CMS 26 solutions

Content management now covers a wide range of needs: information sites, corporate sites, service sites, secure extranets, participatory intranets, community spaces, etc.
To cover this scope, there are a number of excellent open source solutions with very broad scopes like Drupal, eZ Publish, TYPO3, Jahia, SPIP, Hippo CMS, Joomla and WordPress, which have all become standards in the world of content management, given their domination as a result of their capacities, modularity, and their functional and technical scopes.
Over the years, they have become more than serious alternatives in the field of enterprise content management: they now dominate the market.

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Document sharing tools 7 solutions

In the world of "cloud documents", there are many challengers. On the one side giant proprietary software, which have to be paid for, such as Google, Microsoft, Apple and Amazon, and on the other side independent companies, which are partly free, such as Dropbox, SugarSync, Evernote, BitTorrent Sync AeroFs, Humyon (recently renamed SafeSync), etc ... Many offer document management services in cloud. It is difficult to get a place in this Olympus that keeps your documents in their environments. Yet there is an alternativein orderto be independent and obtain the same level of service, this alternative is open source. In this section you will findtoolssuch asOwnCloud,SparkleShare,Create Synchronicity…all of which meetthis need that has become indispensable for collaborative work.

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CRM 6 solutions

CRM (customer relationship management) systems are tools designed to capture, process and analyse information on existing and prospective clients.
The scope of these tools is therefore potentially very (very) broad, given that it pertains to all the actions developed to foster customer and prospect loyalty by offering the best possible service.
CRM functionalities can include multi-entity management, customer service, case and groupware management, sales cycles, marketing and mass broadcasting campaigns, contact and account management, and more.
Excellent products the likes of SugarCRM and vtiger are some of those available from the world of open source solutions.

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Business intelligence: Reporting 3 solutions

One of the key bricks in business intelligence is report preparation.
Reporting tools like BIRT not only generate reports (configured or unconfigured) in HTML, PDF, XLS, DOC, PPT and other formats; they can also build dynamic pivot tables.
The displayed data can be retrieved from different databases and queries. Further, reporting tools generally have plug-ins to allow them to attach easily to external sources and applications.
Tools like JasperReports go as far as offering multidimensional analyses, which make it possible to take full advantage of the possibilities of a Mondrian server, directly in a company’s reports.

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Business intelligence suites 4 solutions

Business intelligence suites generally cover the two categories presented above, i.e. ETLs and reporting.
This means the scope of these suites is extremely broad: report execution, OLAP analysis with Mondrian, query assistance, ETL, publication workflow management module, etc.
There is a wealth of open source business intelligence tools including four of very high quality: Jaspersoft, SpagoBI, Palo and Pentaho.

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DAM 7 solutions

The importance of digital images, video and other rich media, in workflow and document distribution, raises questions regarding their management. Closely related to document management, Digital Asset Management - DAM allows you to ingest, index and store the data with suitable ergonomics (for example Media Viewer) to handle many formats (raw, psd ...) to manage the intellectual property rights (Watermark, duration of use ...) to connect business software (DTP, photo retouching ...) etc. We focused this part on the most successful Open Source solutions, which allow optimal management of multimedia resources, but other programs under development also look promising.

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E-commerce 10 solutions

The field of e-commerce is another very plentiful one. Whether e-merchants want to advertise their e-shops and increase their traffic, inform customers about their products, give clients a terrific shopping experience, conclude sales, provide customer service or perform any number of other actions, many solutions are available to them today.
However, in this category we have nonetheless focused on open source e-shop solutions, presenting the leading products including Magento and PrestaShop.
The scope of e-shops has been expanding, now encompassing functionalities like advanced categorisation, the definition of product groups, management of configurable products, cross-selling and up-selling functions, promotional engines, multi-shop management, advanced currency and VAT rate management, and more.

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ERPS 4 solutions

The world of enterprise resource planning (ERP) has in turn been overwhelmed by open source solutions that have now reached maturity.
Open source ERPs initially provided small SMEs with complete management tools at the lowest cost, thereby rapidly stepping up their competitiveness. But these solutions are already climbing the ladder, currently targeting SMEs with staff of more than 1000, in the industrial, distribution and services sectors.
Because the playing field is so vast, differences in functional cover can turn a product more toward a particular sector of activities. But one of the most important selection criteria is flexibility/expandability, in other words the technological bases that will allow a given product to be adapted to a variety of different contexts with a limited number of custom developments.
Products like Compiere, OpenERP, Openbravo and ERP5 set the bar for open source ERPs.

