Yacs is a social networking platform that allows businesses to better engage with customers. It provides tools for communication, content management, and collaboration. Yacs uses a flexible data model of shared objects to integrate various business processes. It aims to focus businesses back on their customers by facilitating interactions and consolidating customer information in one place. Yacs is open source software that leverages common web technologies like PHP, MySQL, and AJAX to provide a customizable and scalable solution for companies.

1. yacs Macnana ! December 2008 by Bernard Paques

2. introduction to yacs Macnana WELCOME

3. is the corporation compatible with new information technologies from the Internet? capital and assets collective behavior trusted brand personal experience autonomy, explorations trusted human being Yes, providing that social networks become core to the business! shared objects * interactions = growth

4. yacs supports growing business customer folders customers interactions news, events enterprise presentation end-to-end processing capitalization actors shared objects project A lead C yacs + others story D study B innovation

5. yacs helps to focus back to customers production has been optimised dedicated tools consolidated contributions work breakdown roles alignment integrated reporting Workflow Directory Process ERP Wiki Marketing accounting CRM BI actors shared objects project A lead C yacs + others story D study B innovation

6. yacs is a toolbox for social networks based on shared objects

7. yacs is an evolving project yacs matches expectations of today surfers: self-service user interface is simple enough pre-requisites: web browser and mail client yacs is a web 2.0 platform that suits the corporation: flexible and adaptative content management 100% control of the visual identity extension through PHP/javascript programming yacs is provided for free (LGPL) and leverages the Apache / PHP / MySQL / AJAX architecture: more than 150,000 lines of high-quality code and a set of selected components provided by third-parties

8. some examples

9. sample complex social object one PHP script to add fields and tabs, and to update the database

10. sample progressive validation on-demand request by e-mail recorded decisions

11. an enhanced personal page Race results Personal interactions

12. text-based meetings transcript is turned to permanent page

13. documents are valid business social objects too before with yacs files are duplicated, consolidation is painful shared files are accessed sequentially 1 2 3

14. user profiles reflect what people are doing, and their areas of interest Automatic by-hand

15. private pages, for threaded interactions on-going topics, and related people new private page

16. technology

17. yacs is respectful of open technical standards <<LDAP>> <<HTTP>> <<POP3>> <<SMTP>> <<HTTP>> <<SQL>> :WebServer {vendor=Apache} <<device>> :Workstation :DBServer {vendor=MySQL version>=4.1} :MailServer :DirectoryServer :WebServer <<browser>> {compliant=XHTML} <<blogger>> {compliant=XML-RPC} <<newsReader>> {compliant=RSS or ATOM} <<webService>> {compliant=XML-RPC} Corporate directory <<scheduler>> cron <<database>> yacs database outbound queue inbound queue <<PHP>> yacs files <<newsFeed>> {compliant=RSS or ATOM}

18. yacs helps both webmasters and software developers

19. database structure is simple and scalable Article – basic piece of information, with optional attached content: images, files, comments, links, etc. Previous versions can be restored if necessary. Section – a set of articles and sub-sections. The content tree is not limited, and is reflected dynamically at the Site Map. Each section is configured individually as a blog, a wiki, a forum, or something else. Surfers select sections to monitor through their watch list. Category – a list of articles, sections, or users Free-form tagging is allowed. Site associates do explicit categorization. the tree of categories is not limited.

20. yacs binds users to content management for a site: associate member suscriber anonymous robot registration policy: closed group validated membership open group for one section: editor reader by direct assignation of a user profile: member -> editor subscriber -> reader assignments are cascaded to sub-sections

21. yacs codes are a powerful way to manage flows of information [updated=category:462,10] [updated.simple=self, 7] [updated.timeline]

22. yacs has a slick execution architecture

23. yacs is the only open content management system that adapts new usages of the Internet to specific corporate processes, (through structured social objects)

24. and you, how will use yacs to support the growth of your business?

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