Nuxeo: Enterprise CMS Updates, New Products and A New Blog

By Barb Mosher (@barbmosher) Dec 12, 2008

CMSWire hasn't talked a great deal about open source ECM provider Nuxeo lately, but that doesn't mean they haven't been hard at work enhancing their CMS solution and building new products — they have. In fact, we had an opportunity to see just what Nuxeo has been up to lately - new Digital Asset Management Product to name one thing - and where they are headed next year - dare we say the cloud?

Raising Some Capital

It takes money to do all the big things happening at Nuxeo right now. And there's no shortage of it that we can see. They recently raised EUR 2M in Series A financing led by OTC Asset Management. This is the first time Nuxeo has gone outside to get funding, having self-financed the initial launch of their product.

The plan is to spend this capital on continued product development and growth into international markets.

Enhancements to the CMS Platform

Based on developer feedback, Nuxeo has been hard at work on v5.2 of the ECM Platform. Improvements include work on infrastructure, APIs and better consistently with the model and extensions.

WebEngine Enhancements - Improvements include a new light, flexible web framework, the ability to develop applications in addition to Web Content Management, and it's now based on the JAX-RS binding model (easily exposing REST APIs)
JSF WebApp - A major infrastructure upgrade, now AJAX enabled and a fully consistent development model
Theme Manager - WebEngine enabled, WebWidgets and OpenSocial support
Document Repository - Native SQL storage, improvements to the JackRabbit 1.4 repository, enhancements to the Core Repository Model
ECM Improvements - Events and audits, transformers, workflow, and search and indexing have all been improved

Nuxeo is also adding new features to the platform, the likes of which includes:

HTML Preview and Annotations
Annotations with Pictures
Rendering Engine
Mail Connector
Query Wizard
Support for the proposed CMIS Specification

And a number of new features just for developers. Version 5.2 is definitely a jam packed upgrade.

New DAM and Communications Products on the Horizon

Continued product development is just what Nuxeo is doing. Here are a couple of new solutions in the works:

Nuxeo Correspondence Management

This is Nuxeo's first packaged product based on their platform. Correspondence Management will help organizations manage their correspondence and related documents. The focus is on common mail, invoices, contracts and the similar documents.

This product has been in development for over six months with several customers. The live version has been in place for the last several weeks and the feedback has been positive.

Expect to see Correspondence Management available in early 2009.

Digital Asset Management (DAM)

Nuxeo has also been working on a DAM - Digital Asset Management - Solution. Previously they had many DAM features in the platform. Now they are packaging these features and more into a single solution.