eXo Platform 3.5 Now Available: First Cloud-Ready Enterprise Portal and User Experience Platform-as-a-Service (UXPaaS)
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Posted on January 31, 2012 at 9:21:01 AM
eXo Platform 3.5 Now Available: First Cloud-Ready Enterprise Portal and User Experience Platform-as-a-Service (UXPaaS)
Users Connect, Collaborate and Improve Productivity -- in the Cloud, on Mobile Devices or on the Ground
-- Multi-tenancy support for deployment in public and private clouds
-- Secure access to personal dashboards, documents and activity streams via native mobile apps
-- Social network features and integration with existing infrastructure
-- Mashup and gadget development for third-party app integration in built-in web IDE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today announced general availability of eXo Platform 3.5. This new release of eXo Platform is designed for organizations that want a cloud-enabled solution for creating and managing next-generation portal-based sites that facilitate engagements between colleagues, customers or partners, and can easily integrate with existing enterprise applications, policies and procedures.
Enterprises today require greater flexibility and tools that will enable them to deliver rich user experiences for a variety of use cases -- social intranets, extranets, transactional websites and more. They want options to deploy in the cloud or in the back office, to integrate with external web services and internal line of business applications. The eXo user experience platform (UXP) gives IT professionals the resources they require to meet all these needs.
"Built on open standards and open source technologies, eXo Platform 3.5 has the features and extensibility of a UXP and the cloud architecture to build public and private clouds. We built the first true UXPaaS," said Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo. "Imagine company ABC wanting to integrate their custom-built inventory application in an enterprise portal with social networking and document management capabilities, and then deliver that as a private cloud service to all their customers. eXo Platform 3.5 enables them to do just that -- and to do it very efficiently."
The Emergence of the UXPaaS
The user experience platform (UXP) is the emerging implementation of next-generation portal services. Unlike traditional portal services, though, a user experience platform offers an organization an integrated collection of technologies that speed the creation of portals built around content, collaboration capabilities, social streams and services, mobile access and more. eXo Platform has long provided these integrated platform services.
With the release of eXo Platform 3.5, eXo has added support for multi-tenancy and engineered this platform to be cloud-ready. Now, organizations or service providers that want to offer a UXP as a service -- a UXPaaS -- can do so. A single instance of eXo Platform 3.5 can support many UXP-based social intranets, extranets, transactional websites and more for many different clients, each in their own private cloud environment. To understand the UXPaaS landscape, see http://budurl.com/kah4.
Native Mobile Apps and Cloud-Ready Features for Unprecedented Deployment Flexibility
Using eXo Platform 3.5, companies can create a secure portal-based site and add the user experience services -- such as content, document management and social activity streams -- that best suit project needs. IT organizations can give their end users an easy yet controlled way to interact with their networks and work collaboratively. Key technology enhancements in eXo Platform 3.5 include:
-- Mobile Apps: Native iPhone, iPad and Android apps integrate elegantly
with sites built on eXo Platform 3.5, ensuring that users can interact
with personalized gadget dashboards, activity streams, document
repositories and more -- at any time, from anywhere.
-- Cloud-Ready: Support for multi-tenancy deployments includes the option
to host isolated portals on a single auto-scalable instance of eXo
Platform 3.5. The unique integration capabilities and extensive set of
UXP features enable enterprises, service providers and independent
software vendors (ISVs) to build their own private and public cloud
offerings with immediate productivity.
Additionally, eXo Platform 3.5 includes a range of new or enhanced features for delivering a rich user experience:
-- Simpler, More Intuitive Interface: The look and feel of all of the
built-in apps has been refreshed for eXo Platform 3.5, with the goal of
greater simplicity and enhanced readability. In addition, the new
desktop mode allows users to access eXo Platform 3.5 services in a
familiar and windowed environment, right within the browser.
-- Enhanced Social and Collaboration Tools: Rich collaboration features
such as an enterprise Wiki, forums, polls, FAQs and shared calendar
components (including remote calendar synchronization) are standard.
Social network capabilities empower users to create work groups, follow
activity streams of connections and groups, and more.
