‘Enterprise applications’ posts

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

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. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | View post »

Drupal, Acquia, and 2009

Posted by John Eckman on 01 Jan 2009

Looks like 2009 will be yet another exciting year of growth for the Drupal community. Dries Buytaert (Drupal project founder and lead, Acquia co-founder) announced two significant news items for the Drupal world in his recent “Predictions for 2009” blog post: a predicted release date for Drupal 7, and a major change in Acquia’s support | View post »

Open Source Content Management Panel at Gilbane Boston

Posted by John Eckman on 25 Nov 2008

Next week, I’ll be moderating a panel on Open Source Content Management at the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference – “Where Content Management Meets Social Media.” The panel is scheduled for Thursday, December 4th, from 3:30-5:00pm. The panelists will be: Nate Aune of Jazkarta (Plone / Zope / Python) Elie Auvray of Jahia Michael Wechner | View post »

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. We talked about Ringside Networks’ Social Application Server and how they are using open source to drive innovation and application development beyond the core platform. (Don’t forget Bob’s previous middleware-style professional | View post »

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel

Posted by John Eckman on 23 Jun 2008

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. Specifically, the report claims that “enterprises interested in open source should keep an eye on two offerings — Alfresco Software and Drupal.” (Also check out Matt | View post »

Enterprise 2.0: Free Conference Pass

Posted by John Eckman on 06 May 2008

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: Community and collaboration pervade open source. It’s no surprise therefore that there are a number of open source platforms which are not | View post »

Open Source Ecommerce – Assembled

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 06 Feb 2008

In a very competitive sector, flexibility, extensibility and time to market have been the main drivers when we assembled the Wonderbox ecommerce platform. <!–break–> The SOA architecture we implemented (based on Mule ESB) integrates the different services provided by packages such as SugarCRM(CRM, SFA, Partner management), SAGE(finance), SCPA(logistics), ATT(Traceability), osCommerce(order tacking), Ogone(payment) as well as | View post »

User-Designed Enterpise Apps: A Strategic Advantage

Posted by Optaros on 31 Jan 2008

Where does your company stand on usability? Which of the these best describes your company’s beliefs about its Enterprise IT Systems? Our Enterprise Systems drive our success Our Enterprise Systems are holding us back If your answer is “2″, then where does it hurt? Too difficult to learn our system Too many user “mistakes” Too | View post »