30 Jul

SHINE: Corporate Values of Softbless Solutions

SHINE: Corporate Values of Softbless Solutions Our corporate value is known as “SHINE”. S: Servant Leadership H: Honesty and Respect I: Initiative N: Nimble and Agile E: Excellency Based on our corporate values (SHINE), we are committed to improve our service quality over high quality solutions for our customers. Following description will explain more about our corporate values: S: Servant Leadership - Every person is a leader - Serving the team, both for the supervisor or the staff - A Leader is a servant SHINE: Corporate Values of Softbless Solutions Our corporate value is known as “SHINE”. S: Servant Leadership H: Honesty and Respect I: Initiative N: Nimble and Agile E: Excellency Based on our corporate values (SHINE), we are committed to improve our service quality over high quality solutions for our customers. Following description will explain more about our corporate values: S: Servant Leadership - Every person is a leader - Serving the team, both for the supervisor or the staff - A Leader is a servant We believe that all the people are a leader for their own-selves. The leader should have servant characteristics. A higher position of the leader, the more responsibility they should apply for their service to another’s. A good leader is a leader who is listening to others. A good leader is a leader who will let the pint interest in developing their potency owned by their staff, particularly for their subordinate. The leader is a personal sample for their staff and built a feeling of unity. H: Honesty and Respect - Creating an honest environment - Honesty is a core value of the organization - We treat others with dignity and compassion, both on a supervisor or other staffs. - Openness in accepting/ giving recommendation and suggestion. - Collaboration on the basic of honesty and respect - Staff is the company best asset. We put our business environment in the way of honesty and respectful in everything we do. In all aspects of our activity, we are committed to bring honesty and respect value to all the people. We believe that, all the staff are having their own potency, honor and respected properly. In showing our respect, we believe that we will able create a good relationship with each others. Every opinion, whether it comes from our customers, staff, or our partner will be considered as our attention to gain customer satisfaction and objective of the company. Realizing our commitment, without any a good teamwork, we will not be able to offer best value to our customers, hence, regarding to honesty and respect are a must for our teamwork. We consider treating our customer equal to a business partner. Without any our teamwork or staff, we are nothing, particularly in fulfill our customers needs. Consequently, we are honored and respectful our staff as a company best asset. I: Initiative - Having initiative for continuous improvement - Dare to take challenges to innovate - Having initiative on professionalism and competitiveness. Having a continuous process on technology improves; we are initiated to improve our technology in creating a high quality product for our customer. In addition, we are also to have creative and initiative characteristics supporting our product, particularly to challenge the problems. Initiative on upgrading staff competition has continuously performed in our company, such as periodically training our staff to support their daily job activity. N: Nimble and Agile - Nimble and agile in daily activity - Responsive on recommendation and suggestion from our customer - Flexibility in adopting new technology and latest tools Having a strong response and positive to market movement, then we are ready to challenge a competition to create what are our customers needs. We are also having nimble and agile characteristics on any threat and opportunity on market condition. All recommendations and complaints of our customer are handling and highlight by management as soon as possible. The principle of creating opportunity in market condition are implemented in nimble and agile, hence, we are establishing an opportunity based on challenge and uncertainty risk to our company. E: Excellency - Excellent product for excellent service - Continuously on creating an excellent product for customer satisfaction - Today is better than yesterday - There is no time off to become excellent company - Professionalism and Teamwork produce excellence - Keep raising the bar We are highly supporting on excellent values through attention our final product and customer service provided to our customers. We always put best foot forward in excellent, high quality and excellent product as our effort, and best service to the customer. We believe that, nobody is perfect; therefore, we keep our effort to create a better action than yesterday. There are no a break and time off to become an excellent, especially providing a quality products and best service. We keep to handling our activity to be better than yesterday. Focus to our customer needs, openly, honestly and work hard at building lasting relationships will support us to become excellent. That improvement will help us to keep raising the bar.
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30 Jul

