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Video Demo of Application Syndication with OView
Posted 16 Apr 2009 by Jim Munz | Tags: application syndication, Assembled Web, content syndication, Facebook, Marketing, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, multi-channel, Online Advertising, Online Marketing, oview, SaaS, Solutions, sports marketing, syndicate, Syndication, Video

Video demos of the Patriots Calendar App are provided to help you understand what is available for the fan of the New England Patriots and how we are managing this cross channel/cross domain micro-experience through OView. The Fan Experience Read more ...

Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web
Posted 03 Apr 2009 by Sebastian Wohlrapp | Tags: Assembled Web, Clients, Community, Europe, Java, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Mobile, Open, Open Source, RIA, Rich Internet Application, Solutions, Switzerland, telco, telecom, User Experience, Web 2.0

The Best of Swiss Web Awards are the most coveted awards for e-business, Internet and mobile projects in Switzerland since 2001. A total of 277 projects were submitted to the jury this year in eight categories. A panel of 80 experts has revealed this year’s winners of the Best of Swiss Web Awards and me2me was awarded twice with this accolade which honours Switzerland’s top websites.   me2me was awarded the Best of Swiss Web Technology Innovation Silver Award and the Business Efficiency Bronze Award 2009. The project was also a nominee for the 2009 Master of Swiss Web.   Read more ...

Evaluating Social Software? Don't Underestimate Open Source
Posted 31 Mar 2009 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Alfresco, Analysis, Application Stategy, Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Content Management, Django, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Groundswell, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, Social Networking, Solutions, Strategy, Twitter, Vendor Evaluation, WordPress

It's quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Read more ...

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Posted 23 Jun 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Alfresco, Application Stategy, Community, Conference, Content Management, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Java, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, Web 2.0

Stephen Powers of Forrester Research recently released a report identifying Alfresco and Drupal as the two open source content management platforms to which enterprises should pay the most attention. Read more ...

Enterprise 2.0: Free Conference Pass
Posted 06 May 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Alfresco, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Knowledge Management, Open Source, Platform, Portal, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, User Experience, Web 2.0

At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this June, I will be moderating a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panel will be Thursday, June 12th, at 8:30am. Here's the session description: Read more ...

Open Source Ecommerce - Assembled
Posted 06 Feb 2008 by Olivier Pépin | Tags: Application Stategy, Architecture, Assembly Methodology, CRM, Ecommerce, Enterprise applications, Europe, Integrated Assembly Environment, Java, Mule ESB, Open Source, osCommerce, PHP, Platform, Re-platforming, SOA, Solutions, Sugar CRM, SugarCRM, Web 2.0

In a very competitive sector, flexibility, extensibility and time to market have been the main drivers when we assembled the Wonderbox ecommerce platform. Read more ...

Data migration into Alfresco ECM
Posted 09 Jan 2008 by Tito Espinoza | Tags: Alfresco, Open Source, Platform, Recommendations, Solutions

After the first and successful implementation of Alfresco at the State of Vaud (Switzerland), the IT department sees more and more requests of State departments requesting for integrating the Alfresco ECM platform. One usual need is the data migration from an existing application to the Alfresco ECM repository. The easiest case is - of course - when Business does not require any migration as the new the application will manage new content only. Read more ...

Publishers Establish Unique Value On-line
Posted 08 Jan 2008 by Bryan Spaulding | Tags: Media and Publishing, Solutions, User Generated Content

Traditionally, a print publisher carve-out a unique market presense by establishing and maintaining three very valubale assets: Relationship between publication and readers Relationship between publication and sponsors Relationship between publication editors, journalists and creative community In recent years, publishers have struggled to derives value from these traditional assets on-line. However, the advent of the Next Generation Internet (NGI), presents new possibilites for publishers on-line. Read more ...

Assembly Components - Open Source? Commercial? Custom?
Posted 19 Dec 2007 by Brian Otis | Tags: Assembly Methodology, Composite Applications, Open Source, Solutions

Optaros customers and prospects often ask - with so many open source and commercial products available, and the temptation to do custom development, how should we select which components to use for assembled business solutions. There is no standard answer to this question but we have worked hard to develop a set of guidelines we believe best serve enterprise customers: Read more ...

Optaros Media & Publishing Solutions
Posted 17 Dec 2007 by Bryan Spaulding | Tags: Media and Publishing, Online Revenue, Solutions

The evolution of the Next Generation Internet and interactive entertainment mediums has led advertisers and audiences of traditional print publications demand new, highly interactive and participatory editorial products distributed on-line. Read more ...