Janne Kalliola visited DrupalCamp Stockholm last Friday to discuss on Other CMS Compared to Drupal.
The slides of the presentation are now available on Slideshare and also embedded below.
Aihe: Drupal, In English, Muualla verkossa | Lisää kommentti »30.5.2011: Haku on päättynyt. Kiitos kaikille hakijoille, olemme teihin yhteydessä lähiaikoina.
Kasvumme jatkuessa voimakkaana haemme järjestelmäasiantuntijaa vastaamaan palvelimiemme ja työasemien ylläpidosta ja käyttäjätuesta.
Paikka sopii asiakaslähtöiselle ja palveluhenkiselle ammattilaiselle, joka pystyy omaksumaan uusia asioita nopeasti. Tehtävä sopii myös osa-aikaiselle ja siihen voidaan yhdistää mahdollisia työharjoitteluja.
Lue tarkemmin tarpeistamme ja lähetä hakemus osoitteeseen jobs@exove.fi CV:n ja palkkatoiveen kera.
Aihe: Työpaikat | Lisää kommentti »Today’s seminar discussed about designing and implementing business driven websites using eZ Publish. The seminar features Bertrand Maugain from eZ Systems, Norway, and Timo Laaksonen from Tecnotree, and Hanna-Leena Lahti from Finnlines. Besides our partners and customers, also our own people, namely Saku Sairanen from Exove Design and Jani Tarvainen from Exove, had presentations.
The programme of the seminar can be found on the previous blog post.
A couple of pictures from the event:
Bertrand Maugain discusses about multichannel publishing with eZ Publish.
Timo Laaksonen shows Tecnotree.com case, a fully functional site from scratch for a public company in six weeks.
Hanna-Leena Lahti discusses about global and local sites within Finnlines context.
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Aihe: Exove, eZ Publish | Lisää kommentti »Exove hosts a free breakfast seminar on designing and implementing business-driven web sites on Thursday April 14 in Ruoholahti at HTC Pinta on Tammasaarenkatu 3, Helsinki.
Enroll (in Finnish) – Seminaariesittely suomeksi – Ilmoittaudu
A company’s web site is a highly visible showcase allowing increased interaction with old and new customers alike. A well executed site enables and supports substantial business activities.
A web site needs to be coupled with the business of a company from the concept design phase. Without proper integration with the core values and operations of a company — a web site can soon become an isolated entity without real positive impact on your business.
Creating a web site that excels and reaches a company’s target audience requires a dedicated effort, proper planning and faultless execution.
Exove’s free breakfast seminar discusses designing and implementing business-driven websites with a hands-on approach using eZ Publish as the platform. Exove’s customers will present cases where eZ Publish has been used to help create business-driven websites.
Come to listen and discuss about business-driven website design and implementation.
The seminar will be held in Finnish, the material will be in English.
Enroll (in Finnish) – Ohjelma suomeksi – Ilmoittaudu
| 8.30 – 9.00 | Breakfast |
| 9.00 – 9.10 |
Opening Words |
| 9.10 – 9.30 |
One Size Does Not Fit All. Web First & Multichannel Content eZ Publish is one of the leading web CMS systems within the media industry and has worked closely with several of the largest media houses in the U.S., Europe and Asia. In his presentation, Bertrand Maugain will share his experiences on how to increase efficiency and profitability through more efficient and customized communications in a market where consumers increasingly switch channels and digital devices. Bertrand Maugain, Director, International Business Development, eZ Systems Ltd. This presentation will be held in English. Founded in 1999, eZ Systems is the creator of eZ Publish, the award winning Open Source Web Content Management Platform used by more than 200,000 websites in more than 160 countries. As a company eZ Systems’ focus is on enabling customers to see ROI from our products, by giving them the ability to quickly adapt and adjust their digital offerings whilst helping future proofing their businesses in this ever changing digital landscape. |
| 9.30 – 9.40 |
eZ Publish Showcase
Bertrand Maugain, Director, International Business Development, eZ Systems Ltd. This presentation will be held in English. |
| 9.40 – 10.00 |
Designing Sites with Business Objectives During the design phase, site messages and actions are crystallised into compact and logical entities that are presented in a beautiful manner. Juha Jauhiainen, Art Director, Partner, Exove Design Ltd. |
| 10.00 – 10.10 |
Case: Tecnotree Timo Laaksonen, Vice President, Strategy & Business Development, Tecnotree Plc Tecnotree is a global provider of a broad range of telecom IT solutions focused on charging, billing, customer care, messaging and content services. Tecnotree has more than 800 employees serving over 100 operators globally and the company is listed on the main list of NASDAQ OMX Helsinki. |
| 10.10 – 10.20 | Break |
| 10.20 – 10.40 |
Implementing Global and Local Sites This presentation introduces how to create sites with multiple domain and language support, with content production happening in several countries. Jani Tarvainen, Senior Developer, Exove Ltd |
| 10.40 – 10.50 |
Case: Finnlines Hanna-Leena Lahti, Communication Development, Finnlines Oyj Finnlines is a Finnish shipping company specialising in freight and passenger services in the Baltic and North Sea areas. |
| 10.50 – 11.00 | Discussion |
Bertrand Maugain, Juha Jauhiainen, and Jani Tarvainen are available for 20 minute, one on one meetings after the seminar. If you are interested, please send an email to info@exove.com.
