Devfest09 OpenSocial Enterprise
- 2. OpenSocial in the Enterprise Chris Schalk Benjamin Mestrallet Bruno Rovagnati Nov. 17th, 2009
- 3. Agenda • Introduction • A Brief history of OpenSocial • OpenSocial Pioneer technologies • IBM • Atlassian • SocialText • Apache SocialSite • eXo Platform • Wrap up • Q&A 3
- 4. OpenSocial Background • Launched in fall of 2007 • Initial target audience was traditional social networking sites (SNS) • Provides open source standards for building social applications • Has both evolved and grown rapidly in the past 2 years o Started at version 0.6 and is now approaching 1.0
- 5. OpenSocial Background • Global user population now exceeding 800 million • Technology evolving past its social network site roots • In Sept. held our first ever “Enterprise OpenSocial Meetup” o Has resulted in a series of spec updates for 1.0 and 1.x o Will soon be publishing an “Enterprise OpenSocial Whitepaper” o Plan to meet again in January
- 6. Some OpenSocial Enterprise Partners
- 7. IBM and OpenSocial • IBM has been successfully innovating in the area and browser-based component models and social APIs for years, e.g. Lotus Mashup Maker, Lotus Connections • Working closely with the OpenSocial community to ensure that the specifications and the Apache Shindig RI can meet our needs and complement iWidgets
- 8. IBM and OpenSocial • Areas of improvement for OpenSocial: o Gadget metadata and wiring o Interoperability with iWidgets, OpenAjax and Dojo o Specification modularity o Extension Mechanism o Better support for Groups o Alignment with Activity Streams
- 10. Development is social • Developers are people who work in teams • They collaborate around shared objects • And generate lots of activity source code commits issues build failures builds comments Projects tasks docs wiki edits specs
- 11. Enterprise apps are silos
- 13. OpenSocial and Socialtext - Today • Socialtext Dashboard Launched Sept 2008 o Personalized, customizable dashboard based on OpenSocial container o Extend user experience with thousands of Google Gadgets o Easy for customers to develop their own widgets o Next: intergadget communications
- 14. Apache SocialSite • Widgets and Web Services for adding social networking features to your existing web sites o Web services: OpenSocial API + extensions to manage the Social Graph o A complete end-to-end user interface for Social Networking in the form of JavaScript widgets that can be embedded into any site (Java, Ruby, PHP-based and more). o A flexible Social Graph repository that can work in a wide variety of social networking scenarios. With configurable profile properties and relationship types. o Comprehensive JavaScript and REST API access to the Social Graph: OpenSocial plus conforming extensions. o Scalability via support for running in distributed configuration, table partitioning technologies, master and slave databases and distributed caching.
- 15. Apache SocialSite • Allows you and (optionally) your users to embed OpenSocial Gadgets in your existing web applications • Enables multiple web applications so share a common social graph of users, groups, activities and more • Open Source software, developed by Sun • https://socialsite.dev.java.net/ • Now entering the Apache Incubator • http://incubator.apache.org/projects/socialsite.html • as a Committer and first one to deploy it in a live site… A big running company, with 1.5M+ users.
- 18. Apache SocialSite Stats Load testing servers Three m1.small instances were use to generate the load. Amazon EC2 Standard small definition: 1.7 GB memory 1 EC2 Compute Unit (1 virtual core with 1 EC2 Compute Unit) 160 GB instance storage (150 GB plus 10 GB root partition) 32-bit platform I/O Performance: Moderate Running in JBOSS and ORACLE
- 21. What I see in Enterprise 2.0 • Communication • Knowledge Management • Find hidden Talent • Reduce redundant internal email spam • Sense the company mood
- 22. OpenSocial & eXo Platform • eXo offers rich, intuitive collaborative software that is used by some of Europe’s largest companies and gov’t ministries. • We just opened our first U.S. office. • Created eXo Social based on OpenSocial that integrates our application services into GateIn (co-developed with Red Hat)
- 23. OpenSocial & eXo Platform Demo: