Content Management Software

Nuxeo, the Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Company, is updating their SaaS product with features for content automation.

Since its start in 2000, the company has focused on accelerating open source acceptance into the mainstream. Nuxeo was designed to aid businesses in the use and distribution of digital content in the workplace.

In concert with optimizing the ECM process for users, Nuxeo has added new features to improve the business process.

A few new features:

• Users can now create content automation chains in addition to the normal editing functions, such as copying, moving, transforming to pdf, etc.
• Bind content automation chains to the Content Actions UI and filter data based on the integration with the JBoss Rules engine.
• Use content templates to customize the layout of folders inside a new document type and to define the structure of new content objects.
• Use the summary tab to create a summary view to display content objects.
• Bind virtual navigation entry points to Nuxeo Studio
• Define values of hierarchical vocabularies using a tree-like structure in the UI
• Expose operations and operations chains using RESTful API

The Nuxeo Studio updates were designed to “allow information workers to quickly and easily create specialized solutions, that target a specific vertical or horizontal issue with minimal training,” said CEO Eric Barroca. Nuxeo Studio also enables users to configure both Nuxeo EP and Nuxeo DM to adapt to their business requirements. Finally, a smart ECM solution that automates content and helps companies better manage changing business requirements and solve complex business problems.

After enjoying North American success in 2009, enterprise content management provider (ECM) Nuxeo is considering going global.

Last year, Nuxeo’s list of accomplishments included the impressive feat of tripling their customer base. Some of those new users have a global reach, and include Orange, a telecom and network services provider, Jeppesen, a division of Boeing, and Cengage Learning, which offers customized learning solutions. Nuxeo also doubled its revenue, and released new products developed in the open source community.

Another project Nuxeo launched last year: the Galaxy Partner Program. In July 2009, the initiative began as a means of giving business and filed experts the ability create horizontal and vertical content management applications. So far, the Galaxy program has about 50 partners and integrators.

Eric Barroca, Nuxeo’s CEO, was very specific in the press release announcing global ambitions, about the competitive edge the company will have by going global: “Our experience over the past 12 months in North America is that there is a large segment of the market that want the breadth and depth of larger content management systems from first generation ECM vendors such as EMC, IBM, Open Text and Oracle—but today they require more modern, extensible architectures and lower overall costs.”

The ECM provider recently opened offices in Boston and Paris, but didn’t specify whether that expansion was their “global expansion,” or if there’s another location in mind—the announcement seemed primarily a call for others to take notice.