Survey: Social media is guiding about 30 percent of VC investment decisions | MedCity News

Survey: Social media is guiding about 30 percent of VC investment decisions | MedCity News

Agile Software Architecture Sketches and NoUML

Agile Software Architecture Sketches and NoUML

Create an Entando Page Template Bundle

From Entando blog

In the latest Entando versions a new object is coming "Bundles".
BUNDLE! what is this?
Bundles are "off-the-shelf" solutions website which developers can seamlessly add to their portal  ie

• Page Templates

• Type of Contents (ie News, Announcements, ...)

• Widgets

Read it 

Here the link where you can find all the file mentioned in the section:

We need now to update the following files

Regards
Rinaldo

Do you Really Need to Embrace Analytics? - Information Management Online Article

Do you Really Need to Embrace Analytics? - Information Management Online Article: "If you have not witnessed the deluge of big data and business analytics media coverage to date, then welcome back from the coma you were apparently in for the last couple of years. For the rest of you, perhaps you have the same nagging question that I have: Are big data and business analytics such a big deal that if our organization is late to the party in deploying them, we will never catch up to our competitors?"

'via Blog this'

Entando Dublin Bootcamp 15th May 2013

For all those who was present at the bootcamp in Dublin 15th May 2013  and ... ;) yes also for those that did not could partecipate,  here found the link where you can find the slides of my talk.
For those who want more info on the platform I'm available for confcall contact me r (dot) bonazzo (at) entando (dot) com

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GitHub workflows inside of a company | NCZOnline

 very useful post for all those who use github (ie Entando on GitHub) or think to use it
GitHub workflows inside of a company | NCZOnline:

'via Blog this'

Your portal with Entando

You are curious to see how you can create a portal with Entando, nothing more simple.
I urge you to read this Trumbitta guide "Entando: an unexpected journey. Or, my portal from scratch."

Good Entando to all

Rinaldo 

From Tasks to Ideas in Apps

Hi found this very helpful Alexander M. Orlando post and I want to share it with you

Entando Wiki

Today I want to talk about the Entando Wiki.
Why?
Well as you know Entando version 3.2 was launched on the web and therefore as each new version it is necessary to review all the technical documentation.

The development team is in the process to complete this process and is has already releasing the most important document to permit you to start developing using this new version.

So click here to access the Entando Wiki page on GitHub.
At the moment available documents are (I changed the order of the list of documents to try to follow a logical order that seems most consistent for me )

General documentation

• Setup a Java development environment for the Entando Platform
  This document explains how to setup a development environment for Java developers. Those who are approaching "Entando" for the first time will find all the software needed in the first place to run, and then a few configuration hints to develop on the Entando platform.
• The Entando Model
  This is an overall view of the model of the platform. Users, Groups, Contents etc. are introduced from an high level perspective, without going too deep in the subject.
• Entando: an unexpected journey. Or, my portal from scratch.
  This guide shows how to create a new portal from scratch in minutes.
• Pattern for application services creation and integration
  This developers-oriented document shows the way and the conventions adopted to create Application Services in the Entando core.
• Plugin Pattern
  This guide explains how to create applications services in form of Entando plugins.
• Entando Rest API Engine
  This guide shows how to implement a REST based service
• Build an Entando portal
  The material contained in this page resumes some of the concepts already seen in the Entando Model, to deepen subjects such as Pages, Contents and Widgets; the aim is to provide quick information to build a portal.
• Entando in production: how to prepare a server, how to deploy your Entando based application
  This step-by-step guide shows to system or network administrators how to setup a basic server where to deploy your project.
• Migration from Entando 3.0 to 3.2
  This step by step guide shows the procedure to port the core of your Entando 3.0 installation to version 3.2

This is a good starting point to begin to develop poprtails and web applications using Entando

Becoming an Entando developer

Did you know that you can write applications that work with content stored in Entando? With our Public API, you can query, update, and delete contents, resources stored in your Entando portals.

Becoming an Entando developer costs nothing and you can create as many API keys as you need. Documentation, sample code, and other resources can be found on the Entando Developer Portal at Entando GitHub

How to write great how-to posts

On the surface, writing a good instructional piece might sound pretty easy, but if you’ve read more than a few poorly written posts after combing the web for advice, you know not everyone’s got the knack.

Darren Rowse has ten years of experience instructing others and would like to offer these seven nuggets of advice on the art of teaching through blog posts.

