Kentico EMS+ is your cloud powered Customer Experience (CXM) solution. Built on the secure and scalable Windows Azure cloud platform and leveraging the industry leading Kentico Enterprise Marketing solution. Kentico EMS+ allows you to easily add more storage and servers on the go without adding complexity. How do you manage and implement a website using Kentico EMS+? In this webinar, Dominik Pinter, Technical Leader Kentico CMS shows how to manage and develop your website with Kentico EMS+.

1. Kentico+
Dominik Pinter, dominikp@kentico.com

2. Agenda
• What is Kentico+?
– What value does Kentico+ bring to me?
• When and how can I start using it?
• How can I manage it?
• How much does it cost?
• Quo Vadis Kentico+?

3. What is Kentico+
Kentico+ is the new software-as-a-service (SaaS)
offering of Kentico products in the cloud.
Initially, this includes Kentico EMS+, which is
Kentico EMS running in cloud and provided in
the SaaS model.

4. Why should I be interested?
• Monthly payments (licenses + hosting)
– Pay as you go
– No setup fee
• Hosting
– Less worries for you
• Updates
– Upgrade/Hotfix application
• Customizable
– You can add your own code files (Web parts, ASPX pages, DLLs…)
• Running in the cloud
– Reliable and secure environment
• Backups
– Database and code files backups on daily basis

5. Kentico+ Architecture
Windows Azure compute
instance
Kentico+ Website
Controller Project
Blob
SQL Azure
Storage

6. Management modes
• Managed mode
– Hotfixes & Upgrades
– Base code files managed by the service
– Not allowed to change Kentico EMS files and basic
Kentico EMS database schema
• Unmanaged mode
– Allowed to change Kentico EMS files and database
schema
– Without hotfixes, upgrades and code base files

7. When and how can I start using it?
• Already available
• Sign up form www.kentico.com/plus
• Service creation process (demo)
– Required data (domains, datacenter, Kentico EMS
version, …)
– E-mail with service credentials
• Kentico+ users manual
– http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/Kentico_plus_users_man
ual.pdf
• Windows Azure deployment guide
– http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/azureguide/index.html

8. How can I manage it?
• First version without User portal
• Communication channel
– plus@kentico.com
– Next business day
• Windows Azure storage (demo)
• SQL Azure database (demo)
• Customizing the project (demo)
• Hotfixes/Upgrades
• Backups/Restores
• Service maintenance

9. How much does it cost?
• One year plan
– $999 1 domain license/month (including basic hosting package)
– Additional hosting costs
• Without a plan
– $1199 1 domain license/month (first year)
– Additional hosting costs
• Hosting package: 1 Windows Azure Small Instance (1 CPU Core, 1.75
GB RAM), 5 GB of SQL Azure database, 25 GB of disk storage and
5M storage transactions, 500 GB of bandwidth, 40K e-mails
• Including developer license
• Without a setup fee
• Support included

10. Quo Vadis Kentico+
• Management portal
• Multiple Kentico EMS installations within one
Kentico+ instance
• UI for Windows Azure storage
• Kentico CMS+ (considering)

11. Q&A

12. Thank you
http://www.kentico.com
http://devnet.kentico.com
dominikp@kentico.com