Percussion Software & Rhythmyx - In The News

April 28, 2008 - CMS Wire Review
Personalization is back for Web Content Management

Once upon a time personalization was a magic and wonderful word. The promises came and went, largely unfulfilled. That’s not to say that the technology didn’t work. It did. Nor is it to say that the basic ideas were bad. They weren’t. The problems by and large were related to how people attempted to use the stuff and the complexities and costs related to integrating it.

Amazon and others have continued to pursue the grail, if in modest strokes. Now were seeing web content management vendors investing in this direction. I say “grand!” If it’s done simply and with out too much ambition, personalization can be a great tool.

January 7, 2008 - Business Intelligence Network
Aearo Technologies Selects Percussion's Rhythmyx WCM

"We needed a WCM solution that could be deployed on a global basis and that was easy to use and easy to learn. We're going to have many, many images to manage and 18 different languages that need to be updated, so we had very robust requirements. Percussion's Rhythmyx was Ovation's recommendation, and from their assessments and evaluations, we agreed," said Aearo's Vice President of Marketing Services Jim Gray.

October 22, 2007 - CMS Wire Review
Percussion Repositions Web Content Management Solution

Jumping square in the middle of the Web 2.0 bandwagon, enterprise Web CMS vendor, Percussion, has announced a new Solution Series for their Rhythmyx Web CMS platform.

While we’re all aware of the broad scope of Web 2.0, the focus of Percussion’s effort are on target, if a bit more focused. This latest update hones in on integrating Web 2.0 content flows, and on a concept that other Web CMS vendors, such as Hot Banana, have placed a lot of value on — measuring the performance of content and creating feedback loops.

August 27, 2007 - DM Review
The Special Demands of Customer-Centric Content: How Organizations Can Maximize Their Returns

Percussion Software's own Vernon Imrich, Chief Technology Officer, writes for DM Review a great article concerning maximizing your returns.

"Customer interaction and communication are keys to driving increased sales, improving customer retention and maximizing lifetime customer value. To leverage customer-centric content for business advantage, organizations need multi-channel Web Content Management (WCM) that's capable of helping them to increase their return on content (ROC). Maximizing ROC requires an approach that treats WCM systems as highly agile business applications that draw on data from other enterprise systems - rather than being just another part of the infrastructure.

April 5, 2007 - Computing
Pharmaceutical firm revamps intranet to improve data access

"Shire is implementing the Rhythmyx content management system from vendor Percussion Software, which will connect content and information channels via a set of content-driven applications.

"The new system will go live in the next six months, enabling the firm to create content and reuse digital assets across multiple channels, says Longden. 'We may want to extend the system to our external web site, and offer web capability to business users who want to create mini-sites within the organisation,' he said."

October 11, 2006 - Bloor Research
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association finds a CMS

"If all software developers and particularly web designers would use the same testing methodology as Percussion the industry would be producing higher quality, more usable and obviously more accessible solutions."

September, 2006 - AIIM
Princess Cruises Selects Percussion Software's Rhythmyx for Global WCM Solution

"With Percussion's Rhythmyx [web content management] system, we will redefine how content is designed and delivered, make our WCM capabilities more efficient, and improve customer service by better serving our regional audiences," says Greg Sieg, Senior Manager of IT, Technology Development & Support for Princess Cruises.

August, 2006 - University Business
CMS: Sticking with the Tried & True

"Rhythmyx not only provides a way for non-technical users to create web content without having to learn HTML or Adobe's DreamWeaver web-creation software, but it also provides support. We don't have enough staff to support all of the departments, so this product is great," says Toby Singer, executive director of IT at BGSU.

August 7, 2006 - ECM Connection
Web Content Management: Armstrong World Industries Using Percussion's Rhythmyx To Deliver Multilingual Content To More Than 100 Web Sites Worldwide

"Rhythmyx not only provides a way for non-technical users to create web content without having to learn HTML or Adobe's DreamWeaver web-creation software, but it also provides support. We don't have enough staff to support all of the departments, so this product is great," says Toby Singer, executive director of IT at BGSU."

June 26, 2006 - OpenSource Magazine
Percussion Unveils Linux Supported Web Content Management Software

"Percussion Software introduced Rhythmyx 6, the newest version of its award-winning enterprise-ready WCM System. Rhythmyx 6 extends Percussion's leadership position in the WCM market by providing a robust platform for more easily managing customer-centric content across multiple sites, multiple channels and multiple lines of business."