Read more on Alltop How to write great how-to posts

Entando - Open Data Italian Election 2013 Results

Need realtime results from Cagliari Municipality?

 For Senate of the Republic Results use one of the following REST API'S call
http://www.comune.cagliari.it/portale/api/rs/it/cagliari/risultatiElezioni.xml?idElezione=82&sezione=true (if you need  polling station details, false otherwise)
http://www.comune.cagliari.it/portale/api/rs/it/cagliari/risultatiElezioni.json?idElezione=82&sezione=true (if you need  polling station details, false otherwise)

For Chamber of Deputies Results use one of the following REST API's call
http://www.comune.cagliari.it/portale/api/rs/it/cagliari/risultatiElezioni.xml?idElezione=83&sezione=true (if you need  polling station details, false otherwise)
http://www.comune.cagliari.it/portale/api/rs/it/cagliari/risultatiElezioni.json?idElezione=83&sezione=true (if you need  polling station details, false otherwise)

What are the Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?

As part of the new community-driven research initiative, we are examining the importance and adoption level of a range of cross platform mobile tools that aim to help developers deliver applications on a variety of mobile platforms. 
Full Post on InfoQ: What are the Most Important and Mature Cross Platform Mobile Tools?

Linkedin – Recognize Your Customers If You Want Their Trust

Blog post from Don Peppers
« One of the five requirements for being trustable as a business is simply to “demonstrate humanity.” Being human involves many things, including curiosity and intelligence, but in customer relationships all we’re really talking about is showing empathy and respectful familiarity to our customers, almost as if they were our personal friends. »

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Stop Using Native HTML5

Kyle Simpson advises on accessing HTML5 or JavaScript native APIs though a façade built with h5ive that would protect the application code from evolving API changes over the following years. 
Stop Using Native HTML5

Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Deployment and Management

Rails developers can draw from a huge pool of libraries to build their applications. Dozens of options are available just for templating: do you use ERB, HAML, SASS, or do you prefer a JavaScript approach with Backbone.js or Knockout.js? The possibilities are endless, so we want to find out what our readers are using, or planning to use in the future.
Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Deployment and Management

Top JavaScript MVC Frameworks

As more and more logic ends up being executed in the browser, JavaScript front-end codebases grow larger and more difficult to maintain. As a way to solve this issue developers have been turning to MVC frameworks which promise increased productivity and maintainable code. As part of the new community-driven research initiative, InfoQ is examining the adoption of such frameworks and libraries by developer
Top JavaScript MVC Frameworks

Introduction to Entando Architectural Model

Hi guys,

today I present to you the last post published on the blog Entando:

Entando architectural model is composed by three layers:

• Data Access Layer: It is composed by all the elements which superintend the Persistence Layer. The main component are the DAO classes (Data Access Object) which are the only linking element between the framework and the data sources (Database, Filesystem, LDAP service directory etc.)

• Business Layer: This is the core of the system. Here the concept of Entando service as manager of every macro functionality, takes place. This layer is built upon the Spring Framework, whose listener, during the system start-up, initializes all the services and injects them in the web application context as beans. The Business Layer utilizes the Data Access layer to get the data needed, gives to the higher layer (the Presentation layer) the elements to display and supports it in the execution of actions.

• Presentation Layer: the aim of this layer is to build the graphic interfaces which represent the mean through which the users interact with the system. This layer gives a pure View layer (that is, a JSP without any business logic) and a "slim" controller (which checks the consistency of the data submitted and serves the data produced); both of them provide support to the layer below, the Business Layer. In the Entando framework this layer is divided in two parts:

             - the Portal View, referred to as Front-end
             - the Administration View referred to as Back-end

read more. 

How To Test Your Landing Pages

Infographic by- Invesp

AT MAGAZINE Nr. 4 - February 2013 is Out

Active Tourism Magazine is a monthly free online journal which deals of Active Tourism in his different domains:

• Environment and Landscape
• Culture and Archaeology
• Food and Wine
• Outdoor sports (trekking, canyoing, climbing, environmental and urban speleology, horse riding, golf, mountain bike)
• Socio-cultural information and cultural and environmental events for tourist’s interest

Read the Number 4 in you favourite language:
English version | Spanish Version | Italian Version

I suggest to read :

Mont Blanc a wonder of the world

Fil'e ferru brandy of sardinia (the recipe is mine)

