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eXo recognized as a Cool Vendor by a leading IT analyst firm

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

End of last year, eXo Platform was standing as an innovator in many of the “Top 10 Strategic Technology Areas”, listed by major IT market observers, to watch over the next three years, such as virtualization, cloud computing, web oriented architectures, enterprise mashups, social software and social networking. Today, eXo was listed in the Gartner report, Cool Vendors in Content Management 2009.

Through constant innovation, eXo Platform brings companies new ways to work. So, a strong social side has been added to its products in order to enable organizations to work closer and to understand strengths and skills of every collaborator. This, combined with virtualization capabilities and a SAAS package still in development, enables eXo Platform to provide a new generation of collaborative solutions that meet today’s companies needs for IT systems.

The Gartner’s “Cool Vendors” report is designed to “highlight interesting, new and innovative vendors, products and services. Gartner defines a cool vendor as a company that offers technologies or solutions that are: Innovative, enable users to do things they couldn’t do before; Impactful, have, or will have, business impact (not just technology for the sake of technology); Intriguing, have caught Gartner’s interest or curiosity in approximately the past six months.”

In period of crisis, IT managers are looking more carefully for alternative solutions, like the Open Source ones, to traditional and common products such as MS SharePoint.

Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO and Founder of eXo Platform, explains: “eXo is an Open Source company and provides solutions that can be highly integrated with existing IT environments, which is not always the case with other products of the market. Our major customers chose eXo for this reason as well as our ability to work on projects involving thousands of users.”

More than being a simple competitor to MS SharePoint, eXo Platform stands as an innovator on its market and brings together three key trends: Open Source, Basic Content Services and social software. eXo product line provide an open alternative, thanks to standards compliance, to Microsoft SharePoint by offering an open source based document management system, a standards-based portal and a collaboration (both asynchronous and real time) platform for medium to large companies.

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eXo hires a world class CFO while the company size reaches 100 employees

Tuesday, April 21st, 2009

After many years of growth, eXo Platform, French editor of intranets, enterprise portals and collaborative software, hires an internationally renowned CFO: Véronika Mazour.

To structure eXo Platform growth

eXo Platform is facing a strong growth of its activities since its creation. In order to sustain its activities, eXo Platform always hired the most talented people, even in periods of crisis. So, famous personalities from the Open Source world and the software development joined eXo Platform, such as Julien Viet, now eXo Portal manager, and Tugdual Grall, now business and product strategy manager.

Nowadays, as eXo Platform reaches a critical size worldwide, it becomes necessary for the company to set up a financial strategy serving the growth and enabling the organization to structure its financial management on a long-term basis.

Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO and founder of eXo Platform, highlights these needs: « The company is already standing in many countries and we are still developing our activities worldwide. Moreover, our growth is still increasing, helped by a passion stirred over the Open Source. In this context, we need to strengthen our financial basis in order to structure and perpetuate our development on the long term. Véronika, who has been hired from the Boston Consulting Group, is a finance expert with an international profile and skills in enterprise strategy and organization. I am sure she will bring a lot to the development of eXo Platform. »

Véronika Mazour nominated CFO

Graduated from the Ecole Polytechnique, école des Mines de Paris and from the political studies institute of Paris, Véronika is a multi skilled financial expert who acquired a strong experience in renowned companies around the globe. She worked in financial audit at BNP Paribas, acquired experience in Private Equity at Goldman Sachs and has experience in enterprise strategy at Boston Consulting Group.

Véronika Mazour now joins eXo Platform with the objective to structure and supervise the finance management of the company as well as to set up a financial strategy on a long-term basis.

