Enterprise 2.0 With Plone

Enterprise 2.0 with

By Dylan Jay

Technical Solutions Manager

PretaWeb

dylan@pretaweb.com

What is Enterprise 2.0?

Why use Enterprise 2.0?

Plone is

A Content Management System (CMS)

Open source alternatives

•Drupal

•Joomla

•MediaWiki

•Wordpress

•300+ open source CMSs (see cmsmatrix.org)

Proprietary alternatives

•Sharepoint

•Confluence

Hundreds of others

Plone is

Enterprise Content Management (ECM)

Like

•Sharepoint

•Alfresco

•etc

Plone one of the most flexible CMS on the planet.

Mix & Match

Powerful CMS Functions

Ubiquitous search

Seamlessly integrated Plugins

Role-based security

Lightweight web application framework (MVC,CA, Five+Python)

Simple UI

Themeing

Get OOTB

Workflow

Document sharing

Don’t just take our word for it“An eWeek Labs Analyst's Choice award winner, this open-source product is one of the best solutions — period — for company portals and intranets”eWeek, April 2006 issue

“If you have a large team who collaborate extensively to create content, and then subject it to rigorous review before publication, then you probably need a fairly sophisticated CMS such as Plone, Apache Lenya, or Alfresco“

Graham Oakes “Creating a managed website”

Why should you care?

Plone is future proofed

‘you can do things to Plone that much of our competition would just say is "unsupported“’ – Martin Aspeli

Plone is Supported

• ~100 core developers

• Top 2% of open source projects

•Support contracts•Custom development•Training•Deployment

Plone is secure

• OSS is more secure– IE 'unsafe' for 284 days in 2006– Firefox 9 days

• Plone security is deep rooted• Users, Groups, Roles, Local Roles• Flexible authentication

– LDAP, ActiveDirectory etc.

Plone is

• technology neutral

• available in 35 languages inc Chinese & Arabic

• Content is translatable• Plone is standard.

usability and accessibility. WCAG v1.0, Section 508

Visit: www.pretaweb.com

Plone for your Enterprise

• Extranets

• Intranets

• eCommerce• Document repositories• Project Management• Web applications• WYSIWYG Editing

• Workflow

• Collaborative workspaces• Wikis• Pod & Vodcasting• Blogs• User Generated Content• Forums• Rating & tagging• Profiles• Social networking• RSS• Mash ups• AJAX• Polls

Case Study:

Challenge:• world's largest vehicle glass repair and

replacement company • 19,500 people working in 28 countries• "empowering the business to communicate

and share information effectively across the globe."

Case Study: Belron

• Per section workflow to maintain control

• Automatic mail alerts• Create project areas• Email alerts• Groups and projects

•Multi-language•Advertising library•Profile self service•People search•Personalised Forums

Case Study:

Challenge:• Their intranet is their business• Knowledge discovery• Connect Anything to Anything• Discussion• Security• Collaboration• Reporting• Document Repository

"It is extremely rare in my experience to have a team pick up a project like ours and get it right on the first attempt."

John Wolpert - Innovation Exchange Network

Demo: How to build a squiki in 5 min

Look at openplans.org to see plone collaboration at work

Who is PretaWeb?

Visit: www.pretaweb.com

PretaWeb is a Sydney based Plone Integration company.

We build:•CMS websites•Intranets•Extranets•Document Repositories•Enterprise 2.0 Systems