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<a href="http://www.jahia.com/" target="_blank">Jahia</a>, one of the world's leading UXP (User Experience Platform) vendors, has announced the completion of a €20 million (circa $22.5 million) round of funding fully subscribed by <a href="http://invus.com/" target="_blank">Invus</a>, an equity investor focused on transformational opportunities.
The Swiss-based Jahia platform is an integral part of the online presence of major organizations, including the European Parliament, Samsung, Europcar, Abercrombie &amp; Fitch, and HomeAway.
Jahia was recently awarded the the <a href="/2014-critics-choice-award-winner-best-java-cms-for-small-to-midsize-business/" target="_blank">2014 Critics' Choice Award for Best JAVA CMS for Small to Midsize Business</a>, as well as the <a href="/2014-critics-choice-award-winner-best-enterprise-java-cms/" target="_blank">2014 Critics' Choice Award for the Best Enterprise Java CMS</a>.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia_preferred_partner-1700x0.png" alt="Jahia" />
<h2>“To Make Our Solution The Obvious Choice”</h2>
Jahia claims that the €20 million funding acquired from Invus will allow them to:
<ul>
<li>Develop their visibility through targeted marketing operations.</li>
<li>Accelerate distribution strategies and partnerships.</li>
<li>Strengthen their presence in several countries, especially in North America and Europe.</li>
<li>At least double their global workforce by the end of 2015.</li>
</ul>
Those are all major steps individually, and one giant leap collectively — to say the least.
Raymond Debbane, CEO and President of Invus, made these comments upon the funding completion:
<blockquote>“Jahia fits perfectly well with our motto: Equity investors in companies who seek to transform their industries. Not only do they have an incredibly strong technology and the proven ability to deliver complex yet versatile solutions to the most demanding organizations, but the vision of their management is – and has always been – firmly rooted into the will to transform a siloed industry into a user-driven one, beyond technology constraints.”</blockquote>
More optimism came from Elie Auvray, the CEO and President of Jahia, as he added:
<blockquote>“We are incredibly proud and honored to see Invus’ strong commitment and acknowledgment of our vision, our customers successes and our ambitions. This funding will allow us to reach our objective: to make our UXP solution the obvious choice for the Digital challenges of the modern Enterprise.”</blockquote>
To find out more about Jahia, <a href="http://www.jahia.com/" target="_blank">visit their website</a>.
Also, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/jahia/" target="_blank">Jahia through our CMS Directory</a>.

Growth & Expansion: Jahia Receives $22.5 million Round of Funding

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To cap off what many would call a highly successful 2014, <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/digital-factory" target="_blank">Jahia</a> has released its eagerly anticipated <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/form-factory#ff-video" target="_blank">Forms Factory</a>.
With Forms Factory, marketers can create forms at will without depending on development teams. Plus, marketers can monitor the effectiveness of their forms thanks to the Form Center: a finely tuned engagement tool based on real performance.
Jahia is a popular and rapidly developing enterprise-level Java CMS. Recently, Jahia were crowned the <a href="/2014-critics-choice-award-winner-best-enterprise-java-cms/" target="_blank">2014 Critics' Choice Award Winner for Best Enterprise Java CMS</a>.
<h2>Powerful Forms Management Simplified</h2>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-form-factory-builder1700x0.png" alt="Jahia Forms Factory" />
According to Jahia's <a href="http://www.jahia.com/company/news/form-factory-launch" target="_blank">original press release</a>, “Forms management is the single most essential tool for digital marketing engagement With Form Factory, Jahia gives it back to whom it belongs: the marketing team.”
Here's an overview of the benefits Form Factory brings:
<ul>
<li>Create multi-step, multi-language, multi-conditions and validation-ruled forms super easily through drag-and-drops</li>
<li>Manage all forms created from a central interface (the Form Center)</li>
<li>Monitor collected data, measure engagement (by form, field completion, period, etc.), export data etc.</li>
<li>Connect each/all/selected forms to external business app such as CRM, marketing automation tools, etc.</li>
<li>Unmatched extensibility and versatility: developers can extend the Form Factory with their own fields, groups of fields, validation, logic and custom consequences.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-form-factory-builder2700x0.png" alt="Jahia Forms Factory" />
Jahia's CEO, Elie Auvray, made these comments:
<blockquote>“This new addition to our content and user experience platform and suite of products is another expression of our Digital Industrialization vision. Our goal is to allow each digital team within companies to produce what they know best in full autonomy, thanks to the most powerful and easy-to-use data collection tools without putting any of the architecture and IT security processes at risk.”</blockquote>
To find out more about Jahia Form Factory, <a href="http://www.jahia.com/company/news/form-factory-launch" target="_blank">check out their official announcement</a>.
Also, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/jahia/" target="_blank">Jahia via our CMS Directory</a>.

