What's New in the Nuxeo Platform?

LTS 2019 includes new AI-related modules that Nuxeo customers can “plug and play” to enrich their content with data from AI services and via custom models deployed on Nuxeo Online Services. This improves the findability of the documents, delivers a greater level of context and intelligence to how content can be leveraged, and also feeds additional AI algorithms to even add more insight automatically.

Nuxeo users can now benefit from our advanced metadata management capabilities, deep AI functionality, powerful search, permissions management, and more – all while transparently editing files from within the Office 365 suite. Users can click on a link from the Nuxeo Web UI, open the document from within Office 365, and edit it. Or, users can save a new document in Nuxeo from Office365.

The Nuxeo Platform can now manage binary content “in place” (i.e. content that remains stored in external ECM or EFSS systems). In addition to extending the Nuxeo content federation strategy, this enables customers to get all the benefits of a modern Content Services Platform (scale, search, workflows, automation, and permissions) without the cost and pain of forced migrations.

Enhanced capabilities for annotations, including the ability for users to annotate office documents, images, videos, PDFs for review/validation processes or for media enrichment.

New Adobe Creative Cloud connector, which has been rebuilt from the ground up to improve the user experience and leverage the full capabilities of Adobe CC 2018.

Nuxeo can now be easily plugged into any direct upload service that provides file or object transfer acceleration. As a result, Nuxeo users will enjoy faster uploads of large content assets like 4K video files via Web UI (the Nuxeo Web client). Transfer acceleration is now available for AWS S3, and connections to additional services can be easily created (such as for Azure or other specialized vendors ). With the S3 implementation, upload performance improvements are typically in the range of 50% to 500%.

If your organization needs to load and manage giant content volumes or throughput, Nuxeo has got you covered! The Nuxeo Platform natively supports MongoDB as an exceptionally fast, scalable content store:

• Handles huge bulk imports and persistence of content, to the tune of hundreds of millions of documents
• Supports heavy concurrent read/write operations, such as versioning and frequent content imports/updates
• Benchmarked at 5x faster bulk import of content and 15x faster document processing over the fastest-performing SQL database implementation
• Optionally store files into GridFS or an object store

• Cloud file sharing platforms, including Google Drive and Dropbox
• Content authoring applications now live in the cloud, also providing advanced, real time collaboration, including Google Docs, Lucidchart, Pixlr and many more
• Multichannel access to all aspects of cloud content: desktop, mobile and tablet

Organizations around the world routinely rely on Salesforce.com (SFDC) applications. Nuxeo now assists Salesforce.com users in more effectively acquiring and serving customers by providing the power of the Nuxeo Platform within the Salesforce.com app. Salesforce.com users can now easily link business content from the Nuxeo repository with any lead, opportunity, customer, campaign, product or any SFDC object. Users quickly search, upload/download and edit content on demand, all within the Salesforce application. This enables deep integration between content-heavy business processes and applications with Salesforce.com and enable to leverage Nuxeo-powered content repository in the Salesforce.com cloud.

InDesign users can now easily find and work with images stored in the Nuxeo repository, from within the InDesign application. Users benefit from full text and metadata search, permanent linking, notifications of image updates and more. This connector will also be available for Photoshop and Illustrator.

The Nuxeo Platform lets developers programmatically define the automatic creation of additional renditions of imported digital assets as desired.

Already providing one of the most advanced, flexible content models available in the market today, the Nuxeo Content Repository now provides new property types for creating and managing more complex content objects and data models.

The Nuxeo Platform can import documents into the Nuxeo core repository without requiring them to be physically moved into the blob store, allowing those documents to simply remain in place. This unique Nuxeo capability makes it possible to integrate cloud-based content, collaboration and authoring tools using Nuxeo Live Connect, as well as enabling support for hierarchical storage management (HSM) policies, which may specify storage of select content outside of the Nuxeo blob store, such as encrypted file storage, use of the GridFS plugin, etc.

The Nuxeo Platform lets developers define hybrid storage policies, specifying what content should be stored via Amazon S3, locally, or other on-premises storage.

User and group permissioning is now faster and easier for admins and managers alike with a new user-friendly UI, and many new permissioning options, including:

• New temporary user access rights, valid only for a desired date range
• Optional email notification to user(s) when a new permission is set
• Easily purge all ACLs for a given user
• New Permissions tab in Admin Center enables search for past and current permissions – a critical resource for ensuring successful regulatory compliance and security audits
• New programmable security filters allow for precise controls over user or group actions beyond simple access permissioning. For example, a user may be allowed access to an image but can only download a low-res copy to ensure IP protection

The Nuxeo Platform already included strong, tight integration with Elasticsearch, the de facto standard in enterprise search, delivering the most advanced search capabilities in the document and digital asset management market. We have extended our integration with Elasticsearch even further:

• New Elasticsearch pass-through API automatically takes care of security filtering: developers can now use a new Elasticsearch pass-through API to query the Nuxeo repository, and build custom Elasticsearch front-end applications, with no need to worry about security filtering. They are now able to use the native Elasticsearch Query DSL, with the Elasticsearch client of their choice (JavaScript, Python, etc.), to build search functionality using the Nuxeo Platform. The Nuxeo Platform dynamically applies permission filters to end user search queries, ensuring that only those objects that the user has access to are presented in search results.
• Elasticsearch Hints for NXQL: Developers can now invoke Elasticsearch functionality within NXQL, the native query language for the Nuxeo Platform. NXQL-based programming can now include Elasticsearch-powered fuzzy search, geospatial search and much more.

The Nuxeo Platform’s Content Automation service, which enables developers to define business logic by assembling high-level atomic operations and bind them to user actions or events, can now be programmed in JavaScript. Developers can quickly create business logic in JavaScript, tapping into the extensive operation library exposed by the platform. As any Content Automation chain, JavaScript chains can be natively exposed through the Nuxeo Platform’s REST API. Automation scripts can be created in Nuxeo Studio’s script editor, which includes useful inline JavaScript suggestions, or using any JavaScript editor.

Nuxeo Drive, which syncs a user’s local desktop with the Nuxeo content repository, has been completely rewritten for dramatically improved performance:

• Faster, more responsive synchronization
• New ability to connect to multiple repositories
• Filesystem notification for near real-time sync as well as reduced CPU usage

The Nuxeo Platform now includes a data visualization toolkit for web developers to build custom analytic dashboards. End users can visually monitor and track key metrics and trends to proactively identify issues before they become serious problems. Based on HTML5 and Web Components, the new toolkit leverages Elasticsearch distributed computation capabilities to aggregate, compute and visualize any data stored in the Nuxeo Platform, including workflow performance, case management data, user search queries, content/metadata, and user activity.

Nuxeo has upgraded its document preview by integrating pdf.js for higher quality rendering of office files. This offers more client side features (zoom, rotate, multi-page) and the ability to stream the content preview for a large document. This new HTML5-viewer offer smooth, beautiful preview of any content that can be rendered into PDF and is fully integrated in the platform so developers can also use it in business applications.