Entando Technical Series

Following a series of posts to present the various Entando's technical architectural levels and functional:

Entando Technical Series - Part 1
Introduces the slide representing the Entando's Architecture

Entando Technical Series - Part 2
About the Entando Core Services

Entando Meets Open Data

A new post from Entando Universe about "Entando and Open Data":

"Open Data has become the trend of the moment. Social networks, blogs, magazines on the web speak about about Open Data.
But first of all we need to define what is open data:
“Open Data is data that can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone - subject only, at most, to the requirement to attribute and sharealike.” as defined by the Open Definition.
The full Open Definition gives precise details as to what this means:

• Availability and Access: the data must be available as a whole and at no more than a reasonable reproduction cost, preferably by downloading over the internet.
• Reuse and Redistribution: the data must be provided under terms that permit reuse and redistribution including the intermixing with other datasets.
• Universal Participation: everyone must be able to use, reuse and redistribute - there should be no discrimination against fields of endeavour or against persons or groups.

Governments have a broad range of different types of data and most of the government data is public by law, and therefore could be made open and made available for others to use. For this reason Open Data is often associated with Open Government."

Read the full blog post from Entando Universe

Entando in minutes video

In this video we are going to show you how to create easily a portal using the Entando platform.

With a few commands on a terminal you can access both administration consoles (the standard one or the other oriented to Web Accessibility ) from your browser of choice. The administration area permits you to manage Users, Users Roles, Users Groups, Multilingual, attachements, CMS, ...

Entando & Rest APIs

Just uploaded the slides presented by Rinaldo Bonazzo at Devoxx2012 conference about Entando & Rest API: "The advantage of Using Rest API’s in Portal Platforms to extend the reach of the portal"

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Retail can benefit from Enterprise Portals

New post from About Sharmila (Sam) Wijeyakumar about "Retail can benefit from Enterprise Portals":

"Enterprise portals act as an extension of your IT systems, while creating a personal environment for retail employees.

When people say a place has “all the comforts of home,” it’s one of the highest compliments they could give. The phrase evokes images of familiarity, convenience, and a personal touch that likely will bring the recipient back again."

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Horizontal Portal in Education sector

I found this post about Horizontal Portal in Universities very interesting:

"Portals, as all major research organizations like Gartner, Forrester et al agree, have become one of the most visible information technology (IT) issues today. It is no different in the education vertical with many of the famous universities in the western world having already deployed their own portals."

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Governments and Mobile Technologies

New mobile technologies and applications are changing the way people find and use information, data and services. This means that governments need to change the way they interact with employees, citizens, organizations and companies to meet the expectations of end users.
Governments effort aim to benefit from the use of new web-based applications. These functions are now also benefiting from recent developments in mobile and wireless technologies.
Governments must consider the mobile technologies as an opportunity to improve their service delivery and transparency through increased access to government data and information. Entando mobile allows governments of any size to display and access portal contents, data and services of different areas on any android or apple smart device.
Citizens and employees can easily choose which information display and manage them through a user-friendly widget interface. Thanks to an interactive, user-oriented and intuitive experience they can:

• Access and organize portal contents on tablets and smartphones
• Read on the go the latest news updates
• Access documents and government contents from all devices
• Analyze performance with a touch of the screen

The value for Governments is to support mobility of the citizens, employees and companies, allowing them to handle real-time information. For example: crimes, accidents, safety and other public issues (service delivery, healthcare, education, eParticipation and others).
These are some of the reasons why Governments are getting on board.