13 Dec

Enterprise Portal - Liferay

Enterprise Portal is an application that acts as a collector for information and data from various departments within enterprise.
Enterprise Portal helps companies to manage information and data efficiently, and as a means of communication and collaboration between departments. In most cases, employees from certain department do not know about the activities of other departments. Using Enterprise Portal, each department can have an internal site department (for internal department purposes), as well as external sites that allow sharing of information, data and activity to other departments.
Enterprise Portal also allows employees to search for articles, news or work related knowledge
Another feature in the Enterprise Portal is personalization, where user can customize the dashboard display to have portlet/widget according to what user needs

The main features of the Enterprise Portal:

  • Enterprise searching - search facility that allows users to obtain information/data needed
  • Article/News/Blog - is used as a tool for communicating news and events
  • Calendar - tool that mark important events
  • Employee Directory - facility for searching co-workers in the company
  • Forum discussion - as interactive tool to discuss certain topics
  • Wiki - can be used for knowledge management
We could use Liferay as intranet portal to accelerate collaboration in the company. Liferay is included in Leader Quadrant in Gartner Magic quadrant (2011-2014). Our company, Softbless, Indonesia, provides services for Liferay implementation such as : installation, configuration, customization, support and training.
To see Liferay in action, please access online demo page.
You could contact us to get further information about Liferay implementation, via email : info@softbless.com or by phone at (021)85918058 and (021)85918059

12 Dec

Knowledge Management System - Vendor in Indonesia

Knowledge Management is the discipline to identify, manage, store and retrieve knowledge from and to the members of the organization. Whereas tools for knowledge management can be made electronically using Knowledge Management Software Applications.

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Knowledge Management can be your solution, if your company experiences problems like the following:
  • The product / service that you provide has a Steep Learning Curve (something that is difficult to learn), so new employees requires quite a long onboarding time
  • Knowledge that is owned by the company is often lost because the Key Person resigns from the Company
  • At working, your team reinvents the wheel fairly often. The same needs or problems repeatedly arise, and team members must carry out tracing and troubleshooting from the start for the same problem.
Knowledge Management (KM) is very useful if new person enters or resigns from company. KM is required by companies to maintain and enhance the competitive power. KM is more of a "discipline" rather than "behavior". Discipline to pour tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge.

Benefits of implementing Knowledge Management:

  • Improving knowledge and skills owned by the organization
  • Changing patterns of collaboration - every member organizations collaborate through sharing of experience and knowledge they have
  • Creating a more skilled and competitive workforce
  • Spend less time recreating existing knowledge
  • Ease to find information and knowledge that is fast and accurate
  • Better decision making. With the availability of information and knowledge from the company's actual experience, decision makers have a better foundation
  • Broadcast important information quickly and broadly
  • Providing a place for collaboration of experts / Subject Matter Expert (SME)
  • Reuse problem solving from previous experience
A good Knowledge Management must have a character that is easy to use, easy to customize, collaborative functionality, can be access from any device and secure. KM can use several tools in the implementation, such as Liferay.

Liferay is included as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant

Liferay won the Quadrant Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for 10 consecutive years, from 2000-2020.
Liferay is a Corporate Portal solution and Open Source Intranet Software Portal. As a leader, Liferay has features and benefits that meet the standards as a good Knowledge Management.

Knowledge Management Features in Liferay:

  • Ease of Use, Liferay has intuitive and ease to use interface. Repositioning or Customizing content can be easily done using drag and drop feature
  • Freedom of Personalization, it allows user to set their pages look, personal document and set who can access to it
  • Submit Article. Each employee can submit articles / content that they have
  • Activities Point, every activity carried out in Liferay can be given a point. For example, reading an article gets 1 point, submits the article and the article is approved, gets 3 points, etc.
  • Access Permission, Liferay can be configured to provide granular access permissions. We can determine certain people can view, read, update, delete a content / discussion
  • Social media. The concept of Knowledge Management can be packaged in the form of Social Media. Liferay can facilitate
  • Workflow Approval. Any content submitted by employees, will go through a moderation process by certain parties. If approved, the article will be accessible to others
  • Community of Practice (COP) forum for discussion
  • Video player
  • Recent content, to display the latest articles, forum posts and content
  • Calendar, to display Knowledge Sharing events, training or other seminars
  • Recent activities, to display the latest activities carried out by the user
  • Taxonomy, Liferay facilitates taxonomy in the form of tagging and categories. In Liferay several types of categories can be created & also facilitate sub categories
  • Announcement, giving announcements regarding important events or information
  • KM Champion Hall of Fame, showing the highest point winner in a certain period
  • Social media. Knowledge Management concepts can be used in the form of Social Media. Liferay can facilitate functionality :
    • Update status
    • Follow other user
    • Connect with other User
Softbless , Indonesia, provides services for the implementation, customization, support and training for Liferay Enterprise Portal.


