Ektron, a Web content management software provider, today announced it has received the highest rank in Gartner’s (News - Alert) Web Content Management MarketScope report.

 

The MarketScope report gave the Web content management (WCM) market an overall rating of “Positive”, stating that “the WCM market is entering a new phase of its evolution. There is a clearer link between WCM and business success, which is driving both solution selling and innovation.”

 

Ektron’s Chief Executive Officer, William Rogers, commented, “I believe Gartner’s findings directly reflect Ektron’s success in providing the world’s leading organizations with a superior product offering and affirms our ongoing commitment to support our expanding customer base.”

 

Rogers continued, “I feel that the Strong Positive rating not only confirms Ektron’s ability to address the rapidly evolving needs in the market place, but is also a testament to the talent and value our employees and our partners bring forth.”

 

According to Gartner, a strong positive rating means, “The vendor dominates the market as a whole, or a market segment, typically withdouble-digit share. It is a default choice for many buyers' shortlists. Its strategic direction isclear, stable and well-communicated, and it has an unquestioned ability to execute on that vision."

 

A total of 17 companies were evaluated in the 2008 WCM report.

 

The complete “MarketScope for Web Content Management, 2008” report can be viewed by Gartner clients at www.gartner.com.

 

Founded in 1998, Ektron has been committed to providing affordable Web content management and authoring solutions. Ektron CMS400.NET (News - Alert) empowers non-technical business users by providing an intuitive user interface for managing their Web site’s content and messaging. Ektron has a complete set of social networking tools and fully supports all Web 2.0 functionality. Ektron understands what a successful Internet, intranet or extranet site needs and has built the solution to make that success a reality.

 

Headquartered in Nashua, N.H., Ektron has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including NASA, Kodak (News - Alert) and Johnson & Johnson.

 

The MarketScope is copyrighted June 26, 2008 by Gartner, and is reused with permission. The MarketScope is an evaluation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.