‘Integrated Assembly Environment’ posts

CIO Open Source Interview Part 6 – OForge

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 07 Jul 2008

Here is a snippet of the conversation I had with Steve Snyder, CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, describing his experience with our open approach and personal use of OForge (our Integrated Assembly Environment tool)

Integrated Assembly Environment – Choosing OForge to kickstart your project

Posted by Optaros on 26 Jun 2008

My most recent client engagement was a site redesign and launch for a leading national news paper. There is definitely some sexy technology at work on that site now (Python, Django, Ellington, Apache Solr, Inform, ..), but today I’m choosing to ‘blog about Optaros’ Trac-based software distribution known as OForge. For those who don’t know, | View post »

Software Development Methodology – 7 Lessons Learned

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 12 Jun 2008

Many of our clients complain that IT is holding back their business growth. This is a harsh indictment, but one that is all too true. Most IT departments struggle to provide the business agility required to support rapidly changing business requirements. IT organizations are frustrated with broken promises from their vendors because the vendors are | View post »

Open Source Ecommerce – Assembled

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 06 Feb 2008

In a very competitive sector, flexibility, extensibility and time to market have been the main drivers when we assembled the Wonderbox ecommerce platform. <!–break–> The SOA architecture we implemented (based on Mule ESB) integrates the different services provided by packages such as SugarCRM(CRM, SFA, Partner management), SAGE(finance), SCPA(logistics), ATT(Traceability), osCommerce(order tacking), Ogone(payment) as well as | View post »

The Integrated Assembly Environment (IAE)

Posted by Optaros on 20 Dec 2007

To facilitate transparency and distributed development, Optaros creates and hosts an OForge Integrated Assembly Environment (IAE) for each customer project. The OForge workspace houses documents, application code, designs, status reports and all of the project-specific deliverables. We also use OForge to track and manage our Quality Assurance process. As an Optaros customer you have complete access to | View post »