Hi, +1
I am sure a lot of customers would love to see this integrated. Maybe it is not 100% necessary, as not all of them have expressed the absolute need to have this, but it is sure good to have: a communication framework (being chat like or twitter like, purely internal or toward customers) can be a real plus when comparing to other ecommerce / erp solutions. -- Wickersheimer Jeremy On Sunday 13 December 2009 20:05:17 Jeroen van der Wal wrote: > 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 >