Bye speak soon

Rinaldo

10 Management Lessons from Sir Edmund Hillary

In the fifties, the route to Everest was closed by Chinese-controlled Tibet. Nepal allowed one expedition per year. Hillary had been part of a British reconnaissance expedition to the mountain two years earlier in 1951. The 1953 Everest expedition consisted of a huge team of over 400 people, including 362 porters, 20 Sherpa guides and almost 5,000 kilograms of baggage. Expedition leader Hunt named two British mountaineers: Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans as the first assault team. Hillary and Norgay were the second assault team. Bourdillon and Evans attempted the climb, but due to a failing oxygen system only reached the South Col, about 100 meters below the summit. Then Hillary and Norgay got their chance. A crucial last part of climbing Mount Everest is a 12-meter rock face, which Hillary managed to climb. Today it is known as the Hillary Step. They reached the 8,848-meter high summit, the highest point on Earth, at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953.
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Entando: Pattern for Application Services creation and integration

I suggest you read the new document that will help you to develop new Entando Applications Services
Read the doc

Embedding Jaspersoft into your application

Embedding Jaspersoft into your application from Mariano Luna

Entando Technical Series - Part 2

As promised I'm back to talk about Entando, today I'll present the second article in the Entando technical series.
I'll  talk about the Entando Core Services.

Before starting I suggest you to take a look at the package com.agiletec.aps.system.services in the Core Engine Entando, you can download it from https://github.com/entando/entando-core-engine

The Entando Core Services layer contains the business logic for the portal platform, the plugin included out of the box, the external data Services, The External Application Services, the UI Control and the REST API public interface.

The following lists present the basic services that are provided by default by Entando

• authorization this is the service that manages and verifies the permissions to access the portal displaying all the necessary methods
• baseconfig this is the service that manage the configuration. The configuration consists of items , identified by a name, and parameters (Parameters can be Simple strings or Complex XML texts)
• cache this is the service that manage the System cache it’s based on the EhCache library.
• category this is the service that manage the Category tree
• controller this is the service that controls the execution of a request from the client. The execution is carried out in sequence by invoking any other services specified in configuration
• group this is the service that manage the user’s group 
• i18n this is the service that provides strings/labels based on the used language(local). The strings/labels are specified by an identification key and the reference language.
• keygenerator as Entando doesn't use the Db sequences generator, for be independent from different players (mySql, Oracle, Postgresql,...) we had create our own sequence service
• lang this is the service that manage the different language used in the portal.
• page this is the service that manage the pages. Pages are held in a tree-like structure, to allow a hierarchical access.
• pagemodel this the service that manage the pagemodel. An Entando portal can have multiple templates, these “templates” are called Page Models (more info http://blog.entando.com/eblog/pages/en/homepage/view_post/?contentId=BLG25)
• role this is the service that manage the different users role present in the portal (for ie administrator, editor, guest, …)
• showlettype this the service that manage the different showlet(*) type used in the portal
• url this is the service that manage URL and creates a full URL to a portal page based on essential information
• user this is the service that manage the users registered in the portal

That's it for now. I expect you all to my next post

(*) Showlets are a key element in the creation of portals with Entando. In short Showlets are dynamic blocks of the portal, all those elements that are expected to want to move, adapt or change in the handling of the pages.(I will talk more in detail about showlet in a later post )

Entando for government

Government agencies need to adopt innovative models and tools to improve quality service to citizens at a reduced cost. This is an overview about how Entando's platform effciently solves issues ...

Entando for government from Entando

Open Data with Entando

Need to know how to manage Open Data with Entando?
Have a look at this slideshare presentation.

Entando and Open Data from Entando

I wish you a Merry Christmas and an Happy New Year

Rinaldo

SOA and Enterprise Inter-Operability with a Portal

Last Post from Sam’s World

Enterprise based portals employ a desirable set of functional characteristics that provide value any number of ways. While ROI and other business calculators are engaged to offer a compelling business argument to the introduction of a company based knowledge repository, my focus will instead lie with efficiencies derived from penetrating the middleware platform of an enterprise. Several benefits provided through the use of web-based portal services & SOA are what I will explore in this post. There is a dominant, myopic perspective in which enterprise portals are viewed as an information architecture and not for what they are – an application. The architecture establishes the foundation for a common view of the data, applications, and a common management interface for content. However, the real benefit of an enterprise portal comes from the convergence, not from the web based display mechanism. This fusion differentiates enterprise portals from a collection of web sites by offering

1. universal access to information,
2. role-based personalization,
3. cross-application workflow,
4. common content management, and
5. centralized user management.

Read the full Post SOA and Enterprise Inter-Operability with a Portal.

