This month, we meet Antoine Taillefer. Antoine joined Nuxeo not too long ago, coming on board with extensive experience and a long history of working on Nuxeo projects. Aside from managing the technical relationship with our customers, he’s a vocal advocate for exchanging ideas and has brought a unique perspective to the Nuxeo development team, among many other things!

Tell me about your role.
My primary role is to serve as a Technical Account Manager for clients who are implementing Nuxeo. It’s a new position that didn’t exist before and is meant to ensure that we have greater contact with clients on the technical side. It goes beyond the usual support that we provide via Jira tickets, our issue tracking system, and it’s more than what a typical account manager would do, such as discussing planning or business with clients—I’m here to provide a global and technical view into what … Read more

We hosted last week a great webinar featuring Laurence Hart (@piewords) and Brendan Coveney (@bcoveney), on the topic of ECM project success and failure. Here is some follow-up information — including a recording of the webinar — for those who attended and are curious to find out more, or for those who missed it. Thanks to Laurence and Brendan who were kind enough to join us for that event, despite having very busy agendas.

Preparing and hosting this webinar was a great occasion to look at the topic in a little bit more detail. I would like first to come with a few links that were mentioned during the webinar, starting with some that apply to the whole IT family:

First (and often mentioned), the “scary” (at least to me) reports from the Standish Group can be found here. As this is not free content, … Read more

Content is everywhere, it is central to many business processes, and it is prolific. Content goes far beyond simple documents and multimedia files; content is information. An email exchange with a government agency, corporate policies and regulations, university course notes and discussions, team project meeting reports and interactions – different forms of content have varying lifecycle and distribution requirements.

Content management — as an initiative, a technology, and a set of guidelines — is the ticket to making the content work effectively, in any environment, even in the face of rapid growth.

A platform approach to content management offers the flexibility to adapt the technology to the context, whatever it may be, and allows for change and growth as requirements evolve, making it a pragmatic and sustainable choice.

At Nuxeo, we’ve been witness to a growing trend with our clients that gets us really excited. I’ve talked to a … Read more

This month, meet Solen Guitter, Nuxeo’s main tech writer. She is the one behind Nuxeo’s documentation effort, a very important piece of the software puzzle!

Tell me about your role at Nuxeo.
I’m the main technical writer for all of Nuxeo products, which means I write and manage all of the how-to documentation and installation steps on the web site. I also work very closely with the engineering team as they often write their own technical documentation and in this capacity, I don’t write, but I edit, clean up, and organize their documentation so that users can easily find new information and also pay attention to where it’s placed, making sure its location makes sense and corresponds to the subject matter.  

Who is the main audience that you write for?
We try to keep our documentation consistent for all of our users, whether they’re end-users, system integrators, developers, or … Read more

Our clients in the education and research sectors have the same issues with distributing information in an easily consumable format as much as those in other domains, and their requirements for content management, while varying from one use case to the next, follow some interesting patterns.

In addition to the standard document management use case, our education sector clients use the Nuxeo Platform to:

• build e-learning portals,
• distribute course content,
• automate administrative processes, such as registration, course listings, and requests for documentation,
• host social workspaces for project collaboration,
• share knowledge within their community, inside and outside the university,
• provide an online resource library, for example to manage theses and other documents that have strong requirements for version management, access control, and potentially a custom workflow.

At Nuxeo, we get excited when our clients develop innovative and unique applications with the Nuxeo Platform, because it means that the project lead truly… Read more

This month, meet Stéphane Deleersnyder, Nuxeo’s Director of Sales for Europe and Africa. Finding the right sectors to target, choosing the right partners to engage with, and managing a talented and motivated team is all in a day’s work for Stéphane. Take a moment to find out how he does it.

Tell me about your role at Nuxeo.
I’m Director of Sales for Europe and Africa. Our main focus is to establish technology partnerships and alliances with application builders and system integrators, matching them with clients. Each member of my team focuses on a different vertical, but we try to match up verticals that make sense together or share similarities, for instance like banking and insurance.

Are there specific industry sectors you’re targeting at the moment?
We do a lot of work in education and government, for instance all the public administration sectors—agriculture, defense, academies, universities. In France, for example, … Read more

This month, meet Florent Guillaume, Head of Nuxeo’s R&D department. Along the information super highway, meet one of the minds who helps you navigate through. Take a moment to cruise through the different layers of the Nuxeo Platform and learn how enhancements to the VCS have been made to help keep you on track, maximize efficiency, and enable rapid development of applications.

Tell us about your role at Nuxeo and how long you’ve been with the company.
I’m the head of R&D at Nuxeo and I’ve been with them, I guess from nearly the beginning. I started about 10 years ago about mid-2001 and was maybe employee number 2 or 3?? I can’t remember for sure, though, it was a long time ago… Prior to that, I worked with the French Ministry of Education in a general technology role, providing IT services for the entire organization.

You have been … Read more

Systems integrator Sinax in Brazil is exploring a lot of innovative uses of the Nuxeo Platform, and developing some cool new features along the way. I caught up with Klyff Harley, General Manager of IT Development, to find out more about the content management carnival in Brazil.

Tell me about Sinax and your position there.
We develop solutions to improve the ways our clients manage information and business processes. We are also working on projects with the government to help them improve their transparency and open communication with the people they represent.

Why did you choose Nuxeo as your content management platform?
We started looking for a new solution in 2010. We were looking for a solution that is extensible, easy for customers to adopt, cost effective, and easy to deploy.

We chose Nuxeo because it’s open source and has an active community, the platform is extensible, and Nuxeo … Read more

This month, meet Delphine Reveney, Nuxeo’s Head of Engineering for the development team. Keeping track of all the details and tasks necessary to produce Nuxeo products is no easy task, but with teamwork, diligence, and a smile she helps rally the crew to bring you the latest product enhancements.

Tell me about your role at Nuxeo
I’m Head of Engineering for our development team and I’ve been with Nuxeo for the past 7 years, in various positions. My role is to organize and manage processes related to product development with everyone contributing to the various aspects of the platform we build.

As part of this development process, we maintain a backlog of tasks that address each domain (build, features, core infrastructure, Q&A, tooling, etc.), my role is to make sure that all the tasks related to every aspect of development are entered into the backlog, that they have the right … Read more

Here we are, our Advent Calendar is over! We wish you Happy Holidays, and an upcoming year full of well-managed content!

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