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Thinking about starting up a corporate blog at your company? Movable Type offers new platform

Jul 18th, 2006 | By Tom Johnson | Category: News

While I love Wordpress (the software that runs this site), its biggest competitor, Movable Type, has the enterprise blogging market cornered. Here’s the latest on Movable Type’s new enterprise blogging platform:

“Movable Type Blogging Software Dons Pinstripes”

by P.G. Daly

July 17, 2006

In another boost for corporate blogs, Six Apart has announced the release of a new product designed specifically for the publishing needs of the enterprise. Its Movable Type Enterprise takes the foundation of the popular Movable Type platform and optimizes it for use within organizations by offering customized features and technical support required by the unique demands of today’s in-house web applications.

Six Apart has been at the forefront of the blogosphere for years with its Movable Type platform, hosted TypePad solution, and LiveJournal community. Now, the company is bringing its years of experience to you for internal publishing and management needs.

The company is positioning the new Movable Type Enterprise product as not just a repackaging of Movable Type but an application designed and optimized with the capabilities one would expect from an enterprise wide application. At a glance the new capabilities include:

  • LDAP Authentication
  • Oracle DB integration
  • Enterprise level technical support
  • Advanced author and content distribution management
  • Cross-blog content management
  • Internationalization supportA full list of the Movable Type Enterprise capabilities can be found on the product’s Web site.Because this product is based on the latest version of Movable Type (3.3) it takes advantage of that product’s new and improved features as well. They include such goodies as tags, widgets, and activity feeds based on the latest posts, comments, and links.Six Apart continues to be at the front of the curve of the business blogging boom. In March, the company started offering TypePad Business Class as a hosted blogging solution for businesses that wanted to communicate with their customers without the hassle of maintaining their own solution.Pricing

    Six Apart is offering summer discount pricing, with Movable Type Enterprise licenses starting at just under $4,000. Support agreements are priced at about $2,000 per year. Support includes all software updates and upgrades and two-hour response time for technical support issues.

    Other companies competing in the enterprise blogging solution space include iUpload and Near-Time, which provide blogging, collaboration, and wiki integrated solutions.

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    1. Brian Flannery August 18th, 2006 3:19 pm :

      Nice overview of some of the enterprise solutions out there. Always great to read an engaging blog like this, and I think you hit the nail on the head in stating that Near-Time is a pure-play collaboration tool. If you would like to discuss Near-Time further, or have any questions or comments, please get back to me at: brian@near-time.com, or (919) 360 7343

      Best,

      Brian Flannery
      Near-Time

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