‘Solution Assembly’ posts

hotel booking platform assembled with Magento

Posted by Optaros on 29 May 2009

After few months of hard work, we are happy to announce that www.planigo.de is “Live-and-Booking”. Currently tested on German travelers, this is the first hotel booking property of QCNS Group (www.qc-ns.com) to be migrated to this new e-commerce/e-booking solution built on Magento Commerce (www.magentocommerce.com). In the coming weeks, more and more properties will be migrated | View post »

Open Source CMS Drupal Helps InfoWorld Pursue New Content Strategy

Posted by Chris Fuller on 15 Apr 2009

Like many media and publising brands, InfoWorld.com came to Optaros looking to for new and efficient ways to better expose and organize content and encourage reader participation. It’s no secret that traditional publishers are undergoing a sea change in their approach to garnering reader interest and eyeballs, while looking to cut costs and generate new | View post »

Open Source Business Intelligence with JasperReports – a major component in our assembled solutions

Posted by Optaros on 24 Oct 2008

In recent engagements, at State of Vaud and City of Lausanne, Optaros has successfully assembled JasperReports, to the overall solution delivered to the Customers, as main component for providing high performance and business oriented reporting. JasperReports, an open source business intelligence solution, provides a mature reporting engine, fast to implement and with many extension capabilities. | View post »

Assembling Django Applications into Web 2.0 Solutions

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 24 Jul 2008

What is Django?Django is a python web framework that in their own words “encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.” It was originally developed developed by The World Company to manage their news properties in Lawrence, Kansas. It was open sourced in 2005 and has been gaining traction ever since. Often compared to Ruby on | View post »

CIO Open Source Interview Part 9 – Change Management

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 09 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 us in the area of change management.

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 »

Deliver working application functionality in small chunks

Posted by Optaros on 20 Dec 2007

Frequent code releases allow you to see your application take shape and facilitate getting the most critical parts of the application in the hands of the users as quickly as possible. By implementing in short phases, Optaros is able to take advantage of lessons learned and make critical changes to future releases without delay. Releasing | View post »

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