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

Oct. 2, 2012 - PRLog -- 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.”

FirstSpiritTM, 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
Founded in 1999 in Dortmund, Germany, e-Spirit (www.e-spirit.com) is part of the adesso Group, one of the largest German IT service providers, and has a presence across Europe and North America. The company’s FirstSprit content management system gives international companies such as Speedo, Airbus, BASF, Nintendo and many others a way to integrate complex systems and portals and provide a more consistent user experience on the Web.