Enroll (in Finnish) – Ilmoittaudu
Aihe: In English, eZ Publish | Lisää kommentti »Lily is an online magazine based on a new social media concept comprised of blogging, sharing and edited, journalistic content. Lily as it can be viewed and read online is created by its users in collaboration with media professionals. Every user can set up a column of their own and share their ideas and views with the community. Lily can also be consumed as a magazine without participating in the content provision. Lily is published by A-lehdet, one of the largest magazine publishers in Finland.
Exove played a central role in implementing Lily.fi. The concept of a community-driven and user-friendly service was designed by A-lehdet digital media. Exove implemented the new service concept onto a technology platform consisting of Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL in close collaboration with A-lehdet digital media specialists. The HTML/CSS templates of the site were built based on layout images provided by A-lehdet and integrated to Drupal by Exove.
The service was built on Drupal, an open source CMS platform. Exove extended Drupal mainly with existing third-party modules, among those ApacheSolr, ApacheSolrAjax, CCK, Views, Drupal for Facebook, Flag, WYSIWYG Imageupload, Imagecache, Nodequeue and Radioactivity. Additionally, some modules were implemented by A-lehdet and Exove to accommodate the need for some highly customized functionality.
Lily.fi was designed to tolerate high loads from the beginning. The site was built considering requirements set by Varnish HTTP accelerator, mainly the cacheability of page loads. In order to achieve this in a generic and scalable way, a new way to control Drupal’s output mechanisms was designed and implemented without interfering with the Drupal core.
Further, a user-friendly and highly customizable interface for bloggers was implemented in the project. The implementation greatly differs from Drupal’s normal content management flow but still relies heavily on ready-made components and was implemented following good Drupal practices.
Sini Liila, Project Manager at A-lehdet digital media, describes the result of the project as follows: “We have worked with Exove before and were confident in diving into this project, knowing the technical end-product would be as specified and as expected. Like before, the collaboration ran smoothly and it was a pleasure to work with the Exove team. For Lily, as a new concept and way of doing things, it was important that any mishaps in either concept design or technical implementation could be corrected ‘on the go’. The few incidents where this kind of agile approach became necessary, Exove was able to follow through and be flexible in finding a remedy quickly.”
The technical implementation for Lily.fi was supervised by Web Developer Tobias Rask of A-lehdet digital media. Tobias highlights the Exove role in the project as follows: “ Working with Exove was easy and convenient. They implemented our definitions with professional skill into flexible Drupal site, which is easy to maintain.”
Please check www.lily.fi, for the actual implementation of the service.
We have, together with Frantic and Exove Design, renewed Tecnotree’s web site.
Tecnotree is a global provider of a wide range of telecom IT solutions focused on charging, billing, customer care, messaging and content services. Tecnotree empowers communication service providers to create and monetize a broad marketplace of digital services, and augment value across the customer lifecycle.
Exove and Exove Design designed and implemented the renewal of www.tecnotree.com for Tecnotree in collaboration with Tecnotree and Frantic.
Exove Design created the concept of the site based on the strategy, product portfolio, and marketing needs of Tecnotree. The work was done in close collaboration with Tecnotree personnel. Based on the concept, Frantic provided the visual design.
Exove then implemented the site adapting the concept and the visuals into the site structure, Tecnotree’s distinct look’n’feel, and content blocks. The content management system used is eZ Publish, a commercial open source CMS by eZ Systems. eZ Publish was selected based on the ease of use and management, support for various content types, and flexibility with the site structure and layout.
Timo Laaksonen, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at Tecnotree, describes the result of the project as follows: “We knew we had a mountain to climb: Ultra-fast planning and implementation schedule of ~8 weeks, complete renewal of the site (concept, visuals, content, platform), no visual material and only high level design guidelines available, lack of own staff to participate in the project – to name just a few. This meant that the concept and overall implementation was iterated in real time, on the fly. Thanks to the professionality, service attitude and sheer perseverance the team – Exove, Frantic and Tecnotree – the project achieved all of its goals. Maybe the best web project I have ever been a part of.”
Aihe: In English, Internet, eZ Publish | Lisää kommentti »We have made a partnership deal with eZ Systems, the provider of commercial open source CMS eZ Publish, and will from now on provide the commercial version of eZ Publish to our customers in Finland, Estonia, and other Baltic countries.
We see eZ Publish the best choice for sites with large amount of diversified content, multiple languages, distributed content management organisations, or a lot of structured data. For example, if you have a multinational corporate site, a product catalogue, or magazine site, eZ Publish could be a perfect fit for you. It also provides excellent connectivity to mobile applications and sites, thus making it a natural selection for sites spanning from web to mobile phones.
