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eXo and BonitaSoft Tighten Integration Between BPM and Document Management

Wednesday, May 25th, 2011

SAN FRANCISCO, May 25, 2011 – eXo, a provider of Java portal and user experience technologies, and BonitaSoft, the leading provider of open source business process management (BPM) solutions, today announced an expanded partnership. BonitaSoft will integrate eXo’s xCMIS technology into the new release of Bonita Open Solution (BOS), while the new eXo Platform for Bonita will offer BOS users advanced content management capabilities, an enhanced user experience, and seamless integration with existing workflows.

News Highlights

  • BonitaSoft has integrated xCMIS, eXo’s implementation of the Content Management Interoperability Specification (CMIS), into Bonita Open Solution 5.5, also released today. Bonita Open Solution features Document Management, offering customers native tools for managing documents within processes.
  • BonitaSoft customers who require more advanced content management capabilities can easily plug into eXo Platform for Bonita. This customized package of eXo Platform 3, the company’s user experience platform (UXP) which integrates content management, collaboration and social into a single portal-based offering, includes a set of gadgets, portlets and documentation to facilitate a seamless integration with BOS.
  • eXo Platform for Bonita provides customers with complete enterprise content management capabilities; support for CMIS allows eXo to easily plug into an existing implementation of Bonita Document Management solution.
  • Bonita Open Solution can be integrated with an eXo-based portal as a set of gadgets. Users can view and interact with the workflows assigned to them, monitor process execution updates in activity streams, or create new business processes – all directly from their social intranet homepage.

Supporting Quotes

Benjamin Mestrallet, eXo founder and CEO: “We’re excited to be broadening our partnership with BonitaSoft and in the process delivering more value to our customers. Integrating workflows can enhance eXo-based websites and social intranets, while BonitaSoft users now have an easy way to expand and customize their process-based applications with rich user experience services.”

Miguel Valdes Faura, BonitaSoft co-founder and CEO: “BonitaSoft and eXo have been complementary technologies for nearly two years; through this expanded collaboration, we’re thrilled to deliver more value to our customers. By leveraging eXo’s xCMIS in Bonita Open Solution, we are able to offer our users key new features like advanced document management capabilities and a built-in content repository.”

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About BonitaSoft

BonitaSoft is the leading provider of open source business process management (BPM) software. Created in 2009 by the founders of the Bonita project, BonitaSoft is democratizing the use of BPM in companies of all sizes with an intuitive and powerful solution at an optimum cost. The Bonita solution has been downloaded more than 750,000 times to date by companies and organizations worldwide. For news and updates from BonitaSoft, follow @BonitaSoft.

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eXo Plugin for Seesmic – Bringing the Social Intranet to the Desktop

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

eXo first developed activity stream capabilities over 2 years ago – where updates can be published in real-time for users and groups. Then, we expanded this by building some extensions so even applications can publish activity streams as well – like our developer dashboard that generates (and mashes up) updates for Jira and Hudson.

To view, subscribe and respond to any type of feed, you had to be logged into the eXo portal interface (which is used as a customer intranet most of the time). Even as we transformed the typical intranet, modernizing it into a “social intranet”, it is still disconnected from frequently accessed social networks that users check and interact with everyday. Enterprise users want the usability features of the consumer web, which eXo Platform 3 provides. But what if they want to access their professional and personal feeds in the same place?

Seesmic Desktop is a tool a lot of us already turn to, for aggregating feeds from social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. When they approached us about a new initiative to build plug-ins for enterprise activity streams, we realized what a great benefit this could for our customers.

The eXo plugin for Seesmic Desktop is one of their first enterprise plugins (they announced a future Chatter plugin, plus a couple others), joining over 50 social network plugins already available. With this plugin, users can now access internal company feeds without having to be logged into the intranet. You can follow your co-workers and groups right alongside your other feeds, and publish your activities or comments into these streams as well.

