Archive for November, 2008

eXo Platform will be present at the OpenWorldForum in Paris

Sunday, November 30th, 2008

On December 1st and 2nd eXo Platform will be present at the Open World Forum conference in Paris. During this event you will be able to meet eXo people in various sessions:

  • Day 1 / 11:10-12:40 : Portal: “Enterprise 2.0 Portals: What’s New for Developers?
  • Day 1 / 13:00-15:30 :  CMS/GED – Share the Information (content and document)
  • Day 2 / 15.15-16.00 : Technological and economic breakthroughs: challenge or opportunity for FLOSS? (Round table with Benjamin Mestrallet)

See you there….

eXo Platform Newsletter for November / December 08 (French)

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

This newsletter has been designed to let you know that eXo Platform experts will hold a public training in Paris from December 16th to December 18th.

For eXo Platform customers, as well as for eXo partners, it will be the occasion to learn more on :

  • Portal Architecture : Services configuration, personalization and portlet development.
  • Introduction to the JCR and its external plug ins and APIs.
  • eXo ECM and its specific portlets, how to use eXo ECM at the maximum ot its capabilities.

Moreover, you might be interested in other news about eXo Platform:

  • Prices and events: Benjamin Mestrallet as the young manager of the year, eXo participation to the first Google DevFest event in South East Asia.
  • New products : eXo ECM 2.1 and eXo Social.

To learn more, read the entire newsletter here.

[Subscription Release] eXo ECM 2.1.3

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

eXo ECM 2.1.3 is now available from the eXo customer portal.

This version contain some bugs fix for version 2.1.2 and upgrading to use Portal 2.2.2, Core 2.1.1, Portlet Container 2.0.2, JCR 1.9.3. New user selector added also. Of course, this component will be availabled in next ECM version(2.2) and available from the OW2 forge.

Dimitri Baeli joins eXo Platform as Usability Manager

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

Paris, October, 15th, 2008 – eXo Platform SAS, collaborative software editor, is proud to announce the arrival of Dimitri Baeli, as Usability manager. Dimitri will be in charge of improving the global usability by focusing on : the products usability for the end users, the development practices and tooling for eXo Platform core developers, and the integration tooling for eXo partners and collaborators to easily integrate eXo Platform products.

Dimitri Baeli as Manager for the “2.0”

The aim of the usability manager is to improve the ease of use of the products as well as the tools eXo collaborators are manipulating. To do so, Dimitri will have a key role in animating and facilitating the communication between teams.

He will have a cross-team role to improve development processes and to provide the right tools to every eXo product user, like end users, eXo employees and integrators. Dimitri will work closely with Tugdual Grall, vice president of Business and Product Strategy, and Office managers in Vietnam and Ukrain. Dimitri is commissioned by Benjamin Mestrallet to dynamise teams and offices interactions.

Dimitri will focus its efforts on three major parts :

  • The Products usability, where the products users are the end users. He will work on improving the product usage and ergonomic. Dimitri will study the users interfaces and their usage to drive improvements.
  • The product development, where the users are eXo Platform employees. Dimitri will drive the full implementation of the Scrum methodology in the whole company. He will have an active role in the software factory, and will work on providing development tools.
  • The Integration usability, where users are eXo integrators partners. In this task, the aim is to provide developers kits to help partners to quickly integrate eXo products. By making eXo products “Production Ready”, eXo parners will be able to provide a high level of support on customer projects and reliable monitoring of the solutions.

Dimitri Baeli background and experience

Dimitri Baeli holds a Master in computer systems and communication from the Ensimag engineer school. After many years of experience in R&D, architecture development and processes improvements for software development, Dimitri will now work at eXo Platform to improve products usability.

His expert skills in the areas of ergonomic / usability of software and industrialisation of developments will be a great help to improve organization inside eXo Platform. We are growing quickly and always hiring. So we need a better cohesion of all the teams working on our products.” says Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo Platform.

eXo Platform Will Be At Devoxx 2008

Monday, November 24th, 2008

Logo Devoxx 2008

eXo Platform will be at Devoxx 2008 conference in Atnwerp, Belgium. As usual, we will be present on the OW2′s stand with partners such as XWiki.

Julien Viet (Product Manager of eXo Portal and JCR), Tugdual Grall ( Product Manager of eXo Platform) will be present to present and discuss eXo products. It will be a good opportunity to see our latest products such as eXo Web Content Management, Knowledge Suite, but also core new features such as Open Social support in eXo Portal and Web OS.

See you there from December 10th to 12th!