Jahia Launches Forms Factory

<img title="logo_jahia_avec_cadre_medium" src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2021/07/logo_jahia_avec_cadre_medium_ccvtcq.jpg" />Jahia, the premier provider of web content integration software – combining web content management, document management and portal features – today announced the release of Jahia Enterprise Edition v6.1, with a number of compelling new features. Key improvements include an optimized search mechanism, enhanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) with new powerful URL mapping definition and new social modules to engage website visitors.
“Jahia 6.1 confirms the strength of our development model. Two of our major clients financed various generic enhancements in this new version. As ‘Pay or Contribute’ program members, they influenced the Jahia roadmap and guaranteed their investment by securing long term support and evolution within the ecosystem of Jahia users,” said Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia Solutions Group. “Our customers experience immediate benefits, while contributing to the long-term project. This collaborative business relationship confirms the dynamic nature of the Jahia project, and validates our sustainable open source business model.”
Better-defined search results
Jahia EE v6.1 provides enhanced search speed and fine-targeted search results, delivering documents, multimedia and other web content. The embedded full-text, open source search engine from Lucene provides advanced search filters and tag library support. Users can define the scope of a search across a given site, sub-sites—or even 3rd party content repositories—to quickly obtain ranked search results with document previews. Jahia supports the OpenSearch standards, which allows end-users to easily access their preferred search engine directly from within their browser.
In addition to Web content, Jahia can search within documents, including Microsoft Office and PDF files. New faceted search capabilities provide dynamic drill-down navigation through the assignment of multiple classifications to any content objects.
“Did you mean…?” 
 
Jahia EE v6.1 delivers a new “Did You Mean…?” feature with search spelling suggestions to improve search results.
 Semantic Search 
 
As information overload is rapidly becoming an important issue due to ever-increasing adoption of Content Management techniques, Jahia is a member of the IKS project, working on new set of semantic features based on the Interactive Knowledge Stack (http://www.iks-project.eu/). This project is in parts funded by the European Commission. New dynamic ways of accessing information are emerging
Tag Clouds are now completed by Semantically-driven Related Content areas, Breadcrumb path by facetted and taxonomy-driven navigations, keyword search by new Social and Semantic-powered Search.These new features aim to provide a better way to contextually filter and surface the most relevant content items for a given user. While the Commission’s project is still a work in progress, Jahia customers will be among the first to enjoy its benefits. 
SEO enhancements 
 
Jahia EE v6.1 also enhances its “friendly URL” capabilities through implementation of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices. A new vanity URL feature allows the addition of any number of URL aliases to a page. This is a key tool that yields great results for website marketers.
To avoid being penalized by search engines, Jahia makes sure no links are outdated and that all internal and external links are up-to-date and up-and-running. The new Jahia Link Checker feature extends internal integrity checks to all external broken links that infuriate end-users and lead to poor search engine results.
New Social Modules improvements 
 
User generated content, Social Media, and other marketing campaigns are becoming must-have features in any CMS. Jahia EE v6.1 enhancements include: 
• A revamped blog template that runs either as a standalone blogging site, or as a plugin for existing Jahia projects. This module provides a solid and flexible platform for deploying user-generated blogs, with a complete set of features including direct content creation (no popup, no edit mode), user-generated comments, ratings, tag clouds and built-in faceted search. 
• A Newsletter module that helps marketers and other information workers create and customize Enterprise-grade newsletters to keep in touch with their communities via internal or external marketing campaigns 
• A form builder that allows editors to quickly design and deploy any type of form. Power knowledge workers with no technical expertise can now easily add a new form to any page of any virtual site.
Available for immediate download 
 
A 60-day trial version of Jahia EE v6.1 is available for download at <a href="http://www.jahia.com">www.jahia.com</a>.

