2010: The Cascade Adventure

2009 Cascade Server User’s Conference Bradley Wagner/David Klanac

Introductions• David Klanac – formerly head of services,

still head of sales• Bradley Wagner – product manager for

Cascade and head of engineering

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What We’ve Been Up to in 2009

• Cascade 6.x Series!• 3 Features Releases

o Cascade 6.0o Cascade 6.2o Cascade 6.4 (beta)

• 6 patch releases

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Last Year’s Conference• New Roles• Sites

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Cascade 6.0• Sites

o To organize and segment content, support assets, and users

• New Roleso To give complete flexibility when granting abilities to users

• Basis for 6.x development

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Expanding Sites in 6.x We are silly for Sites:• Sites + New Roles => Site Roles (6.0)• Cross-Site Linking (6.2)• Shared Templates (6.2)

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Cascade 6.4

• Connectors

• User Experience (UX) enhancements

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Where do I get it?• Currently in Beta – download it today!

• Full 6.4 demo @ 11:15 with Mike Strauch

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Connectors

Twitter

WordPress

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Twitter Connector• Of course a Twitter connector!

• Automate the process of tweeting links to new content

• Includes prefix, the link, hash tags, and the title of the asset for uniqueness

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Word Press Connector• WP widely used blogging tool

• Author, manage content within Cascade and publish it to WordPress

• Take advantage of WP features:o Commentso Categorieso Tons of plugins

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Why Connectors?• Customers want CMS to perform a

widening range of functions: blogging, personalization, analytics

• We want to focus on doing a few things very well

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Why Connectors?• Remember the Delivery Server? WP is a

delivery engine that provides personalization, comments

• Connector was the fastest 

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Why Connectors?

Goal: To connect Cascade to other best-of-breed technologies already in use and let Cascade be the content hub

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Use Case for a New Connector

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UX Enhancements in 6.4• Drag n’ Drop form builder • Syntax highlighting code editor • Content comparison engine

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UX enhancements beyond 6.4• Have a reusable drag n’ drop framework

to improve cumbersome components

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Special Developer Projects• Projects not in the main roadmap• Already mentioned:

o Syntax highlighting code editor (6.4)o Improved content comparison (6.4)o Drag n’ Drop form builder

• Other projects:o Copy Folder with relative linkingo Broadcast messages/alerts (6.4)

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Release Schedule and Process

• Beta releases are here to stay

• Expect feature releases 1-2 months after betas

• We want your feedback!

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How You Can Contribute

• Success community Idea Exchange

• Forums

• Quarterly check-in calls with Chris Armistead, Client Advocate

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Speaking of which…

Quiz: What is the most frequently requested feature in Idea Exchange with +39 votes?

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Recycle Bin• In internal alpha

• Expect to see it in beta soon

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Takeaways: Themes for 2010

• Expand Connectors

• Improve the user experience

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Q & A

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