Brick Versions

OneCube permanently upgrades and develops the Brick platform, in order to anticipate and satisfy its clients' demands.

Since its first release, in 2005, new functionalities have been developed for each Brick module, making it more and more customizable and scalable.

2011

Version 2.0 (October 2011)

Additional features of the eCommerce module:

Introduction to the loyalty scheme utilising points against your loyalty card. Start a campaign to increase customer loyalty by promoting your loyalty scheme.
Extension of product variants. Ability to customise and differentiate the sale of each product by creating any type of variant (eg. Color, size, shape, brand etc). Each option can be discounted and set as a stand-alone product or managed as a product belonging to a group.
Introduction of delivery. Ability to select different methods of delivery of products and / or define the points of pick-up.
Further development of the discount scheme. Ability to customise the discount schemes for each product with temporary validity limits and / or according to other characteristics of the product. Ability to discount a line of products, define discount schemes at the shopping basket stage based on a minimum value spent or other characteristics. Create discount schemes tied to a marketing campaign and online campaigns (combined with the newsletter), to define discounts or surcharges related to the shipping modality selected.

Version 2.0 (March 2011)

Document Management additional functions:

document management available for back-end and final users
users and fields configured from back office
customized e-mail alert (events, users, ...) for workflow processes management
document management protocolling

New widget for social features (questionaries, test, polls)

2010

Version 2.0 (December 2010)

eCommerce module additional functions:

developed management of the products variants made of different attributes (for ex.: the variant “cloth” includes the attributes “colour” and “size”), dynamically configurable in Brick
upgrade performance in the product search, thanks to the advanced technologies for indexing, based on the text-search engine open-source Apache Lucene
possibility of personalized researches by one click only: simply mark as “researchable” the products attributes involved

Version 2.0 (September 2010)

eCommerce Module Release:

"Quick buy" function, no registration required
complete management of discount campaigns, configurable by date, time, users' groups, percentage or monetary discounts
user-friendly Back Office functions for an autonomous management of the products variants in relation to the warehouse quantities

Version 2.0 (June 2010)

Brick 2.0 launched, completely renovated in technology and in User's interface functionality

Technology

service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and application of Open Source components such as Liferay Portal (portal server JSR-168 compliant)
standard JSR 170 for a standard access to the content repository
velocity language to create templates, macro and dynamic web pages
implementation of Widget to create new functionalities and/or to integrate external application
freeware and commercial application server

User's Interface

immediate and intuitive, thanks to Ajax and JQuery technology
various setting configurations directly from the interface, without developing a new code: configuration of files, forms, templates etc.
social functionalities directly integrated in the platform: blog, wiki, voting, comments, etc.

Version 1.5.8 (March 2010)

BrickCore Updating:

possibility to add images, animate gif, flash swf from the text editor in Brick back office
optimization of the Contacts Form in front office: dynamic management, use of query and ajax
simplified and improved access to the database: 20% time saving for each query, web portal is faster, more accessible and "Google friendly"
improvement of Black List management in the Newsletter Module: optimized management of the rules to define the Black List and possible implementation of dynamic management

2009

Version 1.5.7 (December2009)

BrickCore Updating:

integrationwith JXLS www.jxls.sourceforge.net to export data in excel format by means of customizable templates, in compliance with the graphic specification distinctive for each single project: website, portal, intranet, extranet, ecommerce,etc.
cache memory optimization: faster display of records once a query has been launched to the database, 50% time savings on the uploading of each single page. The time saving in the uploading phase has a positive impact on the dynamic contents: catalogue sheets, articles, researches, etc.
integration with Fusion Charts www.fusioncharts.com to provide a graphic output of the reports data

Version 1.5.6 (October 2009)

Newsletter Upadating:

different reports management: sorted by n°of posting, n° of receipt, n° of errors
procedure for an automatic unsubscription to multi-subject newsletter
tracking of the behavior of users receiving the newsletter. This system can filter those users that opened the newsletter and those who didn't
preview and duplication of the past newsletters in order to optimize and capitalize past editing activities
footer in compliance with Italian privacy laws

Version 1.5.5 (July 2009)

Integration and testing of Brick and IBM database version 9.7 Cobra:

integration and testing at the IBM Innovation Centre in Segrate
integration and testing with 9.7 version of the database released by IBM
integration and testing on IBM hardware
integration and testing with IBM webshare application server

Version 1.5.4 (June 2009)

eCommerce Module Updating:

possibility to manage discount campaigns, customizable on the base of time slots, groups of users and percentage of discount to be applied to the shopping cart
check and updating of discounts both per percentage and nominal value

2008

Version 1.5.2 (November 2008)

Updating Social Module and Utility 2.0

Updating News Application: Automatic publishing and display in RSS format.
Web Survey Management.

Improvement of SEO functions specific for web contents (meta elements on the single content and semantic URL).

Version 1.5.1 (September 2008)

Workflow Module for an automatic management of group’s process activities, with specific reference to documentation flows.

Version 1.5 (June 2008)

Restyling User’s Interface:

Back Office web browsing through different tabs, sorted by topic;
Content Searching (files, articles, videos, images, etc) thanks to file System Navigation Tree
Updating of Newsletter Scheduling;
Advanced Security System (Encrypt Password ).

Version 1.4.2 (April 2008)

SEO Updating Functions:

Introduction of Google Site Map;
Introduction of robots.txt file, to notify the search engine of the correct web pages to be indexed;

And for the product catalogue in the eCommerce Module

Key Words definition and description, “come back later” tag and specific URL for each catalogue category;
Special Indexing focused on the single product thanks to the introduction of semantic URL for each product profile.

Updating Social Module: Advanced Management of Newsletter System:

Users definition and "dynamic fields" management to send customized newsletters;
Preview and Testing Functions;
Advanced Statistics (number of sending, properly received emails, incorrect emails not sent…)

Version 1.4.1 (February 2008))

Parameters Definition for Applications (i.e. the opportunity to set up and publish the applications in the web page)
Constant Updating in compliance with SEO, to be in line with the continuous evolution of search engines and their indexing algorithms.

2007

Version 1.4 (March 2007)

eCommerce Module: Products Catalogue (management of product categories and profiles)
Multilingual Functions available in Russian and Chinese (UTF-8 compatible)

2006

Version 1.3 (December 2006)

MultiPortal Module to manage more than one web site or web portal at a time in one installation.

Version 1.2.1 (August 2006)

Social Module: implementation of Newsletters & Private Areas Management System, complete with users’ profiles and relevant access authorization.

Version 1.2 (June 2006)

Security Management System
Mobile Module: send & receive SMS e MMS from Brick interface to specific users’ groups that can be autonomously defined and set up
Improvement of the Navigation Tree functions and content categories management

2005

Version 1.1 (November 2005)

Multilinguism management both for back and front office
Report Module: creation and management of reports in different formats (html, pdf, word, excel, etc.) and fully customizable upon Company’s requirements
SEO (Search Engine Optimization): specific functions for indexing of web pages, that can be managed from back office by non-technical users, to create web sites optimized for search engines.

Version 1.0 (February 2005)

Brick launch: Content Manager for a complete handling of documents, applications and contents.
Standard Technology J2EE, XML, XSLT to guarantee the portability on different systems and to assure long term security
Usage of both freeware and commercial server application
Portability between server application compatible with J2EE specs
Form and Content separation thanks to XML, XSLT e CSS.