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Gilbane Web Content Management Survey Lauds Lyris' Hot Banana CMS Solution
Hot Banana Obtains Highest Rating for Application Design, Interaction with Other Systems, Overall Ease of Use
Dec. 6, 2007 10:00 AM
Lyris, Inc. announced that its Hot Banana Web content
management solution (CMS) was ranked highest in overall ease of use by The 2007
Gilbane Group Survey on the Web Content Management User Experience.
The survey results ranked Hot Banana highest in overall ease
of use, interaction with other systems, and application design. Hot Banana also
ranked in the top three for its navigation and feature functions and for its
incorporation of rich media.
Survey respondents noted that Hot Banana enables users to
create content in Office applications or in Adobe Photoshop and then easily
transfer the content and graphics to Web pages. Hot Banana was also recognized
for its integration with other systems such as CRM, ERP and business
intelligence solutions, and for its easy, intuitive application design.
Respondents reported that the Hot Banana CMS solution made it easy for them to incorporate
rich media into Web pages and that its interface was straightforward and easy
to navigate.
“This is the kind of
validation that every company strives for – highly positive feedback from actual
Web CMS users, responding to the usage issues that matter most to them,” said
Krista LaRiviere, Director of Professional Services for Lyris, Inc. and General
Manager of Hot Banana. “We are committed to providing the best e-marketing
solutions to our clients and we continually strive to improve usability, connectivity
and communications within our solution set.”
“Hot Banana did well
in the survey,” said Tony White, Gilbane’s Lead Analyst for Web Content Management.
“Ratings in categories such as ease-of-use and application design often have an
inverse relationship with ratings in other areas like application integration.
But Hot Banana users gave it top ratings in all three. That’s rather unusual.”
The survey was conducted in recognition of emerging trends
whereby companies are prioritizing their selection criteria around the ease
with which users can create highly usable Web sites with rich content.
The survey ranked eight vendors in addition to the Lyris Hot
Banana CMS, including Acumium, CrownPeak, EMC, Interwoven, Oracle, OpenText,
Percussion and In-House.
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