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Over the last month, we’ve been working to add a new section to our ever-improving Documentation Center. I’m pleased to introduce the RFP Toolkit: an entire section dedicated to helping our prospects and partners shape or respond to an RFI / RFP quickly and accurately. Nuxeo is a comprehensive architecture for content management applications, and the broad range of technical capabilities, features/functions, and packaged distributions make it a solid and reliable choice that meets many ECM needs. This new documentation section helps guide the responses with a clear, organized layout, that we’ll update and refresh as we release new products,…

Nuxeo released its Case Management Framework earlier this year, and has already had some significant customer wins in public sector and financial services with this particular packaging of the Nuxeo Enterprise Platform architecture. Alexandre Russel, one of the senior developers on the Nuxeo CMF project team did a fantastic session on the mainstage at Nuxeo World last month, talking about what we’ve done, answering the question “why a framework”, and offering a sneak peek in to the roadmap for us. His presentation is posted on SlideShare. Nuxeo World Session: Case Management Framework View more presentations from Nuxeo – Open Source…

Still lots of great content from Nuxeo World last month that we’ll be discussing, but wanted to give this session on our new developer distributions more attention. When Nuxeo announced the new developer distributions – Nuxeo Core Server and Nuxeo Content Application Platform – with the EP/DM 5.4 release, it was about less “new” products, and more about enhancing the packaging of what many of our customers were already using as the base framework for application development. We’ve been doing some extensive customer interviews over the last few months, and this has been a great help as we strive to…

Many Nuxeo customers adopt our ECM platform because of its inherent extensible, flexible architecture. Nuxeo EP powers some pretty cutting edge and creative content applications out there. These are organizations that really get the value of digital content to drive their business. Companies who value technology to innovate and stay ahead of their own competitors often see the value in having a stronger voice in their own ECM roadmap. Big companies and government agencies often have more developers and architects on staff than the traditional ECM suite vendors. Nuxeo is delivering a platform built for companies who know what they…

Nuxeo was pleased to host 100+ customers and partners, from 8(!) different countries, at Nuxeo World 2010. Two full days packed with solid session content that appealed to developers, content architects, integrators and business managers. Over the next couple of weeks, the Nuxeo team will be blogging on some of the key sessions, highlighting many of the workshop slide decks, now substantially posted on our Nuxeo SlideShare channel. My session “Market Trends in Enterprise Content Management” was the part of the morning keynote, along with CTO Thierry Delprat’s session on the technical roadmap for 2011. CMSWire, our Nuxeo World media…

New Beacon research from the Gilbane Group this month, and Nuxeo was pleased to participate. This whitepaper series provides guidance on content strategies, practices and technologies. The topic of this new paper is “Next Generation ECM for Mission Critical Applications”. This paper is important because it adds additional validation to our hypothesis that 2010-11 will be the shift in the evolution of ECM from suites to platforms. New generation architectures are ready, they’ve been battle-tested, been benchmarked, performance-tuned, and demonstrated measurable benefits in real-world content management deployments. The audience for this paper is technical and business decision-makers evaluating ECM and…

Nuxeo released version 5.4 of both the platform architecture – Nuxeo EP – as well as the most popular packaged product – Nuxeo DM. Congrats to the in-house Nuxeo development, documentation and product teams… but also to our customer and partner community who played an important part in our pre-release all-hands bug-squashing day, as well as testing and feedback via our mailing lists and discussion forums. Merci! Online journal “ReadWriteWeb” published in their Enterprise section last week: “5 Trends to Watch in the Enterprise” … and it was cool to see at least 2 of those new trends directly reflected…

What many people don’t realize is that I spent my first decade in ECM doing consulting and system admin training for public sector clients. Living and working in Ottawa, Canada, many of my projects involved guiding government employees and the contractors in the use, deployment and customization of document and records management applications. Back in the early 2000s, the Canadian Federal Government was globally recognized as the leader in ‘whole of government’ approaches to information and content management. In direct response to information management scandals in the 1990s, the government chose to act. By 2002-2004, the story of Canadian Federal…

Some good content recently updated in the Nuxeo Documentation Center on a topic that is a constant struggle for ECM administrators and application developers. Performance, performance, performance…. Nuxeo CTO Thierry Delprat and the dev team have collected the most essential elements of performance planning into a clear list of the elements that will (and also will not) affect performance of a Nuxeo EP or DM-based application. This is an important read, because many of these factors are specific not only just to Nuxeo ECM deployments, but are the very same challenges and bottlenecks encountered by content management practitioners using many…

If anyone is a subscriber to the German content management magazine “DOK.”, please check out the October issue for a new article I recently contributed. (hard copy only) The topic of “Social Media and the New World of Content Management” is one I’ve been researching and writing on for a couple of years. This is an essential topic and an area that is still very much in early stages for most organizations. As the world of work shifts into an increasingly electronic mode, and the rise of the participatory web makes it easy for companies to communicate in both a…