This document introduces Kentico, an ASP.NET-based content management system. It allows clients to manage website content through a WYSIWYG editor and supports multilingual content, web parts, media libraries, and responsive design. Key features include e-commerce functionality, marketing automation, email marketing, A/B testing, and integration with Kentico Cloud for content staging. Kentico is extensible and supports development through MVC, APIs, and integration with source control and continuous integration tools to enable collaboration between multiple developers.

1. INTRODUCTION TO KENTICO

2. Introduction
 Jon Gregory - Technical Architect @ MMT Digital in Uppingham
 .Net Development background
 Been working with Kentico to deliver websites for a year
 Introduction to Kentico and the Development features available

3. Kentico – Content Management
 Allows the client to control the website content or products
 WYSIWYG Editor
 Multi-Lingual Content
 Web Parts
 Media Libraries
 Responsive Pages – Mobile Preview

4. ECommerce
Main feature is the online shop
 Check out process
 Configurable Discounts
 Product Variations
 Shipping Calculations
 Reports

5. Online Marketing
 Marketing Automation
 Email Marketing
 Integrated Campaign Mangement
 Lead Scoring
 A/B Testing

6. Kentico Draft
 Cloud based instance of Kentico
 Intended to allow content creation in parallel to development
 Once site is ready content can be moved from draft into new site
 https://kenticocloud.com/

7. Kentico Draft

8. Kentico - Development
 ASP.NET Based Moving from Web Forms to MVC
 Designed to be Extendable and Customisable
 .Net based API
 Visual Studio Integration
 Comprehensive Support and Community
 Modules available including payment integrations

9. MVC Support
 Introduced in Version 9 / 2015
 Uses ASP.NET MVC with API Class Libraries and HTML Helpers via NuGet
 Content created in CMS Admin section within the defined structure
 Content accessed via API and displayed using MVC Controllers and Views

10. MVC Support

11. MVC Support
 Utilises all features ASP.NET MVC with Benefits of Content Managment
 Ecommerce Support coming in next version
 Sample Project @ https://github.com/Kentico/Mvc

12. Content Staging
 CMS Content created within the database
 Difficult to move between environments
 Content Staging tracks changes made in one environment to be applied to another
 Content and Objects can be synchronised in both directions between servers
 Uses Web Services to transfer the content

13. Content Staging

14. Continuous Integration
 New in Version 9
 Intended for multi developer environments
 Changes to the CMS are tracked
 Once complete they are serialised into XML files
 These can be checked into source control as a changeset

15. Continuous Integration
 Applied using a command line tool
 Can be grouped into a release using normal CI tools , Team City , etc
 Allows deployment across environments Local -> Dev -> UAT -> Staging -> Production

16. Web Farm Support
 Web Servers can be part of a farm for load balancing
 Supports all forms of ASP.Net Session State
 Synchronises Media and Content files between all web servers

17. Azure Support
 First CMS to be certified for Azure
 Windows Azure IaaS, PaaS and Azure website environments.
 SQL Azure, Microsoft Azure Storage, Microsoft Azure Content Delivery Network and Load
Balancing
 Application Insights
 Licencing can be tricky and can only run one SQL Server

18. As well as ….
 Integration Bus
 API - Open and REST
 Modularisation
 Scheduled Task – In IIS or via external windows service

19. Example Implementations
https://www.axelos.com/
http://www.bacardi.com/us/
http://www.allergan.com/home

20. Summary
 Feature Rich Content Management, Ecommerce & Online Marketing tool
 Extensive Support Network and Community
 Azure Certified
 Supports multiple developers and multiple environments
 Extensable to build unique websites

21. Questions

22. Useful Links # 1
General Development Features for Kentico
http://www.kentico.com/product/for-developers
Kentico Content Staging
https://docs.kentico.com/display/K82/Content+staging
http://www.kentico.com/product/all-features/development/staging-and-synchronization
http://bit.ly/KenticoCSWebinar

23. Useful Links # 2
Kentico Continuous Integration
http://www.kentico.com/product/all-features/development/continuous-integration
http://bit.ly/KenticoCIWebinar
Unit Testing in Kentico
http://devnet.kentico.com/articles/test-automation-possibilities-in-kentico-8
Kentico Resources
https://docs.kentico.com/
https://devnet.kentico.com/
http://bit.ly/KenticoYouTube