June 5, 2006 - AIIM
Percussion Software's Rhythmyx Content Management Solution Selected by Midway

"Midway's search for a content management solution began with their need to replace outdated technology that was exposing their Web site to a single point of failure and hampering efforts to upgrade their Web infrastructure. The company's online marketing group wanted a flexible, easy-to-use system to help its staff maintain Web content more efficiently and enable them to be much more productive."

June 2, 2006 - DMReview
University of Rhode Island Chooses Percussion's Rhythmyx

"At URI, our broadening base of content contributors and authors is a big concern, along with the incredible proliferation of Web pages and sites," said Trent Batson, URI's director of Information and Instructional Technology Services. "Within our College of Arts & Science alone, we have over 400 sites. As a midsized institution, we can't afford to hand-build sites, keep sites current, perform quality control and handle the growing volumes that we have without automation."

May 22, 2006 - Forbes.com
Percussion Software Actively Supports New iECM Industry Consortium Under AIIM Auspices

"Percussion Software, a leading developer of practical software solutions enabling customers to maximize the value and quality of enterprise content, today announced its active support of and membership in the new Interoperable Enterprise Content Management (iECM) Consortium organized under the auspices of AIIM, the enterprise content management standards developer."

May 17, 2006 - Eye for Travel
Cheapflights opts for Percussion Software's enterprise content management solution

"The delivery of additional content to Cheapflights’ users to help them make more informed decisions will certainly help build traffic still further as well as loyalty. This will ultimately increase our revenues by driving even more highly qualified leads to our travel advertising partners as well as enhancing loyalty from both users and advertising partners."

April 19, 2006 - Computing
Guide Dogs for the Blind gets new intranet

"The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association has deployed a new intranet to improve services for its blind and partially sighted staff.... The intranet will now be compatible with technology like screen readers, which are used by blind and partially sighted people to access information on web pages."

November 14, 2005 - Business Intelligence Network
The MathWorks has Leveraged an Evolving Rhythmyx ECM Solution

"The MathWorks has leveraged an evolving Rhythmyx ECM solution from Percussion Software. From its earliest implementation, through successive upgrades to today's state-of-the-art solution, The MathWorks has continued to utilize Rhythmyx to better improve its web-based marketing and communications efforts. By putting publishing power into the hands of users across departments who own the content, Rhythmyx has enabled the company to reduce the IT staff responsible for web updates 60 percent, while gaining additional productivity by assigning those developers to other projects. At the same time, The MathWorks has increased the volume of web content managed by more than 1,000 percent."

October 24, 2005 - Government Computer News
Behind every good e-Gov program ...

"The business case for WCM is to give organizations a way to get (information they already have) to new audiences," said Vern Imrich, chief technology officer of Percussion Software Inc. "But most content that agencies have was written by people that have never written for anyone but themselves and other people in their department."

That means there has to be a thorough, automated process for converting content and filtering it into forms that are appropriate for the audience. "If you force the users to do all the work, the process fails," Imrich said.

September 6, 2005 - Information Week
Alliance & Leicester Turns to Percussion's Rhythmyx ECM to Develop Its Second Generation Intranet

Content Management System Helps FTSE 100 Company to Improve Cost and Accuracy of Information Delivery to Its Intranet

July 25, 2005 - Information Week
New Ways To Corral Content

"Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group Inc.'s Thrifty Car Rental division uses enterprise content management to drive business on 450 city-specific Web sites it launched in May, bringing its total number of sites to 600. The new sites are managed using Rhythmyx, a content-management system from Percussion Software Inc. At Thrifty's original 150 city Web sites, which were launched in 2003, individual franchisees still are responsible for populating their sites with local content such as pricing, special offers, weather, and entertainment; the sites are maintained from a central location."

June 1, 2005 - itWorldCanada
Percussion brings new rhythm to CA Institute workflow

"Our membership visits our Web site every day," said Janet Blais, director of IT at ICAO. "It's such an important part of our communications with members. We update our content regularly and it is important to enable staff with a content management system (CMS) that is easy and efficient to use."

May 25, 2005 - AIIM
Percussion Software's Rhythmyx FastForward for WCM Named AIIM ON DEMAND 2005 "Best of Show"

"The judges cited Rhythmyx's ease of implementation and ability to accommodate a variety of content types across customer websites. We are pleased to present the Best of Show award in Web Content Management to Percussion."

May 6, 2005 - Computerworld
Technology upgrades at Churchill Downs ready for Derby debut

"Our membership visits our Web site every day," said Janet Blais, director of IT at ICAO. "It's such an important part of our communications with members. We update our content regularly and it is important to enable staff with a content management system (CMS) that is easy and efficient to use."

