Hi Hans, This was the kind of explanation I was aiming for. Great things start by sharing a vision or a business problem and enrolling the community into that can provide thrust. Googling "esme sap" gave me even more perspective on the matter. Will add my future comments on ESME to the wikipage.
Regards, Jeroen On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 3:04 AM, Hans Bakker <mailingl...@antwebsystems.com> wrote: > Some users are wondering if ESME is useful to add to OFBiz or not, > therefore some promotion why I think it is interesting and yes I have > business cases for it: > > 1. It started with a request of our customers to have a chat possibility > in e-commerce for new users to ask questions via chat. I looked at 2 > chat open source frameworks. Then ESME was proposed here in the mailing > list. My opinion is that if ESME can do chat too, then better go for > ESME so we have also twitter functions. (as Tim also stated) > > 2. ESME allows to use the twitter principle in a protected business > environment: developers/marketeers exchanging ideas, announcing news and > problems. (yes you should use OFBiz in your company to see these > benefits) > If you are still not convinced of twitter in a business environment: get > a twitter account and follow me: @hansbak i will keep you informed about > ESME within OFBiz and you will have the opportunity for point 3 as a > bonus. > > 3. ESME was actually born in the SAP environment and many people from > this environment now getting exposed to OFBiz because we are looking at > ESME too and the ESME people "retweet" my ESME experiences to their > network of twitter accounts. > > I was not convinced about this twitter stuff but using this for my ESME > investigations has shown me that it is actually pretty exiting getting > to know so much new people in such a short time. > > David thanks for the support because it looks like that the OFBiz > community has a problem accepting new functions like this one, even if > it does not affect their usage of OFBiz. So please people, not too > conservative and always be open to new developments! > > Regards, > Hans > > > > > On Sat, 2009-12-12 at 16:30 +0700, Hans Bakker wrote: >> Proposal: >> >> We are looking to copy an ESME server within OFBiz as a component to >> allow for twitter like messaging within the OFBiz environment. >> >> users coming on the ecommerce site can 'twitter' a message which is >> monitored by the system admin, who can answer the questions. >> >> Logged in users can follow other registered users and can twitter what >> they are doing... >> >> more info at >> http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/ESME/Collaboration+with+OFbiz >> >> any thoughts? >> >> regards, >> Hans (@hansbak) >> > -- > Antwebsystems.com: Quality OFBiz services for competitive rates > >
