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Interview : Daniel Tellez, CTO & Owner of YerbabuenaSoftware
Buenos dias a todo el mundo !
This time we make a travel to Spain.Today, I have the honor and pleasure to interview
Daniel Tellez, CTO & Owner of Yerbabuena Software.Hello Daniel,
Hello Jean Marie. I'm very pleased to answer all your questions and to appear in your blog.I've been following your blog for some time because of your interesting posts about ECM,specially in the opensource world.
To begin this interview, I wanted to thank you for giving me a little of your time toanswer this interview and to share your knowledge of open source ECM and speciallyNuxeo.First Daniel, what's the purpose and objectives of Yerbabuena Software ? What kind of services do you offer?
We, Yerbabuena Software, are a very young company, and we are very proud to count with astaff of young professionals who want to do very big things in their career. I tell you that because this is one of the main reasons because we have embarked in many interesting andgreat projects, like the one that will let us annotate semmantically and classify contents in Nuxeo, or access to its repositories through a smartphone.Our mission and goals fit perfectly with all of these, and can be summarized in the nextsentence: to be a leading and international company, reference in the field of development,research and innovation based on opensource enterprise content management solutions. Thismission has not been chosen randomly, but has been the result of a hard but funny process or rediscovering of our ideas and goals. You can find a picture here, in the form of a roadmapthat drives our actions to that goal:http://translate.google.com/translate?client=tmpg&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.yerbabuena.es%2F2009%2F04%2Fmapa-estrategico.html&langpair=es|enSorry, we still have to translate it. ;-)About our services portfolio, I have to say that our company provides mainly consulting,training and development services over opensource ecm software solutions. It is in this fieldwhere we can add more value to our ecosystem, and where we can deploy more freely our ideas and innovation, to apply them to our customers.
Interview : Daniel Tellez, CTO & Owner of YerbabuenaSoftware
As Owner and CTO can you describe your work in Yerbabuena Software ? What's yourrole and your work day after day ?
In Yerbabuena Software we have a very horizontal organization. We are all folks, in and outof the office, in the most of times. So, my daily work is mainly to help my colleagues in thethree development teams we have, to care for the methodologies used (always agile) and to provide a seamless connection between development and comercial sides.
Why did you choose CM ecosystem ? Is there some opportunities ?
Well, as I said before, we have a small company that knows perfectly the problems of smallcompanies. In the earlier days of Yerbabuena Software, we had to face with all these problems, decisions and investments like all the companies do. How easy it looks when youare in college !We thought it will be a good way to earn money to sell ECM solutions to SMEs, because weare convinced that this is not a field of software that could only fit in great organizations. Allthe companies have to manage papers and documents. We have seen very little companieswith whole rooms full of boxes full of papers. Yes, very hard.Web content management and opensource is a good entry point to begin to work with SMEs.Basically because of the simplicity of the WCM concepts and the cheaper costs of opensource. It can begin publishing news, events and descriptive web pages, and sooner theneed to share and generate documentation comes through this tool, as so does the need todeliver it with other departments, with companies, with customers. Very soon the need of applying workflows, auditing, etcetera comes.Actually we are jumping from SMEs to bigger organizations with large amounts of documents and users, like Diputación de Malaga (regional government of Malaga) or La Sallecolleges.Definitively, in Yerbabuena we are always researching these gaps not covered for commonECM providers, from earlier days by offering ECM to SMEs, until today, when we developsolutions for problems like accesibility and usability in reading documents (http://translate.google.com/translate?client=tmpg&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.yerbabuena.es%2F2009%2F05%2Fprimera-beta-de-easyreader-desarrollada.html&langpair=es|en), or increasing ubiquity in the access to the repository (http://translate.google.com/translate?client=tmpg&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.yerbabuena.es%2F2009%2F07%2Fprimera-beta-de-yerbabuena-ercp.html&langpair=es|en).
Interview : Daniel Tellez, CTO & Owner of YerbabuenaSoftware
What are the main trends in ECM in Spain?
Well, in the last months we are hearing very much noise around ECM like some time before,at least in Spain. This is good. The market of ECM is becoming bigger in Spain. And thecompanies that did know ECM before, are replanning its resources to change to a moreopensource scenario. In these crisis days, harder in our country, the companies are realizingthat it is not easy to justify licenses costs. Now, we can see how many companies knows about the leading ECM providers in the opensource side, like Nuxeo and Alfresco. The first mainly because of us ;-)
Now, let's talk about Nuxeo. Why did you choose to use Nuxeo for CM problematics?
When we began to plan our business strategy around document management, more or less in2006, Alfresco was a little toy, while a french company called Nuxeo few years working witha very cool document management and web content management tool. We loved it. And wedid many projects with that foundation. And we continue doing it. (Nuxeo CPS)After, Nuxeo decided to switch to JavaEE technologies. This was a full reimplementation of the previous tool, maintaining all they learned before about ECM.But we are an independent consultancy company, so we didn't take the JavaEE option given by Nuxeo 5, but we decided to take a look at the tools around ECM in this year. I will not gointo much detail, but we couldn't find no one platform that fits so well than Nuxeo: we lovedits architecture, we loved the real opensource policy, we loved that all of the CPSLovers likeme didn't have to face many troubles to understand Nuxeo 5 concepts.
On the technical side, what are the advantages and disadvantages of this solution ?
The more important technical advantage of Nuxeo over any other document managementsystem is its transparency and easyer way to fit it in any existing information system. This can be checked in many aspects, like:- It is totally and really open source, like no other ECM application in the market.- The active participation in CMIS technical committee of specification, in which the other big players in the ECM world participates also, like EMC, Microsoft, Alfresco, etcetera. Nuxeo participates also in the development of Apache Chemistry, in partnership with DaySoftware.- Nuxeo 5 provides different types of APIs, making easier the integration with third partiessoftware.- The use of standars and wide used technologies ensure the interoperability with other systems, the easy of access to the system to software professionals, the low chance to get intoa vender lock-in strategy, etcetera.Is very difficult for me to find a technical disadvantage over other content managementsystems. Maybe we could go into the typical discussion about the systems needed by JavaEE based technologies, more expensive than in others like Python or PHP.But JavaEE has shown that it is a more reliable framework, resolving common problems for enterprise software.
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