MindTouch (DEMOfall 06) today at OSCON in Portland, Oregon released the first version of its open source collaboration platform for enterprises - MindTouch Deki "Kilen Woods" - that provides adapters to popular IT and developer systems, like customer relationship management software (CRM), behind company firewalls and "in the cloud." The new enterprise version, available at the end of July, allows sophisticated IT governance regardless of where information is stored.
It takes a "reasonably technical person, non-programmer" to set up MindTouch Deki templates, said Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder and chief executive officer of MindTouch of San Diego, after that any person or a team can use them to create and edit dynamic reports that display information sucked in from any database or application.
Fulkerson, who celebrated his 33rd birthday by releasing the new product, calls the Kilen Woods Deki "a collaboration canvas" companies can use to build dynamic documents mashing up search results, maps, spreadsheets, customer databases, and a variety of other information. These dynamic mash-ups could help businesses generate sales leads, manage real estate properties or product inventories, create employee knowledge bases and build and track marketing campaigns, he said. The Deki dynamic reports can display information graphically so, for example, numbers in a spreadsheet can show as a bar or pie chart. Information can be displayed in 16 major languages.
The Kilen Woods Deki (MindTouch names products after Minnesota state parks) offers a dozen enterprise adapters to a various systems and new Web services including SugarCRM, salesforce.com, LinkedIn, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Microsoft ADO.NET, VisiFire, PrinceXML, ThinkFree Office, and WordPress. The enterprise version improves workflow because users setting up the templates no longer have to write software code outside the MindTouch application, Fulkerson said.
The value of enhancing the Deki with enterprise adapters and extensions to more than 100 Web services, Fulkerson said, is MindTouch Deki can help businesses get more value from their applications, infrastructure, and knowledge individuals have that can now be shared across an organization.
MindTouch Deki can be embedded into existing applications or accessed from specialized front-ends on the Web or computers. For example, with the computer connector, users simply drag and drop an entire directory structure from Microsoft Windows to MindTouch Deki – and the hierarchy will be automatically created as wiki pages. Users can also publish an entire email thread from Microsoft Outlook, complete with all attachments, to MindTouch Deki in a single click.
The company is offering a free, 15-day trial of its enterprise version that it hosted and also provides a free community version with less functionality available from its Web site or SouceForge. Fulkerson said the community version is being downloaded as much as 3,000 times a day.
MindTouch today at OSCON in Portland, Oregon released the first version of its open source collaboration platform for enterprises - MindTouch Deki "Kilen Woods" - that provides adapters to popular IT and developer systems, like customer relationship management software (CRM), behind company firewalls and "in the cloud."
The new enterprise version, available at the end of July, allows sophisticated IT governance regardless of where information is stored. It takes a "reasonably technical person, non-programmer" to set up MindTouch Deki templates, said Aaron Fulkerson, co-founder and chief executive officer of MindTouch of San Diego, after that any person or a team can use them to create and edit dynamic reports that display information sucked in from any database or application.
Fulkerson, who celebrated his 33rd birthday by releasing the new product, calls the Kilen Woods Deki "a collaboration canvas" companies can use to build dynamic documents mashing up search results, maps, spreadsheets, customer databases, and a variety of other information. These dynamic mash-ups could help businesses generate sales leads, manage real estate properties or product inventories, create employee knowledge bases and build and track marketing campaigns, he said. The Deki dynamic reports can display information graphically so, for example, numbers in a
spreadsheet can show as a bar or pie chart. Information can be displayed in 16 major languages.
The Kilen Woods Deki (MindTouch names products after Minnesota state parks) offers a dozen enterprise adapters to a various systems and new Web services including SugarCRM, salesforce.com, LinkedIn, MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access, Microsoft ADO.NET, VisiFire, PrinceXML, ThinkFree Office, and WordPress. The enterprise version improves workflow because users setting up the templates no longer have to write software code outside the MindTouch application, Fulkerson said.
The value of enhancing the Deki with enterprise adapters and extensions to more than 100 Web services, Fulkerson said, is MindTouch Deki can help businesses get more value from their applications, infrastructure, and knowledge individuals have that can now be shared across an organization.
MindTouch Deki can be embedded into existing applications or accessed from specialized front-ends on the Web or computers. For example, with the computer connector, users simply drag and drop an entire directory structure from Microsoft Windows to MindTouch Deki – and the hierarchy will be automatically created as wiki pages. Users can also publish an entire email thread from Microsoft Outlook, complete with all attachments, to MindTouch Deki in a single click.
The company is offering a free, 15-day trial of its enterprise version that it hosted and also provides a free community version with less functionality available from its Web site or SouceForge. Fulkerson said the community version is being downloaded as much as 3,000 times a day.
Image is a sample of a dynamic report made by MindTouch Deki
