Exo News & Articles

Social Business was all the rage this week and these articles stood out from the pack:

• Social Enterprise ROI: Measuring the Immeasurable
• 5 Tips for a Truly Social Business
• Engaged, Collaborative Employees Require CXM Style Thinking

But it wasn't all strategy and best practices: Yammer jumped into document collaboration, eXo built a Social Intranet in the cloud and Atlassian released an update to Confluence.

Next Wednesday, April 18th, our Digital Asset Management (DAM) tweet jam takes place. Tune in to get the latest on DAM strategies, best practices and a grasp of how DAM is impacting Customer Experience and Web Experience. All the Tweet Jam details are here.

Most Popular

• 5 Steps to Creating More Effective Content
• The Art of SharePoint Success: Architecture - The User Centric Intranet
• Yammer Acquisition Adds Document Collaboration to Social Networking
• Microsoft's Vision for Social & What That Might Mean for SharePoint
• Why Intranet Governance is Overrated: It's Really About Change Management

Editor's Picks

• Autonomy's Private Cloud Growth Points to Big Data & Customer Experience
• Social Enterprise ROI: Measuring the Immeasurable
• 5 Tips for a Truly Social Business
• The Oasis Web Experience Management Initiative (WEMI) Kicks Off in Copenhagen
• Engaged, Collaborative Employees Require CXM Style Thinking

Around the Web

• Social Business – 3 Themes for Implementation
• 'Be curious, not furious
• Two Questions that Set the User Experience Bar
• Marketing wants to own ‘Social Engagement?’ Think again.
• Branding inconvenience

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• Apr 18 -- Forrester's Marketing Leadership Forum Los Angeles
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Intranets are usually envisioned as a centralized tool for collaborating and sharing information, but in many cases the vision does not equal the reality. Intranets often become stagnant repositories of hard to locate, inconsistent information.

It seems the intranet is getting an infusion of new life in the form of social networking. Last week we reported on Jive’s new social intranet; this week platform-as-a-service provider eXo is announcing their social intranet as a service, Cloud Workspaces.

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.