Sense/Net ECM is the industry’s first open source Microsoft SharePoint alternative for the .Net platform. Sense/Net ECM is dual licensed, with a free Community edition, and a fully supported Enterprise edition. It is sold via solution partners who design and build collaborative intranets, extranets, and public sites for their clients.

1. www.sensenet.com
Sense/Net ECM
Open Source ECMS for the .NET platform

2. ABOUT THE PRODUCT: SENSE/NET
ECM

3. ValueProposition
Company Overview
Sense/Net6.0is an open-sourceEnterpriseContent ManagementSystem to access,manageand control all existingor
newlyproduced content. With an underlying .NET-based,enterprise-classcontent repository, this platform can be the
backbone of the organization for all content management,visual integration, collaboration, enterpriseworkflowor
document managementdevelopmenttasks.It is an affordable alternativeto proprietaryECMSsoftwarewithout any
compromiseon the enterprisefeatures.
Benefits:
• Increase customization budget with lower
licensing TCO
• Significantly reduce development costs
• Leverage open source advantages and
reduce project risk
• Leverage existing technology investments
and.NET knowledge
• Significantly shorten ECMStime tomarket
• Utilizethe same tool for all content
management scenarios

4. Competitive Positioning
Market Positioning
• Sense/Netis .NET,open-sourceandECMS(only suchproduct)
• It is dual-licensed(CommunityandEnterpriseEditionwith annualsubscriptionlicense)
• Sense/Netis anopen-sourcealternativetoSharePointbutit is still onthe .NETplatformwith upto
90%lower licensing andhardwareTCO,andless project risk
• DirectcompetitortoSharePoint,Oracle,IBM, Alfresco,etc.
– Unique, highly productive CMS approach with supporting SmartApplication Model technology
– List-based Collaboration functionality via Workspaces
– Enterprise Workflow based on WF4
– Document Management via Document Library Lists

5. Points of Differentiations
Market Positioning
• .NET,Open-sourceand ECMS(with Web CMS,
Collaboration, Document Management,Workflow
and Search)– uniquecombination
• Robust, enterprise-scale, .NET-based open source
Content Repository
• Technological distinctiveness via Smart Application
Model
• Extreme WYSIWYG– everythingis content inthe
system so everythingcan beedited visually,
wherever it is displayed
• Low license TCO

6. KEYFEATURES
• Workspaces-based collaboration
• Document management
• Office integration for easy collaboration
• Document preview
• Web content management
• Workflows and business processes
• Enterprise2.0/ Social business
• Robust, open source content repository
• Content queries
• WYSIWYGand visual design
• Drag and drop editing
• „More with less” approach to functionality,
extensive Odata RESTAPI for developers
• Performance &Scalability
• WebDAV
• Exchangeintegration

7. ENHANCEDUSER EXPERIENCE
• Build on well-known paradigms
• Webpages
• Portlets
• Files & Folders
• Properties &Fields
• Open & Save
• Copy& Move
• Search
• Office
• Extreme WYSIWYG

8. COLLABORATION
Users can create workspaces inthe system to enable document-centriccollaboration for sharing and supporting
teams.
By default, this includes calendars, tasks, memos and document management features to maximizeindividual
and group productivity.

9. DOCUMENTMANAGEMENT
With the DocumentLibraryusers can
• Createand upload files
• Add and removefields
• Create custom views (with filtering)
• RSS and email notification
• Version control and audit trail
• Check-in/ check-out
• Usethe DMSfeatures directly from Office
• Preview documentsin the browser

10. OFFICE
INTEGRATION
With Sense/Net ECM users can
• Createand upload files directly from Office applications
• Open Sense/Net Workspaces from Office
• Check-in/ check-outand modify documents
• Modify permissions and assign tasks
• Checkversion historyand status

11. DOCUMENTPREVIEW
With Sense/Net ECM users can
• Preview documents straight from the browser
• Add annotations to your documents
• Redact sensitive information
• Highlight what is important
• Add watermarks and prevent copying
• Regulate all of these with separate permission settings

12. WORKFLOW
Sense/Net workflow main features:
• Easy workflow setup with visual tools
• Workflow for anyobject orcontent
• Branchingand filtering
• Custom actions
• Integration of 3rd party tools (eg. CRM, ERP)
• Workflows are stored in Sense/NetContent
Repository and behavelikeanycontent

13. ENTEPRISE 2.0 /
SOCIAL BUSINESS
With Sense/Net ECM users can:
• Createad-hoc workgroups to solve agile problems via E2.0
Workspaces
• Usewikis, blogs and forums to exchangeideas and share
information quicklyand effortlessly
• Tag,rate and commentanycontent to give instant feedback
• Usethe activity wall to checkout what happened lately on the
workspace
• Createnetworks of people based on mutualinterests, organization,
skills or projects

14. WEB CONTENT
MANAGEMENT
WYSIWYGediting and control of site content
through the use of specific management tools
based on a core repository. It includes content
creation functions, such as templating, workflow
and changemanagement, and contentdeployment
functions that deliver content to Web servers.

