Building a Project Management Application with the Nuxeo Platform

A Project Management Applicationwith the Nuxeo PlatformApril 24, 2013

Tuesday, April 23, 2013

A Project Management Applicationwith the Nuxeo PlatformApril 24, 2013


Building Project Management Applications

Build a project management application with Nuxeo

AGENDA

1. Who we are2. Why / what C-C apps?3. What Nuxeo brings to the mix4. Demonstration5. 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.




Who we are

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StéphaneGIRARDIN

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




WHY, WHAT CONTENT-CENTRIC APPLICATIONS?

Introduction & Context

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Traditional use cases for ECM Systems

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Licensing, consulting & integration, maintenance

High total cost of ownershipRestricted to very specific missions

Traditional ECM systems (Documentum, FileNet, etc.) are often very expensive




Traditional use cases for ECM SystemsFormal 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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Traditional use cases for ECM SystemsScanningStorage

ArchivalSearch / Retrieval

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No/few processesFew “living” documents

Little user interactionDM as an afterthought




What is changingOpen 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




Emerging use casesCollaborationAdvanced Web Content ManagementUnified 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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Emerging use casesContent-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”




Content-centric business applicationsMany (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?”




Content-centric business applicationsThroughout the whole process there are documents / content

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Instantiation Request Enrichment DecisionJustification Form Attachments /

checksFinal document(s)


“Now I’ve satisfied the Machine I’ll get

on with Real Work™”



Content-centric business applicationsNormally 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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Build on top of ECMTake advantage of ECM’s customization strengths Document modeling, Runtime-added facets Document intelligence (listeners, automation, content rules)

Use your tool’s integrated extension frameworksBuild 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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NUXEO IN ALL THAT

Business-oriented applications in Nuxeo

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Build on top of ECMTake 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.




Nuxeo’s strengthsCustomizable ad infinitumClose to RAD-style development (Studio!)

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“And I still have to implement it…” “It’s right in my instance!”




The best prototyping is no prototypingThe prototype is the project

Little if any storyboarding

Easy iteration on details

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Pushed-back dev cycle

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Spec/proto Dev Dev Dev Test Go Live

ConsultantDev

QABusiness m’gt

Office / PS / Axure Eclipse Mantis / JIRA





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Spec/proto Model Config Dev Test Go Live

ConsultantDev

QABusiness m’gt

Office Nuxeo Studio Eclipse Mantis / JIRAStudioEclipse





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Specproto Model Config Dev Test Go Live

ConsultantDev

QABusiness m’gt

Test

Test

Business m’gt




HoweverThis 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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