Major deal in Web Content Management:

EPiServer Acquires Web Community Firm Netstar

The Swedish company EPiServer, the world’s fastest growing provider of Web Content Management (WCM) platforms, is acquiring Netstar. The acquisition of Netstar is a strategic investment, enabling EPiServer to offer its clients a Web Content Management solution with an integrated community component. Since its inception in 1996, Netstar has been providing community platforms to some of the most successful European social online communities, such as Tasteline, the Egmont media group and the British media group EMAP

Netstar’s 13 employees will work for EPiServer. Netstar CEO Gustav Lagercrantz will work with business development for EPiServer. In this position, he will lead EPiServer’s community area going forward and be part of the EPiServer Management Team.

“I’m really excited about this area, and I'll be able to keep working with something that's very important to me – social online communities,” says Gustav Lagercrantz.

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What will happen with the products and the partnerships?

» Are you a Netstar customer?
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» Are you a Netstar Partner Company?
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StarCommunity becomes EPiServer Community. Our vision is to provide the markets leading solution for on-line social communities. You will be able to buy EPiServer Community as a stand-alone solution.

EPiServer Community creates a contact interface to the target group and you can communicate rapidly, at a low cost and with great precision with the target group. Administrators and editors can survey, analyze and segment the target group in real-time based on activity and choices made at the community.

StarMail becomes EPiServer Mail. Effective communication with your target group via e-mail. EPiServer mail is a simpler way to create, send and follow-up on target group information and offers.

Forget HTML programming and focus on what you want to convey to your target group. StarMail can easily handle mass e-mail circulations.