Open Source CMS Trends By Farida Rahman 17 Nov 2011

8/21/20152 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 helping with their Plone websitewww.childrenandyouth.org Presently work for CIGNEX Datamatics, Inc. as Content Management Practice Lead

8/21/20153 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

8/21/20154 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.

8/21/20155 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.

8/21/20156 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

8/21/20157 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

8/21/20158 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

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8/21/ 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

8/21/ 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

8/21/ 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.

8/21/ 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

8/21/ 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

8/21/ 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 3 rd party portlets Taxonomy, User Management Great community and documentation

8/21/ 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

8/21/ OS CMS website examples Plone solutions Liferay Solutions

8/21/ OS CMS website examples Drupal solutions Magento Solutions

8/21/ Thank you Q&A