6 Mar

Enterprise Social Network Indonesia

Enterprise Social Network Enterprise Social Network Indonesia is a system of social interaction between users who work together in a company that aims to make communication and collaboration between users faster and more accurate. The use of this system makes it easy for you to connect with all company users, share information, manage teams, develop ongoing projects and most importantly, this system can be a place to form groups where each user can convey their ideas. Enterprise Social Networking is different from social networks in general, enterprise social media is more professional and is used within the scope of the company only. So that all your important information will be safe and can only be seen by users who have access rights to your company.a.

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Problems that often occur if there is no Enterprise Social Network Indonesia :

  • Difficulty integrating existing social networking systems with enterprise technology infrastructure
  • A common social interaction system has the potential for information or data leakage because the system can be accessed by many people without security permissions.
  • The process of exploring information and data is quite difficult to do because there is no place for each user to provide their ideas or suggestions.
  • Collaboration between teams with limited distance is still difficult to do so that the decision-making process of a project becomes slow

Benefits :

  • Ease of sharing information between users, making it easier to connect with each company user and can easily find out the latest information.
  • The project development process is easy to do because of the many ideas submitted by each user in helping the success of a project.
  • Employee productivity increases as they feel more connected to each other and communication goes both ways.
  • Good integration that can improve the quality of the intranet network so that participation and feedback in business applications increases.
  • Creating a good business culture with more open communication and being able to adapt to all changes in the existing business.
  Liferay supports Enterprise Social Networking Applications with Open Source licenses. This year, it is again in the Leader category in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, providing solutions for your business needs.

Liferay facilitates user interaction and system integration within the company

And has 16 years of experience in implementing systems to simplify the business processes that you manage.

Features Enterprise Social Network Indonesia :

  • Content publishing and sharing, each user can easily update content, share links, poll the hottest topics, hold events and ask questions.
  • Conversation and post, users can have conversations and connect in two directions so that results can be directly sent or shared with other users.
  • Group management, you can determine which users can view, read, update, delete content or articles that have been created.
  • Intranet/community, the existence of intranet facilities facilitates the integration of other applications;
  • Knowledge base/ Wiki, Provides a forum for collaboration of experts/Subject Matter Expert (SME)
  • News Feed, a feature to provide ideas to start a conversation between users.
  • Notes, users can easily make notes on the content or articles created
  • Task management, the task management feature makes it easier to delegate tasks related to a project.
 
Softbless's experience and expertise is very helpful in implementing Enterprise Social Networking applications using Liferay.
Please contact us for a consultation for business development. Softbless provides implementation, installation, customization, support and training for Liferay. The solutions we provide play an important role in the progress of your company.

Ask questions/book a meeting regarding Enterprise Social Networking :

13 Nov

Incoming Outgoing Letters

Incoming Outgoing Letters

Application for Incoming Outgoing Letters is an Electronic Service Manuscript System for creating, managing, reviewing and distributing electronically incoming mail archives. In managing the archives of incoming and outgoing letters it is usually done manually, namely by circulation of hardcopy or sheets of paper to request approval, inspection, disposition, search, change and so on.

Because everything is done manually, all of these activities cause various kinds of problems resulting in suboptimal work productivity.

Take advantage of the Application for Incoming Outgoing Letters so that the Management of the Electronic Service Manuscript Archive (TNDE) becomes ConciseSmoothProtectedPractical

Some of the problems that often occur in the management of incoming and outgoing mail records manually, are as follows: :

  • Difficulty finding out to what extent the review status of making outgoing mail. We can not quickly find out, the position of this letter has been approved by anyone.
  • Difficulty in knowing the history of the approval / disposition flow of a letter.
  • Examination and delivery of letters carried out manually, will take quite a lot of time.
  • Because using hardcopy, it is difficult to get approval from the official letter, for example if the official is in a meeting outside the office.
  • Access and search of official manuscripts of service which is quite time-consuming, because we need to come to the location of the archive, look in several file cabinets, and piles of stationery.
  • Difficulties of officials in tracking / tracking disposition of incoming letters
  • The high cost is due to the cost of buying paper, because it still uses hardcopy. Examples of causes for high paper costs: Photocopies of the document will be given to each copy recipient. The amount of hardcopy will also take up space, which can actually be used for more useful activities.

