CMSwire reports from the CMS Expo 2009 that the web development firm ZacWare will release the Jentla CMS as the first “enterprise level” version of the popular open source content management system, Joomla. According to the story, the CTO of Jentla Russel Burstow made a special trip to the conference to make a presentation and announcement on the matter. The Jentla/Joomla release is targeted at large scale publishers who need to manage up to 1000 individual websites under one CMS canopy. The Jentla version allows for one click updates across all sites, and offers a number of extensible controls that expand configuration options.

“Russell Burstow took an 18 hour flight to represent Jentla at CMS Expo. The company’s Chief Technology Officer spoke about his company’s enterprise layer software for Joomla. Could this be the next great evolution of the open source content management system? Those of us who admin multiple Joomla sites are keenly aware of the enterprise layer functionality missing in Joomla. Jentla Multi-Site CMS, says Burstow, solves critical issues which have discouraged large scale enterprise from adapting Joomla.  Most importantly, Jentla offers one click updates (both Joomla and extensions) on multiple sites, automated backups, one seat management and ‘near infinite’ scalability.”

What defines Multi-site CMS?

“Jentla smashes preconceived notions and revolutionizes Multisite Content Management Solutions, by delivering incredible performance at unbelievable price points.”

“It radically reduces the amount of time require to build, scale and maintain sophisticated multisite websites, thereby increasing your profitability and ability to gain and manage new clientele.”

“With Jentla, you and their clients are able to manage multisite CMS implementations on a much larger scale and with much greater control than any other website management tool created to date. If you’re looking to efficiently build, manage, and maintain up to 1000 individual websites from one central manager system, you must take a look at the Jentla solution.”

The blog also reports that ZacWare, the development company behind Jentla, is dedicating two full time coders to the Joomla project as well as donating code to the source base. They quote ZacWare CEO Damian Hickey as saying “he feels that it’s vital that companies such as ZacWare fund ‘large scale development of the complex parts of an ECM version for Joomla,’ since ‘it requires a huge amount of focus beyond the scope of the core team’s resources. It makes Joomla! a really valid case as an ECM system for web delivery of content,’ Hickey continues, ‘broadening to more enterprise document management processes is inevitable for [ZacWare's] Jentla and we’ll roll stuff back into the project to help foster this direction.’”

Visit the ZacWare website: http://www.zac-ware.com/

Damian Hickey, LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/a82/b54

Could you explain Jentla in layman’s terms?

“Jentla makes it really easy to develop and manage 1,000’s of Joomla websites. Many businesses have multiple websites but they can’t gain any advantages with Joomla until they are linked together under a centralized site manager. That’s what Jentla does. Adding, approving and publishing web content works just like offline where it flows through several responsible staff.  It’s possible to place the same piece of content on multiple sites saving huge amounts of time. Managing the administration of the sites is really easy too and operations like site upgrades and extension upgrades can all be done instantly across a very large group of sites. The Joomla CMS has a short learning curve but when you add Jentla to it, it becomes easier and significantly more robust. Jenlta is also the most ambitious extension to Joomla we’re aware of, providing the Joomla development community the opportunity to compete at the enterprise level.”

Damian Hickey, Jentla CEO, Interview at CMS Expo 2009:

http://www.alledia.com/blog/interviews/interview-with-damian-hickey-founder-of-jentla/

“Gartner estimates that the ECM market is worth approximately $2.9 billion in 2007; this is expected to grow at a CAGR of 12.9% through 2011. After a plethora of industry consolidation, only three or four major companies are left in this space, and the industry as a whole is undergoing a significant transformation as Microsoft commoditizes content management components.”

Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management” October 2007

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ZacWare Releases Enterprise Joomla CMS for Multi-site Publishing: Jentla