htm

Integration in the Google Gallery: http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataGallery.html

Product Manager - a new module to manage a catalogue of products. Basically you can create and define any product you want (pens, cars, book etc), create and manage attributes (colors, weight, sizes) and manage a repository of products. Product Manager includes a flexible integration layer that allows integration with existing databases or Product Information Management (PIM) applications.

Faceted Search - an exciting new search application that can be used on top of the GX WebManager search engine as well as on top of Product Manager. Can be used to quickly narrow down the number of search results by filtering on properties of the content. This can be both content attributes like (classified) terms, tags, authors, content types etc, or product attributes as defined in Product Manager.

GX WebManager 980

GX Profiler - Managing online conversations requires a solid understanding of your website visitors. One way to get to know them is analyzing their anonymous browsing behavior or asking them to register on your website. A user name and password is only a start and eventually you want to know as much as possible about your visitors. GX Profiler enables you to facilitate anonymous profiles, user registrations, extend user profiles and combine user profiles with marketing and sales systems such as CRM. GX Profiler comes with a user friendly management console and open APIs for customizations or to connect to the outside world.

Targeting & Segmentation - Once you get to know your website visitors you usually want to offer them an engaging experience, relevant content or personal offers. In order to target individual users or groups of users GX WebManager now offers a targeting & segmentation component. This enables marketers to target content, ads or interaction and to monitor and optimize online conversion.

Community Forum - Another way to engage with website visitors is to offer them a platform to discuss all kinds of topics. A forum is a popular way to create interesting discussion and also increase the number of returning visitors and page views.  The community forum features all enterprise and community functionality such as: front moderation, flexible user profiles, avatars, karma, caching, AJAX updates, RSS feeds etc. etc. etc.

Enterprise features - GX WebManager is now fully tested and supported on Java 6, Tomcat 6 and IBM WebSphere.

Features of 980:
•GX Profiler;
•Segmentation & Targeting;
•Community Forum

•Java 6 support

GX WebManager 970

Rich Xperience Engine; In order to create a higher customer engagement GX WebManager can be used in combination with Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and AJAX technology. Several new features are available in every GX WebManager release such as rich forms and personal dashboards (like iGoogle and Netvibes).

Features of 9.7:
•Rich Xperience Engine;
•Rich Xperience Dashboard & Forms;
•Audit Trail;
•Notifications;

•IBM Websphere and LDAP support;

•Rewritten Archetypes

GX WebManager 9.6

Mobile Websites made easy; The Mobile Presentation component enables you to easily set up websites for mobile phones together with an out-of-the-box solution for the recognition of the mobile phone type with the integration of DeviceAtlas.

Features of 9.6:
•Mobile Website Support;
•Advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO);
•Advanced Search engine;
•Product Catalog;
•DigiD integration;
•Content Import & Export;

•Ease of use, including bulk deletion, copying, duplicating and moving of complete trees of pages.

GX WebManager 9.5

Customize your content and personalization rules; This version includes several valuable additions which will be of immediate benefit to editors, application managers, developers and site visitors. Editors and application managers are provided with a Performance Dashboard, drag & drop-functionality and extended integration with MS Office. Developers get a Personalization API, an extended version of the Content API and simplified registration of their WebManager Component Bundles (WCB’s) at the online marketplace WCMExchange.com. 

Features of 9.5:
•Personalization API;
•Content API Extensions;
•Performance Dashboard;
•Right mouse click menu + drag and drop;

•MS Office Connector Enhancement.

GX WebManager 9.4

Delivering E-commerce and high quality video over the Internet; This version of GX WebManager provides E-shop and WebTV solutions. The E-shop and transaction module allows users to set up their own Web shop and order processing, making use of powerful existing GX WebManager capabilities such as Workflow & Authorization, Personalization and Transactions & Micro Applications; GX’s WebTV solution is a WCB that aims specifically at the management of video content for one or more publication channels including a mobile portal and/or interactive television that can be accessed through a set-top box and/or a media centre interface or new future channels.

Features of 9.4:
•WebTV;
•E-shop;
•JBoss certification;

•WCB extensibility framework.

GX WebManager 9.3

GX WebManager even more Developer friendly with GX WebManager 9.3; The GX WebManager 9 architecture allows developers to build their own WCBs on top of the GX WebManager platform. In this version, developers are supported with more developertools, such as the content API, the Database Browser, the System Utilities and a new generation of JCR Browsing which gives access to the Java Content Repository.

•Content API;
•AJAX-based usability Improvements;
•Database browser;
•System Utilities;

•Next Generation JCR browser.

GX WebManager 9.2

GX WebManager available as Community Edition; With the launch of the GX WebManager Community Edition, organizations get easy access to the complete Web Content Management platform with a software development kit. The community edition comes fully with an installer and online help.

Features of 9.2:
•Online Help;
•AJAX in edit interface;
•API additions;
•Installer;

•Community edition.

GX WebManager 9.1

Easy and Open Article Management; GX WebManager’s article management has been improved significantly with the enhanced MS Office integration, new interface improvements and the Media Repository API. The latter allows for the dynamic retrieval of Articles through services. Moreover, the JCR browser supports developers with the storage of content in the Content Repository.

Features of 9.1:
•Interface improvements;
•Media Repository API;
•MS Office Integration enhancement;
•WCB examples;
•First JCR browser;

•GUI guidelines.

GX WebManager 9.0

GX Introduces New Generation of Web Content Management; Organizations that regard the online channel as a strategic part of their business operations encounter a daily need to innovate and add new functionality to their websites, web shops or other Internet activities, while the stable environment where the business processes are automated has to remain intact. GX WebManager 9.0 offers this as runtime capability without the need to further customize the product or migrate to a newer version. A new functionality can simply be added as a separate component to the existing system.

Flexibility and openness are the pillars supporting GX’s products. The three most important innovations of the new product that makes GX a market leader are:
•JSR-170 content repository;
•OSGI framework for WCBs;
•Spring MVC.

GX delivers with the following migration support:
•Maven builds;
•Migration scripts.