Product

Silverpeas is the editor of the Silverpeas Open source collaborative portal (under GNU Affero GPL V3) developed in Java™.

Key Features

Fig. 1: My Diary

Fig. 2: Wysiwyg Editor

Collaborative workspaces:

Use Silverpeas™ to build an Intranet or Extranet and feed Web 2.0 sites to optimize creation and sharing.
Based on its collaborative bus*, Silverpeas™ can be used to share documents (EDM), to facilitate project management, to organize content management (CMS), and promote knowledge management.
Silverpeas™ increases management process best practices, and helps the creation of social networks thanks to improved workflow, best practices and information management.

*A collaborative bus is an infrastructure that provides general definitions of collaboration services, their default implementations, rules for interconnecting them, and mechanisms for extending them.

Quick and easy to use:

Easy for non-technical users to install, configure and set-up collaborative spaces. A WYSIWYG interface makes everything so simple to use.

Ready-to-use services:

With more than 30 ready-to-use service components, Silverpeas combines all the tools you need to get your collaborative spaces up and running in a few clicks.
Services such as Blog, wiki, forum, directories, project management, ECM, picture gallery, diaries, and many more let you develop your own personalized space.

Other features:

EDM (Electronic Documentation Management)
Collaborative tools, agendas, booking system, chat, yellow pages, social network, survey, quiz, forums,
Project management tools (gantt)
Knowledge management
Content management tools such as blogs, image gallery, 3D browser, EDM, RSS flows,
Workflow engine with XML forms, connections to Databases, and groupware (Domino, Groupwise, Zimbra)...

A transverse taxonomy platform, coupled with the advanced search engine, gives users quick access to relevant information placed at their fingertips.

Architecture

Fig. 3: Silverpeas Bus

Silverpeas functions in the Java J2EE environment. The WCM layer is used to publish public contents on the web and to build an Xnet platform, or Web 2.0 website.
The Services Oriented Architecture is made up of:

an applicative bus for:
1. authentification
2. rights management
3. a search engine
4. a workflow engine
5. notifications
6. subscriptions
7. versioning
specific services for different professional sectors.
- Document Management
- Collaborative Management
- Knowledge Management
- Content Management
- Workflow
- Connectors

Classification and organisation

Silverpeas is used to classify the contents on themes, independant of the spaces and folders in which they are stored and to for subscribing to themes.