Softbless Solutions has Perform Scrum Training

Softbless Solutions has Perform Scrum Training Today, Softbless Solutions as specialized in open source solutions in providing Liferay, Alfresco, Sugarcrm, and Drupal has performed Scrum Training as its business support. What is Scrum Training? Scrum training, is a training that focuses on project management institutions for managing software project and product or application development by iteratively and incrementally process. This training is performed to the institution that planned to go ahead in their business. Scrum training is emphasizing on teamwork, frequent deliveries of working software, close on the customer for their collaborations, and responsible for responding the business changing. Briefly, Scrum is a process used for agile software development. Softbless Solutions has Perform Scrum Training Today, Softbless Solutions as specialized in open source solutions in providing Liferay, Alfresco, Sugarcrm, and Drupal has performed Scrum Training as its business support. What is Scrum Training? Scrum training, is a training that focuses on project management institutions for managing software project and product or application development by iteratively and incrementally process. This training is performed to the institution that planned to go ahead in their business. Scrum training is emphasizing on teamwork, frequent deliveries of working software, close on the customer for their collaborations, and responsible for responding the business changing. Briefly, Scrum is a process used for agile software development. In Scrum training the teamwork should make a detailed description how is the projects should be done. When they have performed their project, they will know how to get the solution based on their problem. For that reason, this is explained how the project develops its sprint according their desired results. Most methodologies used in this training are Validation criteria, and Exit criteria (ETVX). There are two positions in the teamwork of Scrum training, a ScrumMaster and a product owner. This position is termed as specific individuals. Role of a ScrumMaster is coaching the team, and support its team members to perform the Scrum framework to gain the top level. In addition, the role of product owner is characterized as a business activity, client, consumer, or a director to show the teamwork develops the appropriate product. Basic activity on Scrum Training Basic activity on Scrum training is Scrum sprint. As mention before, iterative and incremental process is a description of Scrum training. The aims of this process are split the project into a series of consecutive sprints. Initial activity on Scrum training is known as sprint planning meeting. In this activity, the teamwork and product owner will talk about main priority activity according Scrum product catalog then create a sprint backlog as the list of sprint project task list performed. Then, for the next meeting team member discuss their daily activity related to the project, not more than 15 minutes. At the end of the project period, all team members should present their sprint review. The aims of the review are to obtain feedback from the product owner. Benefit on Scrum Training When the institutions have performed the Scrum training, project that held at this institution will be sprints on their progress, as an iteration activity. Hence, Scrum training is preferred on the projects that are shifting frequently or highly changing in software development. The teamwork is capable in performing cross functional team. In addition, the team will understand about what is self-organizing according Scrum training. In Scrum training, generally there is no overall a team leader, all problems will be discussed and decided based on overall team opinion. As a cross functional team, every personal are responsible in implementing the overall business target goal. In addition, well Scrum training will help highest business value features. Based on industry data, software feature are only used about a half of it complete features. Supported by Scrum training, your project will be able perform with time schedule. Scrum training has shown how the teamwork takes their project and self-organizing their own project. When the team has passed the training, significantly, developers or the team will improve their quality and will be able manage their employee retention. Agile methodology on Scrum training will increase the quality of the deliverable project time schedule, as a reason of the strict iteration rules. Agile methodology also provides better estimates and spends less time unnecessary activity. As a result, as a benefit on Scrum training is achieved higher customer satisfaction rate, in general. Furthermore, according to a Certified ScrumMaster Trainer Craig Larman, Scrum training is easily integrated with other iterative methods. Some others integrated methods are Unified Process and Extreme Programming, including test-driven development, agile modeling, use cases, user stories, and etc. Additionally, benefits of Scrum training are emphasized on continuing inspect-adapt improvement cycles and self-organizing systems has subtle implications. As we explained about, what is Scrum training and benefit of Scrum training for the project, Softbless Solution which is providing an open source solution is performed Scrum training methodology for our latest project.
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20 Jun

Features of Liferay Sync on Liferay 6.1

Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Liferay Sync is a product of Liferay, specifically on Liferay 6.1 Enterprises Edition, to make easy file sharing process for their user, as easy as drag-and-drop ways. Liferay Sync products allow users to synchronize their folders and then edit, move or delete them and also log all user document changes and versions. This service almost has a similar feature by the others private cloud services, like Box.net and Dropbox. By Liferay Sync the users now can access documents stored within a Liferay instance from their mobile devices and desktops, both desktop and mobile environments with support for Windows, Mac OS, and iOS.
 
