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JasperSoft Solutions Used at MCCA with OptAM Delivering Tremendous Business Results

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 23 Oct 2008

In late 2007, MCCA engaged Optaros to build a comprehensive Event Management System that enables the MCCA staff and their partners to sell, plan and deliver events to their customers. The solution supports MCCA’s core business operations in the event management lifecycle including: Sales and Facility Booking Event and Exhibitor Space Setup and Service Order | View post »

Reviewing the Groundswell

Posted by John Eckman on 22 Jul 2008

One danger of reviewing a book is the reality that the reviews ultimately say more about the reviewer, and the book he or she wishes had been written, than they do about the book which actually was written. It’s in that context that I offer this review of Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by | View post »

CIO Open Source Interview Part 8 – From .Net to Open Source

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 08 Jul 2008

Here is a snippet of the conversation I had with Steve Snyder, CIO of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority, describing his movement from .Net to Open Source.

Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks

Posted by John Eckman on 02 Jul 2008

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, I sat down for a quick chat with Bob Bickel, the co-founder and CEO of Ringside Networks. We talked about Ringside Networks’ Social Application Server and how they are using open source to drive innovation and application development beyond the core platform. (Don’t forget Bob’s previous middleware-style professional | 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 »

Open Source CMS – does the world need yet another one of these??

Posted by Optaros on 07 Apr 2008

Content Management is a very poplular category in the open source ecosystem. There are more than 2’000 open source technologies out there to handle, manage and distribute content. So why would we need any of the 200 new ones published over the last six months? Some of the existing 2’000+ solutions are very well known. | 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 »

Next Generation Internet in the Enterprise?

Posted by Optaros on 10 Jan 2008

How will enterprises deliver next generation Internet applications? That's the question explored by this white paper Optaros published in April of 2007. Our own research and analysis, described in detail in the white paper (registration required) led us to conclude: More than 60 percent of enterprises are aware of customer expectations for two-way Internet interactions. | View post »

NGI, Assembly, and Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

Next Generation Internet applications, assembly as a methodology, and open source are related to each other in important ways. It’s the combination of the three that really enables the rapid delivery, business agility, and innovation that businesses need on the web today. Open source applications and frameworks make possible as assembly methodology. Although Optaros often | View post »

Culture of Participation

Posted by John Eckman on 10 Jan 2008

One key aspect of next generation Internet applications is the breadth and depth of participation expected by users. While Tim Berners-Lee has complained that the Web 2.0 meme misses the point that the web was always supposed to be about collaboration and community of users, the reality is that first generation web sites were generally | View post »

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