Web 20 and Social Networking Web sites

With the rush to create Web 2.0 and social networking Web sites, Web teams are in a dilemma: how do you maintain these sites and how do you add new functionality to them? Web 2.0 sites have visitors interacting with content (commenting, rating, subscribing). Site visitors contribute content (blogs, threaded discussions, Wikis) and they collaborate though Facebook-like functionality (inviting friends, creating group spaces, sharing documents and photos, and adding favorites…). Typically, there are multiple environments: production (where site visitors interact), staging (where subject matter experts create content), and development environments.
The problem is, dynamic user-generated content exists in a database and it gets out of sync with staging and development environments. Unfortunately, you can’t just push the next version of your Web site to production without overwriting this user-generated information. The production site is in a constant state of change: as soon as you capture a snapshot of it, it has changed. Developers want to test their new features with the latest content from the site.
This is a significant problem for all CMS that have functionality beyond Web 1.0. This has created a lot of pain for Web teams as they try to manually synchronize the environments; the process is prone to loss of data and site disruption. The pain is not just from synchronizing content: creating new development environments and supporting more complex configurations like failover or geo-deployments cause the same kind of headaches.
The Solution Ektron eSync
The Ektron eSync technology revolutionizes the way people will deploy and manage Web site projects:
Synchronize what you want, when you want to; move only the changes you need to at the best time for you and your Web site.
Up, down and bi-directional synchronization .
Synchronize content, assets, templates and code.
Add developer machines in less than 1 hour. Imagine creating a complete development environment, all automatically. It’s never been so easy to add people to a Web project!
Work offline and then synchronize changes later.
Synchronize to other Global locations for higher performance.
Built-in conflict resolution.
Ektron content management software sets the standard for document management software. More than a million developers and business users use Ektron's html editor, eWebEditPro, for its Word-like, browser-based authoring inside of content management and other Web applications.