20 Dec

Liferay as a Main Alternative for Your Enterprise Portal

Liferay can be the main alternative for company as an enterprise portal/intranet portal solutioin. Liferay Portal is easy to use and open source licensed. So companies that want high valued Enterprise Portal solutions can divert his choice to Liferay. Liferay Portal provides the facilities, both intranet and extranet.

Customization in Liferay is easier. It uses a drag & drop, so users only need a mouse to select the menu you want displayed. If companies need tools for collaboration and knowledge management, such as instant messaging, blogs and wikis, and access to all content, and information organization.

The interface displayed Liferay is very interesting and easy for users to use existing facilities, content management is also easy to use, users or developers do not need to have to master programming language in detail, and no special skills required during installation of the portal site. In this installation, the package has been integrated Liferay with other packages, such as Apache Tomcat web application server and Java Runtime Environment.

Liferay Portal provides a clear view of the general interface and the menu is made as simple as possible, so that all levels of users can use it.

Some special features that exist in Liferay are as follows:

Flexible Portal Integration Framework , Liferay Portal allows users, administrators and developers integrate content and services from backend applications and support several methods, including SOAP, REST, RSS and APIs.

Out-of-the-box tools , Liferay provides various tools for CMS and Collaboration functionality

Secure Single Sign On (SSO) , only with a one-time authentication, users can securely and comfortable access to all menus

Customization Tools , an administrator can make adjustments, make changes, add users or other attributes such as name, company, date, or other information considered important, all of which can be performed without any modification of the database. Liferay also provide support facilities to the page content sites, blogs, share documents and data storage folder, and messages that exist on the forum, the wiki is very reliable if needed in the enterprise portal.

User Personalization , if given the right of access by adminitrator, then the user is entitled to configure the portal page by adding, deleting, or fill the position of the content. Users also can store data and later distributed to other users who are still in one network.

Content-Based Sharing , Liferay considered reliable in sharing content and messages that are sent through the facilities of the forum, so users do not need to use email only to to send messages. Liferay also provides a menu for users in making changes in content and appearance

Basically, Liferay is able to make the enterprise portal as required, some other interesting features are also very worth to try and developed further.

20 Dec

Indonesian Language Translation for Liferay

We hereby annouce that the Indonesian Language Pack for Liferay have been included in the latest version of Liferay .

Softbless submits Indonesian Language Pack just a moment before the launching of Liferay 6. So if you want to try the Indonesian translation for Liferay, just download and install the latest version of Liferay.

If you find bugs or want to give improvement to this translation please contact us at info@softbless.com. Your contribution will be very useful, or here

20 Dec

Tool to make Custom Model in Alfresco

In one of the ECM implementation - Alfresco - we need to implement content type and document metadata that have been designed previously.

There are about 24 types of documents, and there are about 100 metadata that need to be built in Alfresco. Of the 100 about metadata, there are several properties that are shared properties. If calculated, each document type on average has 15 metadata.

If using conventional methods, we estimate it will take about 1 week to make it. Then we try to find a way or tool that can be used to shorten the construction time, and we found SIDE-Labs. Sidelabs is an IDE that can be used developers to design custom models, and even workflow in Alfresco. By using the SIDE-Labs, we will save much time on custom model development.

Finally it only take 1 day to make 24 content types and approximately 100 metadata. For comparison, a web-client-config-custom.xml have around 1700 lines of code, and customModel.xml has about 2300 codes. Imagine if developers have to do it conventionally.

So if you plan to do in-house development with Alfresco, and you have a lot of types of documents, we strongly recommend to use the SIDE-Labs as a tool.

15 Dec

Indonesian Language Pack untuk Alfresco 3.4D

Softbless has released Indonesian Language Pack for Enterprise Content Management solution: Alfresco version 3.4D.
To download and try it, please send email to info@softbless.com
In the zip file, there is also a manual for installation and usage.
If you find bugs or want to contribute to this translation, please contact us at info@softbless.com, or click here .
 

