During this webinar, Sylvain Chambon from Nuxeo’s SI partner Open Wide discussed how they use the Nuxeo Platform for their client projects. He has built a business project management application using Nuxeo Studio.

1. A Project Management Application
with the Nuxeo Platform
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013

2. A Project Management Application
with the Nuxeo Platform
April 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

3. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
AGENDA
1. Who we are
2. Why / what C-C apps?
3. What Nuxeo brings to the mix
4. Demonstration
5. Q&A
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With the Nuxeo Platform, you can quickly build specialized
content-centric applications. We’ll discuss approaches,
strategies, and insights for this, with a demonstration. 
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

4. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Who we are
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Stéphane
GIRARDIN
 Open Wide
 Open Source software integrator
 11-year history
 10 M€ revenue
 Lyon & Paris (France)
 Information Systems business unit
 Solutions
 Internet / Intranet / Extranet
 Document Management
 Web portals
 Business intelligence
 Middleware & SOA
 Activities
 Consulting
 Architecture and integration
 Maintenance
 Technical support
 Training
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

5. Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Building Project Management Applications
WHY, WHAT CONTENT-
CENTRIC APPLICATIONS?
Introduction & Context
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6. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Traditional use cases for ECM Systems
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Licensing, consulting & integration, maintenance
High total cost of ownership
Restricted to very specific missions
Traditional ECM systems (Documentum, FileNet,
etc.) are often very expensive
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7. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Traditional use cases for ECM Systems
Formal documents (digitization, storage, archival)
 Human resources (certificates, diplomas, etc.)
 Business management (invoices, bills)
 Legal documents (contracts…)
 Mail
 Document templates and repositories for quality certification (e.g. ISO9001)
Corporate memory
 Knowledge management
 Project archival
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8. Building Project Management Applications
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Traditional use cases for ECM Systems
Scanning
Storage
Archival
Search / Retrieval
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No/few processes
Few “living” documents
Little user interaction
DM as an afterthought
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9. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
What is changing
Open source ECM offerings have made great strides
 Cheaper entry tickets
 More open philosophy / architecture
 Prone to trial and error – do not bet the company on ECM project
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ECM reaches beyond and above
pure DMS
It’s not just documents any more
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10. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Emerging use cases
Collaboration
Advanced Web Content Management
Unified repository for all structured / non structured content
 Across many applications
 Central permission management
 Central documentary resource management
 DMS can kick off business processes in 3rd party applications (e.g. purchase
requests…)
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11. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Emerging use cases
Content-centric business applications
 BP modeling around / across documents
 “Rich” documents are more than Office files
 Task, process automation
 Generate documents from templates…
 Custom, tailor-made graphical user interfaces
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“Shared repositories
for ever more
specialized
applications”
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12. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Content-centric business applications
Many (all?) enterprise business processes revolve
around documents
 Control, approval
 Invoices, orders, payments
 Rich content / forms
 Electronic form filling / processing
 “Folder” management
 Many documents for one purpose (eg project management!)
 Who, what, at what stage…
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“What is the
project’s status?”
“Can I invoice now?”
“If not, when?”
“Who is following
this case?”
“Where’s the latest
template for the
proof of delivery?”
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Content-centric business applications
Throughout the whole process there are documents / content
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Instantiation  Request  Enrichment  Decision
Justification Form Attachments /
checks
Final document(s)
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14. “Now I’ve satisfied
the Machine I’ll get
on with Real
Work™”
Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Content-centric business applications
Normally one builds “custom” specific applications
 Usually database-driven, usually very vertical
 Not much genericity / reusability
 Many case management / workflow / ERP solutions out there
 With documents as an afterthought
Open source ECM systems let us do things differently
 Content first (what content?)
 Identify & implement the processes that produce, build, consume
those documents
 Using ECM is now Real Work™
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15. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Build on top of ECM
Take advantage of ECM’s customization strengths
 Document modeling, Runtime-added facets
 Document intelligence (listeners, automation, content rules)
Use your tool’s integrated extension frameworks
Build ancillary processing as plugins
 Statistics, reporting, auditing, dashboards, …
Interface with 3rd party systems
 CRM, ERP, BI
 Custom / field-specific applications (e.g. medical databases, HR systems, etc)
 And of course directories, messaging, etc. (infrastructure)
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16. Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Building Project Management Applications
NUXEO IN ALL THAT
Business-oriented applications in Nuxeo
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17. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Build on top of ECM
Take advantage of ECM’s customization strengths
Use your tool’s integrated extension frameworks
Build ancillary processing as plugins
Interface with 3rd party systems
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Customization is built-in / Nuxeo Studio
JSF, Layouts, WebEngine, etc.
OSGi, extension points
Plays nice with SOA, REST, Content
Automation, SQL Directories, etc.
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18. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Nuxeo’s strengths
Customizable ad infinitum
Close to RAD-style development (Studio!)
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“And I still have to
implement it…”
“It’s right in my instance!”
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19. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
The best prototyping is no prototyping
The prototype is the project
Little if any storyboarding
Easy iteration on details
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Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Pushed-back dev cycle
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Spec/proto Dev Dev Dev Test Go Live
Consultant
Dev
QA
Business m’gt
Office / PS / Axure Eclipse Mantis / JIRA
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21. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Pushed-back dev cycle
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Spec/proto Model Config Dev Test Go Live
Consultant
Dev
QA
Business m’gt
Office Nuxeo Studio Eclipse Mantis / JIRA
Studio
Eclipse
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Build a project management application with Nuxeo
Pushed-back dev cycle
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Spec
proto
Model Config Dev Test Go Live
Consultant
Dev
QA
Business m’gt
Test
Test
Business m’gt
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

23. Building Project Management Applications
Build a project management application with Nuxeo
However
This shifts the burden…
Off developers / software engineers
On consultants / business managers
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While it’s very easy to adjust details, one must always
bear in mind the business process one is modeling
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