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Sep 20, 2024
CrafterCMS Announces Call for Proposals for its Upcoming Annual User Conference
CrafterCMS, the leading headless CMS for enterprises, today announced a Call for Proposals for its annual user conference, CrafterCMS Live! 2025, taking place on March 19th, 2025. We invite all CrafterCMS enterprise customers, certified solution partners, and open source community members to submit their presentation proposals and actively participate at this premier online event.
Aug 14, 2024
CrafterCMS Wins Five Year U.S. Army Contract for its Headless CMS
CrafterCMS, the leading headless content management system for enterprises, is proud to announce the award of a five year contract from the United States Army for its cloud-based headless CMS solution, Crafter Cloud. This partnership will see CrafterCMS powering video-centric web experiences, demonstrating its capability for delivering robust, scalable, and secure digital solutions to major enterprises and government organizations.
Jul 17, 2024
CrafterCMS Unveils New Trust Center, Underscoring Commitment to Security and Transparency
CrafterCMS, the leading headless content management system for enterprises, is proud to announce the launch of its new Trust Center. This dedicated microsite is designed to provide our customers, solution partners, and open source community with comprehensive insights into CrafterCMS's security practices and compliance measures.
Mar 5, 2024
CrafterCMS Unveils List of Speakers and Exhibitors for CrafterCMS Live! User Conference
CrafterCMS, the leading open-source headless content management system for enterprises, has announced the final list of speakers for its official user conference CrafterCMS Live! The virtual event is slated for March 20, 2024, and attendees will learn and explore the powerful capabilities and real-world applications of CrafterCMS through engaging discussions, hands-on case studies, and valuable expert insights.
Feb 13, 2024
CrafterCMS Announces Strong Sales Growth and Profitable Operations
CrafterCMS, the leading open-source headless content management system for enterprises, today reported a double-digit increase in software annual recurring revenue (ARR) for its fiscal year 2023, including 70% growth in Crafter Cloud sales. The company also generated positive net income and positive operating cash flow, further strengthening its already strong balance sheet and outstanding financial condition.
Feb 6, 2024
CrafterCMS Launches Generative AI Plugin for Next-Generation Web Content Creation
CrafterCMS, the leading provider of open-source, composable content management solutions, is thrilled to announce the launch of its new ChatGPT plugin, now available in the CrafterCMS Marketplace. This state-of-the-art plugin integrates the power of generative AI, specifically ChatGPT, into the CrafterCMS authoring experience, enabling users to harness advanced AI capabilities for creating compelling, distinctive, and dynamic web content.
Jan 25, 2024
Registration for CrafterCMS Live! 2024 is Open
CrafterCMS, the leading open-source headless CMS for enterprises, announced today that registration for its CrafterCMS Live! 2024 User Conference is now open. CrafterCMS Live! is all about equipping content and developer teams with the knowledge and tools they need to spark innovation, increase collaboration, and drive productivity. For digital content professionals looking to take their business to the next level, CrafterCMS Live! will showcase real-world stories from leading enterprises how they are building their next generation, content-driven digital experiences.
Jul 11, 2023
CrafterCMS Announces Release of Version 4.1
CrafterCMS, the leading open-source headless CMS for enterprises, announced the general availability release of its version 4.1. The new release includes three major new capabilities: 1) a brand new content authoring Dashboard, 2) an improved Sidebar in the content authoring experience, and 3) a switch to OpenSearch as the embedded search engine both for the content authoring experience, and for building personalized digital experiences and other search-driven content applications via the CrafterCMS Search APIs.
Jun 21, 2023
CrafterCMS Expands Its Marketplace With Document Signing Plugin
CrafterCMS, the leading headless CMS for composing digital experiences, today announced that it expanded its Marketplace of open source plugins, blueprints, and packaged business capabilities (PBCs) with a new document signing plugin. The new plugin includes an integration with DocuSign eSignature, a leading document signing solution.
May 30, 2023
CrafterCMS Publishes Handbook on DevContentOps
CrafterCMS, the leading open-source headless CMS for composing content-centric digital experiences, today announced that it has published a detailed handbook for implementing DevContentOps processes at major enterprises.
Feb 1, 2023
CrafterCMS Strengthens Digital Experience Composition Capabilities with Expanded Marketplace
CrafterCMS announced that its Marketplace now includes over 60 open source plugins, blueprints, and packaged business capabilities (PBCs). The new and expanded CrafterCMS Marketplace provides a key component that delivers on the promise of what many industry analysts are now calling digital experience composition (DXC), enabling business users and content teams to easily compose digital experiences using no-code tools and pre-built, best-of-stack integrations and plugins.
Dec 7, 2022
CrafterCMS Expands Its Marketplace With Workflow Plugin
CrafterCMS, the leading headless CMS for composing digital experiences, today announced that it expanded its Marketplace of open source plugins, blueprints, and packaged business capabilities (PBCs) with a new workflow plugin. The new plugin includes an integration with Trello, the flexible work management tool from Atlassian.