-- Improved Content Management: Enterprise Content Management features
provide the ability to store, share, version and organize documents;
integrate advanced workflows; and create dynamic content-rich websites.
eXo Platform 3.5 introduces search engine optimization (SEO) features,
improves Java Content Repository (JCR) performance, and enhances content
explorer usability. Easier website authoring is facilitated by the new
inline editing feature, making it possible to edit and publish content
from the front-end in a single click.
-- Embedded IDE: An integrated web development environment (IDE) is
embedded in eXo Platform 3.5, which enables an IT team to develop,
customize and extend the experience presented to a user in a
platform-based engagement environment. Developers can create and refine
elements on the fly and deploy with one-click ease.
-- Integrated Sample Sites: The website samples included with eXo Platform
3.5 have been expanded to illustrate how developers can take advantage
of many of the new features of eXo Platform 3.5 -- from UI customization
to the inclusion of rich content and improved site navigation.
-- eXo Platform Gadget Pack: The gadget pack includes 15 new gadgets that
provide easy access to a variety of adoption, collaboration,
development, monitoring, social and other eXo Platform services. With
easy access to the source code, developers can also use these gadgets as
templates for building additional extensions and quickly become
productive with the REST API of eXo Platform 3.5.
-- Enterprise Portal Framework: Integrated portlets, user- and role-based
views, security and single sign-on features (including integration with
existing Active Directory and other LDAP systems) are supported.
Pricing and Availability
eXo Platform 3.5 is available today in two editions:
-- eXo Platform 3.5 Enterprise Edition is a full-featured implementation of
eXo Platform 3.5. Offered under a subscription model, it includes the
support and services needed for deployment in an enterprise production
environment. Features include support for native mobile applications and
multi-tenant deployment as well as clustering, built-in web IDE and the
eXo Platform Gadget Pack.
-- eXo Platform 3.5 Community Edition is an open source package of the core
features of eXo Platform 3.5. It is ideal for developers who do not
require production support, mobile or cloud deployment options, or the
extensibility and customization capabilities provided by the Gadget Pack
or embedded IDE.
A 30-day trial version of eXo Platform 3.5 can be downloaded from http://budurl.com/3k6e.
For more information about eXo Platform 3.5, visit the website at http://budurl.com/jw5l.
Additional Online Resources
-- Discover eXo Platform 3.5 in three minutes; http://budurl.com/epxx
-- eXo's CTO gives a full-feature tour of eXo Platform 3.5;
http://budurl.com/t5wn
-- What's new in eXo Platform 3.5; http://budurl.com/bp7m
-- eXo Platform 3.5 datasheet; http://budurl.com/q7v8
-- eXo Platform 3.5 features table; http://budurl.com/92kt
For more information on eXo, please visit http://exoplatform.com. For additional perspectives, please visit and subscribe to eXo RSS blog feeds at http://blog.exoplatform.org/. Follow eXo on Twitter at @exoplatform.
About eXo
eXo offers the first cloud-ready enterprise portal and user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS). eXo Platform makes websites and applications faster to build and easier to deploy, and offers modern features such as content, collaboration, social and knowledge on a services-based architecture. eXo Cloud IDE offers a multi-tenant hosted development environment that enables the collaborative creation of applications based on HTML, Java, Groovy, Spring, PHP, Ruby and more -- all of which can be deployed directly to a PaaS environment. The company has established technology leadership and proven value by their large European installed base and strategic partnership with Red Hat. eXo maintains U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, Calif. with global headquarters in France and offices in Tunisia, Ukraine and Vietnam. For news and updates from eXo, visit http://exoplatform.com, and follow http://blog.exoplatform.org/ and @exoplatform.
