Market leading community enabler Essentia delivers next generation EssentiaESP platform targeted at Enterprise communities extending open source style collaboration to enterprises with integrated infrastructure for managing their online business through Single Sign On, Unied Content Management, Federated Search and Reporting.

EssentiaESP is the leading community platform for Open Source and Enterprise communities. The new release of the platform, EssentiaESP 3.0, adds signicant enterprise level features targeted at enterprises seeking to unify their infrastructure and centralize the administration of all their web properties. These features are available through EssentiaUnify which is an extension to the EssentiaESP platform.

EssentiaESP is a modern architecture that is a generational leap over the older systems used to host communities today. EssentiaESP has a leading edge technology framework built from open source, commercial, and proprietary technologies. EssentiaESP, the industry's rst community engagement platform, is designed to eciently build and manage vibrant ecosystems that drive strong community participation resulting in improved business ROI.

EssentiaESP facilitates collaborative development with a secure environment that integrates software development, communication, social networking, content management, community management, commerce, CRM integrations, and analytics and tracking. Access to the system is controlled via a centralized roles and permissions system.

EssentiaESP provides:

• Collaborative development tools for version control, issue tracking, and release downloads.
• Communication tools for document sharing, wiki, blogs, news, and mailing lists
• Social networking tools for discussions, user communication, private communities, surveys, rating, reviewing
and tagging
• Self service Site and Project level content management using a full fledged CMS
• Advertisement and Banner management, eCommerce, and marketplace
• Marketing and tracking tool integration with customizable tracking codes
• Centralized, robust and extensible framework, efficient and powerful Community Management tools, single
sign on
• Unique Ecosystem Enablement for rapid community on-boarding
• Federated multi-scoped search at Site, Project and Tool levels
• Powerful reporting capabilities with ad-hoc reporting support using a full fledged reporting server
• Community Activity tracking via RSS feeds, Google Gadgets, Embeddable Snippets.

EssentiaESP is now available for deployment on the cloud.
EssentiaUnify extends the EssentiaESP platform and is designed specifically to address the problems most enterprises face today due to a proliferation of web sites that have been cobbled together over many years using disparate technologies resulting in inconsistent user esperience across these sites for end users and in management and maintenance issues for site administrators. Users are asked to register multiple times on different company web sites and they are asked to login separately into these sites. The company is not able to relate to the same user who comes in using different user ids across their multiple sites. Users are some times unable to locate the information they require from the company's websites as integrated search across all company sites is not available.

Maintaining and updating content on these sites is not easy and requires long turnaround times resulting in outdated information on these sites. Administering and monitoring these sites for activity and access statistics is cumbersome.

EssentiaUnify provides the following services (in addition to EssentiaESP) for all additional web sites:
• Common Registration, Single User Identity and Single Sign On
• Unified Content Management using a full fledged extensible CMS
• Unified Search
• Unified Reporting on site activity across all sites
EssentiaUnify provides enterprise grade infrastructure services needed to setup, monitor and manage all web
properties in an Enterprise. The result is an ecosystem of websites that can be managed through a common
infrastructure by the company. It also leads to a unified consistent user experience for users across all the web
sites owned by the company.

Features

Collaborative development tools for version control, issue tracking, and le release Source Code Management • Full support for leading SCM solutions and centralized including Webbased remote access, repository creation, and user administration. • Supports Centralized as well as Distributed version control models using Subversion and Mercurial. Tracker • Track and manage feature requests, defects, changes, issues, and more via email or online • Notify stakeholders of changes. • Every tracker includes custom fields, custom search, and enhanced search. Release Downloads • Post and manage approved release downloads using a standard file, release, packages hierarchy. Communication tools for document sharing, wiki, blogs, news, and mailing lists Document Manager • File repository for design or architecture documents, requirements documents, project plans, and test plans, etc., with full document version control. Chat • To facilitate one-to-one and one-to-many realtime discussions. Community Mail • User to user communication, private community support using My Community functions. Surveys • Project surveys enable community feedback on any topic. Tagging • Easily tag content of interest with user and admin generated tags. Ratings • Ratings enable user feedback on every project and site asset. Karma • User Karma points can be converted to credits for onsite commerce. Discussion Groups • Support for any number of discussion groups based on technology, company, and region. Site and project level content management Theme Support • Theme and theme management for easy site branding and customization. Rich Content • Self service extensible Content Managament System to manage content on Site and Project landing pages • WYSIWYG rich content editor for all tools, excluding tracker. Access Controls • Single sign-on role-based access controls govern permissions and actions at the site, project, and tool levels. Unique Ecosystem Enablement for rapid community on-boarding Plugin/Project/Subproject Support • Projects and subprojects with a range of visibility, including private projects, gated projects, and public projects for multiple, customizable, project types, including core, accepted, incubated, language, and listing projects. Map Projects • Any project can be a fully-functional project automatically equipped with a suite of tools, or a listing project pointing to development assets located from a dierent site Loosely Couple External Tools and Artifacts • Incrementally migrate communities and sites to EssentiaESP

Wikis • Wiki pages to allow users to easily contribute, edit, and link information. Blogs • Site-wide and project level blogs with multiple author, comment, and trackback support. News • Project and site news; project news flows to site news Mailing lists • Automatic notication sent to lists for every tool transaction or change. Social networking tools for discussions, user communication, surveys, rating, karma, and tagging Discussion Forums • Provides structured, traceable, threaded and searchable project communication that can be monitored by community members. Micro Site • Project and site level micro sites with customizable content and structure. Advanced banners, commerce and dynamic cataloging Marketplace Integration • For users to register products for sale with full support for community commerce transactions and dynamic cataloging Site and Project Banners • Full edged banner and ad management using a Banner Server including admin-customizable reporting on impressions and clicks. Marketing and tracking tool integration with customizable tracking codes Analytics and Tracking • Administrator-customizable integration with Google analytics, Manticore, Omniture, and other tracking systems featuring unique codes on every page. Centralized, robust extensible framework • User and project/plugin management, authentication, authorization, sessions, notications, site monitoring and maintenance, easy tool integrations. Site and project-level reporting • Advanced, interactive reporting using JasperReports, JasperServer, and JasperAnalysis including Flash-based animated charts. Deployment models • Secure, behind-the-rewall operation, or delivered as a SaaS solution for all community and corporate IP. EssentiaESP is now available on the cloud as well. CRM Support for Community Maturation • SugarCRM and Salesforce.com. Project Templates • Customizable project templates for rapid project creation, encouraging ecosystem participation. Single Sign On • Single Sign On, Single Registration, Common Sessions for all tools within EssentiaESP • Delivered as a service for other associated company web sites as well Site access Stats • Rich current and historical reports on users, visitors, pages, hits, bandwidth etc. available for EssentiaESP and other assocaiated sites. Content Management Services • Feature rich, extensible CMS for managing static content, dynamic content related to site activity and dynamic content from external sites • CMS available for other associated sites as well Federated Search as Service • Feature rich, ne and coarse grained search • Available as a service for other associated sites • Search UI delivered as embeddable snippets