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GED & ECM 8 solutions

Enterprise content management (ECM) is characterised by a combination of electronic document management tools (EDM or DMS) and content management systems (CMS).
ECM can increase an organisation’s efficiency by offering its personnel a practical and efficient solution for creating, locating and using information – whether or not it is structured or included in a document.
At present, open source EDM solutions have reached an extraordinary level of maturity and can compete on equal terms with the main commercial products, providing unique benefits in terms of openness, longevity and pricing.
Alfresco, Nuxeo, Knowledge Tree, Maarch, Jahia and more: the available supply of open source document management solutions is expanding every day.

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Libraries & Documentation 4 solutions

Built upon the world of document management, open source library and documentation management tools have emerged in recent years.
The most notable examples of these are Koha and PMB.
The main functionalities of these tools include notice imports and UNIMARC cataloguing, disk management, borrower management, lending/returns with fines, Z3950 Client and Server, OAI-PMH server, thesaurus management, OPAC (user search interface), DSI (interest based displays), management of periodicals and purchasing, etc.

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Portals 7 solutions

A portal is a website that brings together a variety of resources, either pertaining to the same subject (real estate, job offers, etc.) or with no specific subject, i.e. a general interest portal such as Yahoo!.
Portals provide access to resources that they do not necessarily own: they offer services from other websites, and their own added value stems from the selection and compilation of these tools.
Finally, portals also incorporate a degree of more or less advanced personalisation.
A combination of content and service packaging, links to third party resources, and personalisation: these are the aspects that typically define a portal.
A number of open source tools are available for the creation of this type of project. The top examples include Liferay, eXo Platform and, more recently, Silverpeas.

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PIM 2 solutions

PIMs (Product Information Manager) are Product data repositories. Their purpose is to collect, aggregate and manage information related to a product catalogue. In most companies, this type of data is split between N services (ERP has the basic data, marketing has the visuals, the stock is managed by a third-party software, etc..) and N software when a spreadsheet is not being used. Maintaining a catalog (to an ecommerce platform for example) then reports to the obstacle course.  A PIM provides a centralised Product information repository, which is accessible to different people and imput interfaces which are optimised whether they are manual or automated (eg: via API, import, export, ...).

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Corporate social networks (CSNs) 9 solutions

The success of social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc., speaks for itself. They show the interest people have in connecting to one another, meeting new people, communicating and working together.
CSNs (corporate social networks) were born of the realisation that companies could also use this type of resource to generate value.
This is how social networks are used by companies: to create wealth. The use of social networks is now an established fact and as a result companies are encouraging their staff to use them to communicate.
In response to this need, more and more quality open source solutions have appeared on the market, the likes of Drupal Commons, Elgg and Liferay Social Office.

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Blogs, wiki and forums 11 solutions

Blogs, wikis and forums have ceased to truly be "presented" as such, now that they have become such a firmly integrated part of corporate life. It is said that they are a component of Web 2.0 in their own right.
A blog is a type of website comprising posts, i.e. notes that are accumulated over time and displayed in chronological order.
A wiki can also be defined as a type of website, although its unique feature is its openness to others: wiki pages are usually modifiable by visitors, in the interest of collaborative contributions.
A forum is (typically) a public discussion area in which exchanges are arranged by subject.
In this category, we will present the best open source solutions available today: Dotclear, phpBB, XWiki, etc.

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E-learning 5 solutions

E-learning, also referred to as “online training”, consists in educational activities that occur via electronic solutions, particularly web based ones.
E-learning solutions are used to create and distribute classes and various teaching materials to students, test their knowledge, and foster learning communities using collaborative tools.
The main functionalities of e-learning tools include management of teachers, students and classes, creation of educational resource types, SCORM compatibility, questionnaires, collaborative tools (wikis, forums and blogs), timetables, student supervision and more.
Among the available open source solutions, Moodle and Claroline enjoy an excellent reputation.

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Visitor tracking 2 solutions

There are two categories of tools that are external to applications (in the broadest sense of the term) and that are used to generate visitor statistics: log analysers, which work based on HTTP server log files, and remote applications that collect their data using special tags inserted on the pages.
In the world of open source solutions, tools like AWStats (log analyser) and Piwik (tag analysis) are commonly used.

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Other 3 solutions

In this final category of the “Applications” dimension, we will present other open source tools that can be of benefit to companies, although it was difficult to define a separate category for them.
In particular, we will be presenting OpenX (an ad server solution) and LimeSurvey (an advanced tool for the creation of professional surveys and polls).

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