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BonitaSoft announces OEM partnership with eXo Platform

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Grenoble, November 16th, 2009 – eXo Platform, a major provider of open source collaborative software, has just reached an OEM partnership agreement with BonitaSoft, the first provider of open source Business Process Management (BPM) solutions.

With the signing of this agreement, eXo Platform and BonitaSoft strengthen their technological collaboration. BonitaSoft’s business process management solution will be integrated into eXo DMS’s document management module.

Based on Bonita, BonitaSoft’s open source BPM software, the new version of eXo DMS incorporates advanced features for document collaboration and validation. The addition of Bonita’s BPM capabilities provides eXo Platform customers a powerful and intuitive solution for automating their records management.

The result of four years of successful technical collaboration, the eXo DMS version integrating Bonita was made available to the open source community in 2009. Through this enhanced partnership, eXo Platform and BonitaSoft now offer their customers dedicated support and services for this integrated solution.

“We see a demand for more and more BPM features from the open source community and from our customers. The incorporation of Bonita in our product range allows us to automate and standardize an approach that was previously customized for each project,” said Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO of eXo Platform. “Also, through the certification of several eXo Platform modules on the GateIn platform, users are able to extend their portal capabilities with BonitaSoft’s BPM”, said Benjamin.

“We’ve found in eXo Platform a level of expertise in collaborative applications that is capable of addressing the problems of managing the most highly advanced document processes. This partnership really helps to give our customers a head start in mastering their document processes,” said Miguel Valdes Faura, CEO of BonitaSoft.

About BonitaSoft:

Created in 2009 by Miguel Valdes, Rodrigue Le Gall and Charles Souillard, BonitaSoft is the first provider of open source business process management (BPM) software. The Bonita solution has been downloaded more than 150 000 times to date by companies and organizations worldwide. BonitaSoft will democratize the use of BPM in companies of all sizes with an intuitive and powerful solution with an optimum cost. BonitaSoft is a partner of Talend and Bull and is an active member of the OW2 consortium.

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Ippon Technologies introduce eXo Platform at its Open Source Portals conference

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Last week, Ippon technologies, French IT Company specialized in architectures and expert of the J2EE platform, presented a conference about the Open Source Portal market.

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The conference room was full and it proved an increasing interest for Open Source Portals as decision makers are more and more looking for alternatives to proprietary software.

In the first part of the conference, Bertrand Pinel, Technical Manager at Ippon, explained some technological aspects of the enterprise Portals to make J2EE portals compliant with each other, as the JSR 168 and 286 for the portlet specifications and the JSR 170 for the Java Content Repository.

Then, Ippon Technologies presented its expertise on the eXo stack through the work done for one of its customers: Globecast, which is a subsidiary of France Telecom. Attendees have been able to understand how these tools contributed to improve the time needed to display new information and features to the users and how the portal are integrated to Information Systems already running in the companies.

Through these customer feedbacks, some interesting findings came up:

  • Open Source portals are gaining interests and companies are more and more choosing the open source way instead of heavy and locked solutions (like Oracle, IBM and SharePoint);
  • Nowadays, the tools are mature enough in terms of features and interfaces to produce real websites with modern designs;
  • Some big companies are using the eXo Community edition for critical missions;
  • Most clients are using Tomcat as a server for their portal;

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Nicolas Martignole, a well known IT expert, author of the blog “Le Touilleur Express“, attended the event and came back with some interesting comments. Here is an extract of his point of view:

“From what I heard, eXo Platform have real products, with Product Managers, like Patrice Lamarque, eXo CS and KS PM. This is interesting because this product-oriented approach is more opened. Where LifeRay is the Office suite, eXo seems to provide different layers that correspond to your needs.”

“And finally, isn’t the eXo modules oriented approach more interesting that the all-or-nothing approach of LifeRay? I write on my notebook… Modules=flexibility=eXo.”

“I then attended the presentation of an Intranet project built with eXo Portal and eXo WCM for Globecast, subsidiary of France Telecom and customer of Ippon Technologies. The Intranet “websites factory” is a content oriented project that aims to ease the communication inside the company and between the different departments. The portal also provides the ability to mash up contents, enables all the teams to work together and to build contents.”

“We also had the opportunity to discuss with Patrice Lamarque, Product Manager at eXo. The new engine version is called GateIn and comes from the partnership between eXo and JBoss. It is a promising product and I think we will have a brand new Portal generation in few months.”

