Vilogia chose the Nuxeo Platform more than 2 years ago as a central component of their software infrastructure. Christophe Capon, CIO, will discuss some of their Nuxeo-based projects, including a correspondence management application with their CRM, document management in their extranets, development of a light client for the Nuxeo Platform, and integration of SolR through the Nuxeo Automation API.
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[Nuxeo World 2013] EXTENSIBILITY AND USE OF NUXEO AS A DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT PLATFORM - CHRISTOPHE CAPON, VILOGIA
1. Building Applications with the Nuxeo
Platform at Vilogia
Real-life Nuxeo Use Cases
Christophe Capon, CIO, Vilogia
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2. Agenda
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Who We Are
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Why Nuxeo?
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Use cases
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CRM integration
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Simple Nuxeo GUI with Nuxeo Automation
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Non intrusive Nuxeo extension: Integration with Apache
SolR
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3. First - Who is Vilogia ?
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Real estate company, 1500 people
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3 main activities
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Real estate rental (85,000 apartments and houses)
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Real estate builder (> 1000 /year)
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Partner with businesses (4300 partners)
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5. Why Nuxeo?
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2 functional requirements
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Document sharing
Embedding document management in our applications
What we wanted
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Non intrusive easy extensibility
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Open Source
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Web and Java-based
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6. Use Case #1:
CRM Integration
Using Nuxeo as a document back-end
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7. Project Context
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Many applications dealing with “clients”
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Client information disseminated throughout the system
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New call center started in 2013
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We decided to implement a CRM
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To consolidate client information
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To handle client input/output (mail, e-mail, fax)
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9. Technical Overview
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ERP: Coheris
Document generation developed with Vaadin
framework
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Nuxeo Platform
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Interface Automation used to inject documents
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CRM “facet” to tag documents and folders when
needed
The mail folder connector was overloaded to enrich
information
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11. Project Context
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Nuxeo's default interface is rich
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Need to publish documents in/outside the company
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We cannot provide training for everyone
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We developed a very simple GUI for Nuxeo based on
Nuxeo Automation
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Read
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Download
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Search
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17. Technical Overview
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Integrated with Apache SolR to handle snippets
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Non intrusive feature…
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...only extension points!
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Workload ~3 days (provided that you know SolR!)
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