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12 Dec

Enterprise Content Management Expert in Indonesia

enterprise-content-management-system-illustration Enterprise Content Management System is a digitized content/information and document management process to support a company to fulfill and reach its goal of a business process. A company needs to manage its information/content effectively to increase its working productivity. Enterprise Content Management System capable of providing that process for a company. ECM, generally, strongly integrated with Document Management System (DMS).

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Below are several examples of content/information and document related challenge in business :
  • The non-structured information or content related to the business process causes confusion. It also needs to be redone, wasting more time and effort.
  • Difficulty to find content/information based on date, the user, or content type.
  • It takes too much time to spread the information. In the worst case, the information even isn’t spread.
  • The storage at the office is incapable to contain the amount of content/information in a physical form.
To solve these problems, a company needs an integrated system that provides functionality.

Enterprise Content Management System  has these features/functionalities :

  • Document Management System (DMS): For handling a company’s or organization’s document,
  • Collaboration: Collaboration in the ECM can be facilitated through an online portal/website.
  • Workflow: Delegating a task to a certain user that is wanted and improving job efficiency.
  • Web Content Management: To manage, create, and deliver the content easily.
  • Record Management: Simplify the storing and searching for the content/information, which is considered important for a company or organization.
Enterprise Content Management System increases the information flow within the company that will improve productivity. ECM helps an organization to manage information and content into a more structured form. The benefits of using Enterprise Content Management System:
  • A structured content knowledge storing system,
  • Increase the speed and accuracy of the information distribution,
  • Improving productivity in office activities,
  • Minimizing the information/content lost,
  • Suitable for collaboration purpose,
  • Accessible from anywhere and anytime you need it,
  • Providing better control over the certain information/content access for a specific user, so the risk of information/content leak will be decreased,
  • Easy to trace the audit result of an information/content,
  • Simplify and speed up specific information/content searching processes.
One of the tools/systems of Enterprise Content Management System is Alfresco. Alfresco is the open-source licensed Enterprise Content Management System.

Alfresco as a Challenger in Magic Gartner Quadrant

In 2019, in the Gartner Magic Quadrant, Alfresco is in the same quadrant as challenger from other solutions like Laserfiche, SER, NewServer, etc.
Alfresco is equipped with a complete set of features that give solutions for the company’s information/content-related problems.

The Implementation of ECM System Features within Alfresco:

  • Advanced Search Functionality. Enterprise Content Management System can search based on the keyword or the essence of the information/content.
  • Easy to Use. Users won’t have problems using Alfresco, because it has a similar design to explorer (File Explorer on Windows and Finder on Mac), which they are using every day. Moreover, users can easily upload a document by using the drag and drop method.
  • Workflow Engine. Creating a task for a specific user for revision, review, approval, and disapproval purpose on information/content or document effectively.
  • Google Docs, MS Office, LDAP, and Active Directory Integrated.
  • Versioning. Adding the information/content or document version automatically and save the history log of that document version.
  • Role, Permission & Security Settings. We can add a specific permission setting on the information/content for specific users, using Enterprise Content Management System.
  • Collaboration Site. You can share documents, calendars, discussion, blogs, links, and datalist. With the Collaboration Site feature, you can easily spread the information faster and with better accuracy.
  • Expired Document Reminder. A notification will appear if it detects an expired information/content. Notification will be displayed through the main page dashboard of Alfresco or via email.
  • Integrate with other applications using CMIS Web Services.
  • Comment/Discussion Feature. Users can participate to develop an information or business process by using the comment/discussion feature.
Softbless has helped many company to manage their content to well organized, efficient by using Alfresco as ECM
Softbless is ECM implementation expert in Indonesia. Feel free to ask us and get the best deal about ECM Solution.

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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.

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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..

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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.