Véronika points out the facts that motivated her to join eXo Platform: « eXo Platform today is an emerging star on its market. The company has a huge potential and needs to strengthen its finance. My role will be to structure the organization and its financial management as well as insuring its perpetual development. It is a very exciting challenge and I hope my experience will contribute to the eXo Platform success story. »

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Congratulate on BarCamp Hanoi 2009′s great success

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Yesterday (April 19th, 2009) was one of the most memorable tech events in Hanoi with BarCamp Hanoi 2009. It is considered as a festival for us to join, create and share ideas, to have chance meeting up together in person instead of online discussion. Yesterday 16 eXoers were ready to join and share with 2 interesting topics: “Enterprise 2.0″ by Brice and “OpenSocial Application Development” by Hoat with the support from Tung.

BarCamp spirit from the banner:

There were about 250 persons with 38 topics including Entrepreneurs Academy, Cryptology & Steganology,Marketing Law & Vietnam online market, Improving IT education in Vietnam, Enterprise 2.0, OpenSocial Application Development, Social Media in Vietnam, Social Media in Haiku’s way, Online Dating Service, etc.,

Topic board:

The official time for entrance registration is 8.30 am. However, at 8.00 am there were crowded people registering:

Bryan Pelz – VinaGame’s CEO

Everyone was gathering around at the assembly room:

eXoers at BarCamp Hanoi 2009:

Hung and Brice:

Brice with Enterprise 2.0 session talk:

Yesterday the weather was really hot, especially at the lunch time. The BarCamp Hanoi 2009′s organization was quite good, everything was not out of control. Everyone seemed satisfied with the organization then.

Organizers:

Some people couldn’t attend but they could know all the session talks from live schedule and twitter channel with #barcamphanoi hash tag.

eXo is glad to sponsor BarCamp Hanoi 2009 with RMIT Hanoi, VinaGame, Baomoi, Moore Corp and Vega Corp and thank our organizers so much, thank you, guys for coming and sharing your ideas with eXo Platform about our business and products in Vietnam, thank for your suggestion to improve our products. What’s next? We can look forward to BarCamp Saigon at the end of this year.

eXo’s presentations:

barcamphanoi – Enterprise 2.0

View more presentations from brevenan.
Barcamphanoi Opensocial Application Development

View more presentations from hoatle.

BarCamp Hanoi 2009 Resources:

- Pictures: flickr, anhso
- Presentations: slideshare (BarCamp Hanoi’s presentaions are put on the spotlight section – slideshare’s home page)

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[New Release] eXo KS 1.1 is released

Friday, April 17th, 2009

The eXo KS team is please to announce the release of eXo Knowledge Suite 1.1.

This release contains over 80 usability improvements gathered from user feedback.
Main new features of Forum are :

  • User Profile and Avatar management
  • IP Banning and Logging
  • Enhanced Bookmarkability
  • Enhanced Watch

Additionally, FAQ application just became more participative :

  • Question details
  • Categories panes for easier browsing
  • Comments and votes
  • Open discussion in forum
  • Multiple answers per question
  • RSS support
  • Watches management

As usual, you can download it here, read the release notes and wiki or simply try the Live Demo.

Enjoy!

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eXo as one of the major sponsors for BarCamp Hanoi 2

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

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BarCamp Hanoi 2 (2009) will be held on April 19th, 2009 at RMIT International University, Hanoi Campus.

BarCamp Hanoi 1 was successfully organized in eXo Platform SEA offices in 2007 and eXo is now proud to be one of the first sponsor for this 2nd BarCamp in Hanoi. The eXo guys are looking forward to meeting people interested about IT in Vietnam as well as the Open Source world where eXo stands as an influent innovator.

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences — open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants. This is a chance for many people (CEO, CTO, developers, etc.,) to share ideas and talk about anything they like, but mostly in the information technology area: web 2.0, collaboration, web services, tech trends, products promotion, etc.,

As a sponsor for this major event, eXo Platform hope that we will contribute our effort in Vietnamese IT, to promote a really helpful activity and to have chance recruiting talented people working for our company in Hanoi.

For more details of BarCamp Hanoi 2, please refer to: http://www.barcamphanoi.org.

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