The difficulties above, can be overcome by an integrated system, which is a system that can be managed by incoming and outgoing mail. 

 

Incoming Outgoing Letters

Several types of letters handled in this system :

  • Internal Memo or Memorandum
  • Official memo
  • Minutes of meetings
  • Letter of invitation
  • Letters to outside agencies
  • Decree
  • Announcement
  • Circular letter
  • Warrant
  • Instruction Letter
  • Letter of Statement
  • Letters from other agencies
  • Other letters

Benefits obtained when using the Incoming Outgoing Mail Application are :

  • With just a few clicks, we can quickly get info about the status of the approval of the letter.
  • Easy to access and find out the history of approval and disposition of a letter. This system can be accessed anywhere, as long as the intranet or internet connection is connected to the system, so that it can do the assignment of incoming and outgoing letters wherever we are.
  • Users can receive mail quickly because it is online, there is no need for manual submissions.
  • Save money on paper purchases and mailing costs.
  • Officials can easily access this system, and carry out approval / disposition from anywhere, without having to standby at the office.
  • Officials can quickly track dispositions.
  • Users can search letters quickly using a number of keywords and parameters. The system is equipped with a search for incoming and outgoing mail based on the subject of the letter, the letter module, the decision of the letter, the category of the letter and the status of the letter, making it easier to search.
  • Simple in following up of letters received from outside agencies, because they have been provided by the system.
  • Making a letter in accordance with the format of the letter in general, so there is no error in the format or structure of the letter.
  • Work cycles become more efficient, because work is structured and organized.
  • Management of electronic records so that they are well organized.

Incoming Outgoing Letters Application is the right solution for managing correspondence to improve time efficiency so as to create success in your company. Softbless has an Outgoing Mail Application Application solution named E-Office for managing Electronic Office Texts..

E-Office is built using framework

Liferay dan Alfresco 

Liferay and Alfresco are included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, in the same quadrant as solutions from IBM, Oracle, Laserfiche, etc. 

 

Softbless developed the E-Office Application with the Liferay and Alfresco frameworks. Liferay is a portal solution, and Alfresco is a Document Management System (DMS) solution for storing all related documents in one place. LIferay and Alfresco are solutions that have been included in the Gartner Magic Quadrant since 2011. Both are head to head competitors for similar solutions from IBM, Oracle, Laserfische, etc.

9 Feb

Install Liferay as Service in windows

Install Liferay as Service in windows:
 
  1. copy the service.bat file, tomcat7.exe, tomcat7w.exe to {tomcat_dir} / bin liferay
  2. Run cmd and move to directory {tomcat_dir} / bin liferay
  3. the following script:
 
service install Liferay
tomcat5w //ES//Liferay
 
in the following java gui :
on the java class path :
 
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_71\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll
 
on this additional java option (adjust its value according to your server specification)
 
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-Dfile.encoding=UTF8
-Duser.timezone=GMT
-Djava.security.auth.login.config="%CATALINA_HOME%/conf/jaas.config" 
-Dorg.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.ENABLE_CLEAR_REFERENCES=false
 
 
 
note:
for service.bat file, tomcat7.exe, tomcat7w.exe can be obtained from apache tomcat 7:
download the file here: https://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi

9 Feb

Alfresco as Liferay External Document Repository Configuration

The following are the steps to use Alfresco as Liferay External Document Repository Configuration
 
Install Alfresco
 
then open URL : http://192.168.1.58:8421/alfresco/
 
and copy link of "CMIS 1.1 AtomPub Service Document", screenshot :
 
 
Prerequiste :
username and password for Alfresco and Liferay should be the same, we could achieve this using LDAP
 
on liferay portal properties (portal-ext.properties) add these properties :
 
company.security.auth.type=screenName
dl.store.impl=com.liferay.portlet.documentlibrary.store.CMISStore
 
#Alfresco & Liferay Username
dl.store.cmis.credentials.username=admin
 
#Alfresco & Liferay Password
dl.store.cmis.credentials.password=AdminPasswordValue
dl.store.cmis.repository.url=http://192.168.1.54:8421/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/atom
 
