Nuxeo Enterprise Platform

From traditional document management, to highly collaborative workspaces; fromcontent infrastructure for large-scale websites to micro repositories for embedded use, Nuxeo Enterprise Platform delivers the right application to its users.

Based on an innovative component system and service-oriented architecture, the platform makes extensibility and modularity fundamental principles: deploy only the parts you need.

Leveraging standard java technologies (OSGi, Java EE, etc.), state-of-the-art design patterns (SOA, REST, loose coupling) and an Open Source license, Nuxeo EP is a major step forward in the ECM spacecapable of challenging the closed and proprietary legacy platforms of the ECM world.

Nuxeo EP is designed to address the scalability issues and information management challenges of the web era.

Content-Enabled Vertical Applications (CEVAs) are the next big step in the ECM world. A CEVA is an application solving an actual business problem in the information management space, merging content/documents, related processes, required regulatory rules and supporting tools. A CEVA focuses on content and is specialized to directly meet the needs of an specific industry or sector.

For example, an application that helps lawyers manage their casework and insure that their firm's processes are implemented properly would be a legal industry CEVA. An application helping an organization manage new drug approval submission to the FDA, would also be a CEVA. As Gartner puts it “Content-enabled vertical applications enable companies to use their documents and other content more effectively in business processes. However, CEVAs are technically complex and difficult to evaluate.”

Extensibility and component orientation is the driving force and the main strength of Nuxeo EP. Applications are developed on the platform using the principle of component composition and extension. All components provide services which can be configured without writing any code and which can contribute to other components simply using Nuxeo's innovative extension point system.
This approach encourages the development of reusable components and also allows complex applications to be built quickly: applications are assembled from existing components, like pieces of Lego, connected to new components containing your specific business logic, configuration and new behaviors.

From the ground up, this approach makes Nuxeo EP the ideal platform to build CEVAs: leveraging a full-featured platform to build solutions (bespoke or packaged).
The platform provides all the necessary content infrastructure and application framework, yet allows you to select the right set of components to keep your application lean and focused on your business needs.
All this, using state-of-the-art software engineering practices, to deliver high-quality software and leveraging your development team skills.