15 Dec

Liferay Translation for Indonesian Language using Pootle

Liferay now use Pootle as a tool for translation.
Liferay Process Pack to Indonesian language has also been started and almost 100% finished. For those who want to contribute to give a better translation, can now participate with ease.
For more information, access: http://translate.liferay.com/pootle/
 

30 Oct

SugarCRM Releases Sugar-6

SugarCRM has just announced the release of their latest version, Sugar 6. With the release of this version, SugarCRM tries to make the CRM system easier and more flexible for their users. In fact, many users do not understand how to operate this system. The main reason lies in the complexity and the least experience of the users themselves. This release will give priority to enhancing the user experience by offering a cleaner system, equipped with new larger buttons and symbols that allow users to more operate this system easier and obtain the required information. Basically, this release is more aimed for CRM to be more flexible and comfortable fit with the needs of users than if the user spends a lot of time to understand the complexity of UI and everything in it. They have achieved this by focusing on a menu option that is easier to use. This new release also enables Sugar users can easily access the information through such social networking site Twitter, LindkedIn and other data sources through CRM. This makes SugarCRM more social than ever before. According to Clint Oram, deputy assistant director of production and the founder of SugarCRM, the focus of Sugar 6 located on the experience of its users. Among the changes to the latest version, there is a simpler design where the menu has been moved to the top. Menus located at the top of the page including a frequently used, and specific to SugarCRM Professional and Enterprise versions are supported by AJAX, that provides the user with a drop-down menu interface. All this reduces the number of clicks or keystrokes on Sugar 6. For example, in the previous version of Sugar 5.5, which was launched last year, doing a search is a complicated process. Now, Oram said, rather than bringing users to a separate screen as a whole, the system contained in the Global Search Sugar 6 offers an overlay with the search results. With this system, users can remain on screen that they're doing, and still can do a search to see other information without having to get out of the navigation system. The performance of search systems have also been optimized by Sugar 6 so that search results can be displayed more quickly.

27 Oct

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Principles

When it came the time to select the right Customer Relationshop Management (CRM)
for your business, it is important to understand all the benefits of an integrated CRM
system before starting the selection process.

CRM is more than just a product, CRM is a philosophy.

When your company decides to implement a CRM system, there are dramatic change related to customer commitment.

In CRM's main philosophy, customer is the main focus. When your business is viewed from the perspective of customer transactions at every level, you do not have other choice except to deliver a better experience for customers - which in turn increase their loyalty to your company.

Customers can be anywhere: customer / client, marketers, sales person, employees, and partners.

The word "customer" used to be defined easily. Understanding of the "customer" has now expanded include internal employees, and partners.

CRM is more than just a relationship management

Many companies have successfully used some form of CRM system and those CRM
systems may initially seem not much different from one another.

However, the CRM's ability is not just contact management. CRM
system contains more information about your customers. With CRM, marketers and sales persons have immediate access to all the information they need about the customer. Your sales persons can find more information other than contact information before they reach the customers, they can also evaluate the history of past sales, credit information and other financial data. They can even see the information about another company office and send a report to find out what you've orderedm the special price or previous agreements.

Overall, choose CRM if the marketers, sales person, and support department need  a complete and comprehensive picture and information of your customers to achieve success in their work. On the other hand, if your business only requires a glimpse information of its customers, and only has a low total cost of ownership, a contact management software may be a more appropriate choice.

Choice CRM solution that suit your needs

Some companies that sell CRM software might make you believe that you need to buy what they call the company's solutions include all the functionality required by the largest global companies. But for small companies or medium, this may mean paying more than necessary. In fact, the price of these systems are often too high that could not be reached by small and medium companies.

Another benefit of CRM solutions designed for growing companies to medium-sized is that the solutions are more easily implemented and can be directly used. Larger companies may have the time and resources spent to customize the system and integrate with their company. However, medium-sized companies want a CRM solution that they can get and run with ease, speed, and low cost.

SugarCRM is the perfect solution for companies of all sizes from small companies, medium, or large. With the flexibility of SugarCRM owned, existing functionality can be customized to fit the needs of companies with a larger scale.

Reference: http://www.bagooes.com/crm/76-crmrules.html