Entando Meets Open Data

Last post from Entando Universe :

“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.

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The 4 Most Important Skills for a Software Developer

 Reblogged from Making the Complex Simple:

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With the vast array of technology, language and platform choices available today, it can be very difficult to figure out where to best invest time in training your skills as a software developer.

I’m often asked advice on how to be a better programmer.

Most often the question someone asks is based on whether or not they should invest their time in a particular programming language or technology versus another.

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Solving Problem - Teaching Yourself - Naming - Dealing with People Je suis parfaitement d'accord avec se point de vue

Enterprise Portals Deliver Unmistakable Value for Today’s Business Needs

New Post from Sam’s World

Organizations that employ and support a distributed workforce increasingly face a dilemma. The absence of critical information often has a negative impact on employees whose livelihoods remain dependent on the access to data housed in company repositories. To address this issue, businesses are increasingly turning to portals to fill this void.

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The advantage of Using Rest API’s in Portal Platforms to extend the reach of the portal.

Need to see the slide of my Devoxx presentation?
Visit the Entando page  bit.ly/V8LKyU

A case for Horizontal (Enterprise) Portals in Universities

New post from Prem Kakani on Entando Universe Blog

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. This blog provides an executive overview with an understanding portal benefits and some of the concerns associated with their implementation. This would have more relevance with the smaller educational institutions in the western world, and probably more so to almost all of the educational institutions in the developing world i.e. areas like South and SE Asia. These parts of the world, while having higher technology participation in delivery in the corporate sector, more often than not, lag far behind in their tech initiatives in the education sector.

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CEO Blog: The Economic Outlook and Technology Decisions

From the Infobright CEO Blog I suggest to read this post 

I was reflecting over Thanksgiving dinner about the recently completed US election. The back-and-forth about “our plan” versus “your plan” versus “jobs” versus “tax cuts” has tapered off a bit post-election.  But it hasn’t totally gone away.  And lots of people have the same view today that they had a month ago in terms of whether the economy will be well served or undermined by the election results. Many of these folk fall into two sub-categories. The first subgroup is made of people in the US who believe the outcome of the election was not really going to make a material impact on the economic outlook, one way or the other. The second subgroup is much, much larger. It is made of people everywhere else in the world, where concerns about the economy on both a local and globe basis are ongoing. In  Europe, there is widespread concern about the gravity of the economies ranging from Greece to Ireland to Spain and others. Asia has a different set of worries. And while many feel the economies in North America, the U.S. in particular, is beginning to rebound, it is hardly « strong. » So what does that mean as far as technology?

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Devoxx 2012 is over

For the second time I had the opportunity to participate in this great event where once a year the java developers gather this week full immersion to meet during the many activities planned and why not even in front of a good Belgian beer.

This year I was also present as Devoxxians whow what a thrill, a talk where talk of our platform Entando "The advantage of Using Rest API's in Portal Platforms to extend the reach of the portal.". Boys emotion to no end.

Read my orginal post on Entando

Top 3 Reasons to consider an Enterprise Information Portal? (EIP)

Last post from  the Sam’s World Blog

« Since there are few organizations of reasonable size that couldn’t leverage these benefits in a significant way, an Enterprise Information Portal (EIP) will likely appear on the IT departments’ short lists once resources become available here are my top 3 reasons to move an EIP to the top of the list. »

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Entando and Social Business Intelligence

Last Post From the Blog Entando Universe :

The paradigm of Social Business Intelligence comes from the simple consideration that managers generally do not use business intelligence application (due to unnecessary complications and lack of  understanding) but need:

• dashboards accessible from various devices (desktop or mobile) that show the synthesis of monitored performance (sales, accounts receivable, purchasing, logistics, HR, etc.), leaving it to technical people the ability to navigate the wealth of information reporting functions and detail
• share and comment (socialization) amounts with colleagues (wherever they are) to speed up decisions on actions or corrections
• add crowdsourcing functions on various topics relating to individual performance to stimulate ideas and suggestions for improving the business organization

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Thank's to Gianni Previdi - Ceo Kyros

Entando in production: how to prepare a server, how to deploy your Entando based application

Today I suggest you to read the new Entando  guide, "Entando in production: how to prepare a server, how to deploy your Entando based application".
You will find all the necessary instructions to configure an Ubuntu server, install Tomcat, Java, Postgresql and of course Entando
Happy reading

Think G-Cloud 2012

Entando will attend to the « Think G-Cloud 2012 » event and it is a Gold Sponsor.

