Freies Vortragsprogramm (Fr, 05.05.2006)

The Magnolia Content Suite - a product introduction and business benefits for decision makers

von Boris Kraft (obinary ag)

Freitag, 05.05.2006, Saal 6.1, 11:00-12:00 Uhr

We will present an introduction to the business benefits of Magnolia, aimed at decision makers, not developers (but of course everybody is welcome).

The talk will include a product demo to give an impression of the usability benefits of Magnolia, but focus on providing examples of how Magnolia's enterprise aware design provide significant benefits for medium and large enterprises.

We will shortly introduce JSR-170, the new standard for content storage, that has been the basis of Magnolia development. Magnolia currently is the only open source content management system that has been built specifically on JSR-170, but several other projects are starting to see the benefits of a standard repository and are on its way to adopt it.

It will further present the new Magnolia 3.0 architecture which combines Magnolia with openWFE, resulting in the most sophisticated workflow and enterprise application integration possibilities of any open source CMS available today.

We will then present the major benefits Magnolia brings to your enterprise, and talk about some existing implementations to give an overview of where Magnolia is useful.

An overview of coming attractions will wrap up the talk.

Über den Autor Boris Kraft:

Dipl. Inform. Boris Kraft is a consultant and software developer. He is the strategic leader and community manager of Magnolia, an open source enterprise content suite, originally developed by his company, Obinary.

His experience as a speaker include speaking about Magnolia at OSCOM 2004 and at LOTS (Lets open the source) in 2004 and again in 2005, teaching computer science at the University of Cooperative Education Loerrach and talking about his parallel real-time simulation environment at PADS94, the 8th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation.

His career in IT includes object-oriented software development under NeXTSTEP, several years of active involvement in a leading Internet security company, the development of a distributed real-time simulation environment, the use of Oracle web technology, databases and CASE tools as well as programming the first ever intranet solution for Roche Vitamins AG. Since 2002 he has been focusing on the development of Magnolia from a strategic and a marketing perspective.

He has recently written a series of articles for the Enterprise Open Source Journal (EOSJ) how enterprises can evaluate the community behind an open source project - and why they should.

He has been writing software for 25 years and lives in Switzerland with his wife and two kids.