Jahia EE v6.1 Launches with Enhanced Search and Maximized SEO

<a href="http://www.jahia.com/" target="_blank">Jahia</a>, have given their eagerly anticipated enterprise portal solution – Portal Factory – a release date. June 30th 2014 to be precise. Jahia Portal Factory is built to bring enhanced integration capabilities with external content and business applications.
The initial announcement of Jahia Portal Factory was made back back in February 2014, when we had the <a href="/jahia-one-day-two-jahia-7-release-date-demos-surprises/" target="_blank">pleasure of attending JahiaOne Conference</a>.
Jahia recently launched the latest edition of their open source, enterprise content management system, Now, with the release of Portal Factory, enterprise customers of Jahia can expect a whole new branch of functionality.
<h2>Portals, Portals, Portals</h2>
Jahia Portal Factory brings together the capabilities of <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/digital-factory" target="_blank">Digital Factory CMS</a> along with additional portal capabilities into one single solution. Here's a quick overview of what it can offer:
<ul>
<li>Users themselves can create ad-hoc portals and personal dashboards based on predefined and approved portal templates and components managed from a central administration interface.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>​Companies can seamlessly expose their existing/legacy business applications within modern multi-channel web portal interfaces, thus securing former investments and reducing the time-to-market.</li>
<li>Companies can also expose their data silos (using custom or standardized data providers such as CMIS) and enrich them with additional content into secured digital portals, without duplicating or re-writing data sources.</li>
<li>Marketing teams can produce and publish content as fast and as regularly as their market requires, embedding data and enterprise applications into compelling and differentiating user experiences for their customers without being constrained by IT applications lifecycle.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-portal-factory-dashboard-browsing-data-from-cmis-mounted-repo700x0.png" alt="Jahia Portal Factory" />
<h2>Key features of Jahia Portal Factory</h2>
Inheriting its extensibility and content management capabilities from <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/digital-factory" target="_blank">Digital Factory</a>, Jahia Portal Factory has everything it needs to tackle even the most demanding digital projects.
Here's a look at all the key features of Portal Factory:
<ul>
<li>A new non-intrusive integration for enterprise legacy applications: Portal Factory allows for the integration of legacy applications without having to modify them in any way. Regardless of the language the application had been developed with.Marketing teams can produce the content their market requires at the time it needs it, while IT teams can decide and plan to work on the application at their own pace, according to their resources, security and stability constraints.
This server side integration has been built with the new open source framework <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=70112415&amp;msgid=349585&amp;act=LMSD&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fesigate.org%2F" target="_blank">Esigate</a>, initiated by Smile and Capgemini, two leading system integrators, and to which Jahia is now a committer.</li>
<li>The External Data Provider: A new core service developed by Jahia which enables developers to declare bridges between internal content and external repositories without neither copy nor duplication or synchronization.With the External Data Provider, external data can be accessed, manipulated and searched as if they were directly stored in Jahia repository. All external and internal data can benefit, among other core Jahia features, from the powerful layout building features of the Jahia Studio.</li>
<li>User centric personalized dashboards with SSO:  Portal Factory comes with sample widgets, preconfigured portals and configuration tools to help administrators create dashboards easily and pick default widgets and configurations that users will then be able to customize at will.</li>
<li>CMIS: New aggregation capabilities to mount CMIS compliant repositories such as Alfresco, Sharepoint etc. into Digital Factory as well as Portal Factory modules.</li>
<li>A Set of Enterprise Portal Features: These include Identity Management, Personalized content and Multi-Portal capabilities, which have been key capabilities of the Jahia platform since its early days.</li>
</ul>
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-portal-factory-external-app-integration-with-esigate700x0.png" alt="Jahia Portal Factory" />
Regarding the impending launch of Jahia Portal Factory, Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia, had this to say:
<blockquote>“As announced during our first international user conference, JahiaOne, in early February this year, Portal Factory will be available late June thanks to the work done with our community of Customer and Partner. 
In its former version, our CMS solution – Digital Factory –  offered portal features that needed refinement to meet the scope of a complete Portal offering. The conception and development of both the External Data Provider and the Esigate integration, associated with the extension of the personal dashboards exceed everyone’s expectations.”</blockquote>
To find out more about Jahia, <a href="http://www.jahia.com/" target="_blank">check out their website</a>. You can also request a trial of Jahia Portal Factory <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/portal-factory/try-portal-factory" target="_blank">right here</a>.
In addition, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/jahia/" target="_blank">Jahia via our CMS Directory</a>.