Edwin Chung, Liferay's VP of Product Management, state that “Liferay Sync was designed to combine the benefits of a web application with the user interaction benefits of a desktop or mobile application”. Below some a brief features Liferay Sync.
 

Authentication Service

This feature is integrated by existing authentication systems. Liferay Sync is automatically records your securely authenticate and existing credentials. Therefore, when the user has been access documents and sites before, it will be visible without separate the user password anymore.

Documents and Media Sync

This feature helps files synchronize immediately, both on document or media item. The user who not using Liferay Sync, they are still able in taking document which are uploaded and shared by other user before by other Just in Time Sync feature.
View of ​Liferay Sync Configuration Setting
 

Just in Time Sync and Simple Sharing

The file document will be available by Just in Time Sync feature. This feature is using over-the-wire traffic minimizing method. A certain file type will viewed as it types, document files or PDF will be viewed as PDF, another office program were also able in edited and saved as it file types (such as word documents will be saved as word documents).

Liferay Integration and Multiple Sites Features

Liferay Syn is completely integrated with Liferay Portal, which allows users to synchronized documents which will be tagged, commented on, categorized and participate in workflow. The user will be able can manage documents across all their sites in Multiple Sites.

Offline Support and Native Clients - OS and Mobile

According to Edwin Chung, “While Office Web Apps and Google Docs require you to store a copy on the server and edit documents in a browser, Liferay Sync allows users to leverage any desktop or mobile office package, such as MS Office, OpenOffice, iWork, or Photoshop, to edit and save documents locally while either online or offline.”. Therefore offline support is Powerful Document-Sharing Abilities feature on Liferay Sync. This is a key benefit for Liferay users in accessed their documents in offline, then the documents synchronize when users are back online.
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20 Jun

Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1

The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:

Document Types and Metadata Sets

In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
 
The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:

Document Types and Metadata Sets

In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
 
The Document Library portlet on previous version was changed and renamed into Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1. Some new features you should know on Liferay Documents and Media on Liferay Portal 6.1 are:

Document Types and Metadata Sets

In Liferay Documents and Media, when the user requires keeping their files into a document, the users required to fill out the fields defined by the metadata which set the document types. So the user will be easy to remember their document by adding a defined metadata into their document. Furthermore, by adding metadata information, the user will be easy finding their document by searching facility.
 
In addition, when the users need to create a new document types, the user should define one or more metadata sets information to associate with document type. The user can define "Main Metadata Fields" or select "Additional Metadata Fields" from Add button located in top of dialog button.

Automatic Preview Generation

This feature are powerful and help user to preview documents, image or video first, before they need to download it and also browse media what they are looking for. Document preview is according types of the content. Types of document available to preview before the user download from Documents and Media whenever it's possible are: Office documents (such as .docx, .pdf, .odt, .ppt, etc.), multimedia (play various video and audio media formats from the browser, configured by Xuggler in audio and video player configuration), OpenOffice/LibreOffice, and ImageMagick (pdf conversion).
Sample of multim​edia automatic preview generation

Document Type Restrictions and Workflow per Folder

This feature is powerful feature to enforce rules for documents uploaded by users. So the user not able to add all types of document, only certain document types to add to a folder. As default configuration, a parent folder is not accessible by child folders and can be customized by editing the folder and selecting the allowed document types.

Only certain types of document and workflow can be added

WebDAV Access

WebDAV or Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning is a set of method to permit the user in create, edit, move, or delete files stored on web servers. Therefore, the user can access their documents and folders in Liferay's Documents and Media library from they own machine's file manager. For example, when the user create new image in folder by Documents and Media and uploaded it, then they can access the folder and also the image using a browser and Liferay's web interface by appropriate permissions from administrator. Therefore, the user needs to log in to the portal in credential and find WebDAV URL where the user likes to access. This feature is also support most major operating system and also desktop environment, including Linux (both KDE and GNOME), Mac OS, and Windows.

