This document discusses Jahia's content management platform and its implementation for the City of Nantes. It describes key Jahia features like supporting the full content lifecycle, enabling multi-site architectures through templates and modules, and integrating external business applications through its ESI Gate tool. The City of Nantes project involved developing new sites on the Jahia platform to replace its 2009 implementation, with a focus on streamlined content production and management across sites.

1. Jahia, The Global Website Factory
Ville de Nantes Use Case
FEB 6TH 2014

2. AGENDA
Key Features of a
Large Communication Platform
&
Application in the
Ville de Nantes Context
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3. AGENDA
1Content Lifecycle
2Platform Industrialization
3Business Integration
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4. WHO ARE WE ?
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5. SMILE
IN A FEW FIGURES
Leading European open source integrator
700
25
%
OPEN SOURCE
INCREASE IN
EXPERTS
More than 20
TURNOVER
YEARS EXPERIENCE
IN OPEN SOURCE
More than 35
PER
YEAR
PARTNERS
IN OPEN SOURCE
More than 45
MILLION EUROS
IN TURNOVER IN 2013
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7. OUR EXPERTISE AND OUR CONVICTIONS
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8. OUR REFERENCES
WORK WITH US
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9. OUR BUSINESS LINES
WEB
E-BUSINESS
COLLABORATION &
ENTERPRISE CONTENT
BUSINESS
INFORMATION
SYSTEMS
INFRASTRUCTURE
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10. WHAT DO WE DO FOR YOU ?
CONSULTING
Framework / Audits / Benchmark
OUTSOURCING
Outsourcing / Hosting /
Maintenance / Support
360°
SERVICES FOR
YOUR PROJECTS
DIGITAL
Visual identity/ Ergonomics
Accessibility / Editorial
Strategy
/ Referencing
TRAINING
ENGINEERING
Change management
Intra and inter company training
Conception / Development/
Configuration
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11. JAHIA & SMILE
Since 2003
+
Gold & Certified Partner
 50 Jahia experts
15+ Large scale projects a year
 First partner in Europe
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12. VILLE DE NANTES /
NANTES METROPOLE
JAHIA PROJECT SCOPE
& CONTEXT
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13. VILLE DE NANTES
THE CITY
The City of Nantes
 6th French town
 300 000 inhabitants, 600 000 in the urban area
 +20 000 every year.
 7 500 agents for the City and 2 600 more with the Métropole
 2013 : Europe Green Capital City
 A very active IT ecosystem
o 3000 companies and 22 000 jobs
o Important decentralized IT Departments
 La Poste, Foreign Affairs Ministry, SNCF, Thalès, DGI
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14. VILLE DE NANTES
A NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM
Context
 A need for a new digital platform
o Following the « e-demarches » project
o Led by the Communication Department
o With the support of Nantes Métropole DGRN
 Transition to new uses
o New publishing channels
o New ways to consume content (Mobility)
o Strong user expectations
Objectives
 A new graphical identity
 Towards a service oriented portal
 A content oriented approach ( Reference content imports, models, editorial focus, …)
 Silver Level Accessibility
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15. VILLE DE NANTES
A NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM - 2
Scope
 After a first version in 2009 (Jahia 5), an update is needed for
o Fast web site creation
o Streamlined content production features
o Multisite management
o User spaces in the long run
Roadmap
 Technical foundations and reference content (events) interfaces
 Nantes.fr overhaul
 Specific sites with dedicated content
Go Live March 2013
 3 months of development – 2 weeks iterations
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16. AGENDA
1Content Lifecycle
2Platform Industrialization
3Business Integration
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17. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
FEATURES EVERY STEP OF THE WA
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18. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
TOOLS NEEDED !
Maintain
Publish
Create
Content
Preview
Translate
Important volumes of content to manage
over time
Tools needed at every step of
the content lifecycle
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19. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
JAHIA ANSWER
Tools are needed !
 As a State Of The Art WCM
 Jahia Provides a lot of them
 Jahia content engines can be mapped to the content lifecycle
Create
Maintain
Publish
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Lets look at a few of them in our context
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20. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
CREATE
In a large deployment context …
 Numerous teams
 Needs for adapted ways to manage content
o According to skills
o According to contribution frequency and volumes …
… Jahia multiple interfaces are the way to go.
 Contribute : The Simple Clicks Mode
 Edit : The Global WYSIWIG Mode
 Studio : The Pro Mode.
And for Nantes, efficient contribution interfaces were a choice
criteria.
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21. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
CREATE
In a large deployment context …
 Numerous teams and varying skills
 Needs for adapted ways to manage content
… Jahia multiple interfaces
 Edit : The Global WYSIWIG Mode
 Contribute : The Simple Clicks mode
 Studio : The Pro Mode.
For Nantes, contribution interfaces was a
choice criteria.
