eXo Platform is glad to invite you to its first online Webcast to introduce the eXo Enterprise Content Management Suite.
During this online seminar, Tugdual Grall, VP of Business & Product Strategy at eXo Platform will present you:
- How you can easily manage documents in your enterprise using shared drives, versionning, permissions, search, and other useful tools provided by eXo Document Management System ; - how you can easily build mutlitple web sites from one place using the powerful eXo Web Content Management module allowing you to integrate any type of content and application The presentation will be delivered in English by Tugdual Grall. Register here or contact us for any information regarding the Webcast or anything else. Best Regards,
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eXo ECM Suite Webcast (November 25th)
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BonitaSoft announces OEM partnership with eXo Platform
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009Grenoble, 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.
Just Released: eXo DMS 2.5 Enhances Productivity and User Experience
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009Updated eXo Document Management System (DMS) 2.5 introduces new intuitive design that delivers better flexibility in navigation, customizable preferences, and collaboration
PARIS (8 July 2009) – eXo Platform SAS today updated its Document Management System (DMS) with a brand new interface design that enhances user productivity and experience. Now, users can search for, access, and work and collaborate on documents in a similar way in which they’re used to with File Explorer on Windows and Finder on MacOSX—only, with eXo DMS, they can do much more than just navigate shared drives.
“Software packages like Documentum and Sharepoint may be more widely used at larger organizations, but shared drives remain the most common way for people to connect, share and collaborate on documents,” said Benjamin Mestrallet, CEO of eXo Platform. “With eXo DMS 2.5, we aimed to make the user experience as intuitive and familiar so that the learning curve can be shortened. By making DMS open source, we’re also opening up access to a wide audience to try it out for themselves and see why eXo customers have come to expect usability, modern design, and flexibility in our software.”
A core component of eXo Enterprise Content Management (ECM) suite, eXo DMS is a powerful tool that captures, manages, stores, preserves, delivers, and secures all types of documents. It has a built-in workflow system that not only manages how documents are accessed, modified, and shared but also manages the people and processes involved with these documents. With eXo DMS, customers can transform unstructured content such as Web pages, email text, videos, and audio files, into structured content that can be more easily managed and used to make informative business decisions.
eXo DMS is built on the company’s implementation of the Java Content Repository (JCR) specification (JSR-170), which provides a Java interface for interacting with content and data, regardless of how it’s stored. The eXo JCR implementation, now being developed in partnership with the JBoss community, enables a wide range of actions such as locking, versioning, and access control that makes eXo DMS suitable for enterprise deployments.
New features in eXo DMS 2.5 improve user productivity and experience by making it easier to find files and giving users the option to customize their environment to suit their needs. These features include:
- A user interface extension framework that can be used to create plug-ins and extensions to the File Explorer. Eventually, eXo expects a community of plug-ins to evolve out of this that can be shared among customers.
- Contextual action buttons in the File Explorer that can be customized depending on the type of document and launch the appropriate action(s) pre-defined for the document. Moreover, rather than see all action buttons, the user only sees those actions on which they’re authorized to act.
- New taxonomy management that allows users to classify and retrieve documents regardless the way they are stored in the application. Organizations or departments can organize documents in whatever way that makes sense for them, but still have them stored in an optimal manner by the company to maximize performance and resources.
- Symbolic link implementation simplifies access to important folders and/or documents when the folder structure is complex. This is similar to a “short cut,” except that users are not linked to the real folder, but rather can work in the short cut file as if it is the real one.
- Google Gadgets support helps improve collaboration with other contributors by showing which documents were last edited or published and by whom. This eliminates guessing and version control problems.
Availability
eXo DMS 2.5 is immediately available under the Affero General Public License (AGPL) for download today at http://www.exoplatform.com/portal/public/website/product/exomodules/ecm/dms/__download. It is supported on eXo Portal 2.5.x. For additional information, including screenshots, visit http://www.exoplatform.com/portal/public/website/product/exomodules/ecm/dms/dmsoverview.
Context adaptation of eXo JCR File Explorer
Saturday, February 14th, 2009In eXo DMS (Document Management System), users manage content through an application called ”JCR File Explorer”. This one allows to create, retrieve, update or delete content. Until now, it forced users to initially select a drive. A drive can be considered as a logical unit of storage (for example: live documents, user private documents, workgroup documents) :
Choosing a drive in JCR File Explorer
This selection step was not really convenient and we thought there was matter to improve productivity.
So JCR File Explorer will optionnally allow bypassing this drive selection and immediately let the users access the drive matching the context of their work.
- in the “spaces” use case, the JCR File Explorer will directly access the drive containing content shared by the community he’s connected to (this use case is compatible with the eXo Spaces module),
- in the “jailed” use case, the administrator will reference a unique drive or document from the application preferences. This can be considered as a Unix “chroot”,
- in the “parameterized” use case, the application fetches some location information from the portal page URL. Then it will directly access that specified location in the storage (can be a folder or a document). This use case is handy to allow linking the JCR File Explorer from external applications. A typical example is a Google gadget listing the last 5 modified documents. When clicking, the user is redirected to eXo Portal and directly accesses the document in its context.
Of couse, in all cases, security checks are performed to ensure the current user is granted to access the target location.
Developments should be ready when eXo DMS 2.3 is released (middle of march).