Exo News & Articles

eXo has released the latest version of its open source portal, eXo 3.5. The release has lots of new features, but the big news may be the portal’s journey to the cloud.

BonitaSoft (news, site), maker of business process management tools, has released version 5.5 of Bonita Open Solution, their core process management suite. In this version, Bonitasoft is leveraging eXo's (news, site) xCMIS technology to more tightly integrate document management, BPM, social media and collaboration. The eXo and Bonita relationship allows users to directly access  services like enterprise social networking and document collaboration.

Lots of big news in the enterprise world this week, including Microsoft's very, very pretty penny for Skype and the release of Yammer Desktop 2.0. 

eXo (news, site), well-known for its Java portal and user experience technologies, has announced it is adding Ruby and Git to its eXo Cloud IDE. The inclusion of Git will enable direct deployment to Red Hat's new OpenShift platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

This week the Enterprise 2.0 world saw the introduction of a universal application development environment, a new social media marketing bundle, and a fairly important discussion: What is the difference between a layer and a feature?

Today saw the partnering of eXo and Netvibes. Together the two companies will enable their customers to customize dashboards and integrated third-party applications via a new environment. 

It didn’t take long for treasures to start emerging from Amazon’s recently announced Elastic Beanstalk. eXo (news, site) has released an integrated development environment (IDE) for Elastic Beanstalk -- developed for the cloud, in the cloud. The IDE allows developers to access, view, edit and commit their code from any browser and deploy their applications with a single click. It’s not a golden-egg laying hen, but AWS developers will still appreciate it.

In yet another fine display of consumerization, eXo (news, site) has integrated the eXo Platform into Seesmic’s desktop application. The mash-up simultaneously extends Seesmic’s social management capabilities to the Enterprise, and brings modern collaboration features to eXo’s enterprise portal.

Business Intelligence (BI) has gone social with the collaboration of respected open source companies JasperSoft (news, site) and eXo (news, site). The companies are providing the ability for JasperSoft’s BI applications to interact with eXo Platform 3.0 social features and gadget-based development.

 eXo (news, site) is on a mission to ensure that their customers have everything they need to build an end-to-end portal solution. Today the open source enterprise portal vendor adds two more services to the eXo Platform: Knowledge 2.0 and Collaboration 2.0.

In a similar manner to how it offers social capabilities to the GateIn Portal, eXo (news, site) now offers web content management.

Things have changed a lot for eXo (news, site) since we first covered the open source enterprise CMS vendor back in March of 2009.  With a steady stream of updates and a new partnership with JBoss, it was only a matter of time before the company added some social features to their list of capabilities.

Back in 2009, eXo (news, site) and Red Hat (news, site) banded together to create an enterprise-level portal. Now that portal has reached a new milestone in its maturation and growth.

eXo (news, site), the makers of Java middleware and open source Enterprise CMS, got a VC infusion of US$ 6 million. eXo plans to use the money to strengthen its U.S. operations, especially in the areas of sales and marketing. The new Board of Directors should provide the needed executive leadership in the expansion.