Optaros Wins Next Generation Internet Competition
The Optaros Assembly Methodology (OptAM) Independently Validated in Competition as Superior Approach for Web 2.0 Applications
Boston, Zurich, Munich – August 6, 2007 – Optaros Inc., an assembler of Next Generation Internet (NGI) solutions, today announced it won an international competition to create Web 2.0 applications. Optaros and its client team, the State of Geneva, won one of the development tracks of Plat_Forms 2007, a competition to rapidly create next generation web-based applications.
Plat_Forms 2007, the “Web Development Platform Comparison,” challenged teams throughout the world to create an NGI platform within 30 hours using different approaches such as waterfall, agile and assembly, and technologies such as Java EE, .NET, PHP, Perl, Python or Ruby on Rails. Using Optaros’ innovative Optaros Assembly Method (OptAM), the Optaros team designed a social networking site where people register to become members, take a personality test and then search for others based on criteria such as personality types and likes or dislikes. The application includes both an interactive user interface via HTML pages and a WSDL/SOAP-based programmatic interface.
Enterprises face significant challenges meeting rapidly growing market and customer expectations for new online experiences while minimizing the total cost of ownership. “Snappy Web 2.0 user interfaces are the starting point, but capitalizing on Web 2.0 will require agile development processes with a sharp focus on service creation, application assembly and community-based development that most IT shops do not employ today,” wrote Jeffrey S. Hammond, senior analyst at Forrester Research, in the June 2007 report, “Developing Enterprise Web 2.0 Applications.”
“Our work with the State of Geneva for Plat_Forms 2007 showcases how our assembly methodology quickly delivers flexible Web 2.0 applications versus traditional methods that are two or three times slower,” said Marc Osofsky, vice president of Marketing at Optaros. “Over the last two years we have delivered nearly 100 Next Generation Internet applications using our assembly approach and are very proud of our 98 percent on-time and on-budget performance.”
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