Integrating
Confluence with
Enterprise Apps
Robert Castaneda,
CEO - CustomWare

Integrating Data and Systems
Where does data really live?
Pass by value vs Pass by reference
The evolution of an idea
o Unstructured Knowledge Capture – Wiki
o Structured Data – Enterprise System

Example – CRM Integration (Pass by
Reference)

Social Integration – Feedback
System

Business Veolocity
Copyright © 2001-2009
CustomWare

Integrating
Confluence with
BEA Aqualogic
Portal
Charles Hall, EADS Astrium Ltd
Mark Boxall, Chapter 26

Who we are
Europe’s leading satellite A Specialist Solutions provider for
manufacturer, number 3 worldwide. colllaborative business systems.
www.astrium.eads.net www.chapter26.com

Astrium Portal
BEA Aqualogic Interaction 6.1, aka ALUI
Federated Search
Collaboration Publisher Analytics
Aqualogic User Interaction
Server API Remote API

Astrium Portal
Why use the Portal as a starting point?
o Strategic platform for all new web
applications
o Offers users single sign-on
o Over 2,000 monthly unique users from user
population of 10,000

Collaboration Landscape
Enterprise
Portals
Webinars
Email
Collaborative Scale
Shared
Workspaces Collaborative
Document
Management
Calendar
Net Wikis
Instant Meeting
Messaging s
and P2P
Blogs
Personal
Ad hoc Collaboration Structured
Scope
Source: Butler Group

ALUI: Communities & Portlets
Communities
o Shared workspace for a group of users
o A container for projects
Projects
o Offers shared calendar, document space,
action tracking, forums
Portlets
o Applications shown within a personal or
community page

Portal & Wiki – The Vision
Integrated into Communities

Portal & Wiki - Feedback
Does the wiki replace the portal?
Can you improve access to the wiki?

Evolution
Vision of wiki spaces mapping to
communities too restrictive
Personal Wiki Portlet
provides more general
access

Evolution
Users want a seamless experience
o Upload documents from the wiki UI into
Portal Collaboration

Evolution
Chapter 26 & Astrium partner again to
develop a server-side web service to
return a login token, for use within a
custom Confluence plug-in
Specifically for uploading documents
from Confluence into Portal in a
seamless fashion.

Solution Architecture

Linking things up
Community Portlet
-
Scenario 1
Federated Search
-
Scenario 2
Single Sign On
-
Scenario 3

Linking things up
Community Portlet

Linking things up
Community Portlet
o Uses Portal user identity to request login
token from the SSO Plugin
o Token appended to URLʼs within the portlet

Linking things up
Federated Search

Linking things up
Single Sign On

Linking things up
Direct access to a wiki page:
o Portal allows a URL to be constructed which
targets a given portlet
o Querystring parameters dictate target of
Wiki portlet (space key, page id)
Advantages:
o Seamless authentication, direct passage to
the wiki page

Q & A

Autodesk and Wiki
…and a little SharePoint too

Collaboration Systems at Autodesk
Salesforce
Jira
Jira
Sharepoint
SharePoint
Wiki
Perforce
Clarify

SharePoint Connector for
Confluence
Sharepoint SharePoint
SharePoint
 Document management (versions, access)
 “Face” to other groups in company
 Calendars and lists
 Expose Wiki content via connector
 Company Standard
 Managed by divisional and outsourced
groups
Wiki
Wiki
 Project pages
 Team spaces
 Less structured information
 How-to pages, etc
 Managed by divisional team
 Expose SharePoint content via connector

Blend the two
“Shiki” and “WherePoint”
Wiki Sharepoint
SharePoint

The Details
Wiki Sharepoint
SharePoint
{sp‐list} Two Instances / Approval Process
* want to expose calendar view/ui * approval process before
from Sharepoint in Wiki; Can only do deployment
lists currently * outsourced instance not yet
* want filtered lists or ability to deployed
reference/show a view‐as‐a‐list *
* want control of list sor@ng
Page Web‐part
Enable LDAP
* table sor@ng differs and missing
* renaming user names difficult

Questions?