Archive for 2008

Motorola Enterprise Mobility Partnership

November 20, 2008 4:53 AM

CityTech was approved as a Motorola Enterprise Mobility Partner today.  We are excited about having this partnership in place as it will enable us to include Motorola's vast line of mobile devices as a key part of the mobile solutions we develop for our clients.  If you have any questions regarding the partnership or want to talk mobility, drop me a line!

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

Alfresco 3.0 Blog Publishing Feature (it works)

November 14, 2008 7:56 PM

I inadvertently posted an infamous "Test" blog post earlier today and was notified by a few of my blog readers!  Funny....I guess that new Alfresco 3.0 multi-channel blog publishing feature works!  I was demoing it for a customer this morning and forgot that I did that.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

Content Management Interopability Services (CMIS)

September 28, 2008 7:22 PM

OverviewIf your passion is Enterprise Content Management (ECM), you probably have heard Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) will soon be released to OASIS as a standard content service interface.  I am happy to see such a standard emerge from some of the largest players of the ECM market including Documentum, IBM FileNet, OpenText, Oracle, SAP and both of our partners, Alfresco and Microsoft.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

Social Networking Mashups

March 23, 2008 4:24 AM

I posted my first blog post on November 10th, 2006. The title of the blog post was Web 2.0 and it was a result of me attending the Portals & Collaboration conference in Boston, MA. It is interesting to go back and read this post. I gave a summary of what I learned to be Web 2.0 along with some thoughts on how Web 2.0 might help enterprises and traditional web applications. Well, here we are...silo social networking sites such as MySpace, FaceBook, etc are not enough anymore. I am not saying that MySpace and Facebook are going anywhere as there is definitely a place for them. However, I see users wanting more from the applications they use often.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

North American Alfresco Community Conference (Chicago)

February 20, 2008 11:14 PM

The Chicago weather definitely tried to challenge the attendance at the inaugural Alfresco Regional Meetup last week. Despite the snow and cold, roughly 45 people showed up. I thought this was pretty good considering the weather and that it was the first Chicago event for Alfresco. Here is a quick list of highlights taken from the event: The meeting was kicked off by Michael Uzquiano (Alfresco) giving an in-person "Alfresco in an Hour" presentation. Ian Howells (Alfresco CMO) presented the latest findings from the Open Source Barometer - a survey using opt-in data provided by Alfresco community members. Matria Healthcare and CityTech (Jeff Brown) talked about the use of Alfresco in Matria's next generation touch system. TSGRP talked about a social networking proof of concept which uses Alfresco to store content related to a user's network. Michael Uzquiano (Alfresco) showed a demo of Alfresco's website framework application. The demo was very impressive. The product walked the user through a series of questions related to the new website, then created a drag and drop based site for managing the content.  The framework passes JSON between the Alfresco Web Script tier (REST based services) and the web front-end for rendering and interacting with content. There was talk about whether this framework will be available via the Alfresco Forge or possibly even being rolled into the core Alfresco product. Either way, we can't wait to get our hands on it as it has been a long time coming.After the presentations were over, Alfresco sponsored a cocktail hour where some of the attendees stuck around, drank a couple beers and chatted about technology. A few of the CityTech guys (Jeff Schwartz, Jeff Palmer and Tom Kelly) ripped out their laptops and setup shop on the cocktail tables to show a couple more real-life examples of Alfresco centric applications. One of the applications the guys demoed is a contract management application we developed using Alfresco to manage a highly complex contract approval workflow (over 50 steps!) and related documents for a large municipality. The other demo showed how Hyperic (and open source enterprise application monitoring system) could be used to monitor the health of Alfresco through the use of Hyperic monitoring plugins. On a side note, it is amazing how the open source application eco-system is growing. There is great value in bringing the top tier open source applications such as Alfresco, Hyperic, Mule and JBoss together to provide enterprise caliber solutions at a fraction of the cost.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen

CityTech to Speak at 2008 TheServerSide Java Symposium

January 12, 2008 7:17 PM

Our very own Shane Johnson has been asked to present at the 2008 TheServerSide Java Symposium in Las Vegas on Friday, March 28. Shane's session will address the emergence of web content management and portal integrations specifically discussing his experience integrating Day's Communiqué WCM and BEA's WebLogic Portal. He will share his hands-on experience in web content management and portal integration by using a case study as the basis of the presentation.

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posted by Matt Van Bergen