This isn’t just about convenience for users, to see everything in one place. What’s really cool is that you could see conversation related to your company happening in the community – in Twitter for example – then quickly engage your co-workers within your company intranet feed and turn around a response. This means community development or “social media marketing” is more accessible and attainable for more companies.

Starting today, you can download the eXo plugin for Seesmic Desktop from the Seesmic Plugin Marketplace. This is linked with our demo server, running the Acme Social Intranet sample app that is included with eXo Platform 3, so you can test the complete functionality. If you’re an eXo Platform customer, you’ll be able to use the plugin with your own social intranet early next year.

Read more about the interop effort here. Or:

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eXo Extends Seesmic into Java Enterprises

Thursday, December 2nd, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (December 2, 2010) – eXo today announced that its user experience platform, eXo Platform, is now integrated into the Seesmic Desktop application. The integration extends Seesmic to thousands of eXo enterprise users at large financial services, insurance and telco companies as well as public sector agencies. These organizations have modernized their Java systems with eXo Platform, bringing the rich, social features of the consumer web to their Java applications. Now, from Seesmic Desktop, users can access real-time updates from their eXo-based applications, alongside their Twitter, Linkedin and Facebook activity streams.

News Highlights

  • eXo Platform is a social intranet, integrated web content management system and modern application development platform in one for Java enterprises. It provides a framework for integrating existing Java and third-party applications – even those written in Ruby, PHP and .NET – or rapidly building applications, mashups or REST custom APIs.
  • Initially launched as a Twitter client, Seesmic Desktop can now manage multiple accounts across several services, including Facebook, Google Buzz, Linkedin and Twitter. With Seesmic Desktop, Seesmic is expanding the use of the Desktop application beyond personal social networks to enterprise applications such as eXo Platform. The new marketplace has over 50 social networking, entertainment, utilities and e-commerce integrations to extend the functionality of their desktop application far beyond Facebook and Twitter.
  • Integration of eXo services inside Seesmic Desktop offers convenient access for enterprise users. Real-time updates from co-workers, teams and applications are syndicated inside the application, alongside other services that users frequently access already, such as their Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter accounts.
  • By integrating enterprise activity streams into a familiar ‘daily use’ sort of tool like Seesmic, eXo makes it easier for users to track, respond and collaborate on business-related activities – even when they’re not logged into their company social intranet.

Supporting Quotes

Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo: “The expansion of Seesmic Desktop into the enterprise further fuels the consumerization of IT that is blurring the lines between the personal and the corporate. Increasingly, our customers want the ease and features of the consumer web in their day-to-day corporate computing life, and eXo integrated into Seesmic does just that.”

Loïc Le Meur, CEO of Seesmic: “Our plug-in architecture on Seesmic Desktop allows enterprise players like eXo to expand the reach of their services to social networks. With the integration into Seesmic Desktop, eXo now brings together the internal feeds of an organization and the external feeds of all the social services available on our platform.”

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eXo Webinar: eXo Platform 3, the User Experience Platform for Java

Monday, October 4th, 2010

eXo Platform 3, the User Experience Platform for Java, provides a solid enterprise-ready foundation for portal-based applications, with the collaboration, social and content features developers need to build modern, user-centric Java apps.

Join Tugdual Grall, SVP of Product Strategy & Development at eXo, as he gives a tour of some of the capabilities of eXo Platform 3, as well as an overview of the product architecture. Attendees will be introduced to several common use case scenarios:

  • Social Intranet: building a modern corporate intranet with activity streams, chat, group workspaces, calendars, and other collaboration spaces
  • Web 2.0 Websites: using eXo Platform 3′s powerful content management capabilities to develop portal-based websites
  • Application Development Platform: how to use the web-based IDE to build gadgets and mashups, and create custom APIs to extend eXo Platform 3

The presentation will also include live demonstrations of sample apps built with eXo Platform.

