hi Hans, Some customers here are asking for this feature. So it is really great to see your proposal.
Just one idea for your consideration: it would be great if ESME could happen in transaction level to support business collaboration. For example, buyer and supplier can communicate for a specific order, invoice or agreement by using ESME; project owner, approver, task owner can communicate for a specific task in ProjectMgr, etc. And all those messages then can be monitored or tracked. -- Regards, Michael Xu (xudong) www.wizitsoft.com | Office: (8610) 6267 0615 ext 806 | Mobile: (86) 135 0135 9807 | Fax: (8610) 62670096 On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 10:04 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 > >