The event will be in London, on Thursday 18th of October at Business Design Centre.
The Think G-Cloud 2012 agenda aims to reflect the dynamism of its subject matter. This programme is designed to keep the interest and relevance of the day focussed right until the end. Often conference numbers trail off after lunch as it is felt the real attractions are in the am sessions. This is not the case with Think G-Cloud. This day is designed to inspire from start to finish.

Entando will hold an interactive workshops  »Open Source Software in Government: The Art of the Possible’ during the seminar section.
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Entando Events – Open Source IT Solutions for companies and governments

 Modean, Michelangelo Business Center

 Entando will attend to the event “Open Source IT solutions for processes of collaboration, social CRM, BI, E-commerce for companies and public organizations.”

The event will be held in Modena, on Thursday 27th of September at 2:30 pm at Michelangelo Business Center.

For more information visit the Entando website.

Jaspersoft : Small development companies can make analytics work

Interesting article from Jaspersoft
Analyzing customer data is not reserved for large companies. With the debut of affordable technologies such as cloud BI and open-source BI, the process of improving strategy through consumer insight spread to small to medium-sized businesses. AltDevBlogADay contributor Ted Spence explained how small companies in the game development community can analyze customer data.

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To see the Entando DEMO at work!

I wish to Thank Stefania for is blog post about Entando

Why CRM in a Portal?

Hi, today I will suggest my last post from http://blog.entando.com

Why CRM in a Portal?

In the past few months I have taken care of marketing, which is to say that I am no longer on the side of those who created the software to meet the requirement of the clients or partners.I have become the one who says, I need this and I need that ...
I began to see how I could benefit by the use of Entando. I knew that one of my problems was the lack of a process to have direct access to the leads created from the web portal.
During my web search, I found a lot of documentation that would cause me to understand how this can be done and it seems that all of this can be solved using a CRM.

 Read the full post here

Regards
Rinaldo

Enterprise Portals & Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Interesting post (read the post) who tries to put together the ERP and Enterprise Portals. I can add that in addition OpenBravo why we could not insert openERP

I think I would come back to brief the argument to see the possibilities of integrating ERP and Entando

Speak later

Benefits of Using Data to Make Decision

Hi
I found this interesting post on smartdatacollective I suggesto to read it

The Diary of a Construction Manager in Love with His BI Tool

I think that using Entando and its Pentaho plugin would make him even happier
The Diary of a Construction Manger in Love with His BI Tool.

Entando Analytics

Pour les entreprises, avoir une solution professionelle d'analyse est un facteur prépondérant pour la prise de décisions. Souvent, les portails n'ont pas de module d'Analytics. Entando connais l'importance de fournir à ses utilisateurs un module Analytics qui leur permettent de gèrer les décisions.

Types de Analytics fournies par Entando

• Sales Analytics - pour se connecter à n'importe quel CRM et comprendre mieux à quel point sont vos ventes et vos clients
• Portail Analytics - pour analyser la fréquentation de votre portail et récolter les informations de façon a planifier les campagnes de marketing
• Business Intelligence - par le biais du plugin de Pentaho vous pouvez utiliser les outils de la BI

Pour plus d'info www.entando.com

 

Entando integrates GreenVulcano ESB for future-proof and customized enterprise portals

Entando integrates GreenVulcano ESB for future-proof and customized enterprise portals

Entando - Hot OSS companies of 2012

Entando Named one of the Hot OSS companies of 2012 in the The 2012 Future of Open Source Survey Results

Entando - Evolution of Portals

In this post Eugenio present the Entando  Entando Portalvision about Open Data and Open Services. I recommend reading to deepen the argument and if you wish to contact them for a demo of the product.


Cdt Rinaldo

Ensuring Success in Your Enterprise-wide BI Project

From tdwi.org I suggest this intersting post.

"Thinking big is fine for BI projects, but how can you avoid ending up with a department-level project or one that doesn’t meet the original requirements? To find out the best project management practices, we turned to Peter LePine, managing director for the BI and information management practice at Emtec Inc.
Peter has lead successful projects at Fortune 500 companies in high-tech manufacturing, life sciences, finance, and insurance, using tools and technologies such as ETL, source data profiling, master data management, data warehouse and data marts following Kimball's data modeling approach, business intelligence reports, analytics, and dashboards. He’s delivered enterprise-scale projects utilizing the leading data architect, ETL, BI, analytics, and dashboard technologies."
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