Percussion Software, developer of Web Content Management (WCM) software for multi-channel, customer-centric applications, introduced Rhythmyx 6, the newest version of its award-winning enterprise-ready WCM System. Rhythmyx 6 extends Percussion's leadership position in the WCM market by providing a robust platform for more easily managing customer-centric content across multiple sites, multiple channels and multiple lines of business. Rhythmyx 6 supports Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Linux and Sun Solaris platforms.

Among Rhythmyx 6's major new features are a Web Forms application, a Web Analytics application to be available in the fall and newly enhanced user interface customization capabilities. Other new Rhythmyx 6 features include support for the Velocity templating language, a new Developer's Workbench based on the popular Eclipse Interface Framework and a Web Services Software Developer's Kit (WSDK) with an enhanced Web services API that make it significantly easier for Rhythmyx implementers to support a Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to integration.

Rhythmyx 6 is tailored for organizations that require seamless support for multiple Web properties, with the kind of easy content reuse that customer-centric business applications require. These and other new features of Rhythmyx 6 enable enterprises to build Web sites with frequently updated, persuasive content that is engaging to their customers.

Examples of the type of marketing-oriented, customer-centric applications that benefit from a WCM platform include sales promotion campaigns, Web-based lead generation, email marketing, multi-channel, multi-product launches, e-commerce, accessibility, globalization/localization, wireless self-service, customer loyalty and feedback, in-store kiosks, direct sales portals, event management and subscription services.

Rhythmyx 6's new three-tier WCM architecture enables better management of frequently changing content for multi-channel, customer-centric business applications. It also enables "enterprise-ready" WCM by making it easier for Rhythmyx to interoperate with other enterprise content management systems. Rhythmyx 6's nine major new enhancements include:  New Custom User Interfaces,  Web Forms, Web Analytics, FastForward for WCM Enhancements,  New Web Services SDK,  New Developer Workbench,  Enhanced Assembly Services, New Velocity Template Language, Core Server Performance & Scalability Enhancements.