InfoWorld Gives Top Honors to CrownPeak Technology in Comprehensive Content Management Cover Story

Business Wire, Nov 8, 2004

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. -- CrownPeak CMS Rated 'Excellent' In Overview of On-Demand Offerings in the Category

CrownPeak Technology (www.crownpeak.com), the software service leader in content management, today accepted kudos from InfoWorld, a publication widely respected for its in-depth coverage and evaluation of IT products for technology professionals. InfoWorld's October 22 cover story on content management products confirmed CrownPeak's position as segment leader while laying to rest any question about the effectiveness of on-demand delivery of content management solutions.

"CrownPeak's CMS is a complete CM system that's both extremely powerful yet won't confound business users," the publication noted in its review of content management systems. "The system's three main advantages put it in the top spot." The evaluation praises CrownPeak for its connectivity to other systems, its flexible user interface, and for its ability to take normally time-intensive tasks and reduce them to a matter of minutes.

"We are gratified by this recognition from one of the industry's most respected product information sources," said Jim Howard, CEO, CrownPeak. "InfoWorld confirms what our customers have been telling us for some time now. Hosted content management solutions simply make sense -- on a feature basis, they're every bit as capable as enterprise content management packages, if not more so. They're quicker and far less expensive to deploy, and virtually risk-free, which means that there are literally no trade-offs or sacrifices to make in going the hosted, on-demand route."

InfoWorld observed that past concerns regarding the hosted model are now moot, citing data from market researcher IDC that predicts on-demand application services will grow from $425 million in 2002 to $2.6 billion by 2007. The publication acknowledges what a number of corporate users have learned the hard way -- that installed content management software is too costly and complex to implement and manage, even for large organizations.

"CrownPeak's CMS packs as much power as you'd likely need for handling a spectrum of corporate sites," InfoWorld stated. "Even early in testing, (we) had little question CrownPeak's CMS is an enterprise-level product. Enterprises requiring functional depth and publishing flexibility in a hosted Web CM system won't be disappointed by CrownPeak's CMS."

About CrownPeak Technology

Based in Los Angeles, CrownPeak Technology is the first company to provide world-class Web content management software as a service. CrownPeak's CMS platform is the only solution that combines enterprise-level power and flexibility with the cost and speed-of-implementation of a hosted software application. The CrownPeak CMS features the easiest-to-use interface of any CMS, and is the only hosted CMS to offer a full API and developer environment. Serving such clients as Crain Communications, Honeywell, Hyundai Motors, the University of Southern California, and the State of Virginia, CrownPeak's CMS supports thousands of users and manages and publishes hundreds of thousands of Web pages. CrownPeak has been named to eContent's 100 most influential companies list, has won eWeek's prestigious Analysts Choice Award and is a 2003 and 2004 SIIA Codie Award finalist as Best Content Management System.