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Introducing SocPub.com

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By Bryan - Posted on 08 February 2010

A couple years ago, Jeff Whatcott introduced to me the concept of a social publishing system. Within minutes after reading his article, I knew I wanted to expand further on his idea of social publishing and discuss the potential impact social publishing would have on content management systems. During this time period, Andrew McAfee was continuing to observe the emergence of Enterprise 2.0 into the normal day to day business world. From these two moments, I couldn't help myself from dreaming of the opportunities I had before me to learn more about social publishing and collaboration tools.

I have waited for almost two years for the right time to start a new website that focused on Enterprise 2.0 topics which were beyond the scope of CMSReport.com. Starting with the new year, I began to realize this is the right time to introduce a new site that focuses on social publishing and collaboration. Today, I want to introduce you to SocPub.com. At the time, there isn't much to see but I promise you the future is bright for this domain.

Alfresco Enterprise 3.2 Released

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By Bryan - Posted on 12 January 2010

Alfresco Software today announced the availability of Alfresco Enterprise Edition 3.2, the latest version of its enterprise content management (ECM) product. With this release, Alfresco enables cloud-based deployments, streamlines email management and archiving and enhances team-based content collaboration. In addition, the Alfresco Enterprise 3.2 Records Management module is the only supported open source solution to have been certified to the 5015.02 standard.

This release builds on Alfresco’s ability to deliver low-cost, innovative and interoperable open source ECM solutions. New features and benefits included in Alfresco Enterprise 3.2 are listed below.

Enables efficient and easy ECM in the cloud:

  • Multi-Tenancy – Alfresco natively supports multi-tenancy, a critical component of multi-company cloud implementations as it maximizes use of hardware and simplifies administration of multiple instances of Alfresco.
  • Cloud-deployable – Alfresco now supports multiple deployment options from traditional on-premise to full cloud deployment ranging from a simple AMI to a fully-configured, fault-tolerant and load-balanced Alfresco cluster.

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Project management: Designer versus Programmer

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By Pegboard CMS - Posted on 18 November 2009

It’s ShowTime again, the project manager looks grim, the programmer struts in “I’m gonna break ya” … the designer stares him down, the bell rings… smackdown, and its only morning tea break!

If your design studio resembles a scene from wrestlemania, take heart, you’re not alone!  There is mortal combat out there between two creative forces butting heads over the creation of an online masterpiece. The Project manager aka “the Ref” is breaking into a sweat over burgeoning budgets, wasted time and a design project that looks light-years from delivery.

The two parties that pay for the showdown, the client and the design studio owner, are stuck in the audience looking on wringing hands, the anxiety levels are rising. The problem is that once the cycle gets going it’s hard to stop, the lateness of delivery looks bad to the client, upcoming projects get pushed back to a later starting date. Clients complain and do your business untold damage as your reputation wavers.  Stress levels peak at all levels of your business, even the work experience kid is having a crap time, productivity and staff moral are non-existent, and the boss is sweaty palmed and manic. Profits dry up, no movie night this month for the staff, hey that’s cool, they hate each other anyway.

So why the opposition?

Mailbag: OfficeMedium for Collaboration

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By Bryan - Posted on 27 October 2009

Mike Stefanello wrote to us earlier this month to talk about OfficeMedium. OfficeMedium is a web-based service that provides intranet and collaboration software for businesses and work groups. In a very competitive market, OfficeMedium appears set to try and win customers over by providing enriched business tools at a low reasonable price. OfficeMedium is pricing their services at a monthly rate of $8 per user plus $1 per Gigabyte used.

OfficeMedium utilizes the open source Drupal CMS. A case study for how Drupal was used to build OfficeMedium can be found at Drupal.org. Below is a copy of Mike's email talking about OfficeMedium.

We offer a brand-new web application that we believe your readers will be interested to hear about.

OfficeMedium: Web-based Intranet and Collaboration Software

OfficeMedium is a recently launched startup that offers on-demand, web-based intranet and collaboration software for businesses and work groups. The private and secure networks offer a wide array of features meant to centralize and streamline important information and data, unlike other applications which seem to focus on single, often over-detailed and confusing, offerings, such as project management, contact relationships, or "enterprise twitters".

Within a sleek, extremely simple and easy-to-use interface, OfficeMedium offers:

  • Task and Event Management
  • Personal and Group Calendars
  • File Sharing, Storage, and Organization
  • Contact and Company Information Management
  • Automated Organization and Archiving
  • Client Integration
  • Social and Communication Features (such as private messaging, status updates, micromessaging, user profiles, shared blogging, poll creation, activity feeds, and more)

Global Collaboration Software Provider eXo Platform Opens US Office and Names New Board of Advisors

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By chantaly - Posted on 09 October 2009

France-based eXo Platform announced this week that it has opened its first U.S. office to serve the North American market. The company provides open source collaboration software that integrates content management, communications, workflow and social applications on a portal platform. This gives it a unique position at the intersection of open source, collaboration and social computing.

Considering that its first customer -- and the impetus behind the formation of the company in the first place -- was the U.S. Department, this move can be considered long overdue. But Founder and CEO Benjamin Mestrallet wanted to do this right.

First, he inked a partnership with open source leader Red Hat. Then he recruited some well known software industry veterans onto a newly formed advisory board. These include:

* 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;

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

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

Mr. Bickel has a long history of working closely with promising young companies and taking them to impressive exits. On why he's working with eXo, he explained: “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.

The Gilbane Conference - Boston 2009

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By Bryan - Posted on 25 August 2009

The sixth annual Gilbane Conference in Boston will be held on December 1-3, 2009. This year's conference will cover a number of topics on content management, collaboration, and customers. For 2009, the Gilbane Conference is more focused than ever on the business impact of content solutions that are here right now and ready to be implemented right now.

Every program component of the conference is tied to the business issues surrounding marketing, technical and enterprise content. The conference has taken the four major areas of how enterprises use Web and content technologies and organized them into tracks that make it easy to customize an agenda that meets your business objectives. The four tracks include:

  • Web Business & Engagement
  • Managing Collaboration & Social Media: Internal & External
  • Enterprise Content: Searching, Integrating & Publishing
  • Content Infrastructure

CMS Report is proud to be a media sponsor of Gilbane Boston 2009. This sponsorship entitles CMSReport.com readers to receive a special $200 discount to the conference. To receive the $200 discount, you'll need to use the code - cmsreport - when asked for it during the registration process.

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