Ephox Blog

Happy Birthday Ephox. It's time to party like it's 1999!

On November 12, Ephox will celebrate 10 years of success. Recently, many numbers have been used to describe Ephox, including:

• #1 – EditLive! is the leading online content editing software in the world by sales
• #14 on the Fast Private list for the fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley (2009)
• #770 on the Inc 5,000 fastest growing companies in the US with 383% three-year growth (2009)

And now we have #10 – the years since our inception in 1999.

Which means it’s time to party!

The entire Ephox team will come together in Brisbane, Australia to mark this exciting landmark.  We invite our customers and partners to join us on November 12, as we offer thanks to all of the industry stakeholders, customers, seed investors, former staff and supporters who have allowed our company to succeed in such an extraordinary way.

When: Thursday 12th November, 2009 6.00pm – 10.00pm

Event Information:  For more event details, visit the event page: http://ephoxturns10.eventbrite.com

Ephox Ranks #14 as one of Silicon Valley's Fastest Growing Private Companies

Ephox has made the "Fast Private" - a list of the top 70 fastest growing companies in Silicon Valley as calculated by the Silicon Valley Business Journal.  They announced our ranking at a ceremony and we were happy to make it so close to the top - we were #14.

See the full ranking here:

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2009/10/05/daily90.html

In the News: Ephox aims to outsmart open source

Palo Alto firm tackles free web site service

San Francisco Business Times - by Vasanth Sridharan

http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2009/09/14/smallb1.html?b=1252900800%5E2066921

Webinar: Web Content Management for Government Sites with IBM and Ephox

Implementing and managing a web content management system is a difficult task – particularly in a government organization where content has to comply with strict regulations. Using real customer examples, we will discuss how government sites are successfully using IBM Lotus Web Content Management and EditLive! to save time, comply with complicated policies, and provide the widest accessibility.

October 6, 2009 - See the recording

Ephox is movin' on up on the Inc. 5000

Ephox has earned the position of #755 on the 2009 Inc. 5000 - Inc. Magazine's annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America.  This is up from our position of #1,990 in the 2008 Inc. 5000.  Despite the troubled economy, Ephox has achieved its most successful fiscal year yet!

Webinar: Are You Taking Full Advantage of the Rich Text Editor Inside Vignette Content Management, Collaboration, and Portal?

View this Recorded Webinar from July 29, 2009

Learn how to take advantage of the power and flexibility of Ephox EditLive! - the rich text editor inside Vignette Content Management, Collaboration, and Portal.    

Experts from Vignette and Ephox will show you tips on how to create high quality web content, faster and more consistently. We will share key success factors and best practices to help authors with daily content editing tasks, as well showing site managers how easy it is to set up and customize EditLive! for an even better user experience.

Agenda:

• Time savers such as copy/paste from Word, styles and tables
• Advanced features including image editing, track changes and accessibility checking
• Common customizations and benefits derived
• Best practices for editor set up
• Q&A

Presented by Bertrand de Coatpont, Vignette Senior Product Manager,  Michael Fromin, Ephox Director of Products, and Robert Kraai of Kraai Consulting.

In the News at Software CEO: How to Profit by Moving from Downloads to Enterprise Sales

Using Ephox's success as an example, our VP of Sales and Marketing, Antony Awaida, published an article featuring eleven tips to increase profit by focusing on selling to the enterprise:

See the article on SoftwareCEO.com

 

In the News at Econtent Magazine: Compelling Compliance - Bringing Digital Content Up-to-Code

Econtent Magazine covers Ephox’s accessibility technology in the June 2009 feature story:

Compelling Compliance: Bringing Digital Content Up-to-Code

Econtent Magazine by Jessica Dye
June 2009

“We believe that accessibility will become increasingly important, particularly as the population ages and companies seek to create webpages that give them broader market penetration and commercial advantages,” says Damien Fitzpatrick, director of products for Ephox Corp., a company that makes content compliance tools such as EditLive!. “The Target case serves as an important warning of the legal requirements for accessibility for all websites, not just government sites.”

Webinar: Effective Content Management for IBM Portal and Quickr Environments

View the recording of this joint webinar with Ascendant Technology and Ephox to learn how customers are benefiting from using Lotus Web Content Management's new Rich Text Editor to optimize and integrate the publishing of web content in their IBM WebSphere Portal and IBM Lotus Quickr environments.

 

Webinar: How to Gain Even More Value from IBM Lotus Web Content Management's NEW Rich Text Editor

View this recorded webinar and learn how customers have benefited from IBM Lotus Web Content Management's new rich text editor - EditLive!.

We’ll discuss the key success factors and proof points from numerous customer implementations of EditLive!. Learn how more than 100 organizations across numerous industries have used Lotus Web Content Management to empower line of business professionals and content owners to quickly create and manage rich web content.

Presented by:

• Krishnan Hariharan - IBM Lotus Web Content Management
• Michael Fromin - Ephox
• Amier Jordan - WP Experts for Generali