Building Applications with the Nuxeo Platform at Vilogia

Real-life Nuxeo Use Cases

Christophe Capon, CIO, Vilogia

Agenda

Who We Are

Why Nuxeo?

Use casesCRM integration

Simple Nuxeo GUI with Nuxeo Automation

Non intrusive Nuxeo extension: Integration with Apache SolR

First - Who is Vilogia?

Real estate company, 1500 people

3 main activitiesReal estate rental (85,000 apartments and houses)

Real estate builder (> 1000 /year)

Partner with businesses (4300 partners)

Why Nuxeo?

Why Nuxeo?

2 functional requirementsDocument sharing

Embedding document management in our applications

What we wantedNon intrusive easy extensibility

Open Source

Web and Java-based

Use Case #1:
CRM Integration

Using Nuxeo as a document back-end

Project Context

Many applications dealing with clients

Client information disseminated throughout the system

New call center started in 2013

We decided to implement a CRMTo consolidate client information

To handle client input/output (mail, e-mail, fax)

Demo

Technical Overview

ERP: Coheris

Document generation developed with Vaadin framework

Nuxeo Platform

Interface Automation used to inject documents

CRM facet to tag documents and folders when needed

The mail folder connector was overloaded to enrich information

Use Case #2:
Very Simple Nuxeo GUI

Leveraging Nuxeo Automation

Project Context

Nuxeo's default interface is rich

Need to publish documents in/outside the company

We cannot provide training for everyone

We developed a very simple GUI for Nuxeo based on Nuxeo AutomationRead

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Demo

Technical Overview

Web Application developed with the Vaadin framework

Pure Nuxeo Automation Client

Workload < 5 days

Use Case #3:
is Your Friend

Finding the right extension point

Project Context

Demo

Technical Overview

Integrated with Apache SolR to handle snippets

Non intrusive feature

...only extension points!

Workload ~3 days (provided that you know SolR!)

Architecture

Thank you!