Annette Platform Community Edition

Annette Platform is a platform to build business applications. It is designed to be highly available. Annette Platform is “cloud-native” as it has been designed scale out in large, distributed environments, and works well inside containers. It uses in-memory calculation and non-blocking processing technologies to provide high performance. Annette Platform has been build on microservice architecture. Each microservice runs multiple instances that form a cluster to provide load balancing and scaling.

Annette Platform Community Edition (Annette CE) is open source version of Annette Platform Enterprise Edition (Annette EE). Annette CE contains the base functionality and key features of Annette EE. Since it has no backward compatibility restrictions, some of the Annette Platform features could be implemented in a more advanced way.

Annette Platform is backed by IP Lobachev, AmberLabs and ArtNet, software companies that develop business applications using the platform and provide commercial support.

Features

Annette platform provides set of microservices and libraries that helps to build enterprise wide digital ecosystem. This ecosystem can contain a number of applications that share commonly used data and have seamless integration. This helps Annette users to communicate, collaborate and make them more productive.

The technological features:

• High performance provided by implementation of Reactive Manifesto principles.
• High scalability provided by Akka clustering technologies and Kubernetes production-grade container orchestration.
• Cloud native allows deploying Annette applications in on-premise, private cloud or public cloud environments.
• Enterprise-wide platform
• Extendable architecture based on microservices
• Support of unlimited number frontend applications
• Support of unlimited number API Gateways for serving frontend applications and external integration services
• Distributed cluster architecture of microservices and API Gateways
• External & internal authentication
• External & internal authorization
• Embedded Elastic Search integration

Business features:

• High performance that provides quick response and high user satisfaction (customer, employees, business partners)
• High scalability that allows you to optimize costs and scale computing resources in accordance with the needs
• Low time-to-market due to rapid development and implementation of new services
• Low total cost of ownership
• A unified ecosystem that combines various applications on the Annette platform into a single business environment through Single Sign On and shared data.
• Powerful authorization system implements a fine-grained role based access control (RBAC) and allows flexible permission assignment expressed with business terms such as organizational hierarchy and employee business roles.
• A unified person repository that stores all users, employees, partners, contacts etc. in single repository and share it between Annette applications
• An organizational repository that stores organizations data with their respective organizational structures, hierarchies, units, positions, business roles and manager-subordinate relationships
• Multilanguage and localization support allows to use Annette platform in multinational corporations.
• Flexible attribute system that allows creating custom attributes, assigning them to various business entities such as person, organization unit, organizational position etc. and provides powerful full text search capabilities.

Annette is stable and mature platform. It is battle tested in large environments with hundreds of concurrent users. There are number of applications that has been developed using it, such as:

• TELE2 Logistics System for SAP ERP on HANA — user friendly interface for performing logistics operations (material procurements, movements and consumption) in SAP HANA (approx. 700 users);
• MIMC Application Processing System — system for registration and expert evaluation applications to Moscow International Medical Cluster (approx. 100 users);
• Construction Project Management System for Moscow Construction Department — system to manage construction projects in Moscow (more than 10000 users);
• Construction Worker’s Safety Control System for Moscow Construction Department — IoT hardware and software solution, based on LoRaWAN technologies, to control worker’s presence, location and safety on construction sites (more than 3000 users);
• Eldorado MVideo Enterprise Portal (EM Life) — enterprise collaboration and communication system integrated with SAP HCM, SAP BW and others corporate information systems at one of Russian largest retailer MVideo Eldorado (approx. 30000 users). EMLife won Russian Intranet Award in nomination Intranet of the Year and international silver award Intranet 2020

Get started

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Installation

To run Annette Platform in Docker perform the following steps:

1. Clone repository

git clone https://github.com/annetteplatform/annette.git

2. Go to Docker deploy directory deploy/docker in project directory

cd annette/deploy/docker

3. Run deploy script to deploy platform in Docker Compose

./deploy.sh

4. After all services become up and have the healthy state run demo ignition script to populate database with demo data

./demo-ignition.sh

6. After demo ignition completes open Annette Console http://localhost:8500 (login: kristina.fisher, password: abc). Keycloak administration console is running at http://localhost:8080 (login: admin, password: admin).

Documentation

Detailed documentation can be found on Annette Platform site.

License

Annette Platform Community Edition is Open Source and available under the Apache License, Version 2.0

Legal

Copyright 2013 - 2020 Valery Lobachev and the Annette Contributors. All rights reserved.