Business Circle

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Business Circle Useful Social Networking Charles
Brexel
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Project Definition

• Business Circle
• Social Networking Application for Businesses
• Increasing Productivity and company feel
• Profiles for each employee
• Information Portal (Intranet)?
• Application Platform for Extendability

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Development

• PHP
• MySQL
• LAMP Server (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)?
• Ubuntu based
• Development in Eclipse
• PHPEclipse Plugin from EasyEclipse

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Scope

• Main Platform
• User Management
• Profiles
• Custom Fields
• Wiki Pages for Departments
• Messages (Inbox)?
• Plugin/Application API
• Customize the Business Circle for Individual
  Companies.

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Initial Goals

• Create User Profile
• Send Messages between Users
• Find and Retrieve Files on File Server
• Wiki for individual departments
• Configurable options
• API Platform

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Problems Encountered

• Database Interaction during Integration
• Had to adopt Zend Framework in order to continue
  development
• Framework that has database interaction layer
  already established.
• Revised in specs documents
• Configurable fields
• More careful database design
• Currently Implementing and will finish
• Integration of Third Party Wiki
• Integrating Log on system.

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Results
DEMO
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Business Circle Useful Social Networking Charles
Brexel