Plone takes your
content into the future!
Armin Stroß-Radschinski
Plone Conference 2014
Bristol

about me
Armin Stroß-Radschinski
industrial designer
information architect
dinosaur digital native
power user
part time developer
using Plone since 2002
Companies: acsr & evenios
Troisdorf, Germany near Cologne

about me
Armin Stroß-Radschinski
Case:
Using Plone to
collect, manage and archive
enterprise related informations.
Focus:
Customer project related
workflows for longtime & secure
publishing over networks.

about Plone
• Content Management System
• Webbrowser Frontend UI
• Enterprise Grade
• Workflow Aware from Ground up
• Object Oriented

Create and Present
• authoring of complex
content over a network
• create, store,
share and retrieve
• presentation logic & workflow is
setting Plone apart from simpler CMS

Content Lifecycle
Change over time needs workflow…
• migrate in / or create, aggregate
• develop & evolve
• hide and keep in archive
• migrate out
• delete
acsr, Armin Stroß-Radschinski – CC-BY-SA 3.0

Enterprise
Communication
• Telegraph
• Phone
• Telex
• Fax
• E-Mail
• Smartphones & Tablets
Solutions have
changed over
time
"Boswell Bay White Alice Communications System Site - Tropospheric
Antennas" by Rob Stapleton - Public domain

Enterprise
Communication
Predicted
in StarTrek
1966
Star-Trek – Fan Work – Fair use

Enterprise
Communication
• Enterprise Grade CMS
(ECM)
• Intranets & Extranets
are Pull Media
Talk with
your system…
Star-Trek – Fair use

Next Generation
• Interacting with generation
facebook, twitter and beyond
• Bigger challenges
• User interfaces for
Next Generation Devices
fair use

Next Generation
• Transformation of Services
• Followup Technologies
• UX – The Usability Challenge
acsr Armin Carl Stroß-Radschinski – CC-BY 3.0

Next Generation
• Can your system survive the
next five up to ten years?
Horizon 2020
NASA – Public domain

What Plone did
and still can do!
• Build on Solid Base Technologies
• Unique System-Architecture
• Extraordinary Useful
• Change and Adapt over Time
• Evolving in this Kind
NASA – Public domain

What makes Plone
standing out…
• Object Structure
• Finegrained Access Rules
• Impressing Security Record
• Flexible Workflows
• SEO Friendly
"RedDwarfNASA-hue-shifted" by NASA/Walt
FeimerDerivative, transformed by acsr – Public domain

The users side
of the game…
„Start with the Needs.“
„Build Digital Services not Websites.“
„Make the Users Want to Be Architects.“
Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

The users side
of the game…
• Customizing the System
• Just by Configuration
• Without Touching the Codebase
Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

The users side
of the game…
• Reproduceable Setups
• Similar Instances
inside of One Organisation
• Make Users
Know the System
Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

The Power of
Workflows
For Content Authors
by Integrators
• Properly Implemented
• Do the Hard Work to Make it Simple
Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

Organisations
need to…
• Offer Content
in Different Representations
• Multichannel Publication
acsr, Armin Stroß-Radschinski – CC-BY-SA 3.0

Adapt & Transform
• Adapt new Trends – in
Electronic Communication
• Adapt Existing Solutions
• Transform How They Act
• Transform How They
Use Media
Paul Downey – CC-BY 2.0

Plone has it…
• a Security Proven Core
• a Lot of Base Functionality
• in High Quality Modules
• High Level Quality
Add-On Packages
• Its Own "App" Culture
Anja Osenbergl – pixabay CC0 Public Domain

Developers Want a
Simple Solution!
•Easy to Develop…
•…but Not Too Simple
Emilian Robert Vicol – pixabay CC0 Public Domain

Plone Community
• Well Known for Expertise
• Knowing to Deal with Big Clusters
• Holding Tons of Data
• High Availability
• Long Term Support
Nanoscience High-Performance Computing Facility (Carbon)
Argonne National Laboratory, CC 2.0 by-nc-sa

Plone ecosystem
• Make this Happen
• Using Eeading Edge Agile Processes
• Technologies to Keep Quality
• Refactor Code at Top Level
"Steel construction" by Vhanepfu
Own work. CC-SA 4.0

Crucial for the
Success of Plone…
• Testing
• Continous integration
• Professional Deployment
• Adjusting the Roadmap
"James Webb Primary Mirror" by
NASA/MSFC/David Higginbotham - Public domain

Crucial for the
Success of Plone…
• Drive New Approaches
• Start with Custom Design Concepts
„NASA Apollo 17 Lunar Roving Vehicle“ by NASA - Public domain

Crucial for the
Success of Plone…
• Using the Modular Code Structure
• Replace Technology Under the Hood
• Migrate to Mainstream Standards Later
"Tesla Motors Model S base" by Oleg Alexandrov - Praca własna. CC-BY-SA 3.0

Put Your Content Into Plone
• Adjusting Lifecycles
• Migrate as Needed
• Exit Strategies Included!
acsr, Armin Stroß-Radschinski – CC-BY-SA 3.0

Plone 5 is
the Future…
• New User Interface
Screenshot & infographic 2014 by Plone Foundation, Irene Capatti et al, CC-BY

Plone 5 is
the Future…
• New User Interface
Screenshots & Topics inspired by Maurizio Delmonte, abstract.it

Plone 5 is
the Future…
• New User Interface
• Enhanced
Content Management
Screenshots & Topics inspired by Maurizio Delmonte, abstract.it

Plone 5 is
the Future…
• New User Interface
• Enhanced
Content Management
• User Management
and Security
Screenshots & Topics inspired by Maurizio Delmonte, abstract.it

Plone 5 is
the Future…
• New User Interface
• Enhanced
Content Management
• User Management
and Security
• Plugin Development
Made Easy
• Excellent Documentation
& Training Available
Gerd Altmann – pixabay CC0 Public Domain

The Plone Intranet
Consortium is
Part of the Game…
• Build on Top of Plone
• Professionally Funded
• 100% Open Source
• Digital Workplace
Technology
• Foundation for
Professional Services
"Steel construction" by Vhanepfu
Own work. CC-SA 4.0

Plone Takes Your Content
Into the Future!
• You are Not Alone!
• Nobody Knows Where We Are Then.
• But We Are There and Under Way!

Thank You!