15. WEB CONTENT
MANAGEMENT
PortalRemote Control: a graphical user interface thatfloats on topof
pages (viewable with proper permissions), and allows users tomodify
pages directly fromtheir web browser.
Templates: templates define the layoutof pages, and allowa Web
designer toconstruct a moreflexible site, which is easy toupdate, and
provideconsistency andcontinuity between pages. Templates can
enhance productivity,allowing some members ofthe team to focus on
the format ofthe pages, while other members ofthe team create new
pages andrevise the content without changing the formatted layout.

16. ADDITIONALFEATURES
Search: users can search all managed content, whether within the
internal content repository, orin external content repositories.
PhotoGallery: agallery orgalleries can be placed on a site in various
forms,andalso allows searching among pictures uploaded intothe
gallery.
Forum: users can establish an online community with forums,
creating an arbitraryhierarchy of topics with the ability to add, delete,
moderate, comment, search, receive email notification ofchanges, set
permissions, etc.
Tagging, rating, commenting: the „usual” Web2 features ofa
website forinteractive communication with the targetaudience.

17. ADDITIONAL
FEATURES
RSS: content can be transformed intoproper XML that can
be used to serve RSSclients.
User andSEO FriendlyURLs: URLsof content items and
pages themselves can be aliased andoptimized for
readability andsearch engine rankings.
Content Repository: all company content (including
documents, web pages, videos, images, audio records,
users, groups, etc.), andweb applications (including
existing ones orlegacy webapplications), can be stored,
controlled andmanaged in the Sense/Net Content
Repository like it were the single-point-of-access tothe
backbone ofthe organization.

18. ADDITIONALFEATURES
Taxonomy: create any numberof categories andsub-categoies to apply to content brought into the
system. Taxonomiescan be searched and browsed eitherindividually or inaggregate form.
Permissions, Security,and Roles: users canonly see what theyhave permission and privilege to see
and work with. Thisis controlled by their job level, job description and currentworkassignments. These
are managed in the system as roles and access control lists. Arole gives permission to perform a certain
task (like publish a new article) and access to a given content piece indicates whetherone can perform a
desired activity or not (likepublish today’s article).
Provisioning and Delegation: creation and management of user accounts, groups, and permissions can
bedelegated to non-technicalusers, removing theover-relianceon IT to perform these functions.

19. ADDITIONALFEATURES
Active Directory: user accounts and groups can bemanaged in Active Directory and synchronizedwith
a built-infeature of Sense/Net, allowing for user profils to not have to be maintained in multiple
environments.
Multi-Site: any numberof sites with anynumber of domain namescan be used in a single Sense/Net
installation. Thisis ideal for organizations that work with manyintranet, extranet, and internet sites.
Load Balancing: Sense/Net fully supports high-availability solutions such as clustering, failover, and
NetworkLoad Balancing.
Portlets: thebuilding blocks of pages built with Sense/Net, a portlet is a widget or small application that
can be placed on a page to fulfill a specific task. Thesetasks can rangefrom simply displaying content to
searching and listing data from different databases.

20. ADDITIONALFEATURES
Skins: a set of files that defines the look and feel of a site can be selected from a list byan end user,rather
thanhaving to workdirectly with a style sheet.
Mashups: using data feeds, syndicate social media and other content from a variety of sites into a new,
single application.
OdataREST API: Sense/Net is built on a lightweight RESTarchitecturethat makescreating mashups
simple. Thecompletely open Application ProgrammingInterface(API) is a toolkit to makeit easier to
develop and extend the out-of-the-boxfunctionality, and is a perfect complement to the open source
software.
Open Source: enterprise scalability without being bound by a proprietaryand closed system. Built on
the .NET platform, and being open source, Sense/Net ECM integrates with all majorhardware and
software standards and platforms, which means it is not tied to anyendangered, obsolete, or proprietary
technology.

21. HIGHLEVEL OVERVIEW
Enduser Content Editor Content
Approver
Business
Process
Participant
Collaboration
Participant
Developer
Business
Analyst
Consultant
Administrator
Content
Repository
File System
Active Directory
Database
3rd Party App/Db
Search Engine
Internet/Intranet
Portal/Website
Explore
Experience

22. Sense/Net 7
coming in 2015

32. If you have any questions
don’t hesitate to contact us:
sales@sensenet.com
Sense/Net Inc.
Infopark setany 1.
H-1117 Budapest, Hungary
tel: +36 1 4647070
fax: +36 1 4647080
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YOU