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eXo Unveils 3.5 Version

By Meenakshi Shankar
MSP News™ Contributor

eXo, a provider of user experience services, launched version 3.5 of its eXo Platform, which is noted to be its first cloud-ready enterprise portal and user experience Platform-as-a-Service (UXPaaS).

As announced, the new version is aimed at helping organizations to have a cloud-enabled solution for creating and managing next-generation portal-based sites that can improve communication between colleagues, customers or partners, and can easily integrate with existing enterprise applications, policies and procedures.

“Built on open standards and open source technologies, eXo Platform 3.5 has the features and extensibility of a UXP and the cloud architecture to build public and private clouds. We built the first true UXPaaS,” Benjamin Mestrallet, founder and chief executive officer of eXo said in a press release.

“Imagine company ABC wanting to integrate their custom-built inventory application in an enterprise portal with social networking and document management capabilities, and then deliver that as a private cloud service to all their customers. eXo Platform 3.5 enables them to do just that, and to do it very efficiently,” Mestrallet added.

The company is of the opinion that enterprises now are in need of high flexibility and tools that will enable them to deliver rich user experiences for a variety of use cases like social intranets, extranets, transactional websites and more. Options to deploy in the cloud or in the back office, to integrate with external web services and internal line of business applications are believed to be in high demand. In a statement, the eXo user experience platform (UXP) is claimed by the company as the right choice that can offer IT professionals the resources they require to meet all such needs.

With the release of eXo Platform 3.5, eXo has added support for multi-tenancy and engineered this platform to be cloud-ready. A single instance of eXo Platform 3.5 can now support many UXP-based social intranets, extranets, transactional websites and more for many different clients, each in their own private cloud environment.

Additionally, for delivering a rich user experience, eXo Platform 3.5 includes a range of new or enhanced features like: simpler, more intuitive interface; enhanced social and collaboration tools; improved content management, embedded IDE, inclusion of integrated sample sites, eXo Platform Gadget Pack which includes 15 new gadgets that provide easy access to variety of adoption, collaboration, development, monitoring, social and other eXo Platform services, and enterprise portal framework.

As specified, eXo Platform 3.5 is available in two editions: eXo Platform 3.5 Enterprise Edition and eXo Platform 3.5 Community Edition. Offered under a subscription model, the Enterprise Edition includes the support and services needed for deployment in an enterprise production environment. Features include support for native mobile applications and multi-tenant deployment, as well as clustering, built-in web IDE and the eXo Platform Gadget Pack. The Community Edition is noted to be ideal for developers who do not require production support, mobile or cloud deployment options, or the extensibility and customization capabilities provided by the Gadget Pack or embedded IDE.

eXo said that it is also offering a 30-day trial version of its new 3.5 version platform.