All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Tags: eXo, eXo Platform, social computing, social, social intranet, user experience, UXP, UXPaaS, User Experience Platform-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, PaaS, cloud, multi-tenant, OpenSocial, JCR, CMIS, wiki, collaboration, mobile, cloud-ready, portal, oss, open source
SOURCE eXo
eXo
CONTACT: CONTACT: Dottie O'Rourke, TECHMarket Communications for eXo, +1-650-344-1260, eXoteam@TECHMarket.com
Web Site: http://www.exoplatform.com
Users Connect, Collaborate and Improve Productivity -- in the Cloud, on Mobile Devices or on the Ground
-- Multi-tenancy support for deployment in public and private clouds
-- Secure access to personal dashboards, documents and activity streams via native mobile apps
-- Social network features and integration with existing infrastructure
-- Mashup and gadget development for third-party app integration in built-in web IDE
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- eXo, the user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS) company, today announced general availability of eXo Platform 3.5. This new release of eXo Platform is designed for organizations that want a cloud-enabled solution for creating and managing next-generation portal-based sites that facilitate engagements between colleagues, customers or partners, and can easily integrate with existing enterprise applications, policies and procedures.
Enterprises today require greater flexibility and tools that will enable them to deliver rich user experiences for a variety of use cases -- social intranets, extranets, transactional websites and more. They want options to deploy in the cloud or in the back office, to integrate with external web services and internal line of business applications. The eXo user experience platform (UXP) gives IT professionals the resources they require to meet all these needs.
"Built on open standards and open source technologies, eXo Platform 3.5 has the features and extensibility of a UXP and the cloud architecture to build public and private clouds. We built the first true UXPaaS," said Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and CEO of eXo. "Imagine company ABC wanting to integrate their custom-built inventory application in an enterprise portal with social networking and document management capabilities, and then deliver that as a private cloud service to all their customers. eXo Platform 3.5 enables them to do just that -- and to do it very efficiently."
The Emergence of the UXPaaS
The user experience platform (UXP) is the emerging implementation of next-generation portal services. Unlike traditional portal services, though, a user experience platform offers an organization an integrated collection of technologies that speed the creation of portals built around content, collaboration capabilities, social streams and services, mobile access and more. eXo Platform has long provided these integrated platform services.
With the release of eXo Platform 3.5, eXo has added support for multi-tenancy and engineered this platform to be cloud-ready. Now, organizations or service providers that want to offer a UXP as a service -- a UXPaaS -- can do so. A single instance of eXo Platform 3.5 can support many UXP-based social intranets, extranets, transactional websites and more for many different clients, each in their own private cloud environment. To understand the UXPaaS landscape, see http://budurl.com/kah4.
Native Mobile Apps and Cloud-Ready Features for Unprecedented Deployment Flexibility
Using eXo Platform 3.5, companies can create a secure portal-based site and add the user experience services -- such as content, document management and social activity streams -- that best suit project needs. IT organizations can give their end users an easy yet controlled way to interact with their networks and work collaboratively. Key technology enhancements in eXo Platform 3.5 include:
-- Mobile Apps: Native iPhone, iPad and Android apps integrate elegantly
with sites built on eXo Platform 3.5, ensuring that users can interact
with personalized gadget dashboards, activity streams, document
repositories and more -- at any time, from anywhere.
-- Cloud-Ready: Support for multi-tenancy deployments includes the option
to host isolated portals on a single auto-scalable instance of eXo
Platform 3.5. The unique integration capabilities and extensive set of
UXP features enable enterprises, service providers and independent
software vendors (ISVs) to build their own private and public cloud
offerings with immediate productivity.
Additionally, eXo Platform 3.5 includes a range of new or enhanced features for delivering a rich user experience:
-- Simpler, More Intuitive Interface: The look and feel of all of the
built-in apps has been refreshed for eXo Platform 3.5, with the goal of
greater simplicity and enhanced readability. In addition, the new
desktop mode allows users to access eXo Platform 3.5 services in a
familiar and windowed environment, right within the browser.
-- Enhanced Social and Collaboration Tools: Rich collaboration features
such as an enterprise Wiki, forums, polls, FAQs and shared calendar
components (including remote calendar synchronization) are standard.
Social network capabilities empower users to create work groups, follow
activity streams of connections and groups, and more.
-- Improved Content Management: Enterprise Content Management features
provide the ability to store, share, version and organize documents;
integrate advanced workflows; and create dynamic content-rich websites.
eXo Platform 3.5 introduces search engine optimization (SEO) features,
improves Java Content Repository (JCR) performance, and enhances content
explorer usability. Easier website authoring is facilitated by the new
inline editing feature, making it possible to edit and publish content
from the front-end in a single click.