8 Nov

Cloud Storage (EN)

Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage is a storage medium that uses online services and virtual server as a data storage. With the cloud storage, the user no longer requires hardware (hardware) which is used as a storage area, such as a CD or hard disk, because all files or data can be accessed via an internet connection. Until now, cloud storage is a solution which is quite popular used by some large companies as a repository of important information, because the service is quite easy to use by any user.
Some of the advantages that exist in the cloud storage:
  • Users can easily access the data stored on the Cloud Storage anywhere and anytime using an Internet connection.
  • Users no longer need to worry about the data that is stored, because the data the user will be stored on a virtual server.
  • Users can share the desired data easily, the user can also set permissions on the data as a collaboration, permissions settings can also be done very easily.
Each existing technology definitely has a drawback apart from the advantages mentioned above. one of the disadvantages that cloud storage is security. If a user can not be careful in the use of the cloud storage account, it is likely that your account can be accessed by others. While the more common deficiencies related to connection problems, the user must be connected to the Internet to access the data, and it is not uncommon disorder at the time of data access occurs, this can be caused by the user's Internet connection is problematic or cloud storage servers that are under construction. And because the online-based, users have to spend extra for internet connection, because we have to connect to the internet to download the data to use it as desired. Moreover, if the desired file or data with a large size, it will require sufficient bandwidth is great and definitely the time spent downloading a bit.
Until today the development of Cloud Storage technology is still continuing in various types of services and features. Softbless Solutions provides implementation services for Cloud Storage in Indonesia using OwnCloud solution, make Softbless Solution as a partner in your company for implementation Owncloud in Indonesia. If you have further questions about the services we offer, please click here to contact us.

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8 Nov

Owncloud (EN)

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Currently, Cloud Storage service is already widely scattered on the internet, from a free to paid. OwnCloud is one application open source content management system that is specifically made for cloud storage. OwnCloud main function is as a content repository where users can add files, folders, contacts, audio, photo galleries, calendars and other documents. OwnCloud also memfasilitiasi synchronizing access files on the server with a mobile device, desktop, or web.
 
OwnCloud include software that is easy to use by the user and be a great solution to be implemented in the company. A data will be centralized, thereby reducing the duplication of data in a company.
 
Some of the features of the ownCloud:
- The collaboration feature that is used to share files exist.
- There is a feature comments and tags on each file, so the user can leave a comment or use the tag on the file.
- Setting user permissions, Admins can mengaturan permissions for each user in the system.
- Synchronization with mobile and desktop
- Features a calendar and contacts, calendar features allow you to control the schedule.
- Notifications for each activity, also may be an email notification.
- Versioning on file, the user can know every version of the file
- Feature trash to find files that have been deleted
- Preview for video and music, users can instantly view video or listen to music.
- Photo sharing settings for each user
 
The advantage in this ownCloud is:
  • OwnCloud can combine several existing cloud storage such as DropBox and Google Drive into a directory that can be accessed, shared and edited on localhost or the intranet.
  • OwnCloud is an open source application, which means that each user can develop ownCloud application is in accordance with the requirements.
  • OwnCloud enables users during the installation process, the process is quite easy and fast. Any problems during installation are usually rare.
  • OwnCloud itself already has many add-ons that can help users in managing and regulating an existing file.
Softbless Solutions has extensive experience and resources as well as implementation services provider in Indonesia OwnCloud. Make us your partner for the implementation of Cloud Storage  in Indonesia by using OwnCloud as a solution, please contact us here.

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8 Nov

E-Office System

E-Office System

E-Office System is a correspondence system that functions to create, review approval of official manuscript documents. In managing company documents that are still manual processes, it takes printed documents and a collection of paper to make requests for approval, review, repair, and trace the required documents. Because the manual process, these activities cause several problems that can result in decreased work productivity.

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The problems that commonly occur in the management of Company documents manually, including :

  • Due to hardcopy, if the relevant official is not present it will be difficult to obtain approval from the authorized official. It is difficult to know the status of outgoing mail, the position of the letter and the approval process cannot be known quickly and precisely. The search flow for company documents takes a long time, so it takes time to search the archive storage location, and find it in a file cabinet, or other collection of stationery. Relevant officials will have difficulty in tracing and disposing of letters.Checking and distributing documents is processed manually, so it takes a long time. The high burden for the cost of purchasing paper, because the document is still hardcopy. such as: The document is photocopied and distributed to relevant sections. Requires space for storage, it should be used for other useful activities.It is difficult to see the approval process or disposition of a document.

