Ektron Announces All-Star Customers and Partners at Successful Synergy 2007 Conference

September 18, 2007; 09:50 AM
Nashua, N.H. – September 18, 2007 – Ektron Inc., a technology and market leader in Web content management software, named several customers and partners All-Star award winners at its inaugural Synergy 2007 Worldwide Customer Conference in Boston on September 13^th. Hundreds of customers and partners were nominated for the honor which distinguishes users that have best leveraged Ektron’s content management technology to develop the most dynamic, engaging and interactive Web sites.

The Ektron All-Star award winners were selected from twenty categories of Web sites developed with Ektron CMS400.NET. All nominees were eligible to win best overall Web site of the year, an honor which was awarded to King’s Daughters Medical Center of Ashland, Kentucky. Winners received an engraved Louisville Slugger baseball bat and tickets to a professional baseball game in their region.

“We spent hours looking at the entries and nominated Web sites, and narrowed it down to three finalists per category,” said George Rassias, Ektron VP of Sales. “The winning Web sites featured a distinct range of content functionality that meets the needs of everyone who interacts with the site, from employees to partners to customers,” added Rassias.

“Ektron’s All Stars have built highly successful sites that combine clear design and navigation with compelling content and forward-thinking strategies.” said Bill Rogers, founder and chief executive officer, Ektron. “It’s really exciting to see how Ektron’s customers are building their sites with advanced features such as GeoMapping, taxonomy, enhanced search, Wiki support, search engine optimization, and community building features such as blogs, forums, and membership.”

With no prior asp.net experience, King’s Daughters Medical Center Web development team was able to use CMS400.NET to easily customize its events calendar, online bill payment and physician search feature, which seamlessly links patients with physicians in addition to other Web 2.0 features found on its homepage. “In creating a new site we felt that our biggest challenge would be porting old information to the new site and doing so in a timely manner,” said James Stout, Web Designer, King’s Daughters Medical Center. “The ease of development is the best feature for us. This is by far the best CMS system for the money,” added Stout.

In addition to the MVP, Ektron recognized the All-Star Starting Line-Up of the best websites in 19 solution-specific categories:

• Best Association Web Site- Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and Site Design www.grandronde.org 
• Best K12 Web Site- Montgomery County Public Schools www.mcps.k12.md.us 
• Best Higher Education Web Site-Medill School of Journalism and Web solutions www.medill.northwestern.edu 
• Best Entertainment Site Web Site- Alliance Theater and Square Root Solutions- (Platinum Partner) www.alliancetheatre.org 
• Best Financial Web Site-Paybefore.com  www.paybefore.com 
• Best Government Web Site-City of Frisco, Texas www.ci.frisco.tx.us 
• Best Healthcare Web Site- King’s Daughters Medical Center www.kdmc.com 
• Best Travel Web Site -Kenya Airways www.kenya-airways.com 
• Best Insurance Web Site- Penn National Insurance www.pennnationalinsurance.com/portal 
• Best Manufacturing Web Site- Fiat and AKQA www.fiat.co.uk 
• Best Media Web Site -Business365.com and platinum partner Optiem www.business365.com 
• Best Non Profit Web Site-The Boston Foundation and partner Enforme Interactive www.tbf.org 
• Best Religious Web Site- Moody Ministries and platinum partner C2 Group www.moodyministries.net 
• Best Retail Web Site - Dean and Deluca and gold partner IT Strategists www.deandeluca.com 
• Best Online community Web Site -Sportbikes.com www.sportbikes.com 
• Best Services Web Site -Compass UPS and certified partner Allied Consulting compass.ups.com 
• Best Homebuilding Web Site -Plunkett Raysich Architects and gold partner Versant www.prarch.com 
• Best Technology Web Site - Teleperformance and BGT platinum partner www.teleperformance.com/usa 
• Best Energy Web Site -Consumers Energy www.consumersenergy.com/welcome.htm 

About Ektron
Ektron’s Web content management and authoring solutions are affordable for any organization and simple enough for anyone to use, yet offer webmasters, designers and developers all the tools they need to create, deploy and manage interactive Web, intranet and extranet sites on one platform. With Ektron CMS400.NET, companies can do what they want on the Web, including developing rich sites for personal, two-way communication with visitors, building community through memberships, blogs and forums, and attracting more repeat visits using RSS feeds and Web alerts to increase business opportunities. An open API allows for easy customization and extension. Ektron is headquartered in Nashua, N.H., and has more than 20,000 customer implementations worldwide, including Unilever, Intel and Pfizer. For more information, visit http://www.ektron.com.