Working as a platinum partner of eZ Systems, we are now able to channel their expertise on the system and Internet publishing to further benefit our customers. Together with them, we will continue to design and implement beautiful and functional sites that enable our customers to conduct better business on the Internet.
Exove has produced the largest and the most compelling eZ Publish powered websites in Finland. They include several companies, for example:
eZ Systems is in the business of Web Content Management Solutions since 1999. They maintain a global presence in locations in Europe, Asia and the Americas. Their large international business partner network is the foundation of their success in the market. Ez Systems’ team of engineers, consultants and partner managers enables successful implementations for customers and partners.
Aihe: Exove, In English, eZ Publish | Lisää kommentti »We have opened our first international office in Tallinn, Estonia. The first Estonian colleagues joined the company late last week, and now we are already working in full steam across the Gulf of Finland.
We bring our excellent Drupal, WordPress, eZ Publish, and CodeIgniter experience to Estonian market, and we will serve clients in Estonia with the same high level of quality and performance as in Finland. If you are interested in our solutions, please contact our CEO Janne Kalliola, either by mail — janne@exove.ee — or by phone — +358 40 558 1796.
If you are interested in joining our Tallinn team, please visit our Estonian recruiting pages.
Our office is located in Metro Plaza building on Viru Väljak 2, in the middle of the city. More details can be found on contacts page.
Aihe: Exove, In English | Lisää kommentti »Tänään Exoven aamiaisseminaarissa tutustuttiin sosiaalisen median palveluiden suunnitteluun ja toteutukseen. Puhujina oli tuttuun tapaan exovelaisten lisäksi myös asiakkaitamme, Mikko Ristimäki esitteli Suomi24:n uuden Minä-palvelun ja Mikko Manerus sekä Elias Pietilä puhuivat Golfgamebook.com:sta. Kalle Varisvirta Exovelta esitteli Drupalin sosiaalisen median alustana ja Janne Kalliola sekä Juha Jauhiainen (Union) puhuivat sosiaalisen median palvelun suunnittelusta ja toteutuksesta tyhjältä pöydältä lähdettäessä.
Tarkempi ohjelma löytyy seminaarin sivuilta.
Alla vielä pari kuvaa tilaisuudesta.
Mikko Ristimäki esittelee Suomi24:n Minä-palvelua.
Mikko Manerus ja Elias Pietilä kertovat Golfgamebook.com:sta.
Mikäli haluat ladata seminaarin kalvot PDF-tiedostona, täytä ystävällisesti alla oleva lyhyt kysely. Vastausten lähettämisen jälkeen lomakkeen alapuolelle tulee linkki PDF-tiedostoon.
Pakolliset kentät on merkitty tähdellä.
Seminaarikalvot voi katsoa myös tästä:
Aihe: Web 2.0, Yhteisöt | Lisää kommentti »Suomi24 Minä profile service has been implemented by Exove with close collaboration with the Suomi24 team.
Mikko Ristimäki of Suomi24 is speaking about the system tomorrow at our social media seminar (only in Finnish).
Minä is the heart of Suomi24, the largest Finnish on-line community with more than 2.3 million of registered users. It is the control panel for updating users status, keeping in touch with friends and being always up-to-date of the interesting information around. Suomi24 also offers Finland’s most popular discussion forum, e-mail services, marketplace, dating services and so on for more than 1.3 million unique users a week.
Exove hold a central role in renewing old profile and network solution. The concept of a community-driven, sharing-based service with high performance requirements was designed by Suomi24. Exove implemented the new service concept onto a existing technology platform consisting of Linux, Apache, PHP and MySQL in close collaboration with Suomi24. The HTML/CSS templates of the site were built by Suomi24 and integrated to Drupal by Exove. Perhaps the most notable feature of the system is the tight integration with Apache Solr search engine.
Minä uses about twenty modules, half of which are Drupal contrib. modules and half custom-made modules for specifically Suomi24 needs, implemented by Exove. The most important third-party modules are ApacheSolr, CCK, Content Profile, ImageApi, Friendlist and Heartbeat. Custom modules mostly extend and customise the features provided by third-party modules.
Community section of the service provides users an efficient way to browse interesting user profiles and to find new friends. Search integrates with all social functionality on the site.
In addition to the service implementation Exove migrated the existing Suomi24 Gallery information and centralised user information into almost half a million Minä user profiles.
Pasi Piispa, Product Director at Suomi24, describes the result of the renewal project as follows: “The challenge of the project was to duplicate the functionalities of the old Suomi24 Gallery application on our new Drupal platform and migrate the existing user data to improve the quality of the service. The project was by no means easy or simple, but despite the initial challenges we succeeded in building a foundation for upcoming new features and site wide content integrations, which wouldn’t have been possible on the old platform.”
Overall project and technical implementation was supervised by Mikko Ristimäki, Director of Development and Technology at Suomi24. Mikko highlights the Exove role in the project as follows: “Exove provided flexible and cost efficient way to move Suomi24 community features into our core Drupal platform. The team was experienced and provided good insights and best practises on how to build and manage large scale Drupal platforms.”
Please check http://mina.suomi24.fi/yhteisö and see the service yourself.
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