February 7, 2005 - AIIM
Thrifty Car Rental Wins IQPC's "Internet/Intranet Best-in-Class" Award With Percussion Software's Rhythmyx ECM

Thrifty's Successful Deployment of Rhythmyx as the Content Management Foundation To Drive Its Brand Across 250-plus Web Sites Honored at Content Week 2005.

February 2, 2005 - KMWorld
Getting a charge from content management

"We maintain only one to two Web developers, but they've been able to manage four times the amount of content than they could before we started using the solution," Wenzlaff [of BCHydro] says. "Plus, we have other employees on the intranet side who can manage much more content more easily."

December 6, 2004 - AIIM
City of Boise Selects Percussion Software's Rhythmyx 5.5 ECM To Enhance its Web Presence and Improve e-Government

"We were impressed by how Percussion listened to us and offered creative ideas for solving the issues we're facing. One good example is .NET integration. Our current site and all of our e-commerce and e-government capabilities are .NET-based. We have several large .NET applications to integrate with the CMS, including our online budget presentation and reporting. Percussion's people were the most knowledgeable about how to make the integration happen."

December, 2004 - EContent
EContent 100

"... Percussion has played an outsized role in the CMS marketplace, evangelizing early and often for the role of XML in managing content ..."

November 29, 2004 - AIIM
National Express Selects Rhythmyx 5.5 From Percussion Software To Manage Newly Re-developed Web Site

"Rhythmyx's Active Assembly capability will allow our content authors to group and rearrange content in Web pages, and establish links, for example, to direct users to special offers and promotions on the site, while ensuring content is presented in a consistent format."

November 12, 2004 - DM Review
V&A Launches New Web Site Offering Richer Content Powered by Rhythmyx

"Our priority for content management was to select a system that enabled our museum staff to manage the Web site content and reuse it. Another priority was to deploy an ECM that was flexible enough to meet our future content management requirements."

November 17, 2004 - KMWorld
Getting a charge from content management

"We chose [Rhythmyx] because it was more open standards-based; it was based on Java and it had a more open architecture..."

November 1, 2004 - KMWorld
KM Reality Award

"Once its customer service knowledgebase was converted from HTML to a CM system from Percussion Software (percussion.com), the amount of content managed soon quadrupled and has continued to grow."

November 15, 2004 - Intranet Journal
Rhythymx 5.5 Aims at Middle of Content Management Market

"The folks at Percussion believe the mid-market is unique in its content management needs and that simply downsizing enterprise offerings doesn't cut it."

November 10, 2004 - Sys-Con Media
Percussion Gets What Makes Mid-Tier ECM Work

"Percussion's latest version of its Rhythmyx ECM tool, demonstrates an understanding of the unique needs inherent in ECM mid-tier markets have. Version 5.5 gives users near unilateral capabilities reusing and placing various content types across multiple channels, providing for rapid investment return."

October 26, 2004 - EContent
Percussion Software Introduces Rhythmyx 5.5

"Percussion Software has introduced version 5.5 of its Rhythmyx enterprise content management (ECM) solution. Among Rhythmyx 5.5's new features are enhancements to the document management (DM) module, new digital asset management (DAM) capabilities, and the FastForward for WCM rapid implementation package."

October 27, 2004 - Intranets
Percussion Software Introduces Rhythmyx 5.5

"Among the most important new features in Rhythmyx 5.5 are those that are intended to advance the way Rhythmyx handles unstructured content for both DM and DAM."

October 25, 2004 - The Gilbane Report
Percussion Introduces Rhythmyx 5.5 - Focused on Mid-tier

"Rhythmyx 5.5 is tailored for organizations of any size that share the mid-tier market's need balance between out-of-the-box functionality vs. customization requirements."

October 26, 2004 - Content-Wire
Extending the Lead in the Mid-Tier ECM Market

"Tailored for organizations that share the mid-tier market's need for the right balance between out-of-the-box functionality vs. customization requirements, the new features are designed to deliver a more robust ECM solution, with faster time-to-value and higher ROI."

October 26, 2004 - EContent Magazine
Percussion Software Introduces Rhythmyx 5.5

"Rhythmyx 5.5 also introduces new digital asset management capabilities including: integration with DAM creation tools via WebDAV, including Adobe PhotoShop; indexing and searching of over 200 digital asset formats; library services and meta-data management; an Impact Analysis feature that enables organizations to understand all the places where an asset is being used; and a new Inline Image Editor."

