In this blog post, I talk about the reality of building open source enterprise software, at least talking from personal experience. Open source software is, at least from an engineering point of view, possibly the best way to develop software
OpenSocial , an open API first launched by Google in 2007, is a standardization effort that deserves a bit more attention from ECM practitioners
As a result, they now understand the business value of open formats for long-term archiving. Since almost all of the leading vendors of electronic archiving solutions use a proprietary internal format, there is a clear need for open and sustainable long-term archiving solutions
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The real solution, I believe, lies in enterprise open source software. If companies can fully grasp the benefits of this type of solution, they will understand that they share infrastructure development with other companies, so that helps them reduce cost, while still being able to maintain full control over their data as it can stay in-house, and therefore not create new content silos, as the data is being manipulated using code that will always be available to anyone (a little interesting anecdote : did you know that OpenOffice is better at opening really old Microsoft Word files than Microsoft’s own product ? This happened because the closed format it was based on was so poorly documented that even Microsoft did not properly maintain it. Open source developers actually did all the documentation work and QA testing when they reverse engineered the format)
Here's what we've developed: We started with an open source web content management system: Joomla...With proper planning and some crafty use of open source technology... absolutely
“Transparency” has been one of the essential buzzwords of the Enterprise 2.0/Social Business movement. Open discussions, clarity about process, elimination of closed door decision-making: these are the goals. Spending time in the world of open source ECM over the last couple of years taught me the value of showing one's work – brilliance and bugs alike. Openness is not just about providing a link to source code, but collaborative contributions to documentation, roadmaps, and exposing discussion to active participants and lurkers alike
If most business have a single central asset, they can benefit from refining the delivery of that asset to their respective customers / interactions with business partners delegating non-core functions to experts to allow them to maintain focus on their core processes Open Innovation and Crowdsourcing excel in helping businesses, regardless of size or vertical
An enterprise SharePoint Server 2010 platform implemented in a Private Cloud, an environment internal to the organization with total control of its servers, permissions \ security, customization and deployment policies, and federation between line-of-business systems and various data sources is the only deployment platform global and large enterprise organization should focus on
You need to identify the sources and mechanisms used to move content to and from your organization and as a result, make determinations as to the effectiveness of this method and alternative approaches
It will take an industry association or collaborative project or an open source project to pull it off but it won't ever happen if it doesn't start somewhere so here goes
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