Product Update & New Features | Contensis User Groups 2015

Richard Saunders, Contensis Product Owner from Zengenti, runs through the latest features of the 8.3 release. We see an overview of items appearing on the roadmap.

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1. Contensis London User Group
2. Richard Saunders Contensis Product Owner @rdsaunders
3. 8.0 8.1 8.2
4. 8.0 8.1 8.2 • UI redesign • HTML5 support • New WYSIWYG editor • Improved publishing • Image replacement & versioning • Hyperlink & release management • Responsive video • Recycle bin • Propertied razor views • Marketplace • Improved form administration • Improved content creation • Trigger keywords • New search • 3rd party integrations • Developer improvements • UX & performance improvements September 2014 April 2015 August 2013
5. Contensis 8.3
6. Personalisation
8. Implicit Data Capture
11. Explicit Data Capture
14. Contacts API
19. Activity • IsReturningVisitor • IsRegistered • FirstSeen • LastSeen Personal • Name • Email • DateOfBirth • Age • Gender • Phone • Mobile • Language • Address Location • Current • Default Work • Phone • Email • Company • JobTitle • Department Device • Current • Default Social • TwitterName Custom
20. • API can be used in razor • Use the power of propertied razor views • Ability to access placeholder data • create a template with multiple placeholders with given rules set against them
21. Preview
25. Master Pages & Publishing Performance
26. Master Pages
27. • Switched on at publishing server level • Some custom code will be affected, we’ve added the ability to search custom code in Contensis search • Master render template support gives you control of the core document HTML
28. Publishing Performance
29. • Significant improvements to publishing through performance profiling • Improvements to caching, stored procedures • Reduced database calls for common requests • More intelligent publishing of XML files
30. Log Viewer & Framework
33. Core Improvements
34. • Inline razor support • Auto publishing CSS / JS / Razor to preview • Improved the order by logic in the WebAPI • Added the ability to disable the script manager on front ends sites reducing page bloat
35. UX Improvements
36. • Page / Sub / Master templates have their own icons • Quick search has been updated • XML files are clearly identified in the publishing queue • Folder paths are now shown in the publishing queue • Added estimate time to publish
37. Housekeeping
38. • Removed Google Analytics charts from the dashboard and the popularity tab due to changes in Google Analytics API. • Dropped support for IE8 / IE9 • Cleaned up CMS Utilities • Removed old IIS6 entries from the web.config
39. November 2015 8.3
41. Roadmap
42. • Content Definitions & APIs 
 e.g. Structured Content • SVG Support • SASS Support • Content Owner • Extending search • Reading age score • Surfacing Contacts in CXM
43. Q&A
44. Break 15 Minutes
45. Your Voice
46. If you could change a single thing about Contensis what would it be and why?
47. What problem would you like to solve with our product?
48. Which features could you live without?
49. What feature could you not live without?
50. What is the most important thing for us to get right, why?
51. Q&A
52. Keep Updated
54. Richard Saunders Thank You @rdsaunders