e-Spirit Positioned in the Niche Players Quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management

Provider of FirstSpirit Content Management System One of Small Subset of CMS Vendors to Meet Criteria for Inclusion in Report

DORTMUND, Germany and BOSTON, MA, October 4, 2011 – e-Spirit, a leading provider of easy-to-use Web content management systems, today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc., in the Niche Players quadrant of its 2012 „Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management“ research report. e-Spirit was one of only 19 vendors that met the criteria for inclusion in the Magic Quadrant from the hundreds of commercial and open source WCM vendors and communities evaluated by Gartner.

According to Gartner, three trends have altered the Web content management market since 2011: social media, mobile computing and the inclusion of WCM in more comprehensive solutions oriented toward online channel optimization. Buyers are looking for different capabilities and are changing how they buy Web content management products.

„Customer experience management no longer revolves around building a Web presence, it“s about making the existing Web presence better, and that“s where FirstSpirit CMS fits in perfectly,“ said Robert Bredlau, COO North America, e-Spirit Inc. „In today“s climate of economic uncertainty, companies are looking for solutions that can pull all their different Web platforms and properties together and improve customer and user experience. Rip and replace strategies are a thing of the past.“

FirstSpirit, an integration platform for content, portals, e-commerce, online marketing and Web applications, gives customers a central content hub that can easily be tied into their existing Web foundations, such as IBM WebSphere, SAP NetWeaver Portal, Liferay or Microsoft SharePoint. Using FirstSpirit, companies are able to greatly simplify Web content administration and more effectively deliver a real-time flow of information to customers, employees and partners.

About the Magic Quadrant

*Gartner, Inc. „Magic Quadrant for Web Content Management, 2012“ by Mick MacComascaigh, Mark R. Gilbert, Gavin Tay, Jim Murphy, Sept. 6, 2012. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner’s research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About e-Spirit

As the manufacturer of the content management system FirstSpirit™, e-Spirit is a technological leader in the field of web content management (WCM). Well-known customers from all business sectors rely on FirstSpirit™ for implementing successful web strategies worldwide and for the creation, management and publication of content in highly diverse channels (Internet, intranet, extranet, mobile channels, PDF, email newsletters, portals, DTP, technical documentation). The content management system impresses with its outstanding integratability and its consistent best-of-breed strategy: It integrates seamlessly into complex system landscapes and portals (SAP NetWeaver, IBM WebSphere, Microsoft SharePoint, Liferay), and with FirstSpirit™ AppCenter, e-Spirit offers the unique opportunity in the market for interface integration of any web applications directly into the CMS. As a content integration platform, FirstSpirit™ meets the highest demands for usability, performance and investment security.

e-Spirit was founded in 1999. It is a part of the adesso Group and is represented with 12 locations in Germany, the United States, Great Britain, Austria and Switzerland. www.e-Spirit.com

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