-- Embedded IDE: An integrated web development environment (IDE) is
embedded in eXo Platform 3.5, which enables an IT team to develop,
customize and extend the experience presented to a user in a
platform-based engagement environment. Developers can create and refine
elements on the fly and deploy with one-click ease.
-- Integrated Sample Sites: The website samples included with eXo Platform
3.5 have been expanded to illustrate how developers can take advantage
of many of the new features of eXo Platform 3.5 -- from UI customization
to the inclusion of rich content and improved site navigation.
-- eXo Platform Gadget Pack: The gadget pack includes 15 new gadgets that
provide easy access to a variety of adoption, collaboration,
development, monitoring, social and other eXo Platform services. With
easy access to the source code, developers can also use these gadgets as
templates for building additional extensions and quickly become
productive with the REST API of eXo Platform 3.5.
-- Enterprise Portal Framework: Integrated portlets, user- and role-based
views, security and single sign-on features (including integration with
existing Active Directory and other LDAP systems) are supported.
Pricing and Availability
eXo Platform 3.5 is available today in two editions:
-- eXo Platform 3.5 Enterprise Edition is a full-featured implementation of
eXo Platform 3.5. Offered under a subscription model, it includes the
support and services needed for deployment in an enterprise production
environment. Features include support for native mobile applications and
multi-tenant deployment as well as clustering, built-in web IDE and the
eXo Platform Gadget Pack.
-- eXo Platform 3.5 Community Edition is an open source package of the core
features of eXo Platform 3.5. It is ideal for developers who do not
require production support, mobile or cloud deployment options, or the
extensibility and customization capabilities provided by the Gadget Pack
or embedded IDE.
A 30-day trial version of eXo Platform 3.5 can be downloaded from http://budurl.com/3k6e.
For more information about eXo Platform 3.5, visit the website at http://budurl.com/jw5l.
Additional Online Resources
-- Discover eXo Platform 3.5 in three minutes; http://budurl.com/epxx
-- eXo's CTO gives a full-feature tour of eXo Platform 3.5;
http://budurl.com/t5wn
-- What's new in eXo Platform 3.5; http://budurl.com/bp7m
-- eXo Platform 3.5 datasheet; http://budurl.com/q7v8
-- eXo Platform 3.5 features table; http://budurl.com/92kt
For more information on eXo, please visit http://exoplatform.com. For additional perspectives, please visit and subscribe to eXo RSS blog feeds at http://blog.exoplatform.org/. Follow eXo on Twitter at @exoplatform.
About eXo
eXo offers the first cloud-ready enterprise portal and user experience platform-as-a-service (UXPaaS). eXo Platform makes websites and applications faster to build and easier to deploy, and offers modern features such as content, collaboration, social and knowledge on a services-based architecture. eXo Cloud IDE offers a multi-tenant hosted development environment that enables the collaborative creation of applications based on HTML, Java, Groovy, Spring, PHP, Ruby and more -- all of which can be deployed directly to a PaaS environment. The company has established technology leadership and proven value by their large European installed base and strategic partnership with Red Hat. eXo maintains U.S. headquarters in San Francisco, Calif. with global headquarters in France and offices in Tunisia, Ukraine and Vietnam. For news and updates from eXo, visit http://exoplatform.com, and follow http://blog.exoplatform.org/ and @exoplatform.
All brand names and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies.
Tags: eXo, eXo Platform, social computing, social, social intranet, user experience, UXP, UXPaaS, User Experience Platform-as-a-Service, Platform-as-a-Service, PaaS, cloud, multi-tenant, OpenSocial, JCR, CMIS, wiki, collaboration, mobile, cloud-ready, portal, oss, open source
SOURCE eXo
eXo
CONTACT: CONTACT: Dottie O'Rourke, TECHMarket Communications for eXo, +1-650-344-1260, eXoteam@TECHMarket.com
Web Site: http://www.exoplatform.com