Jahia Reveal Portal Factory Release Date

If you're planning to build a website with the intention to share or showcase digital media, then selecting a CMS with a solid digital asset management (DAM) system is absolutely vital.
This applies to both individuals looking to extend their personal web presence, as well as enterprising organizations seeking a professional website solution.
Being able to manage, modify and present documents, images and other digital assets in a fashion which befits your company or persona will ultimately decide how much of an impact your content has on the end user. Not to mention the ease-of-use administrators will enjoy with a powerful DAM system in place.
<a href="http://www.jahia.com/" target="_blank">Jahia xCM</a> is a capable content management system with a feature extensive digital asset management system built in, which will sound like a highly lucrative combination for almost any serious website builder looking for a suitable platform for their site – or sites.
<h2>The Essentials of Digital Asset Management</h2>
A digital asset management system essentially helps to store, manage, modify and present digital files such as PDF documents, images, videos and so forth. They work extremely well in enterprise environments, where workflows need to be streamlined.
Being able to manage digital assets on a large or professional scale within most website building CMS, can often prove difficult, if not unfulfilling. This is largely because, as most content management systems attempt to focus on aesthetic design options and flexible content publishing features, digital asset management often takes a back seat. They do exist of course, but usually in very basic forms, with limited customization features.
So, for organizations seeking to manage, publish and present a vast array of digital assets across numerous web initiatives, using just any CMS can cause issues. Ideally for such organizations, a balance would be struck between flexible content publication, and powerful digital asset management.
As it so happens, that ideal solution may just exist within Jahia xCM's competent CMS.
<h2>Striking the Balance with Jahia xCM</h2>
Jahia xCM does a pretty impressive job when it comes to the balancing act between quality content publishing, easy website creation and highly detailed digital asset management.
Due to the extensive and customizable features offered by Jahia xCM's embedded DAM features, it would not be unfair to compare the platform to a dedicated digital asset management system.
For example, media assets can be given pre-defined and user-defined rules and metadata, subjected to workflows, reviews and of course be easily published. In fact, Jahia xCM goes a step further with publishing and presenting digital assets, by providing drag-and-drop functionality to insert assets into pages, as well as configurable modules to create new rules, such as document thumbnails.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-2.png" alt="Jahia xCM" /> 
Additionally, there is enhanced control over images and how they are to be displayed within your Jahia xCM website. Images themselves can be cropped, resized and rotated, whilst thumbnails are automatically generated in relation to user-configurable rules.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-1.png" alt="Jahia xCM" /> 
Jahia xCM's digital asset management system further impresses by allowing you to automatically convert documents to PDFs, auto-publish assets, and make use of tagging. Documents and files can also be uploaded to the server en masse, or within .zip files, which can then be uncompressed on the server itself.
On top of all these features, Jahia xCM also offers widgets which allow for digital assets to be displayed on your website in a number of ways, including sliders, galleries, fancy boxes, and so on.
Additionally, not only does Jahia xCM silently index all documents and digital assets, but it also silently manages the links integrity, if an asset is moved or renamed.
Many of Jahia xCM's DAM features mentioned above are demonstrated by this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn2loxb5LKg&amp;feature=share&amp;list=PLCi1wJLT02ziX4o-JQB2Ga7B7w6Q0k-4_">introductory video on document rules</a>, all of which would prove handy for both enterprise automated needs, and for the needs of an individual editor or publisher.
So, if you're looking for a solid combination between content and asset management, look no further than <a href="http://www.jahia.com/home" target="_blank">Jahia xCM</a>.
For more information, you can also find <a href="/products/jahia/">Jahia xCM on our CMS Directory</a>.
NB: In addition to properly blending Content and Digital Asset Management with Jahia xCM, Jahia also provides a rich collaboration and sharing tool for Digital Assets dedicated to Marketing teams in a perfectly integrated package, called <a href="http://www.jahia.com/business/jahia-wise-key-benefits" target="_blank">Jahia Wise</a> – But I'll get to that in another article, so stay put!

