‘Solutions’ posts

Video Demo of Application Syndication with OView

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 16 Apr 2009

Video demos of the Patriots Calendar App are provided to help you understand what is available for the fan of the New England Patriots and how we are managing this cross channel/cross domain micro-experience through OView. The Fan Experience As a fan of the New England Patriots the Patriots Calendar App, built using the Event | View post »

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 »

Evaluating Social Software? Don’t Underestimate Open Source

Posted by John Eckman on 31 Mar 2009

It’s quite difficult, as many of you probably know first hand, to keep track of all the various platforms, vendors, and open source projects in the social computing and enterprise collaboration space. Like content management systems, social software platforms seem to just keep multiplying rather than consolidating. Thankfully, the folks at CMS Watch, who’ve historically | 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 »

Enterprise 2.0: Free Conference Pass

Posted by John Eckman on 06 May 2008

At the upcoming Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this June, I will be moderating a panel on Open Source Platforms. The panel will be Thursday, June 12th, at 8:30am. Here’s the session description: Community and collaboration pervade open source. It’s no surprise therefore that there are a number of open source platforms which are not | 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 »

Data migration into Alfresco ECM

Posted by Optaros on 09 Jan 2008

After the first and successful implementation of Alfresco at the State of Vaud (Switzerland), the IT department sees more and more requests of State departments requesting for integrating the Alfresco ECM platform. One usual need is the data migration from an existing application to the Alfresco ECM repository. The easiest case is – of course | View post »

Publishers Establish Unique Value On-line

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 08 Jan 2008

Traditionally, a print publisher carve-out a unique market presense by establishing and maintaining three very valubale assets: Relationship between publication and readers Relationship between publication and sponsors Relationship between publication editors, journalists and creative community In recent years, publishers have struggled to derives value from these traditional assets on-line. However, the advent of the Next | View post »

Assembly Components – Open Source? Commercial? Custom?

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 19 Dec 2007

Optaros customers and prospects often ask – with so many open source and commercial products available, and the temptation to do custom development, how should we select which components to use for assembled business solutions. There is no standard answer to this question but we have worked hard to develop a set of guidelines we | View post »

Optaros Media & Publishing Solutions

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 17 Dec 2007

The evolution of the Next Generation Internet and interactive entertainment mediums has led advertisers and audiences of traditional print publications demand new, highly interactive and participatory editorial products distributed on-line. Traditional print publishers are now forced to respond these market demands by creating new on-line products that will attract and retain sponsors and subscribers. Publishers, | View post »