Entries Related to ‘Enterprise Apps’

The Java-based Liferay intranet portal offers an organization’s users the ability to publish and collaborate on documents and web content, and offers social networking features.

Openfire is a great instant messaging server for enterprises that want to control the way IM is used on the corporate intranet. Here are three Openfire plugins that you may find particularly handy.

With the statistical survey application LimeSurvey, you can create surveys in a matter of minutes. LimeSurvey supports multiple choice, lists, and text questions, and integrates with a database of your choice to record responses and let you analyze the results.

In the past several years, open source has gone mainstream. A new survey by OpenLogic shows that virtually every enterprise is using open source software. More importantly, open source code is no longer just coming in the “back door” through unsanctioned downloads by enterprises developers. Instead, open source software is being welcomed in through the front door of the enterprise as an equal or preferred alternative to proprietary, closed-source software. These new survey results confirm what many in the open source community have already observed: enterprises have clearly transitioned to a new stage in open source adoption.

There are many open source reporting tools readily available for companies to deploy to their business users today. Most of them, however, do not provide hard core corporate features such as multiple user support, integration with existing security mechanisms, ad hoc visual reporting tools, scheduling facilities, and the like. This comparison will briefly examine some of the more common contenders before focusing on the primary candidates for enterprise deployment.