Webinar Details:

Title: eXo Platform 3, the User Experience Platform for Java
Speakers: Tugdual Grall, Senior VP of Product Strategy and Development
Language: English
Two Sessions:
- 1st Session: October 7th, at 6am Pacific Time / 9am Eastern Time / 3pm Paris – Register Here
- 2nd Session: October 7th, at 10am Pacific Time / 1pm Eastern Time / 7pm Paris – Register Here

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eXo Delivers First User Experience Platform for Java

Monday, September 20th, 2010

eXo Platform 3.0 marks the future of Java application development: enterprise content management, collaboration, social and rich UI with enterprise portal capabilities

JAVA ONE (BOOTH #5209), SAN FRANCISCO, CA (September 20, 2010) – eXo today delivered the next generation of its flagship product, eXo Platform 3.0. Architected on the new GateIn portal framework, eXo Platform 3.0 offers the first integrated environment for building modern Java applications with features such as content management, collaboration and social. The product’s features will be showcased this week at Java One (booth #5209).

Why Use eXo Platform 3.0

Enterprises have invested millions in their Java infrastructure, but now those applications are beginning to show their age, especially when compared to the user experience and collaboration driven by the consumer web. End users of Java applications are demanding more than most Java shops can deliver in terms of collaboration, personalization and dynamic content.

“Until now, Java developers have been cobbling together a wide range of ‘best of breed’ software for content management, collaboration or social into their Java systems — because their only other option has been SharePoint,” said Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo. “You shouldn’t have to throw out our Java investments to get these capabilities. With eXo Platform 3.0, Java enterprises now have a user experience platform for building modern Java apps with rich, interactive and social features — all in a modular architecture that developers are used to.”

eXo Platform 3.0 runs on standard Java middleware, but leverages REST services, Groovy, JavaScript, mashups and gadget-based development to build user-centric Java applications.

What You Can Do with eXo Platform 3.0

eXo Platform 3.0 offers all the capabilities expected of an enterprise portal. It leverages GateIn, the portal framework that eXo co-develops with Red Hat, to build portal-based applications complete with features like access control and single sign-on (SSO) for security.

But eXo Platform 3.0 goes well beyond an enterprise portal to provide:

  • A social intranet: Build an intranet by turning an LDAP directory into an enterprise social network where employees can connect and interact; teams can collaborate in their own online work spaces; and real-time updates and relevant information can be published in activity streams to the right people.
  • An integrated web content management (WCM) system: Quickly build and launch dynamic web 2.0 websites with a full suite of tools, including automated workflow for content publishing, version control and templates.
  • An application development platform for modern Java applications: With a REST architecture and native APIs, eXo Platform 3.0 is an extensible framework for building composite applications quickly and easily. eXo Platform 3.0 includes a web-based IDE for building and integrating applications, gadgets and mashups.

Technical Advantages

  • Unlimited extensibility: Create custom REST APIs on the fly to integrate any third party applications — even from .NET, PHP and other programming languages.
  • GateIn extensions: This new mechanism significantly simplifies application development. Developers can augment and customize GateIn’s features using extensions — without the need to modify the underlying GateIn framework itself. Upgrades to future versions will only require artifacts with the modified files.
  • Powerful and scalable content repository: By keeping applications’ structured data in a content repository, eXo Platform 3.0 provides developers with advanced capabilities that are lacking in traditional databases, including versioning, locking and more. IT operations also benefit from a wide range of management and monitoring functions — all provided in a scalable, clusterable architecture optimized for the consumer web.
  • Extensive open standards and protocol support: These include Java Content Repository (JCR), Java Portlet specification (JSR-286), JAX-RS for REST services and Content Management Integration Specification (CMIS). eXo Platform also implements the OpenSocial specification for gadgets and social APIs for People and Activity.

Availability & Support

eXo Platform 3.0 is immediately available for purchase or with a 30-day trial subscription that includes three support tickets. Download eXo Platform 3.0 today.

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