Nov 18, 2022
CrafterCMS listed as a Representative Vendor in 2022 Gartner® Market Guide for Web Content Management
CrafterCMS has been identified as a Representative Vendor in the 2022 Gartner "Market Guide for Web Content Management" report. CrafterCMS was named in the Headless category.
Jun 7, 2022
CrafterCMS Announces Release of Version 4.0
CrafterCMS, the leading open-source Git-based headless CMS for enterprises, announced the general availability release of its version 4. The new release includes major new content authoring capabilities that enable composability of all types of content-rich digital experiences. CrafterCMS, the leading open-source Git-based headless CMS for enterprises, announced the general availability release of its version 4.
Apr 12, 2022
CMS Critic Interviews CrafterCMS CEO
CMS Critic had an opportunity to connect recently with Mike Vertal, CEO of CrafterCMS. He shared some of his views on the CMS market, the value of being open source, and their plans with CrafterCMS version 4.0.
Mar 3, 2022
CrafterCMS Announces Larger, Second Round of Financing from Lighter Capital
Second investment of revenue-based debt from Lighter Capital will fuel continued rapid and profitable growth.
Feb 9, 2022
New Chatbot Plugins Added to CrafterCMS Marketplace
The Marketplace for CrafterCMS Plugins now includes open source integrations with FreshDesk, LivePerson, HubSpot and more.
Jan 7, 2022
CrafterCMS Marketplace Includes New Google Plugins
The CrafterCMS Marketplace now includes plugins and integrations with three popular Google services, including Google Analytics, Google Maps, and Google Tag Manager. These three new plugins join an expanding array of community-driven plugins for use by CrafterCMS’s growing user base of enterprise companies, government organizations, and high-growth startup companies.
Aug 4, 2021
CrafterCMS Announces Launch of Online Training Academy
Announcing the launch of Crafter Academy, a portal for online training courses focused on CrafterCMS and related technologies. Crafter Academy will equip content authoring teams, software developers and IT operations teams with the foundation they need to successfully create and deliver modern real-world digital experiences and content-rich apps. The pre-recorded training courses on Crafter Academy at launch include "Beginning CrafterCMS for Content Authoring" targeted to content teams, and "CrafterCMS Developer 1 Training" targeted to software development teams, among others.
Jul 2, 2021
CrafterCMS Announces the Launch of DevContentOps.io
The newly launched DevContentOps.io is an online media property that underscores the benefits of integrating content management systems, tools and workflows into DevOps processes. DevContentOps enables continuous integration, continuous delivery and continuous publishing, streamlining the dev/test/release/publish cycles of content-driven applications. DevContentOps.io aims to inform both business leaders and hands-on practitioners who want to break down those silos and operate content-rich digital experiences across channels—at scale.
Jun 10, 2021
Composable DXP: Is It Sales Jargon or Something More?
CEO, Mike Vertal, shares some thoughts about a composable DXP with CMS Wire. He says "A composable DXP is a solution built from best-of-breed systems that are easily integrated and uniquely meets the requirements of an enterprise.”
Mar 15, 2021
CrafterCMS Announces Strong Sales Growth and Profitable Bottom Line
CrafterCMS, the award-winning provider of headless CMS software for the enterprise, today reported a 33% increase in annual recurring revenue (ARR) in fiscal year 2020. The company also generated positive net income on both an accrual and cash basis, further strengthening its already strong balance sheet and outstanding financial condition.
Sep 16, 2020
CrafterCMS Joins CVE Program as CVE Numbering Authority
CrafterCMS, the award-winning provider of innovative web content management solutions, announced today that it has been accepted into the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA).
May 6, 2020
CrafterCMS Announces New Live Video Streaming Solution with Amazon Web Services
Crafter Video Live Streaming is now available. Enterprises can now quickly and easily create a glass-to-glass, secure, personalized video portal for streaming live events.
Jan 24, 2020
CrafterCMS Announces Zaizi as the Winner of Its Solution Partner of the Year 2019 Award
CrafterCMS, the award-winning provider of innovative web content management solutions, announced today that Zaizi is the recipient of its Solution Partner Award for 2019. The partner award recognizes exceptional solution partners who deliver high quality consulting services and build innovative digital experience solutions for CrafterCMS enterprise customers, while also contributing to the CrafterCMS open source community.
Jan 21, 2020
CrafterCMS Launches Marketplace
CrafterCMS enterprise customers and open source community members can now benefit from a marketplace of site blueprints and plugins.
