From MIKE2.0 Methodology
omCollab is a powerful, Enterprise 2.0 collaboration product completely built on open source software. It provides a web portal environment to create, share and search Microsoft Office content, files, shared bookmarks, blog posts and wiki articles across the enterprise. omCollab integrates some of the most powerful open source software applications into a single collaborative environment. It enables organisations to drive innovation, collaboration and community building.
omCollab is a composite of a number of different products that provide a solution for collaboration. omCollab provides the collaborative software platform for MIKE2.0.
Capabilities of omCollab
MIKE2.0 is hosted within a comprehensive collaboration environment that allow users to engage in knowledge sharing, content development and skills improvement. The capabilities provided by omCollab include:
- A Wiki to collaboratively create and share content (based on MediaWiki which powers Wikipedia, the world's largest Wiki).
- Blogs to publish individual or group-based information (based on Wordpress, the world's most popular blogging platform).
- Social Bookmarking for storing, sharing and discovering web bookmarks. We have released this as omBookmarks, a fork of the codebase from Scuttle.
- Forums to support discussion groups and frequently asked questions (based on phpBB, the most widely used open source forums solution)
- Search for users to discover content across federated repositories.
- Rich User Interface with advanced navigational components, an integrated skin and single sign on to provide common look and feel across the platform.
There are also a number of extensions to these components, that can be found of the Special:Version page of MIKE2.0.
Enabling an Integrated Content Repository
The standard provided by MIKE2.0 links to the best IM assets on the web and within a company. Using omCollab, you can quickly integrate MIKE2.0 with your own internally-held assets.
Installation of omCollab
An overview on Installing omCollab from a package.
Contributing to omCollab
We're looking for developers who like to Contribute to omCollab. Code is accessible from the svn repository. We'll soon be publishing more information on getting commit rights.
IM Solution Suite
The IM Solution Suite is BearingPoint's overall solution framework for Information Management. omCollab is the technology platform that supports this environment. MIKE2.0 is the open source site, ImCollab is the internal environment.
Case Studies
MIKE2.0 and ImCollab, BearingPoint internal collaboration environment that links to MIKE2.0, both run on omCollab. You can read more about the OmCollab case studies and also add your to the site.
Where is omCollab going?
We have released omCollab as open source software because we want the power of the community behind creating the worlds best open source Enterprise 2.0 collaboration platform. Check out the the omCollab Product Roadmap to see where we are going with this.
Additional Product Documentation
omCollab leverages code from major open source initiatives and brings them together into a single product. There is significant additional documentation for these products that is used to supplement omCollab. These products follow an extension-based architecture and omCollab does not modify core product code, so all core product documentation is valid.
We also use a number of MediaWiki extensions, Wordpress plugins and phpBB mods