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eXo opens its first U.S. Office and introduces its Board of Advisors

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (Oct. 6, 2009) – In response to growing demand in North America, eXo Platform today opened its first U.S. office and announced a Board of Advisors stacked with software industry luminaries. This move comes on the heels of a partnership with Red Hat enabling eXo to deliver its open source collaboration software to the North American market. Developed in partnership with many of Europe’s largest companies — including Generali, Société Générale and Orange — eXo’s software is designed, built and proven in large production deployments for Global 2000 enterprise companies. Enterprises in North America can now extend the value and cost savings of their open source infrastructure to applications and content services with eXo.

eXo founder and CEO Benjamin Mestrallet has relocated from France to run operations from the firm’s new San Francisco office. Mestrallet will have on hand a team of experienced advisors who have proven track records in managing growth, shaping strong leadership and building valuation for young companies. From the Board of Advisors:

  • Bob Bickel, co-founder of Bluestone Software, former head of Hewlett-Packard Middleware and, most recently, head of strategy at JBoss and board advisor to Hyperic (acquired by SpringSource), JasperSoft and Funambol, among others;

L_Bob-Bickel “eXo has the proven technology, talent and market potential that I look for when considering which companies I’d like be involved with at a strategic level,” noted Bickel. “While enterprise companies have benefited from a wide range of open source options at the operating system and middleware level and with development tools, choices in applications and content services have been limited. This is the next significant opportunity for driving out costs in the enterprise. Given its pioneering history and its successes with large European customers, eXo is primed to lead this charge in North America. I look forward to working with Benjamin and his team to make this happen.”

  • Edwin Khodabakchian, co-founder of Feedly.org, and former Oracle vice president of product development and CTO of eCommerce at AOL;

L_edwink“Benjamin is a smart, dynamic leader who has built up a lean but global company the old fashioned way — with solid technology, hard work and a disciplined eye on the bottom line,” said Khodabakchian. “I believe eXo has a bright future ahead of it and I am honored to have a part in shaping this.”

  • Sacha Labourey, most recently co-GM of Red Hat’s JBoss Middleware business and former CTO and European GM of JBoss, Inc.

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Labourey, who participated in negotiations on the eXo/Red Hat partnership before stepping down as JBoss co-GM, commented: “eXo is proof that a strong focus on engineering excellence can result in superior products. In the last year, I have come to know firsthand what eXo brings to the market and am consistently impressed by the breadth of its vision and the team’s ability to execute.”

In 2002, eXo delivered the industry’s first Java portlet container, which set in motion a leveling of the playing field in the portal market. This also attracted the attention of the U.S. Department of Defense, who went on to help fund the development of the eXo Portal, which is now merged into the new JBoss GateIn portal project. eXo continues to sell a broad portfolio of open source collaborative software that has been developed through R&D investment from its customers, which rank among the largest enterprises and savviest government agencies in the world.

One of Mestrallet’s first stops in the U.S. will be at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco, Calif., where he will share some of the innovations eXo Platform is experimenting with in its labs. See the conference agenda at: http://www.e2conf.com/sanfrancisco/.

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JBoss World 2009, the best of eXo & JBoss Portals in one common project

Monday, August 31st, 2009

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From August 31st to September 2nd, eXo will attend the annual JBoss World as a new partner of JBoss. The JBoss World event is the perfect place to share about new technologies, best practices and industry trends with experts. It also will be a nice occasion for us to meet companies that need new and innovative solutions and to show our ability to develop custom solutions for specific needs.

After three months in collaboration with JBoss, it is time for eXo to unveil the next generation of portal as well. eXo and JBoss teams joined their efforts and worked hard to present a portal gathering the best of two successful open source solutions: eXo and JBoss Portals. This new portal will set a new standard of quality in the industry and will offer new capabilities to customers. During the JBoss World, eXo will preview this new Open Source portal as well as how eXo complete stack will run on top of it.

To see this preview, to meet us and share about your expectations, your industry insights, or to talk about our solutions and the industry in general, come and meet us at booth 223. More than building knowledge, you will also spend a nice time ;)

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eXo Platform at the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit

Monday, June 8th, 2009

eXo Platform is, from June 8th to June 10th at the Gartner Portals, Content & Collaboration Summit. This event is a great opportunity for eXo to meet with customers, partners and analysts.

This event, will be the end of the “Spring US Trip” for the eXo team, and this is a good moment for us to present key messages around our product and business strategy. Stay tune, more news to come during the week.

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