Dec 3, 2019
CrafterCMS Announces Investment from Lighter Capital
CrafterCMS, the award-winning provider of innovative web content management solutions, today announced that it closed on its first institutional round of funding from Lighter Capital, the leading fintech lender to tech startups. CrafterCMS is a rapidly growing provider of enterprise support and services for CrafterCMS, the leading open source headless content management system.
Sep 30, 2019
Crafter Software Releases CrafterCMS Enterprise Version 3.1
Crafter is excited to announce the release of CrafterCMS Enterprise Version 3.1. This release brings native GraphQL and Elasticsearch support, serverless computing, Docker and Kubernetes containerization, enhanced content authoring, and an enterprise video solution blueprint.
Sep 19, 2019
4K 4Charity Fun Run at IBC Breaks New Ground
Crafter is proud to have sponsored the 4K 4Charity Fun Run at IBC 2019 hosted by AWS Elemental. Proceeds went to benefit Iridescent, a global education non-profit that empowers underrepresented young people to become innovators and leaders through engineering and technology.
Jun 28, 2019
US Government Agency Selects Crafter to Power Smart Video Experiences
Crafter Video solution to enable the development and delivery of AI-enabled live video streaming and video-on-demand experiences.
Apr 26, 2019
European Government Agency Selects CrafterCMS to Modernize Public Communications
CrafterCMS to provide the headless content management platform for a new generation of digital experience applications.
Mar 25, 2019
CrafterCMS Announces Strong Sales Growth for Fiscal Year 2018
Increase in sales revenue marks another year of double-digit growth as the CrafterCMS platform fuels modern digital experiences for a rapidly growing number of organizations.
Jun 30, 2018
Leading Security Product Manufacturer Selects CrafterCMS to Transform Digital Experiences for Marketing and Sales Portal Share Article
CrafterCMS to provide a modern portal for retailers and distributors to easily access relevant and personalized digital content.
May 21, 2018
CrafterCMS and Function1 Partner to Deliver Innovative Digital Experience Solutions
This partnership brings together the industry-leading capabilities of both Function1 and CrafterCMS to deliver complete digital experience solutions throughout the customer journey.
Apr 25, 2018
Power Supply Industry Innovator Selects CrafterCMS as its Content Management Application Platform
CrafterCMS platform modernizes technical infrastructure for major company's intranet and website, driving new ways to provide innovative digital experiences.
Mar 28, 2018
CrafterCMS Announces Record Sales Growth for Full Year 2017
The increase in sales revenue marks another year of triple-digit growth as the CrafterCMS platform fuels modern digital experiences for a rapidly growing number of organizations.
Feb 28, 2018
Crafter Software Announces Release of CrafterCMS Enterprise Version 3.0
CrafterCMS Enterprise Version 3.0 delivers enhanced content authoring interface and a powerful new repository that dramatically streamlines the development of innovative digital experiences.
Jan 31, 2018
CrafterCMS Announces Major New Customer in the Industrial Supply Sector
CrafterCMS delivers powerful tools to enable a personalized, multi-channel website and e-commerce experience.
Nov 27, 2017
CrafterCMS Named to EContent 100 Digital Companies that Matter Most
CrafterCMS, the modern content management platform for creating and delivering personalized digital experiences, recognized for excellence in the digital content industry.
Sep 20, 2017
Global Financial Services Firm Plans Major Digital Experience Expansion With CrafterCMS
Based on initial success of using CrafterCMS, a major enterprise wide rollout is now underway to deliver blazing fast digital experiences using Crafter's Content-as-a-Service capabilities.
Jul 31, 2017
Networking Products Manufacturer Selects CrafterCMS to Improve Digital Sales Experience
Innovative new website will allow distributors and retailers to quickly receive relevant product-related information from the leading networking products manufacturer.
Jun 21, 2017
National Non-profit Selects CrafterCMS to Create Next-Generation Digital Experiences
Modern web content management solution supports seamless, multi-device user experience and personalization for digital marketing website.
May 22, 2017
CrafterCMS and Azilen Announce Partnership to Accelerate Development of Content-Rich Digital Experiences
New global collaboration will facilitate the development of superior digital experience for enterprise customers.
Apr 4, 2017
CrafterCMS Announces New Customer Win in Technology Sector
CrafterCMS Selected to Transform Digital Experience for Employees and Partners
Mar 16, 2017
CrafterCMS Announces Partner Award Winners
Annual awards recognize top consulting services partners who demonstrate excellence in implementation of innovative digital experience solutions using CrafterCMS.
Feb 6, 2017
CrafterCMS Powers Massive Digital Customer Engagement During the Big Game
Millions of sport fans interact with sponsors through personalized digital experiences powered by the CrafterCMS platform.
Jan 31, 2017
CrafterCMS Achieves Triple-Digit Growth Rate for Third Consecutive Year
Strong increase in revenue is driven by rapid customer adoption of the CrafterCMS next-generation digital experience platform, which is designed to simplify the creation and delivery of personalized experiences.