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20 Jun

Alfresco Training - End User and Administrator Training, 2-3 Juli 2012

Summary
Alfresco is web based Enterprise Content Management/Document Management System, initiated by John Newton since 2005, one of the Documentum Co-founders. Alfresco has been entered into the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Content Management category. Today Alfresco has been implemented in more than 5000 companies.
Alfresco is able to handle large-scale content management to millions of content. This training will equip participants about the concept of Enterprise Content Management, and the concept of Alfresco in particular, including the use and administration of Alfresco.

Schedule 
Training will be held on : 2-3 Juli 2012 at 9AM-5PM

Location
Training will be held at PT Softbless Solutions office, Komp Perkantoran Mitra Matraman Blok A2 no 11, Jl Matraman Raya no 148, Jakarta Timur.

Facility
Participants will get manual, snack, lunch, and certificate from Softbless.

About trainer 
  • Tiur Lumban Gaol, Softbless, is a Certified Alfresco Trainer, has 3 years experience in Enterprise Content Management implementantions including ELO Document Management System and Alfresco Enterprise Content Management System..
  • Togu Muara Sianturi, Softbless, has been involved in numerous projects Alfresco implementation, specializing in infrastructure configuration for Alfresco.

Investment
The training will cost Rp 3.250.000.

Capacity 
Maximum capacity : 8 persons.

How to register 
  • Fill in registration form on : https://www.softbless.com/content/Alfresco-training-registration
  • Tranfer payment to :
    • BCA, Account No: 3428777877, PT Softbless Solutions
  • Payment must be received 3 days before the training
  • Cancellation fee :
    • 100% > 3 working days before training day
    • 50% <= 3 working days before training day

Syllabus      

Training for  End User (Day 1):
  • Alfresco Concept Introduction
  • Space and Content Ownership & Management
  • Rules, Aspect, Category Concept
  • Permission Access
  • Versioning
  • Simple and Advanced Workflow
  • Simple and Advanced Searching
  • Introduction to Collaboration

Administrator Training(Day 2):
  • Installing and setting up Alfresco
  • Configuring the repository
  • Configuring the file system
  • Troubleshooting the system
  • Maintenance, Migration and Security
  • Exporting and importing
  • Backing up and restoring the system
  • Security and permissions
  • Bonus - Alfresco Customization for : Domain Model

Contact Person :  
For more information, please contact :
  • Tuti Izzati, email : tuti@softbless.com, phone : (021)85918058-59, HP : 085715848086
  • Tiur Lumban Gaol, email : tiur@softbless.com, phone : (021)85918058-59, HP : 0818181183

Remarks :  
Participants must bring their own laptop with wireless connectivity. Softbless does not provide PC for participant
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4 Jun

What's New in Liferay 6.1


On January 6, 2012, Liferay, Inc release Liferay 6.1 CE GA1 (Community Edition). And followed, little over a month later on February 22, 2012, Liferay 6.1 is releasing the Enterprise Edition (EE).
 
Liferay Portal is open source enterprise portal and free where primarily used in intranets and extranets as power corporate. Liferay 6.1 has the latest version of Liferay’s portal product, they offering key usability enhancements that empower business and non-technical users to easily and effectively publish, organize, and access data and content, and quickly create applications to facilitate business processes online.
 
Based on press release by Liferay.com, over 100 new features combined with over 400 improvements whish available on Liferay 6.1 EE latest version. Some new features which available in Liferay 6.1 EE are:
 
Document Liferay Sync - Liferay Sync feature is to stored the document into Document Library automatically synchronization by online and offline services to your computer or another mobile devices.
 
Completely Changing on Document Library and renamed into Documents and Media Library. The new features of Documents and Media Library are Automatic previews (easily preview your documents, image or video first, before you need to download it), business defined document types (Automatically metadata was embedded into your file and also custom document adjustment), and Desktop-like experience (improvements in drag and drop, multiple select, and contextual menus).
 
Third-party Integration: you can get your document form any place by enterprise integration with Documentum, SharePoint, and other popular third-party CMIS repositories.
 
Start using Kaleo Forms and Workflow Designer. The code was become less and easily process on constant changes in business without IT intervention.
 
Customizable Sites. Page designer and its section will be able design by administrator.
 
Enhance your productivity by new workflow, forms designers, user data lists and advanced workflow.
 
