OPEN SOURCE COLLABORATION & INTEGRATION
Features
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MindTouch Deki offers great features for all aspects of your enterprise
Widgets & Feeds
Widgets and Feeds add Web 2.0 functionality to your enterprise quickly and efficiently with MindTouch Deki.
Features
- Point-and-click to add tens of thousands of widgets from a variety of sources
- Embed RSS/Atom feeds
- Create watch lists and follow in web interface or with RSS feeds
- Global and User RSS feeds
- Integrated RSS/Atom feed reader
Benefits
- Create dynamic reports, competitive intelligence pages, or easily track topics of interest
- Quickly consume information by creating a single view for Multiple RSS/Atom feeds
- Track projects or persons contributions enterprise wide with watch lists
Users & Privacy
Easily permission pages, files and workspaces by user or groups.
Features
- Multi-level Permissioning for pages, and workspaces
- Intuitive user management tools for roles and user groups
- Authentication support for Drupal, Wordpress, Mambo, Joomla, and other systems
- Support for Active Directory and LDAP
Benefits
- Quickly and efficiently apply privacy and security rules
- Easily set user permissioning to suit all business and enterprise needs
- Quickly create new users and allow them to manage their own passwords
- Minimize management headaches by reusing existing application's authentication
Desktop Tools
Adapt collaboration to your processes and needs with MindTouch Deki desktop tools.
Features
- Drag-and-drop files and entire directory structures into MindTouch Deki
- Migrate directory structures to wiki pages: files attached, file contents indexed by built-in enterprise search
- One-click publish entire threads of conversations with file attachments from Microsoft Outlook™
- One-click publish from Microsoft Word™
Benefits
- Share files and emails more efficiently by providing a web-based wrapper
- Find what you need more quickly with the built-in enterprise grade search in MindTouch Deki
- Maintain an archive of your files and email threads in a MindTouch Deki powered participatory knowledge base
Mashups
Flexibly surface and mashup data and behavior while still adhering to internal security and identity policies.
Features
- Ships with more than 100 web-services to dozens of providers pre-configured, including: Microsoft Windows Live, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Widgetbox, and many more...
- Mashup data and applications client side or server side
- Easily create publish-subscribe (pub/sub) relationship with in-page communication bus
- Save mashups, dynamic reports and situational applications as parameterized templates
- Register external databases, with or without pre-defined queries
- ADO.NET supported
- Easily add additional web-services and external applications
- Surface data and behavior seamlessly
Benefits
- Optimize your business processes by providing a common interface to multiple commonly used applications and data sources
- Capture your processes in mashups and situational apps stored in MindTouch Deki templates. Share and iterate to improve corporate wide or workgroup efficiency
- Consume and share information faster with dynamic reports and data visualization
Authentication & Security
Enterprise ready with LDAP(S), Active Directory, SSL and TLS supported.
Features
- LDAP and Active Directory support
- Support for internal and external users and groups
- SSL and TLS support
- Extensible 64-bit user roles leave room to grow as needs evolve
- Authenticate against any number of external applications (Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress, etc..) and enterprise directory services
Benefits
- Easily adapt MindTouch Deki to your enterprise security and authentication policies and needs
- Reuse existing systems and directory services
- Ensure secure communication with encryption
- Avoid user management nightmares with built-in LDAP and Active Directory support
IT Governance
Securely add 2.0 to your enterprise with IT governance.
Features
- Expose data and behavior from enterprise legacy systems, Web 2.0 applications/services, and data stores
- Create mashups of business data
- Create composite applications from multiple systems
- Enterprise directory services support
Benefits
- Connect people, enterprise systems, Web 2.0 applications/services and data sources with IT governance
- Allow users to reorganize data and systems to suit their needs as they evolve
- Realize more value from existing systems and IT infrastructure
- Unified governance over a distributed system that is your IT infrastructure
- IT managers determine which services can be used by whom and what data can be accessed on a case-by-case basis
- Maintain security standards and practices established by the enterprise while allowing users to access the data they need in the way that suits them best
- With an integration layer and a common user interface MindTouch Deki provides an alternative interface to a variety of legacy systems that are often inherently difficult to use
Architecture
MindTouch DREAM, a web oriented service bus, and a web services orchestration engine reduces network latency because it is a distributed system.
Features
- Web Oriented Architecture
- RESTful API
- Web-service orchestration engine
- Application behavior exposed via REST web-services
- Application data accessible via REST API
- Platform independent - installs on all popular operating systems
- Technology agnostic - extend the platform in any programming language
Benefits
- Easily embed MindTouch Deki into existing applications
- Add collaborative and social capabilities to existing systems with RESTful services
- Connect disparate systems and data sources and collaborate
- "Webify", upgrade, or add "2.0" to your legacy systems and enterprise applications
- Quickly create integration with disparate applications and build new behavior fast
- Write concurrent code easier and more efficiently
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