Parleys.com: Open Source ECM

This presentation shows how three open source projects hosted in the ObjectWeb Consortium can be leveraged to build a powerful Enterprise Content Management solution (ECM). The major objective of this integration is to benefit from the best of Portal, Workflow and Wiki components to handle the organization content through the process of capturing, storing, managing, publishing and referencing.

This solution relays on the three components of the ObjectWeb ecosystem and is a clear example of cross fertilization of open source projects:

    * eXo Platform version 2 which is a powerful Enterprise Portal and Content Management solution used by several US federal, French and Italian administrations. It allows the creation, monitoring and publication of personalized contents through a single unified web platform.

    * Bonita is a complete Workflow System offering out of the box workflow features. Bonita increases automation, collaboration and robustness of the platform powered by eXo. It constitutes its perfect companion by providing a workflow engine, a user interface and a process design tool supporting processes for online services.

    * Xwiki is an open-source project to develop a Java eXtended Wiki engine. Xwiki can be seen as a portlet available in eXo portal offering powerful wiki fonctionalities to users. Even more, in the context of a ECM solution wiki pages can be automatically updated by a workflow engine in charge of a document validation process.

The session features short presentations of components. It then deals with a real world use case where they are combined to form an ECM suite. It will show, among others, how documents are created by users through eXo Portal, then stored in eXo Java Content Repository, processed by Bonita and then published in Xwiki.