Essentia Launches New Open Source Community Platform

By Irina Guseva | Jul 30. 2008

Tags: collaboration, enterprise 2.0, essentia esp, open source, social media, web cms

EssentiaESP developed by Essentia is a community-based platform designed specifically for commercial open source in order to efficiently build and manage vibrant open source communities.

The product combines principles of social networking, community management, collaboration and content management in a platform that supports multiple CRM integrations.

EssentiaESP is designed to facilitate community participation, driving business results for commercial open source companies, in a secure environment that is easy to use and easy to maintain, according to Essentia.

EssentiaESP includes the following features:

Collaborative development tools for version control, bug tracking and release
Communication tools for document sharing, wiki, blogs
Social networking tools for discussions, user communication, surveys and tagging
Site and project level content management
E-commerce and dynamic cataloging
Marketing and tracking tools integration
Centralized framework

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One of the most prominent product features seems to be the one called Ecosystem Enablement that allows you to mix and match local and remote environments within one platform.

The first product implementation of EssentiaESP is anticipated to take place on the open source development portal JasperForge.org and its large and dynamic community of over 85,000 registered developers, 300+ community-created projects and high volume of forum activity, sessions and page views.

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