OmCollab

omCollab is a software product completely built on open source software and is used for collaboration within organisations or on the internet. 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 best-known open source software applications into a single environment to meet enterprise requirements for collaboration.

Product Capabilities

omCollab is a composite of a number of different products. The capabilities provided by omCollab include:

• A Wiki to collaboratively create and share content, based on MediaWiki which powers Wikipedia

• Blogs to publish individual or group-based information (based on Wordpress

• Social Bookmarking for storing, sharing and discovering web bookmarks. Released as omBookmarks, a fork of the codebase from Scuttle.

• Social Networking functionality for a collaborative community that is integrated into the other components.

• A Forum to support discussion groups and frequently asked questions (based on phpBB

• Mashup capabilities to the MIKE2.0 Methodology to build integrated solutions based on open content.

• Search for users to discover content across federated repositories.

• A Rich User Interface with advanced navigational components, an integrated skin and single sign on to provide common look and feel across the platform.

There are also a number of extensions to these components, that can be found on the page of MIKE2.0.

External links

• omCollab Home page
• omCollab Code Repository