A Look at Jahia xCM's Brilliant Blend of Content & Digital Asset Management

The widespread use of mobile devices including smart phone and tablets, has served as a catalyst for companies and website owners everywhere to increase their focus on mobile optimized versions of their sites.
More Internet traffic is being funnelled through mobile devices than ever before, and such traffic is only rising across the world as time goes on. So, opting for a responsive design should keep everybody covered, right?
Not exactly. In reality, responsive design is what the name implies – design. It will ensure that your website is navigable, and that text and images can be seen without too much hassle.
Yet, there is so much more to optimizing your website for mobile devices than just making the desisn responsive. Thankfully, the capable enterprise management system, <a href="http://www.jahia.com/">Jahia xCM</a>, does a good job of recognizing that, as I will soon discuss.
<h2>Being More Than Just Responsive</h2>
Responsive design is great. In fact, in today's fast moving world of mobile evolution, responsive design is a must.
However, website owners and organizations looking to optimize their content for mobiles need to look deeper than simply the looks of their website. Focusing on the quality of the user's experience, overall functionality and how easily the design can be tweaked, are all vital.
For example, many companies opt for code-laden mobile responsive websites, which are often just as difficult to edit and add to as they were to build in the first place. This is especially the case when attempting to customize the design of a website for each mobile device on the market, which for many will seem like a mammoth task.
In light of these extra factors surrounding responsiveness, Jahia xCM – a powerful content management system built to enhance the online presence of businesses, has some pretty interesting solutions and features, some of which turn such mammoth tasks into manageable ones.
<h2>Going The Extra Mile With Jahia xCM</h2>
When it comes to optimizing the user experience for a wide range of mobile devices, few content management systems can do it as comprehensively as Jahia xCM, especially in lieu of their latest <a href="/jahia-announces-the-availability-of-jahia-xcm-6.6.2-and-jahia-wise-1.8/">Jahia xCM 6.6.2 update</a>.
For example, Jahia xCM enables you to tailor your website experience for each visitor, based on profile, the device they're using, and based off a variety of other factors.
Also, both non-technical and highly experienced website builders can comfortably utilize Jahia xCM to achieve optimum results. The admin control panel is extremely easy to use, allowing you to selectively include, exclude and modify elements on your pages with just a few clicks.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-2700x0.png" alt="Jahia xCM" />
Jahia xCM also provides high definition device  emulators, showing you your website on the screen of a range of devices, allowing you to preview, modify and personalise the experience that each user will get, depending on the device they use to access your content.
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/sshot-3700x0.png" alt="Jahia xCM" />
With these highly detailed customization and management options, it's easy to see how Jahia have trancended the level of simple responsive design, and have even managed to make the entire procedure moreuser friendly in the process. So, if you're interested in taking your responsive website to the next level, without the need for custom code which is difficult to maintain, check out <a href="http://www.jahia.com/">Jahia xCM</a>.
For more information, you can also find <a href="/products/jahia/">Jahia xCM on our CMS Directory</a>.