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22. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
PUBLISH
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23. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
PUBLISH : DEDICATED DEVICES
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24. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
PUBLISH : DEDICATED DEVICES
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25. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
MAINTAIN
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26. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
MAINTAIN : A FOCUS ON CONTENT SHARING
Different kinds, different issues
 Hot content : news, …
o Propagate among sites
 Cold content : reference
o Avoid Content Duplication
Solutions
 Common content repository
o Dynamic lists, manual references
 External database integration
o More on this later …
Both used in this project
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27. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
MAINTAIN : A FOCUS ON CONTENT SHARING
Different kinds, different issues
 Hot content
o Propagate among sites
 Cold content
o Avoid Content Duplication
Solutions
Hot Content
Common Jahia Content
 Common content repository
o Dynamic lists, manual references
 External database integration
o More on this later …
Both to be used in this project
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28. CONTENT LIFECYCLE
MAINTAIN : A FOCUS ON CONTENT SHARING
Different kinds, different issues
 Hot content
o Propagate among sites
 Cold content
o Avoid Content Duplication
Solutions
 Common content repository
o Dynamic lists, manual references
 External database integration
o More on this later …
Reference « Business Content »
External Database
Both to be used in this project
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29. THE MANY FACES OF
INDUSTRIALIZATION
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30. INDUSTRIALIZATION
KEY FEATURES
Multi-site platform
 Site management interfaces
 Quick Site Deployment
o Site Template
o Ad hoc Site
Code Sharing & Reuse
 Jahia Modules and now OSGi
Technical architecture
 Jahia Clustering & Scalability
Development & Code Deployment tools
 Jahia 7 : See the other sessions !
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31. INDUSTRIALIZATION
MULTI-SITE ARCHITECTURE IN NANTES.FR
Principles : Reuse and overloading
 Development only of the specific parts
In this platform, sites may be
 Master site and child sites
 Ad Hoc Site for specific needs
Reuse everything
 Site = template + modules
 Template = theme + page layouts
 Modules = content object definitions (CND) + Views + Custom code
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32. INDUSTRIALIZATION
NANTES.FR AND QUESTIONS DE PARENTS
Master Site
Child Site
Site template reuse & overloading
Modules reuse
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 Contents types and views, page components …
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33. INDUSTRIALIZATION
TECHNICAL ARCHITECTURE
Jahia clustering
 2 Visitor nodes
 1 Admin node
 50k visits/day
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34. PLATFORM INTEGRATIO
REFERENCE DATA & BUSINESS A
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35. BUSINESS APPLICATIONS INTEGRATION
THEORY
How to seamlessly integrate external apps and data sources ?
 Agenda & Event
 Associations directory
 …
Many ways can be envisionned
 iFrame ?
 Jahia Modules ?
 Porlets ?
WCM / Portal should not bear business rules and complexity
 Heavy Coupling
 Evolution impacts on both sides
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 Redevelopment needed if solution changes …
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36. BUSINESS APPLICATIONS INTEGRATION
ESI-GATE : A LOW COUPLING APPROACH
A common issue in integration projects
A simple and dedicated aggregation tool : ESI-GATE
 One prerequisite : HTTP
 Simply call and merges block between providers
 Technology agnostic, requires only ESI tags
 Low Coupling
Lightweight portal, with some refinement
 Cache
 Identity & authentication management
 Block extraction
Smile initiated Open Source Project
 www.esigate.org
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37. BUSINESS APPLICATIONS INTEGRATION
ESI GATE INTEGRATION MODES
Block mode
 ESI Gate is in reverse proxy
 ESI Gate calls Jahia
 Jahia render its page + ESI tags
 ESI Gate fetches the business
block
 ESI Gate serves the merged
page
For simple block
aggregation
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38. BUSINESS APPLICATIONS INTEGRATION
ESI GATE INTEGRATION MODES
Template mode
 ESI Gate is in reverse proxy
 ESI Gate calls the business app
 The app render its content + ESI
tags
 ESI Gate fetches the Jahia wrapping
content
 ESI Gate serves the merged page
For business forms and
advanced use cases
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39. CONCLUSION
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40. CONCLUSION
JAHIA, THE PLATFORM OF CHOICE
Jahia
 WCM Scope
o Holistic content lifecycle support
o Content sharing
 Advanced Multi site
o Site management
o Site deployment & templates
 Industrialization
o Code modularity
o Code Sharing
And Ville de Nantes ?
 Happy Client,
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 Project on schedule,
 Stable and efficient platform, with more sites to come !
o Non stop work for 18 months
 Reference platform in public government
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o Responsive, Reference Content, Business Integration …
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41. This is the end.
Thanks for you attention.
Any questions ?
Pierre Frouge
Business Developer Portal
pierre.frouge@smile.fr
@pifro
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