It's been a while that I didn't share some news about Nuxeo on this blog. I'll try to make up for it...Let's go back to the future... In 2009.
Nuxeo 5.3
During October, Nuxeo announced availability of its new version of Nuxeo DM: the 5.3.
This version is the most complete Nuxeo that we've seen. Functionally richer, it covers more complex and extensive needs.
Among the list of new features, I will mention two of them
- Open Social: When we met "clients", one recurrent need is the famous "portal". I put out the word "portal" between quotes because, as the term ECM, portal are not a friendly term and can explain anything at the same time. Here I talk about Widget/Gadget Portal like Google or Netvibes. We can arrange on a single page a set of small square to form a mosaic that meet the functional requirements of the customer. In other words how, in my application, can I aggregate content and applications from different sources ? (and if it looks like Google it's even better!)
To satisfy this need, Nuxeo has integrated http://www.opensocial.org/. This is THE reference (de facto standard) in terms of creating composite application. Nuxeo DM becomes both Open Social Gadgets client and server . Think about it when you customer want to add the famous Weather box. ;o)
- Federated publishing : This need is more technical oriented and really important for integrator or any large company. To understand the usefulness, consider the example of a company which has 2 remote sites (geographically and functionally). One site is the head office while the other site is a production site. At head office, product team develop and creates all of new products documentation (product schema, manufacturing instructions, user guide...) and stores / shares then in ECM Repository. The production team uses this documentation everyday. A lack of documentation can generate the malfunction of production site. To avoid such unforeseen, we will create an 'master-slave "solution between the main ECM repository and a local one only for production. Between these two sites, we can create a link to share and distribute information. This practice guarantee and ensure high data availability.
You can find the announcement at http://www.nuxeo.com/en/about/news/nuxeo-dm-53
If you prefer video, you can find a webinar presenting the capabilities of Nuxeo at:
Nuxeo and marketing
For over a year and to support its international expansion, Nuxeo has considerably improved its marketing presence. Concretely this means more events both on the web via webinars, videos, presentations, participating in social networks or concrete meetings.
Reminder : Nuxeo World http://www.nuxeo.com/fr/societe/actualites/nuxeo-world-2010
One of the highlights of this strategy was the appointment of Cheryl McKinnon as CMO (Chief Marketing Officer in English). You will say "yes, what's else?" I will answer that she was Director of Program Management, Enterprise 2.0 from Open Text (proprietary editor solutions content management world and a leader in this market ... and Nuxeo competitor) and secondly she is known and recognized in the international ECM community. If you want further evidence of the rise of open source document management, I think you have a new ;-)
Nb: If you want to follow Cheryl McKinnon
- Blog: http://candyandaspirin.blogspot.com/
- Nuxeo Blog : http://blogs.nuxeo.com/cmckinnon/
- Twitter : http://twitter.com/CherylMcKinnon
Three axes of conquest
During 2009, we discover that Nuxeo is moving to 3 directions (which I consider important)
- Semantic area
- Apache Chemistry and CMIS
- Nuxeo Cloud
To be honest, I'm not an expert in this area but I know how important it is to provide intelligence into data stored in content management system .
To get an idea of integrating this component in Nuxeo, I'll refer you to the various available resources . They are mainly from Olivier Grisel work at Nuxeo and Yerbabuena Software which has developed the first module Nuxeo in this area.
Article
Videos
- [FRENCH] Presentation by Olivier Grisel about Nuxeo and Semantic durign Chti'jug (ppt)
- Nuxeo Semantic by Yerbabuena Software
Apache Chemistry and CMIS
Nuxeo has launched for several months now the Chemistry initiative : http://incubator.apache.org/chemistry/. This initiative seeks to become the open source implementation reference of CMIS standard. Due to the approaching end of CMIS public review, we can suspect that this part will be increasingly important in the coming months and will contribute to Nuxeo reputation.
NB : Have a look to jonontech.com blog :
http://jonontech.com/2009/11/26/cmis-jcr-and-osgi-for-idiots/
Nuxeo Cloud
You want an ECM Solution without worry of technical infrastructure ? You want a distributed system which can support easily high availability ? So take Nuxeo cloud
And tomorrow?
This post by Laurence Hart on his blog wordofpie.com inform us about Nuxeo main development axes. We can find Record Management and a catalog of application services (mail management, DAM, Cloud ...).
Voila Ladies and gentlemen, all I can summarize about Nuxeo. I remain at your disposal for further information and to share various news about Nuxeo.
See you soon!
