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Open Source CMS Trends
By
Farida Rahman
17 Nov 2011
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About me
Involved with Open Source CMS domain from 2004 Worked across wide spectrum of industries like Higher
Education, Non-Profits, Healthcare, Media, Technology companies, Ecommerce
Worked on Open Source CMS and Portal technologies like Plone, Drupal, Magento, Alfresco and Liferay
Conducted Plone training for 5 years Volunteer at www.childrenandyouth.org, helping with their
Plone website Presently work for CIGNEX Datamatics, Inc. as Content
Management Practice Lead
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Agenda
CMS in present day organizations
Why Open source CMS is Prime time now?
Open standards
Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)
Future trends in OS CMS
Critical factors in OS CMS selection and adoption
CMS Implementation approach
Comparing OS CMS
Examples of OS CMS websites
Q&A
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CMS in present day organizations
Organizations deal with enormous amounts of Content
Content is generated, archived, consumed, updated and mined
CMS frameworks - increase efficiency, improve control of information, and reduce the overall cost of information management
CMS need to mold itself to constant changes in the technology landscape
Web 2.0, Social Media, SEO, Parametric /Faceted Search, Identity Management, Analytics...newer paradigms appear on the horizon.
Open Source CMS have been agile and receptive with early and rapid adoption of newer features.
Modular design and huge communities enable these frameworks to build and release new features rapidly.
Instant consumption and feedback allow faster fixes, improvements to make the software more stable and robust.
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Why Open Source is Prime time now?
Historically Universities, Non-profits promoted many Open Source projects.
Mutually beneficial for the OS community and these organizations.
Not too long ago, the runaway success of some OS projects like Linux, Apache, MySQL, Mozilla, Open Office have paved way for business models around these projects.
OS CMS frameworks like Alfresco, Drupal, Liferay soon realized the viability of having Community and Enterprise versions.
With Support, Documentation, Product road maps, Free upgrades to newer versions and a Company behind their projects, these CMSes are ready for prime time.
Vendors realize that it is the fastest way to innovation, consumption, propagation and grow their technologies with passionate communities behind these projects.
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Why Open Source is Prime time now? (contd.) Open Source is mainstream today. Most popular Web 2.0 technologies, CMSes, Operating Systems, Tools, IDEs, Mobile technologies are Open source.
Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for CMS
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Open Standards
Why Open Standards is common place today as opposed to the closed standards and exclusivity of older generation of software?
Open standards allow applications to communicate easily
Adobe pushed to adopt HTML5 after years of denial to adopt Open standards.
EBay launched the X.Commerce Fabric with Open Standards
Every web based platform provides its API to invite consumers to connect to. E.g. Facebook, Twitter, EBay
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CMIS
Content Management Interoperability Services
A specification for improving interoperability between Enterprise Content Management systems.
Solves the difficult problem of ensuring interoperability for people and applications using multiple content repositories
A standard, vendor-neutral way of moving content from application to application (CMS to CMS), and preserve important metadata.
EMC, IBM & Microsoft drafted initial CMIS specification
Open Text, Oracle, Alfresco, Liferay, HP and SAP have also joined this group to promote CMIS
More at http://wiki.knowledgetree.org/CMIS
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CMIS
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Future trends in OS CMS
More prevalent, powerful and easier to use
Convergence of Content, Community and Commerce
SaaS Solutions for OS CMS e.g MagentoGO, Drupal on Cloud
Integrated solutions like Portal + Ecommerce, or Portal + Document Management
Service Oriented architecture to enable more synergies with multiple frameworks
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Critical factors in OS CMS selection and adoption
Cost benefits
Easy to tryout and prototype before making the big decision
Availability of resources to maintain & extend
Road map of product
Support
Documentation
Easy Upgrade path
Change Management
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CMS implementations approach
Discovery to development -
1. Discovery of the problem at hand and well laid out requirements.
2. Assess best fitting solution for the problem.
3. Short list CMS frameworks that may solve your problem.
4. Identify the CMS framework you want to work with
5. Find a good developer to implement the requirements
6. Start with smaller projects and build on it iteratively.
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Drupal
Drupal has a great deal of power out-of-the-box, and a large library of add-ons from its community.
Contains a number of robust features for sites that need high functionality.
Large list of pre-installed modules that can be easily activated by simply turning them on.
Good choice for smaller sites needing e-commerce functionality.
Scalable, Secure and Search friendly
Advance URL control, Content Types, Views,
Taxonomy, User Management , SEO
Large community, easy to find developers
PHP based, Acquia, SaaS solution
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Magento
Magento is an Open Source Ecommerce platform.
PHP and Zend Framework.
Enterprise and community edition.
Has a SaaS offering, MagentoGO
Full blown Ecommerce engine
Multi-lingual support
Minimal CMS components
SEO, Advance URL control, Content Types, Views,
Taxonomy, User Management
Great community and documentation
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Liferay
Liferay is an Open Source Enterprise Portal.
Java based Portlets technology
Enterprise and community edition.
Suitable for Corporate Intranets and Extranets
Supports plugins and enables interaction with multiple programming languages like PHP, Ruby
Sophisticated programming interface for developers
Contains a number of robust features for sites that need high functionality.
Large list of pre-installed portlets and 3rd party portlets
Taxonomy, User Management
Great community and documentation
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Alfresco
Alfresco is an Open Source ECM.
Java based technology
Enterprise and community edition.
Suitable for Document, Records or Image Management Systems
Version control
Browser-based GUI
Excellent Search and Workflow
Taxonomy, User Management
Great community and documentation
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OS CMS website examples
Plone solutions http://www.civicmissionofschools.org/
http://www.decisioneducation.org/
http://www.kcyouthdevelopment.net/
http://www.unchealthcare.org
http://www.med.unc.edu
Liferay Solutions http://newsroom.cisco.com/
http://www.fiestamericana.com/
www.toyota.com/owners
http://www.eamobile.com/home/
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OS CMS website examples
Drupal solutions
http://familysearch.org/
http://www.worldofudraw.com/
Magento Solutions
http://www.corsair.com
www.shopsoccerpro.com
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Thank you
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