As with each new release, Jalios has enriched both the features and performance of the technical platform and added new value-added functional modules.

Once again the JCMS product roadmap, which provides for one new version every year, is on schedule. And once again JCMS is enhanced by new modules developed by the Jalios R&D Department, some of them to meet specific needs of customer projects. Olivier Dedieu, Technical Manager, explains: "Our product development approach enables new modules to be released relatively rapid while taking into account the constraints associated with version migrations by our major account clients."

Among the new features of the JCMS platform:

• Member (user) management in the database in order to be able to manage high-volume XNet sites and create customized virtual desktop type environments.
• Even better usability thanks to increased use of Ajax: simplified forms, drag & drop, auto-completion, etc.
• Management of incoming mail which becomes a new data entry channel for JCMS. E-mail bodies and attachments are stored and classified just like any other type of content. This module invites multiple applications, such as managing user newsletter subscriptions, replies to a forum, micro-blogging, and insertion of e-mail in collaborative spaces.
• More powerful workflow now applicable at field level of content items.

There are also some JCMS usage enhancements:

• Internet / Intranet:
  • Temporal preview in order to check the rendering of a site on a given date, past or future, taking into account the content publications dates.
  • Creation of dynamic forms with online help enabling managers (not necessarily administrators) to prepare surveys, quizzes, multiple-choice questionnaires, etc.
  • New newsletter functions including subscription management, multi-file distribution and handling of unreceived dispatches.
• Electronic Document Management (EDM) and desktop environment:
  • Integration of MS-Office with an extension allowing transparent access to shared servers: open/save documents, browse in workspaces, off-line editing, check-in/check-out, metadata consultation/editing.
  • Import of documents scanned via Kofax Capture to add and automatically index content in JCMS.
  • Improved WebDAV support with a number of popular browsers.
  • Photo libraries.
• Portal and personalized virtual desktop:
  • Introduction of a task management portlet handling achievement dates, descriptions, displays by priority.
  • User bookmark management including external links, internal content and searching.
• Collaborative spaces:
  • GANTT module: a project management module using Gantt diagrams. This can be used to assign resources to tasks scheduled in the planning, to create dependencies between activities, to print or export in various formats. There is a wizard to create new projects.
  • Improved directory.

JCMS version 6.1 also enables complete and transparent integration of Jalios ESN, a major Jalios innovation in Enterprise Social Networking which places the user at the focus of the Intranet and provides many vital functions:

• Profile management,
• Activity monitoring,
• Skills management,
• Relationship management,
• External contacts management.

Jalios ESN integrates natively with the JCMS collaboration and personalized desktop modules. It finds applications across the enterprise: train expert communities, support communication between geographically separated people, build practical knowledge bases, identify and develop talent…

Vincent Bouthors, Jalios CEO, remarks: "The JCMS platform is unrivaled in France for its functional richness. Yet this new version 6.1 is eagerly awaited by our customers since it introduces some highly useful and innovative enhancements. Some of these are provided in response to customer feedback (notably from our "JClub" users club) and our market-watch activity whose goal is to anticipate market needs."