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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

SugarCRM consultant Optaros is practicing what we preach
Posted 14 Nov 2008 by Optaros Tags: CRM, crm2.0, Customer Relationship Management, Marketing, sales force automation, Sugar CRM, SugarCRM

Download a case study of our SugarCRM deployment at the State of Vaud. + Read more

REFEN, an enterprise SugarCRM implementation
Posted 17 Sep 2008 by Optaros Tags: CRM, Customer Relationship Management, E-Government, eGovernment, Enterprise solutions, Government, Sugar CRM, SugarCRM

REFEN is a component based assembly application, using SugarCRM as core component that has been designed, developed and Q/A tested in 10 weeks following OptAM methodology with a development team of 3-4 people.REFEN provides a web 2.0 interface for the work office department of the State of Vaud (Switzerland). The REFEN system: + Read more

Open Source Ecommerce - Assembled
Posted 06 Feb 2008 by Olivier PépinTags: 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

Business and Open Source meet in Germany (report from Heise Congress)
Posted 27 Jan 2008 by Optaros Tags: Alfresco, Open Source, Sugar CRM

This week the already well known Heise Open Source meets Business Congress took place in Nurenberg, Germany. Richard Seibt and his team once again put together an interesting and relevant group of speakers to discuss the importance and impact of Open Source in business. + Read more

SugarCRM and Optaros Expand Strategic Partnership
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by Optaros Tags: CRM, PHP, sales force automation, Sugar CRM, support

Optaros and SugarCRM extended the strategic partnership in December 2007. Optaros and SugarCRM have had a partnership in place since late 2005, and with the new Gold status partnership in place, we strengthen our ability to jointly deliver solutions based on SugarCRM for our clients. The expanded partnership will also offer SugarCRM and Optaros customers a single line of support through Optaros. + Read more

REFEN - a user centric approach to help ameliorate information workflows
Posted 08 Jan 2008 by Jonathan MaierTags: CRM, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Portal, Sugar CRM, Web 2.0

REFEN is a State of Vaud (south west of Switzerland) project that we delivered yesterday to our client to his great satisfaction. The enthusiasm of the customer was clearly expressed on the day we delivered the solution ahead of time. We succeeded in a short period of time in analyzing and gathering business processes in a user-centric way in order to fulfill end-users needs and thus improve the quality and efficiency of their work. + Read more