Compiere Announces Collaboration Management System; New Version Enables Real-Time Chat and Dynamic Content Delivery.PORTLAND, Ore. -- Compiere, Inc., the premier provider of open source business applications, announced a Collaboration Management System for its Compiere ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. & CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. solution, the primary open source ERP and CRM application. As part of the version 2.5.3c release of the product, the Collaboration Management System consists of a content management system, chat capability and web store improvements. These components enable users to chat in a secure, focused online environment about any of the documents on the system and to share thoughts and suggestions throughout the company. The content management portion of Compiere's Collaboration Management System allows users to efficiently host multilingual mul·ti·lin·gual adj. 1. Of, including, or expressed in several languages: a multilingual dictionary. 2. dynamic content and create collaboration platforms An emerging category of computer software, collaboration platforms are unified electronic platforms that support synchronous and asynchronous communication through a variety of devices and channels. . The high-performance content management system was contributed to Compiere by ComDivision (www.comdivision.com). The system is part of the company's enterprise content management offering, which was originally developed for the German Research Foundation and is now used by enterprises and public sector organizations worldwide. Compiere's new Content Management System is based on standard XSLT (eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation) Software that converts an XML document into another format such as HTML, PDF or text. It may also be used to convert one XML document to another XML document with a different set of XML tags (different schema). and XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. formatting and supports high volume environments including clustering and distributed locations. Content from the core ERP and CRM application is easily integrated and can include public product detail information or internal budget or revenue data. Users can access this content from anywhere and provide real-time feedback allowing system administrators to adapt the content to the user's precise needs. ComDivision founder, Yves Sandfort, said, "ComDivision began development on our content management solution in 1996 when most companies only used static content on the Web. In 2005 we decided, together with Jorg Janke, to incorporate our product into the Compiere solution, which will enhance the Compiere document management, electronic brochures, rich-content delivery, and communications features." Jorg Janke, Compiere Founder, said, "Compiere's German speaking partners have implemented the collaboration management system on the German version of the Compiere Homepage -- www.compiere.de. By creating this collaboration platform, the partners can converse (logic) converse - The truth of a proposition of the form A => B and its converse B => A are shown in the following truth table: A B | A => B B => A ------+---------------- f f | t t f t | t f t f | f t t t | t t and provide feedback to each other in German without having to wait for email correspondence." Yves Sandfort and Jorg Janke will be offering previews of the new Collaboration Management System on May 26, 2006 at ComDivision's 10-year anniversary event in Bonn, Germany. Contact: events@comdivision.com for additional information. About ComDivision GmbH Founded in 1996 and located in Germany, ComDivision GmbH provides a wide range of solutions including Web hosting Making a Web site available on the Internet. Many ISPs host a few personal Web pages for an individual at no additional cost above the monthly service fee, but the address is subordinate to the ISP; for example, www.friendlyisp.com/pat_smith. products, content management solutions, and full outsourcing of IT infrastructures in their datacenter for more than 5,000 customers worldwide from private users to global enterprises. As a Compiere partner, ComDivision provides development, support and integration for Compiere and also hosts the Compiere solution in their Datacenter. For more information, visit www.comdivision.com. About Compiere, Inc. Compiere, Inc. is the premier provider of open source business management software. The Compiere ERP & CRM solution is used worldwide by small to medium enterprises and large corporations across a variety of industries including retail, logistics and distribution. It is available for use on Linux, Microsoft Windows See Windows. (operating system) Microsoft Windows - Microsoft's proprietary window system and user interface software released in 1985 to run on top of MS-DOS. Widely criticised for being too slow (hence "Windoze", "Microsloth Windows") on the machines available then. , Mac and UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, and founded in 1999, Compiere, Inc. offers commercial backing, support and services to its global network of more than 65 certified partners. For more information, please go to www.compiere.org. |
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