Many of our clients--Activision, Endeca, and others--are trying to find the best way to manage content and enable collaboration in a much more complicated environment. Some of the challenges include:
- Stakeholders expect a web 2.0 user experience - if the provided platform is not a compelling experience, it is quite easy for them to circumvent your platform with their own, either by installing Open Source Software or using hosted SaaS.
- The need for a lightweight front-end with Web 2.0 user experiences cannot come at the expense of security and advanced document management tools. Most existing software in the market makes you choose one or the other. What is really ideal is an assembly of the two.
- The distinction between "inside the firewall" and "outside the firewall" is disappearing. Collaboration is no longer contained within the boundaries of traditional communities (like "customers", "partners", or "vendors"). Rather, it occurs between all stakeholders, regardless of organizational boundaries or formal business relationships.
To properly address these challenges requires a flexible approach to content and collaboration based on open standards. For example, we leveraged the proposed CMIS standard to assemble community solutions based on Drupal and Alfresco together to provide the best fit for these business requirements. To learn more:
- Click through the Slideshare below
- Review our Services Oriented Content Management perspective
- Read the Alfresco+Drupal blog
- Check out our Labs for more Drupal-Alfresco and Django-Alfresco integration videos
- Watch the recorded webinar on using Alfresco and Drupal for Next Generation Intranets (see teaser, below).
