The Best .NET CMS for Application Integration

Sitecore is the best .NET CMS for application integration hands-down. You will be hard pressed to find another web content management system that has been so thoughtfully designed to support integration scenarios. I have discussed this topic at length in my “Integrating External Data with Sitecore 6” whitepaper and, suffice it to say, there is so much to say. If you are interested in gaining access to this whitepaper, sign up for the Sitecore newsletter or ask your Regional Manager for a copy.

One of Sitecore’s oldest partners in North America is Roundedcube and they have done some outstanding work in integrating Sitecore with 3rd-party applications. Their facility in taking advantage of Sitecore’s openness and many integration points was what caught our attention in their Outstanding Solution application. I strongly encourage you to learn more about the work they have done with Sitecore.

One of Roundedcube’s clients was a national association that wanted to build a communications hub for their members. In their best-of-breed approach, they chose Sitecore for their CMS and Telligent Community Server for their community platform. The client also used TIMMS for their association management solution. Roundedcube faced the challenge of how to get these systems talking without causing undue pain to their end users, i.e. forcing users to log in repeatedly as they bounce from system to system. Their solution was two-fold:

• Create a single sign-on process that allowed for centralized authentication between the three systems.
• Create a web services layer to facilitate data communication between the disparate systems

With these connections in place, they were able to create a visitor experience that leveraged the power of these three systems:

• Blogs, forums, photo galleries, shared files and social networking from Community Server
• Newsletter subscription, event registration and e-commerce functionality from TIMSS
• Dynamic presentation and content security from Sitecore

Thanks to the Roundedcube team for sharing with us about their Outstanding Solution! You can learn more about Roundedcube in the following articles on the Sitecore web site.

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