Jahia xCM: Above & Beyond Responsive Design

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Jahia, today announces the availability of Jahia xCM 6.6.2 in Community and Enterprise distributions, and of Jahia Wise 1.8, its social and collaborative document sharing solution (Enterprise distribution).
These new versions are Services Packs resulting from continued collaboration with the community, which makes it possible to constantly enhance the user experience, performances and stability.
For all Jahia customer projects combining critical portal and content management aspects, these new versions mean significant improvements in terms of scalability, speed and stability, including:
<ul>
<li>For Jahia xCM, a significant improvement of response times when viewing and contributing to a project, with display times almost 50 percent faster; optimization of the clustering, making it possible to linearly extend the scalability of the consultation front end for web and mobile projects.</li>
<li>For Jahia Wise, the ability to manage up to 1 million documents while maintaining an optimal user experience.</li>
</ul>
Socomec and La Poste in France, Desjardins in Canada, the Landtag of Baden-Württemberg in Germany, General Motors and Phoenix in the United States, to name but a few, recently selected Jahia over proprietary or Open Source competing solutions, for critical and complex projects. The choice made by these large organizations demonstrates that Jahia’s vision is consistent with the needs of enterprises: application convergence (portal, web, research, document, social, collaboration and mobile).
These recent deals allowed Jahia to achieve the best half-year results of its history with a growth of over 70 percent compared to the first half of 2012.
<blockquote>“We have been working jointly with members of our community, our clients and partners for over 10 years. This allows us to address the strategic challenges of large companies. Whether for portal, extranet, intranet, web or mobile projects, Jahia’s unparalleled portal/content unification naturally convinces them to choose our offering over all other solutions on the market. Developers, especially those working for our partners, appreciate the increased development speed provided by our exclusive tool – the Jahia Studio – and its suite of modules, when implementing digital portals. All this demonstrates that our platform is robust, feature-rich and relevant in the long term.” Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia Solution Group SA, comments.</blockquote>
Downloads and Migration Tools
<ul>
<li>Jahia xCM Community distribution (Windows and Linux) – <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=74469271&amp;msgid=309164&amp;act=8Y2D&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jahia.com%2Fdownload-develop%2Fdownload%2Fcommunity-distribution.html" target="_blank">here</a></li>
<li>Migration package from Jahia xCM 6610 to Jahia xCM 662 Community distribution – <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=74469271&amp;msgid=309164&amp;act=8Y2D&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jahia.com%2Fdownload-develop%2Fdownload%2Fcommunity-distribution.html" target="_blank">here</a></li>
<li>Jahia xCM Enterprise distribution (Windows and Linux) – <a href="http://click.icptrack.com/icp/relay.php?r=74469271&amp;msgid=309164&amp;act=8Y2D&amp;c=870976&amp;destination=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jahia.com%2Fdownload-develop%2Fdownload%2Fenterprise-distribution.html" target="_blank">here</a></li>
<li>Jahia Wise Enterprise distribution, migration packages for Jahia xCM and Wise Enterprise distribution – available on the client extranet.</li>
</ul>
Screenshots
<img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-wise-interface250x0.png" /><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-wise-workspace-home-page250x0.png" /><img src="https://cmscritic.com/ms-content/uploads/2023/08/jahia-wise-feeding-document-by-email250x0.png" />
More details on <a href="https://www.jahia.com/">Jahia xCM</a> and <a href="https://www.jahia.com/">Jahia Wise</a>

Jahia Announces the Availability of Jahia xCM 6.6.2 and Jahia Wise 1.8

Capturing and engaging increasingly shrewd audiences whilst delivering the smoothest user experience is paramount for any website or application.
However, the creation process, especially in a professional environment, has a long list of requirements. For example, local needs such as language and region-specific services need to be met, whilst corporate guidelines like logos, layouts, corporate information on websites, intranets and extranets need to be respected.
This all translates into constant demands from business teams to their development teams to timely produce and deliver solutions which the audiences are expecting, with the best possible user experience.
To cope with this unrelenting demand, both IT and business teams need to work quickly and together to make sure they deliver the right solution at the right speed.
At least, that’s how it should be.
In reality, there are very few vendors who can actually embrace such a united process. The reasons for this are many, but the results are always the same, with even successful projects resulting in a skewed professional relationship between the two teams.
Digital Factory 7 by Jahia presents a pretty comprehensive approach to this dilemma.

