OmCollab

From MIKE2 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 is used to provide the collaborative environment for MIKE2.0.

Contents 1 Capabilities of omCollab 2 Enabling an Integrated Content Repository 3 Installation of omCollab 4 Contributing to omCollab 5 Case Studies 6 Where is omCollab going?

Capabilities of omCollab

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).

• A 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.

• Social Networking – "facebook light" functionality for our IM community that is integrated into the other components.

• Mashup from MIKE2.0, to build integrated solutions based on open content and internally held BearingPoint assets, thus enabling the concept of an Integrated Content Repository for Information Development.

• 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.

• Open Methodology Compliance (OMC) capability to link an organisation into the MIKE2.0 open standard.

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.

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.