Social features
Profile. Each user gets a profile. The same approach is used for Company profiles and profiles of any business object.
Friends and followers/subscribers.
News feed and the wall. Every user gets a feed and the wall. Any business object can acquire a wall (activity stream).
Subscriptions. Subscriptions on people and individual business objects. Subscription on groups of objects and conditional subscriptions. Business objects update their own walls and the news feeds of subscribers.
Notifications. Alerts are posted to the feed and sent by email and sms (*). Full alerts management (*).
Discussions. Personal and corporate blogs, news, articles with threaded comments and voting.
Reputation system. Actions on business objects gain reputation and are controlled by the reputation system.
Multilevel tagging and categories. Controlled management of the top-level tags namespace, while allowing free addition of tags by the anyone with enough reputation points.
RSS. All public Submission resources (Blogs, News, Articles, Forums, etc.) are represented via Atom feeds.
Social integration
Social sign-in. Sign up and Sign in using user's existing accounts with Facebook, Twitter and VKontakte. Sign up and Sign in based on email address.
Import. Importing and merging social profiles from multiple networks. importing friends from Facebook, Twitter and VKontakte using their native APIs.
Auto-Reposting. Reposting blogs, news, articles and more to social nets (Facebook, Twitter), via personal and corporate accounts.
Integrated social plugins. Like, follow, share, faceplate (*).
Facebook Open graph integration. Allows users to like any page on your site like a Facebook page, post updates on likes, share pages.
OAUTH. OAUTH2 and OAUTH1 consumer and OAUTH2 provider.
Business features
Sign up
Integrated sign-up and access control based on the ownership of a corporate email account (Yammer-style).
CMS
Browser-based. In-browser content preparation, formatting with styles and images. Tagging and preparation for social reposting.
Lifecycle management. Content release management. Automatic content reposting to corporate social networks.
Image management. Image scaling, thumbnails creation and delivery from CDN (using S3 as CDN at the moment)
Multimedia embedding. Shockwave and Youtube Video embedding.
Content presentation. Grid, List, Blog views, Slide shows, Business object generic profile and custom templates.
CRM
Customer-driven and internal issues. Bug tracking and feature requests. Production, Marketing and Sales issues. Leads and Interactions with prospects.
Priority, status tracking, assignments, tagging, alerts, reporting.
Customizable for vertical domains.
HR
Personnel, positions, skills. Job offers, Job applications.
Time Management. Personnel schedules, working hours, time off and vacations.
Work Scheduling grid. Task assignments based on skills and availability.
Email Marketing
Deliverability. Utilizing Amazon SES for high-volume quality delivery. Managing bounces, spam reports.
Templating. JSP-based.
Analytics. Counting purchases based on email.
Search engine
Global site search. Based on fully automated integration with Lucene.
Typed and Faceted search (property based filtering).
Support of containers, e.g. Company and its products, Article and comments on it.
Autocomplete, Spell checking, Stemming.
Customization via domain-specific Synonyms, site-wide and domain-specific stop words.
Multi-language support (English and Russian at this point).
SEO
SEO-optimized page structure.
Sitemap.xml. Automatically generated and posted to Google, Bing, Yahoo (*).
Trackbacks (*).
Analytics
Views. Stats on viewing history of any business object.
Referrals. Affiliate program for individuals and companies. Multi-tier referrals for sign up and sales.
Tracking. Keeping tabs on all personnel and business activities. Who, what, when, where.
Reporting. Ad-hoc and scheduled.
Data export. Export any data in excel and .csv formats.
Dashboards. Allows to configure multiple dashboards with key performance indicators for different management levels.
Platform
Web API. The whole web site is accessible via generic and simple API like a [Web] Database. Web API allows to explore the whole graph of business objects, query, edit, create and delete objects. Web API allows free throttled access to public business objects and allows to register Apps for a fine grained control (Facebook-style).
Apps. Ability for third-party developers to register Apps to access business objects using Web API. Access is granted to the App by the stakeholders of the business objects.
Custom business objects. Java-based declarative type system which allows to define any conceivable business objects. Any defined object automatically acquires user interface for viewing, reporting, searching, editing. Business object may implement interfaces which add built-in aspects of behavior, such as CollaborationPoint, ModificationHistory, Trackable, ScheduledItem and dozens of others.
Data evolution and migration. Systematic support and tools for data model evolution and data migration into a new data model.
IDE integration. Development tools dully integrated with Eclipse. In addition, complete command line development tools.
Rules engine. Integrated granular rules engine utilizing server-side JavaScript.
Data export. Any data can be exported in Excel or .csv based on the access rights.
ETL. engine to import data from various systems with plug-in adapters.
EDI. Support for EDI and its industry-specific XML successors.
Mailboxing and Data quality management.
Cloud
Lablz platform is fully integrated into the Amazon AWS cloud.
EC2
Automatic install and setup on top of stock Ubuntu server (currently 11.04 with EBS-based boot).
Automatic bootstrapping of complete Lablz server and database setup.
Automatic live snapshotting of EBS volume every hour. Maintaining an archive of volume snanshots.
Automatic backup machine launch daily from last snapshot. Backup machine performs full OS install, setup, symbolic backup, qa testing and automatically shuts down.
Automated clone machine launch from any snapshots.
Automated desktop and development environment setup on top of server machine.
Automated restore from machine stop.
Monitoring machine and Lablz server health and alerts.
S3
Automatic daily symbolic backup to S3 from backup machine.
Automatic copy of all uploaded files to S3.
Automatic copy of all imported EDI documents to S3.
Automatic recovery of all files from S3 to EBS volume.
Automatic copy of all static resources to S3.
Automatic serving of public files and static resources from S3 to offload the Lablz server.
SES
Mass email marketing using Amazon SES.
Automated script to bump up the initial SES quota.
Other AWS services
Route 53. Use of Amazon DNS for serving domain records.
ELB. Optionally using ELB for SSL termination.
SNS. Use of SNS to deliver administrative alerts.
IAM. For certificate management.
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