<h2>Digital Factory 7: The Three-part Solution</h2>
The approach taken by Digital Factory 7 can be presented in three major parts:
<h3>1) The Development Part</h3>
<a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/studio">Jahia Studio</a> is an exclusive visual User Experience Builder which is suited for developers or solutions builders.
The Studio allows developers to:
<ul>
<li>Visually build complete template structures and layouts for website and/or applications.</li>
<li>Edit sources.</li>
<li>Use snippets.</li>
<li>Fasten and secure dev work (definition editor, code editor, resource bundle editor).</li>
<li>Execute and test code almost in real time (a feature which is typically very rare in java environments).</li>
</ul>
Furthermore, developers can work directly in the Studio or in their IDE or in both at the same time, choosing the most productive tool for the job at any given moment.
Jahia Studio does not intend to replace a Java IDE, but to make developers more productive when it comes to purely the Jahia stuff.
The studio is linked to sources, a SCM (GIT or SVN), as well as the App Store. So, developers can secure their work and push it to the App store whenever a new version is ready.
<h3>2) The Pivot Part</h3>
The Jahia Private <a href="http://www.jahia.com/products/private-app-store">App Store</a> Software is home to information regarding released modules (Jahia building blocks), and compatibility details between a module and Digital Factory versions.
Additionally, the App Store provides approved modules to subscribed Digital Factory servers, and can be either Public or Private.
For instance, a Digital Factory 7 server can subscribe to the vendor main server, to an internal store within its own organization, or to external suppliers/partners’ stores.
Here are some of the advantages the App Store offers:
<ul>
<li>Creation of a re-usable components library.</li>
<li>Better management releases.</li>
<li>Maintenance cost reductions.</li>
<li>Improved risk management (each version is properly tagged and numbered).</li>
<li>No more need for error prone manual exchanges between development and production teams.</li>
</ul>
<h3>3) The Operation Environments Part</h3>
These environments ( test / acceptance / production ) are clients of the App Store, thus allowing production teams to:
<ul>
<li>Be notified of any new events.</li>
<li>Be notified of updates.</li>
<li>Have access details info about modules.</li>
<li>Perform 1-click updates (downloads &amp; deployment).</li>
</ul>
Further to these benefits, Digital Factory 7 environments embed OSGi, which means that administrators can:
<ul>
<li>Hot deploy modules, even in a clustered environment.</li>
<li>Instantly move from one version of a module to the other.</li>
<li>Roll-back to a former module version for the sake of troubleshooting.</li>
</ul>
And that’s how Jahia Digital Factory 7 can help bridge the gap between business and IT departments, facilitating a more controlled app lifecycle, and a far better end result.
To find out more about Digital Factory 7, click here.
Also, be sure to explore more of <a href="/products/jahia/" target="_blank">Jahia Digital Factory via our CMS Directory</a>.

Mastering Application Lifecycles with Jahia Digital Factory 7

Jahia has officially announced the release of Jahia Digital Factory 7.1 today. This new release brings with it a host of improvements focused on scalability, stability and performance.According to Jahia CEO, Elie Auvray:<blockquote>“After the introduction of Digital Factory 7.0 last year, our customers and partners showed a huge enthusiasm for the new realm of possibilities it allowed for. As our flagship product becomes everyday the foundations of more and more highly-critical online initiatives – underlining how critical infrastructure UXP now is – this year, we concentrated on further strengthening it. Hence this new version, that will really help our customers expand their online projects safely and with virtually no limit.” says Elie Auvray, CEO of Jahia Solutions Group SA.</blockquote>Digital Factory 7.1 focuses on stability through additional performance enhancements in all areas:<ul><li>The fastest and most reliable “User eXperience Platform”<ul><li>​Performance, stability and scalability now reach new heights with Digital Factory 7.1: browsing and editing operations are faster than ever. The new platform handles twice the load as the previous one with the same configuration, making it Jahia’s fastest and most powerful Digital Factory yet.</li><li>In addition, a new Frontal search engine based on Elasticsearch provides higher scalability without compromising access control or sacrificing publication capabilities.</li></ul></li><li>​Enhanced authoring productivity<ul><li>​Digital Factory authors now leverage a new “Work In Progress” feature that prevents publication mistakes in a far more flexible way than simple content locks but still fully integrated with Digital Factory core capabilities.</li><li>In addition, authors now can publish content in all languages at once with a simple click at a site, page, section or content item level.</li></ul></li><li>​Even more developer agility:<ul><li>​Powerful improvements to Digital Factory’s Rest API allow developers to perform very sophisticated operations and query using the JCR-SQL2 language, thus accelerating, for instance, IoT implementations.</li><li>The new Jahia Studio accelerates development even more: solutions builders can now, for instance, save time by duplicating modules or control dependencies and downloaded sources more tightly.</li></ul></li><li>​Peace of mind for architects and administrators:<ul><li>​Digital Factory now supports Java 8, IBM Websphere 8.5 and JBoss Application Server 7.x and provides the additional flexibility to externalize data and configurations.</li><li>User and Groups service redesign : administrators will now seamlessly manage their preferred authentication providers through a dedicated administration panel, further unifying the Jahia user experience across all products and services and for all audiences.</li><li>Additional enhancements for architects and administrators include new multi-tenancy administration capabilities as well as Jahia instances chaining capabilities, allowing administrators of large Jahia deployments to orchestrate any type of instances (Digital Factory, Workspace Factory, …).</li></ul></li></ul>For more information on Digital Factory, check out the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.jahia.com">Jahia website</a> or watch my recent interviews with Jahia executives, <a href="/cms-critic-interviews-emmanuel-garcin-of-jahia-ahead-of-jahiaone/">Emmanuel Garcin</a> and Christopher Justice.

