Plone takes your content into the future!

Armin Stroß-Radschinski

Plone Conference 2014Bristol

about me

Armin Stroß-Radschinskiindustrial designer

information architectdinosaur digital native

power userpart time developer

using Plone since 2002

Companies: acsr & eveniosTroisdorf, Germany near Cologne

about me

Armin Stroß-Radschinski

Case:Using Plone to

collect, manage and archive enterprise related informations.

Focus: Customer project related

workflows for longtime & secure publishing over networks.

about Plone

• Content Management System

• Webbrowser Frontend UI

• Enterprise Grade

• Workflow Aware from Ground up

• Object Oriented

Create and Present

• authoring of complex content over a network

• create, store, share and retrieve

• presentation logic & workflow is setting Plone apart from simpler CMS

Content Lifecycle

Change over time needs workflow…

• migrate in / or create, aggregate

• develop & evolve

• hide and keep in archive

• migrate out

• delete

acsr, Armin Stroß-Radschinski – CC-BY-SA 3.0

EnterpriseCommunication

• Telegraph

• Phone

• Telex

• Fax

• E-Mail

• Smartphones & Tablets

Solutions have changed over time

"Boswell Bay White Alice Communications System Site - Tropospheric Antennas" by Rob Stapleton - Public domain

Enterprise Communication

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EnterpriseCommunication

• Enterprise Grade CMS (ECM)

• Intranets & Extranets are Pull Media

Talk with your system…

Star-Trek – Fair use

Next Generation

• Interacting with generation facebook, twitter and beyond

• Bigger challenges

• User interfaces for Next Generation Devices

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Next Generation

• Transformation of Services

• Followup Technologies

• UX – The Usability Challenge

acsr Armin Carl Stroß-Radschinski – CC-BY 3.0

Horizon 2020

Next Generation

• Can your system survive the next five up to ten years?

NASA – Public domain

What Plone did and still can do!

• Build on Solid Base Technologies

• Unique System-Architecture

• Extraordinary Useful

• Change and Adapt over Time

• Evolving in this Kind

NASA – Public domain

What makes Plone standing out…

• Object Structure

• Finegrained Access Rules

• Impressing Security Record

• Flexible Workflows

• SEO Friendly

"RedDwarfNASA-hue-shifted" by NASA/Walt FeimerDerivative, transformed by acsr – Public domain

The users side of the game…

„Start with the Needs.“

„Build Digital Services not Websites.“

„Make the Users Want to Be Architects.“

Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

The users side of the game…

• Customizing the System

• Just by Configuration

• Without Touching the Codebase

Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

The users side of the game…

• Reproduceable Setups

• Similar Instances inside of One Organisation

• Make Users Know the System

Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

The Power of Workflows

For Content Authors by Integrators

• Properly Implemented

• Do the Hard Work to Make it Simple

Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

Organisations need to…

• Offer Content in Different Representations

• Multichannel Publication

acsr, Armin Stroß-Radschinski – CC-BY-SA 3.0

Adapt & Transform

• Adapt new Trends – in Electronic Communication

• Adapt Existing Solutions

• Transform How They Act

• Transform How They Use Media

Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

Plone has it…

• a Security Proven Core

• a Lot of Base Functionality

• in High Quality Modules

• High Level Quality Add-On Packages

• Its Own "App" Culture

Anja Osenbergl – pixabay CC0 Public Domain

Developers Want a Simple Solution!

•Easy to Develop…

•…but Not Too Simple

Emilian Robert Vicol – pixabay CC0 Public Domain

Plone Community

• Well Known for Expertise

• Knowing to Deal with Big Clusters

• Holding Tons of Data

• High Availability

• Long Term Support

Nanoscience High-Performance Computing Facility (Carbon)Argonne National Laboratory, CC 2.0 by-nc-sa

Plone ecosystem

• Make this Happen

• Using Eeading Edge Agile Processes

• Technologies to Keep Quality

• Refactor Code at Top Level

"Steel construction" by VhanepfuOwn work. CC-SA 4.0

Crucial for the Success of Plone…

• Testing

• Continous integration

• Professional Deployment

• Adjusting the Roadmap

"James Webb Primary Mirror" by NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham - Public domain

Crucial for the Success of Plone…

• Drive New Approaches

• Start with Custom Design Concepts

„NASA Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle“ by NASA - Public domain

Crucial for the Success of Plone…

• Using the Modular Code Structure

• Replace Technology Under the Hood

• Migrate to Mainstream Standards Later

"Tesla Motors Model S base" by Oleg Alexandrov - Praca własna. CC-BY-SA 3.0

Put Your Content Into Plone

• Adjusting Lifecycles

• Migrate as Needed

• Exit Strategies Included!

acsr, Armin Stroß-Radschinski – CC-BY-SA 3.0

Plone 5 is the Future…

• New User Interface

Screenshot & infographic 2014 by Plone Foundation, Irene Capatti et al, CC-BY

Plone 5 is the Future…

• New User Interface

Screenshots & Topics inspired by Maurizio Delmonte, abstract.it

Plone 5 is the Future…

• New User Interface

• Enhanced Content Management

Screenshots & Topics inspired by Maurizio Delmonte, abstract.it

Plone 5 is the Future…

• New User Interface

• Enhanced Content Management

• User Management and Security

Screenshots & Topics inspired by Maurizio Delmonte, abstract.it

Plone 5 is the Future…

• New User Interface

• Enhanced Content Management

• User Management and Security

• Plugin Development Made Easy

• Excellent Documentation & Training Available

Gerd Altmann – pixabay CC0 Public Domain

The Plone Intranet Consortium is Part of the Game…

• Build on Top of Plone

• Professionally Funded

• 100% Open Source

• Digital Workplace Technology

• Foundation forProfessional Services

"Steel construction" by VhanepfuOwn work. CC-SA 4.0

Plone Takes Your Content Into the Future!

• You are Not Alone!

• Nobody Knows Where We Are Then.

• But We Are There and Under Way!

Thank You!