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Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Posted 21 Dec 2008 by Optaros Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source + Read more

Open Source Business Intelligence with JasperReports - a major component in our assembled solutions
Posted 24 Oct 2008 by Optaros Tags: crm2.0, Customer Relationship Management, E-Government, eGovernment, Liferay, SugarCRM

In recent engagements, at State of Vaud and City of Lausanne, Optaros has successfully assembled JasperReports, to the overall solution delivered to the Customers, as main component for providing high performance and business oriented reporting. + Read more

Slides from the Open Source ECM event
Posted 26 Jun 2008 by Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Liferay, Open Source, Ringside Networks, Social Networking

I want to thank everyone for attending the Alfresco-hosted Open Source ECM event in Dallas this morning. In case you missed it, the slides I presented on "Assembling Enterprise 2.0 Solutions with Alfresco" are available at share.acrobat.com (which is built on Alfresco, BTW) and embedded below. + Read more

Event: Open Source ECM in Action
Posted 03 Jun 2008 by Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management, Endeca, Liferay, Portal, Ringside Networks, Web 2.0

If you're going to be in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area on June 26th, come on by the Westin Galleria. + Read more

Running Alfresco web scripts as Liferay portlets
Posted 09 Apr 2008 by Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Enterprise 2.0, Liferay, Portal

I've seen a lot of Liferay and Alfresco forum posts from people having trouble getting Alfresco running within a Liferay portal. Once that's done, people usually want to invoke Alfresco web scripts as portlets without requiring a separate single sign-on (SSO) infrastructure. Some people have pointed to the Alfresco wiki (Deploying 2.1 WAR Liferay 4.3). That is a helpful reference but it isn't the full story. + Read more

People make the difference
Posted 06 Feb 2008 by Tags: Community, Culture, Endeca, Liferay, Social Networking

  Optaros spends a lot of time with our customers on defining the best way(s) to work together. We look at a number of aspects - business relationship, technology, process. But arguably the most important factor is cultural fit. Internally, Optaros expends an extraordinary amount of energy to make sure the people who work here feel a good cultural match - it's probably our biggest consideration during the hiring process. And this focus translates to our customer engagements as well. + Read more

Upgrading Liferay
Posted 07 Jan 2008 by Jim MunzTags: Endeca, Liferay

The great part about using a solution such as Liferay is that not only is it open source but there is a company dedicated to supporting the software. This means that during the time of our deployment Liferay made significant improvements to the software and released additional functionality. We upgraded the software at Endeca and it immediately improved performance and gave them an increased efficiency in the ability to integrate their own software portlets into the portal framework. + Read more

Liferay and Endeca
Posted 03 Jan 2008 by Jim MunzTags: Endeca, Liferay

Part of the assembly solution we created for Endeca was the Liferay Portal Framework. The assembly of this component was integral in that it provided the following: • A forum portlet with subscription and user management down to the thread level. • Robust user management • LDAP integration • AJAX based UI for improved user experience and performance • Ability to add your own custom modules and manage these A couple of items that didn’t meet our requirements where the blog portlet, user registration, user profile, and the Alfresco portlet integration. + Read more

The Endeca Assembly Experience
Posted 08 Nov 2007 by Jim MunzTags: Alfresco, Blogs, Content Management, Endeca, Liferay, Portal

The Endeca Developer Network (EDeN) was achieved through the Solution Assembly process (OptAM) and I have been asked why is this different than traditional software integration by colleagues of mine within the industry. The EDeN experience I feel highlights this perfectly. We went from requirements to a Beta release in just 12 weeks. + Read more