Jahia Digital Factory 7.1 Release offers more Scalability, Stability and Performance Improvements

You may have already heard the terms ‘Portlets' &amp; ‘Portals' on various occasions, yet you may also still wonder what the differences are.
A Portal is a generally a web page which aggregates information from diverse sources, presenting them in an organized, manageable way, on one screen or page. Each module or source of information usually gets its own section within the page, and these smaller ‘boxes in pages' are called Portlets.
Generally speaking, a Portlet produces fragments of markup (HTML, XHTML, WML), displaying small windows within pages, which may contain things like weather, email and news. A group of Portlets coming together on one page, create a Portal.
However, the question now just might be, are Portlets on their way to becoming extinct?
<h2>The Power of REST</h2>
REST, or Representational State Transfer, is a stateless architecture which predominantly runs over HTTP. Today, it is often used in mobile applications, social networking Web sites, mashup tools and now increasingly, in Portals.
Essentially, Representational State Transfer is an architectural style which makes the most of existing protocols and technologies, including HTTP, JSON and XML. REST helps to meet integration requirements which prove critical to systems where data needs to be combined.
REST is simpler to use than SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), which instead requires either writing or a server program combined with a client program. REST's simplified approach has attracted giants such as Google,Yahoo &amp; Facebook, all of which have adopted REST services in recent years.
So, where exactly does this leave Portlets?
Well, modern web applications are rich Javascript clients, using AJAX technology to offer user experience. Portlets on the other hand, are packaged in Java EE web applications, which by design, are instantiated in separate class loaders. That's great for isolation, but not so great when it comes to collaboration.
<h2>REST in Peace Portlets</h2>
In practise, Portlets are ironically quite difficult to port from one server to another, whereas REST services can be hosted anywhere.
There is now a growing need to exchange content and services between modules, which is difficult with Portlets, since true portable Portlet repositories never really emerged. For example, many Portlets built using a particular Portal software will only ever work on that particular platform, as the Portlet will by-and-large depend upon the services of that server.
You could of course argue that REST-compliant Portlets can be developed, but such a stance makes little sense when you consider the ease of just using REST services on top of any given framework.
So, interoperability has, over time, become key. That leaves Portlets out in the cold, whilst more Portals are now becoming aggregations of REST clients that use simplistic client-to-server interfaces to work their magic – regardless of presentation technologies.
<h2>The Future of Portlets, Portals &amp; REST with Jahia</h2>
When it comes to moving forward with the times in terms of Portlets, Portals and REST services, <a href="http://www.jahia.com/home">Jahia</a> has the right idea, modernizing their approach faster than their competitors.
Jahia offers both the client side components and the technology to quickly and easily develop REST services, whilst still supporting Portlets to handle “legacy” applications.
Using a drag-and-drop system, Jahia's components can be easily integrated into a Portal page. What's more is, Jahia offers Bound Components, which can “talk to each other”.
This works by defining a binding between components whilst positioning them on the page, not at deployment time, allowing them to augment the capabilities of a particular component. For example, this can be used to make any piece of content “commentable” by binding an article to the comments module
Components offered by Jahia can also inherit from each other in an object oriented fashion.
The next major version of Jahia, expected in early 2014, will make its components OSGi compliant, making their deployment and hot-swapability easier than ever, whilst they will also benefit from the existing ecosystem of OSGi components, such as <a href="https://github.com/barjo/atmosphere-osgi">Atmosphere-OSGi</a>, or <a href="http://felix.apache.org/site/apache-felix-web-console.html">Apache Felix’s Web Console</a>.
To conclude, as time goes on, Portlets are racing faster and faster towards irrelevancy. Whilst at the same time, Portals and associated technologies are now more critical to web deployments than ever before – and Jahia is primed to help you handle all of that, and more.
If you're interested in exploring what Jahia has to offer in terms of REST and other services, <a href="http://www.jahia.com/home">check out their website</a>.
You can also explore a little more of <a href="/products/jahia/">Jahia via our CMS Directory</a>.

Portlets are Dead, Long Live Portals

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