Additionally, the latest feature on Liferay 6.1 EE, the administrator system was able to auditing and reporting in detail on portal usage.
 
Softbless Solution as partner of Liferay Partner (2011-2012) in Indonesia was provided Liferay 6.1 software as your enterprises portal. Just contact to softbless.com to get new Liferary 6.1 or you can download the trial version at liferay.com for 30 days free trial enterprises edition. 
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27 May

Alfresco Mobile (EN)

Alfresco Mobile


As the corporate world becomes more mobile, there is more and more demand for mobile content applications.  With the full mobile content alfresco applications, Alfresco software users are able to get the right content to the right person by being connected to Alfresco Enterprise.
This team based mobile content program allows users to  securely access corporate content from any networked mobile device so that we can view documents, presentations, media files and download them for offline access. Users can also take photos and upload them directly to Alfresco as well as edit documents and upload them using WebDAV.
As the corporate world becomes more mobile, there is more and more demand for mobile content applications.  With the full mobile content alfresco applications, Alfresco software users are able to get the right content to the right person by being connected to Alfresco Enterprise.
This team based mobile content program allows users to  securely access corporate content from any networked mobile device so that we can view documents, presentations, media files and download them for offline access. Users can also take photos and upload them directly to Alfresco as well as edit documents and upload them using WebDAV.

The new Alfresco Mobile document management system lets users start Alfresco business processes right from their electronic tablets by using Alfresco folder protocols. Users can also add tags and comments to corporate content easily search for file names or full text as well as enforce any corporate security rules all at their fingertips from any location while on the go.

With Alfresco’s free mobile enterprise content management apps, users can easily navigate folders and sites located in Alfresco; quickly  upload or download documents for viewing and adding comments. This mobile control app lets comments automatically be synced to the Alfresco repository. Alfresco Mobile clients can also open and edit documents located in other applications as well as save documents on their mobile devices for offline viewing and email documents right from the Alfresco mobile app. It is also easy to capture, tag and upload documents from your mobile device.  Mobile users are also able to upload and tag audio and video recordings.

 Alfresco has assembled a selection of Forrester reports and IDG articles about mobile device use adoption in enterprise content management that shows how easily it is to incorporate these devices into managing documents and content.

Softbless, an Alfresco service provider and an Official Liferay Partner for Indonesia(2011-2012), recognizes and understands the need for being able to effectively manage mobile application document management systems. This is why Softbless offers global solutions in a professional and expert manner to companies worldwide.
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27 May

Alfresco Cloud

Alfresco in Cloud
Alfresco’s new enterprise content management product, Alfresco Cloud is designed to be a strong competitor with such products as Box.net, Drop Box and the long list of other cloud based storage applications.  This new document management system features an HTML5 interface, better mobile supports all with a cloud-connected content design.


This cloud-connected content program is a solution designed from the beginning to be cloud-based and accessible anywhere, but with the security and governance required by their many different globally located client companies.

Alfresco’s three-step strategy includes launching a public beta version for Alfresco Cloud. The platform includes a number of features such as drag and drop file uploads, file previews, simple workflow and task management. The Alfresco Cloud will also feature cloud connector capabilities as well as integration with Dropbox as well as the ability to follow activity streams on social media platforms and private company collaboration sites.

Alfresco Cloud users can upgrade from a free account to a Team or Enterprise network. Team networks will require a minimum of five users and will include more storage, enhanced support and larger sized file limits as well as exclusive    user and network administration features and custom branding as well as other additional features such as LDAP integration and sync with Alfresco Enterprise. There are also apps for mobile devices that allow access to content from any location. Unlike other storage solutions, Alfresco Cloud is designed for teams and when users with the same email domain use Alfresco Cloud we are then added to a private network that allows users to see sites created by others in the same company. Companies can also share 10GB of storage and unlimited numbers of users.

Users are increasingly introducing consumer devices and applications to the enterprise content management. Softbless, an Alfresco service provider and  official Liferay partner in Indonesia(2011-2012) understands the struggle to keep pace with this ever increasing demand.  

As Alfresco service provider and official Liferay partner in Indonesia, Softbless offers service and the ability to implement Alfresco.
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30 July 2012   By    Softbless Solutions