October 1, 2004 - DM Review
Churchill Downs Selects Percussion Software's Rhythmyx 5 Enterprise Content Management Solution

"We chose Rhythmyx 5 because of its easy integration with our existing systems, including UNIX and NT servers, the Epiphany CRM suite and our Internet portal as well as its support for industry standards such as XML and Java."

September 27, 2004 - AIIM
V & A Launches New Web Site Offering Richer Content Powered By Rhythmyx from Percussion Software

"The V&A selected Percussion Software's Rhythmyx over eight other vendors because it provided the greatest flexibility and most closely matched all its business and technical requirements."

August 16, 2004 - CMSwire
Percussion Wins at Churchill Downs

"Rhythmyx 5 was selected as the best content management solution for CDI in a competitive evaluation of 32 vendors' systems."

July 26, 2004 - PCQuote.com
BankAtlantic Selects Percussion Software's Rhythmyx 5 Enterprise Content Management Solution

"In short, Rhythmyx 5 was the only solution that offered everything we needed."

June 30, 2004 - InfoWorld
Content management hits the mid-tier

"Percussion this week introduced Rhythmyx FastForward, a new feature set for its Rhythmyx 5 ECM offering. FastForward aims to meet the needs of the mid-tier market by speeding implementation and providing more application functionality out of the box, according to Percussion officials."

May 12, 2004 - e-Pro Magazine
e-Pro Magazine Names 2004 Apex Awards for Lotus Winners

Systems Administration Readers' Choice - Percussion Software for ServerAdmin Plus

April 2004 - DM Review, Volume 14, Number 4
Product Review: Percussion Software Rhythmyx 5 ECM

Thrifty Car Rental Uses Percussion Software's Rhythmyx 5 ECM as the Cornerstone of its International E-Commerce Effort

March 22, 2004 - WashingtonPost.com
Sybase Launches Universal User Experience Management Product To OEM Market

"Percussion Software Inc., an enterprise content management software supplier, embedded Sybase Mach Desktop into the Rhythmyx product line to provide its customers with a unified solution for accelerated content delivery in conjunction with its leading content management system. "

March 16, 2004 - Federal Computer Week
S.F. Transportation Group Buys Content System

"Percussion's Rhythmyx 5 Enterprise Content Management system will free the commission's small Web staff from the small but frequent tasks that consume much of their time, according to Joel Markowitz, the commission's manager of advanced systems applications. Using the new system, each office within the commission will release and maintain its information. For example, the human resources department will handle job announcements directly rather than managing them through the Web team."

March 4, 2004 - CMS Watch
ProductWatch: XSLT 2.0 - A Transforming Experience for Content Management?

"In recent interviews with CMS vendors, both Doug Domeny of Ektron and Vern Imrich of Percussion identified regular expression support as top items on their developers' wish lists. According to Percussion's Imrich, "Currently, we use a mix of Java and XSLT to do content filtering based on patterns. Once XSLT 2.0 is finalized, we anticipate being able to do all of this in the XSLT stylesheet, which will help make our applications more modular and allow us to implement new filtering features by writing or upgrading XSLT stylesheets, rather than Java code." He also noted that XSLT 2.0's regular expression-based "replace" feature should be especially handy for helping clean up XML generated from Microsoft Word."

March 2004 - Transform Magazine
AIIM 2004 New Product Preview

"Lyrix is a J2EE/.Net integration solution for the reuse of Domino content in content management, portals and enterprise apps such as CRM systems. Developed by Percussion (www.percussion.com), Lyrix is aimed at the thousands of companies with existing Domino applications that want to reuse related content in non-Domino applications."

March 1, 2004 - NewsAlert
50 Industry Leaders on Board for Gilbane Conference on Content Management

"The Gilbane Report and Lighthouse Seminars announced that 50 organizations have signed up so far to support the Gilbane Conference on Content Management as sponsors and exhibitors. The conference, being held at the Westin Bonaventure in Los Angeles, March 24-26, 2004, is entirely focused on content management technologies and includes 26 sessions and tutorials covering today's most critical issues for businesses planning or implementing content management strategies."

February 3, 2004 - EContent Magazine
Percussion Software Selects Sybase OEM Products

"Sybase, Inc., a provider of enterprise infrastructure and mobile software, has announced that Percussion Software, Inc., an enterprise content management software supplier, has chosen to embed Sybase's Content Capture Technology and Mach Desktop solutions into the Rhythmyx product line, in an effort to provide its customers with a unified solution for accelerated content delivery in conjunction with their content management system. "