Presentation about where I think Zarafa can and should make a difference in developping its platform into a complete open, html5, security-oriented ecosystem and platform.

1. Where Zarafa can make a
dif ference.
Zarafa Tour 2014
De Dyck, 18th of september 2014
Jan Guldentops ( j@ba.be )
BA N.V. ( http://www.ba.be )

2. Who am i ?
● Historian by education, ICT consultant & researcher by vocation,
security guy by accident.
● I owe my career and a lot of the fun in my life to open source
● Linux user for 20 years ( damm I am getting old )
● Open source is the best way to build own and maintain software!
● Yes I am open source fundamentalist ! ( after hours )
● Founder of Better Access / BA
● Team of consultants that make a living doing mostly open source
projects.

5. “Zarafa provides open source email and calendar
groupware software, Zarafa is the nr 1 MS
Exchange replacement with outlook&mobile
compatibility.”
(Google search)

6. Zarafa
● Stable, reliable, affordable product
● Great alternative for Exchange
● Nice extra possibilities
– Mobile
– Webapp
– Integration
– Etc.
● Reliability

7. But is this enough ?
● Messaging, calendering and groupware are
becoming commodity
● Very difficult to make a difference
● Competing with allmost free out-of-the box SAAS
software
● Competition doesn't always play fair
● Easy to convince the techies, no ammunition to
convince the people that pay the bills ( CEO / CFO)

8. Learn from the evil geniuses
Source: http://bloggerasaurus.com/2010/06/03/and-the-new-darth-vader-is/

9. Microsoft Lync

10. How to warn customers
against Of fice 365
● Nomen est omen
● Office 365 so what happens in a leap year ?
● You are locked in completely
● Typical crappy Microsoft issues
● You can't seamlessly upgrade from small business
to Enterprise -> Full migration
● Privacy issue

11. Apple
● Steve Jobs = the ultimate evil genius
● Sells you hardware 20% too expensive but in a
cool package
● Lures you into its closed up ecosystem
– Apple controls everything you do on the device
– You pay 30% sales tax to Apple
● Created a legion of Apple Fan boys and girls that
will buy anything they come up with

12. HTML 5
● New client-side Lingua Franca for the internet
● HTML5 fullfills the promises Java made 15
years ago.
● Finally an alternative for Outlook !
● Crossplatform also to mobile platforms
● Masses of cool products being developped

13. Awingu

14. s

15. Use the webapp as the
single gateway to a users
applications
● Communications
● Add presence, videoconfering, SIP, Chat
● e.g. Spreed
● Integrate with all kind of other Webbased
applications
● Alfresco
● CRM-systems
● Etc. Etc.

17. Create an (open)ecosystem
Framework Sales
ZARAFA
Appstore
DEVELOPPER CUSTOMER
Quality Control Invoicing

19. Freedom / Selfdetermination
● Give the enduser back their freedom
● To use software anyway they see fit
● To regain control, ownership over their own data
● To regain their privacy

20. Thank You
Contact us
http://be.linkedin.com/in/janguldentops/
Twitter: JanGuldentops
www.ba.be / Twitter: batweets
info@ba.be
016/29.80.45
016/29.80.46
Remy Toren
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B-3018 Wijgmaal