Today we have launched our long awaited eccenca.com website and the first BETA version of the soon to come commercial eccenca product.The circumstances of this launch are peculiar in many ways. The most disappointing being that some of those who have helped us in defining the vision of eccenca are no longer part of our team. When celebrating the site and product launch today, we want to thank those who have given us support or have directly contributed during the long implementation cycle.
What is the right time to come out with a product? How feature rich and functionally complete must it be to get the desired response in the market?
If you have been involved with the development of any piece of software you must know, that at this point we have more ideas of what to do next than ever before.
Let's face it, the needs and demands of the market are never ending and so the project scope and resources required to fulfill them are endless as well. None the less by launching today we have taken a big stride towards the completion of our vision "To provide a semantic enterprise platform that is free of license fees and based on open source technology". We are convinced, that the semantic enterprise will bring huge improvements in the speed and quality of decision making. A prerequisite to achieving these benefits is an efficient and effective way to make enterprise information available. The BETA version of eccenca launched today has all the ingredients needed to fulfill this task. It provides an open standards based, scalable data processing and access architecture that functionally already fulfills all the requirements to serve as THE Semantic Enterprise Platform.
Of course you will find that many things could be done in a better way. Most likely you will find that the functionality you are looking for is yet not complete. Please forgive us...or even better, help us!
We have provided the sources of the eccenca BETA and will continue to provide a community version including all of the sources. The eccenca.com Forge will provide you with the required resources to start improving eccenca right away. You are looking for a data source connector that is not yet available? Post a request to the forge or start building it yourself. We will be happy to help and might even provide maintenance and support for it. In case you are interested in the kinds of data transformation and text analysis technologies that are available for eccenca CE, just go the eccenca.com Marketplace. Nobody wants to be the first on such a market place and quite frankly our try and buy paradigm will require our add-in provider partners to revisit their own licensing policies to accommodate your needs for testing convenience. So even if your favorite plug-in is not yet listed, we might already be talking to the vendor. But please, do not hesitate to ask us questions, suggest improvements or slaughter us, if we have screwed up.
We are here to build the eccenca Platform, but it cannot and will not achieve its full potential without your input.
Thanks again to everyone who has supported and contributed our team over the past two years since the inception of the eccenca vision. Thanks also to the eclipse community and our development partners, who have provided so much insight and valuable experience in defining the SMILA architecture.
I am looking forward to seeing you around!
Of course you will find that many things could be done in a better way. Most likely you will find that the functionality you are looking for is yet not complete. Please forgive us...or even better, help us!
We have provided the sources of the eccenca BETA and will continue to provide a community version including all of the sources. The eccenca.com Forge will provide you with the required resources to start improving eccenca right away. You are looking for a data source connector that is not yet available? Post a request to the forge or start building it yourself. We will be happy to help and might even provide maintenance and support for it. In case you are interested in the kinds of data transformation and text analysis technologies that are available for eccenca CE, just go the eccenca.com Marketplace. Nobody wants to be the first on such a market place and quite frankly our try and buy paradigm will require our add-in provider partners to revisit their own licensing policies to accommodate your needs for testing convenience. So even if your favorite plug-in is not yet listed, we might already be talking to the vendor. But please, do not hesitate to ask us questions, suggest improvements or slaughter us, if we have screwed up.
We are here to build the eccenca Platform, but it cannot and will not achieve its full potential without your input.
Thanks again to everyone who has supported and contributed our team over the past two years since the inception of the eccenca vision. Thanks also to the eclipse community and our development partners, who have provided so much insight and valuable experience in defining the SMILA architecture.
I am looking forward to seeing you around!
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