Note :
http://192.168.1.58:8421 : URL Alfresco
Restart LIferay after changing the properties, then go to :
Admin > Site Administration > Content
 
 
do these configurations :
Content > Documents and Media > click arrow button next to "Home" icon > Add repository
 
 
then fill in the form :
  • Name : Alfresco
  • Repository type : CMIS Repository (AtomPub)
  • AtomPub URL : http://192.168.1.58:8421/alfresco/api/-default-/public/cmis/versions/1.1/atom
  • permissions : Viewable by owner

 

screenshot :

25 Mar

Liferay 6.2 Installation Tutorial on Windows

In a previous article, we have discussed about tutorial of alfresco installation. Now,  Softbless Solutions will share more information about Liferay installation. And this article will discuss about tutorial of Liferay installation on windows operating systems:

Because Liferay is a JAVA-based engine, then we need JDK version 5 and above. In addition to the JDK we also need a database that will be used for Liferay. Liferay installation for this time, Softbless Solutions will use MySQL as the database.

The following are the step by step Liferay installation on windows by using the MySQL database:

  1. Download liferay 6.2 CE at www.liferay.com
  2. Extract liferay 6.2 CE that has been downloaded then copied to the folder C: \. So that there will be a folder structure like this:
    C:\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2
  3. Install the JDK, then setting JRE_HOME, and CATALINA_HOME

JRE_HOME Environment Variable

CATALINA_HOME Environment Variable

  1. Install MySQL server on Windows
  2. Create a new database schema with the name “lportal” :
    create database lportal character set utf8;

Create Database for Liferay

  1. Run Liferay by double clicking on the startup.bat file :
    C:\liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga2\tomcat-7.0.42\bin\startup.bat

startup.bat Script

  1. Tomcat will running, after that the Liferay can be accessible through a browser and as a prefix will appear "Basic Configuration" as shown below :

Liferay Basic Configuration

  1. Put the portal its name matches the name of the portal to be made. Example : Softbless
  2. Fill in the form of first name, last name, and email to the administrator
  3. Navigate to the Database setting, change the settings of the database by clicking "Change"

Ubah default database

  1. Fill in every field for database setting. for the type of database according to the database being used, namely, MySQL. Then enter your username and password.

 

Konfigurasi Database Liferay

CATATAN :

Pada JDBC URL : lportal is the name of the database that will be used for Liferay

  1. Click the "Finish Configuration" if you have fill in the fields
  2. The success message will be appear, and then click Go to My Portal

Finished Configuration and Go to My Portal

  1. After that, the Agreement for term of user will be show like this picture below :

Terms of Use

  1. Click "I Agree"
  1. Fill in the form for Password Reminder and click "Save"

Password Reminder

  1. Liferay already installed, you can access Liferay via a web browser http: // ipserver: 8080
    Username : test@liferay.com
    Password : test

As implementation services provider for Liferay in Indonesia. Softbless Solutions has extensive experience in implementing, configuring and optimizing support for Liferay as an enterprise portal solution that is also in accordance with the vision of Softbless Solutions to become the leading provider of open source solutions and provide clients the most valuable service.

3 Jul

Liferay as Knowledge Management System

Knowledge Management is a method for managing information, skills and knowledge held within an organization/company, ranging from the process of collecting, distributing and using knowledge. Knowledge Management is useful so that the productivity of an organization does not rely on certain people. If the key person leaves the company, then the company will still be able to sustain because of the knowledge remains in the organization.

The purpose of the implementation of Knowledge Management (KM) in the organization / company is as follows:
  1. Increase the speed of learning for new people in certain positions
  2. Reducing the risk of repeating same mistakes in working
  3. Storing knowledge as corporate assets when the employee resigned or retired.

Information Technology serves as a tool in the implementation of knowledge management within a company. Liferay is a portal system that we could use a Knowledge Management System.

Liferay has functionality: Wiki, Blog, Content Approval Workflow, Forum, Document Library that can be used to store and distribute knowledge related to business processes of an organization / company.

Softbless as Liferay implementor  in Indonesia has range of experience for Knowledge Management System implementation

06 March 2022   By    Enterprise Portal, Liferay, Liferay, Portal Intranet