Pantheon Achieves Ektron Platinum Certified Partner Status

Arlington, VA, October 20, 2008 - Pantheon, an online technology company based in Arlington, VA, is proud to announce its newly acquired status as an Ektron Platinum Certified partner – Ektron’s highest partnership level. Pantheon has worked extensively with Ektron and its market-leading CMS400.NET content management software (CMS) over the past several years. Attaining Platinum Certified status is a significant achievement and places Pantheon in elite company.

Pantheon has recommended Ektron’s software to its clients because of its value and flexibility as a Web content management solution. Recently, Pantheon launched Ektron-backed sites for the Institute for Humane Studies (IHS) and Mercatus Center at George Mason University, the American Society of Landscape Architects, and the Event Marketing Institute. Ektron’s CMS platform has provided the flexibility Pantheon needs to develop exceptional web solutions for clients with various needs. For example, the IHS and Mercatus Center needed to integrate an enterprise-level CMS with its new customer relationship management system (CRM), Aptify. Pantheon’s strategists successfully improved service to the organizations’ stakeholders with new sites that seamlessly tied together the Aptify CRM system and Ektron’s Web content management solution.

Pantheon has come to rely on Ektron’s CMS to handle the wide-array of needs for many of its association and small business clients. “Several years ago, we conducted exhaustive research on the various CMS platforms in the market in an effort to find the most suitable product to recommend to our clients.   We chose Ektron because of its exceptional value in terms of price, features, and the flexibility it provides to our engineers to extend the core software,” explained Mark Tobias, Pantheon’s President.  “Since that time, we have continued to be impressed with the progress and enhancements in their offering.   As a Certified Platinum Partner we look forward to a continued and long-term successful partnership with Ektron.”

Pantheon has several Ektron CMS implementations ongoing and continues to develop its reputation as a leading Ektron partner in the mid-Atlantic with a particular emphasis on work for associations and non-profits.  In addition to implementing Ektron-backed websites, Pantheon is an expert in hosting Ektron sites and currently does so for many of its clients in its high availability data center.

Ektron has provided affordable Web content management and authoring solutions for nearly a decade. Its CMS400.NET platform is a single application that addresses business’ online needs and adapts as online requirements and expertise increase. “We are pleased to work with a leading solutions provider like Pantheon,” said David Scalera, Director of Channel Sales and Alliances at Ektron.  “Their proven Web solutions expertise and extensive reach into the association marketplace has and continues to greatly expand the success of Ektron CMS400.NET with both non-profit and corporate association clients. Because of their dedication to their customer base and commitment to increasing Ektron business, we are very excited to recognize Pantheon as an Ektron Platinum Partner.”

Pantheon was founded in 1994 and since then has been successfully applying online technologies to real world business problems for both association/non-profit and commercial clients. To learn more about Pantheon, its solutions and services, visit us at www.panth.com.

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