‘Platform’ posts

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Jeff talks about the unique position of Acquia in relation to Drupal as an “organic open source” project: | View post »

Open Source and Innovation: John Newton of Alfresco

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference this June in Boston, I sat down with John Newton, the CTO and Chairman of Alfresco, for a brief (7:11) discussion about the intersections between ECM and Enterprise 2.0 and the value of community-driven innovation in open source. Newton lays out a very clear picture of how Alfresco has a | 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 »

Social Networking Identity Mapping, and Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Apr 2008

Although social network platforms have been increasingly open to application development, spurred by Facebook’s API and reinforced by the Open Social foundation, the approach has always been to enourage the development of applications inside the walls of the social network. As I’ve written before (“Open Social is a start but not the whole picture“), however, | 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 »

Blurring the Browser/Desktop Boundary: Mozilla Prism, Adobe AIR

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

Perhaps it was inevitable. Given that ajax and flash enabled the creation of web-based experiences which look and feel like desktop applications, and given that dekstop applications increasingly rely on data and interaction from the Internet, the two worlds are becoming difficult to tell apart. Is iTunes a desktop application or a web application? It's | View post »

Open Social is a start, but not the whole picture

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

When Google luanched Open Social, many hailed the announcement as the end of walled-garden social networks, and the arrival of cross-network connections. While that enthusiasm may be too early, it is certainly going to be an important step forward. What open social really addresses, though, is application portability not social graph portability. This will be | View post »

Data migration into Alfresco ECM

Posted by Optaros on 09 Jan 2008

After the first and successful implementation of Alfresco at the State of Vaud (Switzerland), the IT department sees more and more requests of State departments requesting for integrating the Alfresco ECM platform. One usual need is the data migration from an existing application to the Alfresco ECM repository. The easiest case is – of course | View post »

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