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Why choose the Nuxeo platform? Let us count the ways! Here are our strong points, as we know them, and what we’ve heard directly from our users and customers who have already discovered that our platform is the best choice for all their content management needs.

For your developers - a lean and powerful platform

In the end, it’s your developers, architects and systems engineers who bring your applications to life and keep them running and evolving. As we believe they are key to any successful application, we’re ecstatic to deliver a product that they can enjoy improving upon. With Nuxeo solutions, they'll build on top of a platform that is feature rich, versatile, and can outperform other ECM solutions on the market in many ways.

  • Extend the system cleanly and effectively by building on top of it. Nuxeo’s platform incorporates a unique architecture, with a strong plug-in system, designed for flexibility and extensibility. The ability to extend the Nuxeo platform is a core requirement and an area in which our products excel.
  • Scale your applications in versatile ways and under the most demanding conditions. Often developers are forced to "deal" with a legacy solution, quickly exposing its limits in scalability. With the Nuxeo platform, just one look at our benchmarks and you’ll understand the type of performance you can expect up front!
  • Leverage the best industry standards and technology and harness the advantages  of using a Java platform based on modern solutions that have proven their value time and again, like OSGI, CMIS, WSS, LDAP, DublinCore, and others.
  • Benefit from a global framework that goes beyond the software itself, enabling efficient QA and deployments during the lifecycle of your application, one which allows for developers to test, build, and deploy efficiently.

For your management - a cost effective and efficient solution

Pleasing developers might be crucial, but there’s more to the equation necessary in order to make an informed choice. From a business point of view, there are many reasons to include the Nuxeo platform  in your IT infrastructure. The main ones, reported to us by our customers, are the following:

  • Lower deployment efforts, faster time to production. Your IT department can leverage the real value of using a standard technology stack, when most other ECM software deployments impose a specific environment. For instance, running on a standard JBoss or Tomcat stack is a way to rationalize and reduce the global cost of application deployments.
  • No upfront cost. With our Open Source model, Nuxeo software is free of license fees. You pay "as you go" for Nuxeo Connect, our subscription-based service, providing support, maintenance and Nuxeo Studio, a design and customization environment delivered as a service on the cloud. The cost of using Nuxeo software is mostly an operating expenditure (OpEx), when most other solutions require an important upfront investment as a capital expenditure(CapEx).
  • Lower total cost of ownership (TCO). In the end, our subscription model combined with the advantages of using existing standard technology plus the minimal maintenance efforts required, dramatically reduces the total cost of ownership of your solution.
  • No vendor lock-in. Because Nuxeo products are Open Source, there is no risk of dependency on the company. If you want to go elsewhere, you're free to go. You have access to all the source code and data, so you can manage a transition.

For your end users - ease of use and adapted to your business

A successful ECM implementation must include happy end users! Whether you use it for Document Management, Digital Asset Management, Case Management or for other business applications, Nuxeo software offers ease of use as well as powerful and sophisticated functionalities, driving user adoption. How?

  • With a simple and intuitive web-based user interface for content collaboration.
  • By fitting with your business needs. Adapting content models, workflows and the user interface to them is our top priority. Users only need to manage what's meaningful to them. Unlike other systems, they won’t have to adapt to rigid processes or complicated business practices.
  • By supporting familiar software environments. If you already use an enterprise portal, a Web Content Management system or Microsoft SharePoint to manage or publish documents, never fear, there’s no need to change everything!  Nuxeo solutions can support these different environments, integrating them on the back-end while users stick to existing applications.
  • With a fast, robust, and reliable solution. Many content management systems work like a charm when just rolled out and empty of content, but they quickly lose speed and encounter issues when loaded and used extensively. Nuxeo software can manage high volumes —of content and users—without compromising performance.  This will not only please your developers, but your end users as well! This brings higher productivity and better user satisfaction.

Choosing a technology platform is one of the most important decisions your organization will make, and although the decision may be daunting, rest assured, choosing Nuxeo software will bring uncanny peace of mind and simplify your business workflows. Our philosophy is simple: build upon solid technology, bring satisfaction to developers, managers, and end users (simultaneously), and never stop evolving to meet our customers’ needs.

Not convinced? Take a test drive by downloading the platform, explore our solutions through available documentation, see how our customers use Nuxeo software, or, if you are in a more formal selection process, read through our Business and Corporate FAQ, which covers a wide range of questions usually raised by customers and partners involved in a selection process.

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