These problems can be solved by a system that works well together, namely E-Office.

E-Office system could handle these outgoing and incoming letters :

  • Announcement
  • Nota Dinas
  • Memorandum
  • Minutes of Meeting
  • Invitatation
  • Decision Letter
  • Request Letter
  • Instruction Letter
  • Letter of statement
  • Letter from other institutions
  • etc

Benefits :

  • Documents are made electronically well-organized and neat, with the aim that documents are easily seen, managed, found and reused.
  • The task will become easier, and the work will be completed more quickly and well structured and structured.
  • Making the format of the letter in accordance with general provisions, so that the invalid format and structure of the letter does not occur.
  • Simplified in making dispositions on letters obtained from outside parties, because the system already provides.
  • Users can easily find the letter through several keywords and indicators.
  • E-Office is equipped with a system of searching letters and company documents based on the name of the letter, the title of the letter, the contents of the letter, the type of letter and the condition of the letter, and the search process will be easier.
  • The disposition tracking process can be quickly carried out by relevant officials.
  • A user friendly system can make it easier for relevant Officials to log in to this system, in approval or disposition of letters from anywhere, without the need to be in the office.
  • No need to spend paper and send mail so it is more efficient.
  • Letters are sent online to Users, no need to be sent manually.
  • It's easy to see and get information about the approval and tracking process of a document.
  • Can be used anywhere, while the internet and intranet networks are well connected to the system, the use of E-Office can be done anytime and anywhere.
  • It's easier to get information about the approval letter, with one click.

E-Office System is an efficient solution in managing correspondence so that it can improve work efficiency and achieve Company progress. Softbless has the right solution for Corporate Document Management called E-Office which is useful for managing your Company's letters and documents.

Softbless built an E-Office System based on the Liferay and Alfresco frameworks. Liferay is a solution for portals, and Alfresco is a solution for Document Management System (DMS) that works by storing all related documents in one place. LIferay and Alfresco have been in Gartner Magic Quadrant since 2011. Liferay and Alfresco are in the head to head competitor category for similar solutions to compete with IBM, Oracle, Laserfische, etc.

Softbless has very competent experience and knowledge in handling business processes, in implementing E-Office System in Indonesia.
Our services include implementation, installation, customization, support and training for E-Office applications. Make us part of you in finding your Corporate Document Management solution with E-Office. Contact and consult what you need and immediately get information about the solutions we have.

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4 Nov

Magento

Magento
Magento is a web-based application that we often familiar CMS or Content Management System that is devoted to ecommerce or online sales. This application is built using the Zend Framework, while for its database, the application uses the Entity-Attribute-Vale (EAV). Magento soon is the most widely used applications of e-commerce players. Magento ecommerce itself has released an application for the mobile version. Magento also provides several features and tools to develop an e-commerce site.

There are the features that exist in Magento :

  • Site Management - Settings from the admin side of the site
  • Order Management - The setting order for admin
  • Catalog Browsing - has an easy navigation system, there is a product filtering and search in detail
  • Product Browsing - multiple images for product options extensive reviews, wishlists list and others
  • Analytics and Reporting - integrates with Google Analytics and have some kind of report
  • Payment - Many methods of payment: credit cards, PayPal, Authorize.net and more
  • Shipping - shipping to multiple addresses
  • International Support - there is a list of countries that allowed for registration, purchase and delivery
  • Marketing Promotions and Tools - provides functions for vouchers and discounts
  • Checking - page for customer checkout
  • Mobile Commerce - can be used on iOS-based mobile phone
  • Tools for Product suggestion, with their ratings and reviews on a product supplied by the customer
  • Settings Search Engine Optimization
To add the features, Users can install Extension contained in Marketplace, there are extensions that are free and also paid. It is very suitable to build an e-commerce, with so many features that are complete.
Magento development goal is to build a platform for e-commerce in which the control is fully controlled by the owner that applies an admin but remained in the corridor of a business process as it is. Currently, Trend e-commerce increasingly popular and growing request in the development of e-commerce applications already made many of the open source as e-commerce solutions. Magento itself has many advantages for use as a CMS (Content Management System) e-commerce in a business competition is increasing.
Softbless solution using Magento as the solution used for the implementation of E-Commerce. Softbless Solution has extensive experience and resources as well as service providers Magento implementation in Indonesia. Make us Magento Indonesian partner for your E-Commerce project, please contact us here.

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