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Evaluating Social Software? Don't Underestimate Open Source
Veröffentlicht 31 Mar 2009 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Acquisition, Alfresco, Analysis, Application Stategy, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, Django, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Groundswell, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, social media, Social Networking, Solutions, Strategy, Twitter, Vendor Evaluation, WordPress

It's quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. + Read more

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Veröffentlicht 21 Dec 2008 von Optaros Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source + Read more

Acquia Drupal officially launches
Veröffentlicht 03 Oct 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Acquia, Content Management, Drupal, ECM, Portal

Do you love Drupal but wish you could get a "certified" version and commercial support? Now you can. Acquia, the commercial company recently formed by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert and Jay Batson, officially launched Acquia Drupal this week (press release). Acquia Drupal is a commercially-supported distribution of Drupal. + Read more

Integrated Assembly Environment - Choosing OForge to kickstart your project
Veröffentlicht 26 Jun 2008 von Jay DolanTags: Assembly Methodology, Integrated Assembly Environment, OForge, Portal, Trac

My most recent client engagement was a site redesign and launch for a leading national news paper. There is definitely some sexy technology at work on that site now (Python, Django, Ellington, Apache Solr, Inform, ..), but today I'm choosing to 'blog about Optaros' Trac-based software distribution known as OForge. + Read more

Event: Open Source ECM in Action
Veröffentlicht 03 Jun 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management, Endeca, Liferay, Portal, Ringside Networks, Web 2.0

If you're going to be in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area on June 26th, come on by the Westin Galleria. + Read more

Enterprise 2.0: Free Conference Pass
Veröffentlicht 06 May 2008 von John EckmanTags: Acquia, Alfresco, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, User Experience, Web 2.0

At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this June, I will be moderating a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panel will be Thursday, June 12th, at 8:30am. Here's the session description: + Read more

Running Alfresco web scripts as Liferay portlets
Veröffentlicht 09 Apr 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Enterprise 2.0, Liferay, Portal

I've seen a lot of Liferay and Alfresco forum posts from people having trouble getting Alfresco running within a Liferay portal. Once that's done, people usually want to invoke Alfresco web scripts as portlets without requiring a separate single sign-on (SSO) infrastructure. Some people have pointed to the Alfresco wiki (Deploying 2.1 WAR Liferay 4.3). That is a helpful reference but it isn't the full story. + Read more

Celebrate your love for JBoss in Orlando 2/13 - 2/15
Veröffentlicht 08 Jan 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: JBoss, Portal, Red Hat

JBoss World is coming up next month. It's in Orlando February 13th - 15th. If you are interested in JBoss Portal, specifically, Thomas Heute lets you in on the Portal-specific sessions here. Much to my wife's chagrin ("You're going to a conference on Valentine's Day?!") I'll be at the conference. I'm looking forward to soaking up some JBoss goodness. + Read more

REFEN - a user centric approach to help ameliorate information workflows
Veröffentlicht 08 Jan 2008 von Jonathan MaierTags: CRM, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Portal, Sugar CRM, Web 2.0

REFEN is a State of Vaud (south west of Switzerland) project that we delivered yesterday to our client to his great satisfaction. The enthusiasm of the customer was clearly expressed on the day we delivered the solution ahead of time. We succeeded in a short period of time in analyzing and gathering business processes in a user-centric way in order to fulfill end-users needs and thus improve the quality and efficiency of their work. + Read more

Open Innovation
Veröffentlicht 13 Dec 2007 von Marc OsofskyTags: Open Innovation, Portal, Product Management, Web 2.0

Many consumer product and service companies are looking for ways to accelerate new product introduction and increase the probability of successful product launches. A major part of the Next Generation Internet is the concept of openness - that your customers can now communicate their views on your company and product over the internet and reach as many people as your marketing department can and in a more believable manner. + Read more

Endeca: Under the covers
Veröffentlicht 11 Dec 2007 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Endeca, Open Innovation, Portal, Web 2.0

The Endeca Partner Community solution ("EDeN") was assembled from content management, portal, blog, and search components. Specifically, Alfresco, Liferay, Wordpress, and Endeca's Information Access Platform. Let's look at the responsibilities of each of these components and then a bit about how they integrate.Content Management -- AlfrescoThe Alfresco repository holds all file-based content that gets published to EDeN. This includes things like whitepapers, tech notes, and product documentation. + Read more

The Endeca Assembly Experience
Veröffentlicht 08 Nov 2007 von Jim MunzTags: Alfresco, Blogs, Content Management, Endeca, Liferay, Portal

The Endeca Developer Network (EDeN) was achieved through the Solution Assembly process (OptAM) and I have been asked why is this different than traditional software integration by colleagues of mine within the industry. The EDeN experience I feel highlights this perfectly. We went from requirements to a Beta release in just 12 weeks. + Read more