Some of the doors we closed, some we are working on. That would be the summary of our summer.
And now the announcement…Contendo 2024.2 spotted in the wild! Well, not really but trust me, it’s there. You just need to look for it. I will get back to this ‘looking for Contendo’ part a bit later as it is kind of a theme for us lately.
Anyway, now that holiday season is behind us, it’s back to work again and luckily for us, we have a ton of interesting stuff coming down the line for Contendo.
But first things first, if you haven’t figured it out by now, Contendo 2024.2 is out.
It is not a feature rich release but it still packs a solid punch in adding a support for atompub protocol and a simple identity management. Contendo Identity management aims at providing quick and easy way of user/group management out of the box. Other than that, the usual suspects, bugs and improvements were also addressed.
In the mean time, work on Contendo 2024.3 has started and is well on it’s way, with full text search and file encryption as two main features.
File encryption will improve security aspect of Contendo by encrypting file content during upload operation making file content unreadable to anyone outside Contendo while full text search will enable querying documents by its content using terms and phrases in the so called ‘boolean search mode’.
Both of these features deserve a dedicated technical article really so I won’t be going into any more details right now.
I said at the start that I will get back to ‘looking for Contendo’ part.
If nobody knows about your product no matter how great it is, you don’t actually have a product. Having a product is just not enough these days, actually it seems that it is the easier part of the job. The harder part is making your product visible, easily accessible and understandable to your potential customers.
For that to happen, you need to have certain skills so technical things aside, we have also been hard at work in improving other aspects of Contendo we now know we should be doing better.
We recognized that we do not communicate well what our product is, what it does and how it can add additional value to our potential customers.
We are now investing additional resources in improving all these aspects of Contendo by collaborating with people who specialize in these kind of things.
Come autumn, we hope to land a brand new website and a publicly available Contendo service to anyone interested in trying our product.
Exiting times ahead, stay tuned!