‘Open’ posts

Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web

Posted by Optaros on 03 Apr 2009

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 | View post »

Open Source Consulting – Doing What is Right for the Customer!

Posted by Noreen Vincent on 10 Feb 2009

At Optaros, the customer is king! Our clients’ success is our success. This is built-in into the DNA of our consultants. Listening to and understanding our customers’ vision, objectives, needs and challenges is key. It allows us to then propose an approach, shape a solution, provide a roadmap, bring best practices into play, define an | View post »

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives

Posted by Optaros on 21 Dec 2008

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 | View post »

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel

Posted by John Eckman on 23 Jun 2008

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. Specifically, the report claims that “enterprises interested in open source should keep an eye on two offerings — Alfresco Software and Drupal.” (Also check out Matt | View post »

Content Management in the Age of User Participation – Presentation

Posted by John Eckman on 20 Jun 2008

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called “Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton” – you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare.   | View | View post »

Mobile Web 2.0 – Open Marketplaces are the foundation for the future of Telecom Operators

Posted by Optaros on 16 Apr 2008

A next step in opening the telecom operator’s world is to allow partners to leverage the existing telecoms infrastructure. Enabling third parties to leverage native telco assets and resources for new services or for pure reselling will help drastically increasing volume (long tail) and thus impact profitability. BT has done a great job with their | View post »

Open Source CMS – How Telcos can benefit

Posted by Optaros on 14 Apr 2008

The larger telecom operators have been reinventing themselves over the last couple of years again and again. They constantly look to replace voice revenue and profit lost due to competition, they fight price declines, migration and substitution effects. It’s a fine line of introducing new products as needed and demanded and at the same time | View post »

Alfresco opens up

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 13 Mar 2008

At the Alfresco Community Conference in San Jose Wednesday, Kevin Cochrane and John Newton promised to have a process in place to let non-Alfresco employees become committers to the Alfresco Community code line. The pledge, which many in the community may find surprising because up until this point, Alfresco has operated as a “closed community”, | View post »

Turning the Web 2.0 Tide to Your Advantage

Posted by John Eckman on 19 Feb 2008

Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li, both of Forrester Research, have an article in the Spring issue of the MITSloan Management Review titled "Harnessing the Power of Social Applications," which, for now at least, is available in free full text to non-subscribers, as part of an Online Preview. It's a very smart article, worth reading in | View post »

Yahoo! Introduces Mobile Widget Platform

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

Not to be left behind in the era of the iPhone and Google Android, Yahoo! recently launched the Yahoo! Mobile Developer Program, which lets developers create widgets that users can install within Yahoo! Go 3.0. Instead of negotiating all the multiple device models (and carrier restrictions), this enables developers to create widgets using a simple | View post »

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