Developer(s) Accrisoft Corporation Operating system Website Accrisoft | Stable release 11.0 / March 1, 2016 Platform PHP | |
Accrisoft Freedom is a commercial content management system (CMS) which runs on the industry standard open-source LAMP platform. It is permanently being developed by Accrisoft Corporation, a company mainly based in Sarasota, Florida, in the United States.
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Accrisoft Corporation
Following the purchase of web development company I-Network in 1998, the company became the Accris Corporation in 2000. After entering the Centec technology accelerator program, the company became Accrisoft Corporation in 2001. Accrisoft Freedom was originally developed on virtual private server (VPS) technology from Verio.
Freedom Capabilities
Freedom offers separate, color-coded interfaces based on the capabilities provided: The Green Interface is used for building websites and managing HTML and CSS layouts, while the Blue Interface allows non-technical end users to add and maintain content. Accrisoft Business Tools, a software product provided to Accrisoft Freedom resellers, features three additional interfaces: Red, Purple and Orange, for administration, server control and accounting, respectively.
Freedom's Blue Interface utilizes the TinyMCE Editor, an open source WYSIWYG editor. As of October 2010, the Blue Interface features 50 modules for adding content to Freedom websites.
Accrisoft Freedom specializes in membership and events management, social media, online marketing and e-commerce. Freedom is notable for its highly customizable databases, providing full control over HTML layout and complex filter and search capabilities.
The system's administrative interface is able to support many languages, including English, French, German, and Euskara.
Providers
All of Accrisoft’s business comes through its reseller channel. Accrisoft software runs on many different hosting providers, but is offered as an integrated offering with Verio's reseller channel. Accrisoft Freedom SaaS (software as a service) products are offered through Verio's retail channel. Freedom is also available on the following hosting platforms:
Accrisoft Freedom is offered by a network of resellers, including Accrisoft’s partner company, Accrinet Corporation.
Community
Accrisoft and its resellers use the Accrisoft Ecosystem to access forums, release notes, documentation, bug tracking and marketing materials.
Freedom websites allow administrators to share templates and layouts with the entire Ecosystem community from within the Green Interface.
Accrisoft holds an annual conference for its resellers known as the Accrisoft Solution Provider Summit.
Awards
VARBusiness named Accrisoft Freedom and the Verio Virtual private server and Remote Backup managed storage service for its 2005 "Mid-Market Products of the Year" Award.
Accrisoft won the viaVerio Visionary Award at the 2007 viaVerio Partner awards in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Website provider agency SpinWeb, using the Accrisoft Freedom platform, won the Innovation Award for work in delivering outstanding web sites by Verio at the 2009 Verio Partner Summit in Washington, D.C.
Latest Release
Version 11.2 includes new features for reporting on accounting data, an enhanced user experience for event registration, new integrations for SMTP email service, and other fixes.