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Open Source Social Applications: Bob Bickel of Ringside Networks
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Business Model, Collaboration, Community, Conference, Culture, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, JBoss, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Video, Web 2.0

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. Read more ...

Organic Open Source: Jeff Whatcott of Acquia
Posted 02 Jul 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Architecture, Blogs, Business Model, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, Drupal, ECM, Enterprise 2.0, Flex, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

During the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston, Jeff Whatcott and I sat down for a quick interview to discuss Acquia, where he is Chief Communicator, and their plans with respect to the Drupal project and Enterprise 2.0. Read more ...

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Posted 23 Jun 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Acquia, Alfresco, Application Stategy, Community, Conference, Content Management, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise solutions, Java, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Ringside Networks, Social Networking, Solutions, Web 2.0

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. Read more ...

Social Networking Identity Mapping, and Open Source
Posted 10 Apr 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Community, Corporate Websites, Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Media and Publishing, Open Innovation, Open Source, OpenID, PHP, Platform, Retail, Social Networking, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

Although social network platforms have been increasingly open to application development, spurred by Facebook's API and reinforced by the Open Social foundation, the approach has always been to enourage the development of applications inside the walls of the social network. Read more ...

Open source ecommerce - Magento releases 1.0
Posted 01 Apr 2008 by Adam Michelson | Tags: Ecommerce, Magento, OFBiz, Open Source, PHP, Retail, Vendor Evaluation

  Magento, a new open source ecommerce platform is a promising new entrant that should be evaluated against OFBiz and osCommerce. The Magento project is lead by Verian Technologies, a consulting firm that worked with osCommerce and then decided they could do better by taking their experience and creating a new ecommerce platform.   Read more ...

Creating a new Retail Concept for ecommerce
Posted 28 Mar 2008 by Adam Michelson | Tags: Ecommerce, multi-channel, PHP, Re-platforming, Retail

A retail concept is a new Website that sells your merchandise in a different way. A/B testing is a proven technique to tune features on your existing ecommerce site, but it is comes up short of a new digital property with its own capabilities and branding. Selling your merchandise in entirely new ways with new branding is not a new idea for retailers, but is becoming easier to do on-line. Your existing merchandising process should stay largely the same. Read more ...

Open Source Ecommerce - Assembled
Posted 06 Feb 2008 by Olivier Pépin | Tags: Application Stategy, Architecture, Assembly Methodology, CRM, Ecommerce, Enterprise applications, Europe, Integrated Assembly Environment, Java, Mule ESB, Open Source, osCommerce, PHP, Platform, Re-platforming, SOA, Solutions, Sugar CRM, SugarCRM, Web 2.0

In a very competitive sector, flexibility, extensibility and time to market have been the main drivers when we assembled the Wonderbox ecommerce platform. Read more ...

SugarCRM and Optaros Expand Strategic Partnership
Posted 10 Jan 2008 by Thomas Lundqvist | Tags: CRM, PHP, sales force automation, Sugar CRM, support

Optaros and SugarCRM extended the strategic partnership in December 2007. Optaros and SugarCRM have had a partnership in place since late 2005, and with the new Gold status partnership in place, we strengthen our ability to jointly deliver solutions based on SugarCRM for our clients. The expanded partnership will also offer SugarCRM and Optaros customers a single line of support through Optaros. Read more ...

REFEN - a user centric approach to help ameliorate information workflows
Posted 08 Jan 2008 by Jonathan Maier | Tags: CRM, Open Source, PHP, Platform, Portal, Sugar CRM, Web 2.0

REFEN is a State of Vaud (south west of Switzerland) project that we delivered yesterday to our client to his great satisfaction. The enthusiasm of the customer was clearly expressed on the day we delivered the solution ahead of time. We succeeded in a short period of time in analyzing and gathering business processes in a user-centric way in order to fulfill end-users needs and thus improve the quality and efficiency of their work. Read more ...

Social Networking Inside Out
Posted 01 Jan 2008 by John Eckman | Tags: Blogs, DiSo, Open Source, OpenID, PHP, Platform, Social Networking, Web 2.0, WordPress

One of the major challenges in the world of Social Networking is social network fatigue: the idea that there is a relatively tight limit to the number of social networking applications in which any user can participate, because it quickly gets rather exhausting to keep track of multiple logins, post news to multiple streams, reply to comments in multiple different contexts, and monitor friends' activities in parallel silos. The existing social network sites and platforms, however, don't make it easy to coordinate and distribute activity among multiple networks. Read more ...

The Room 2.0 architecture as the perfect example on how to get the best of both Java and PHP worlds?
Posted 20 Dec 2007 by Olivier Pépin | Tags: Architecture, Java, PHP, SOA, Web 2.0

With a Java Enterprise back-end (EJB3/JSR-181 service layer on JBoss Application Server), and a user interface that relies on a LAMP stack the Room 2.0 assembly as the perfect example on how to get the best of both Java and PHP worlds. The back-end leveraging JEE persistence, transaction management, integration of payment, hotel management systems and third party content and service providers. The user interface is build on top of PHP symphony framework and Ajax libraries, perfectly suited for web development and integrates with the back-end via SOAP web-services. Read more ...

Whiteboard to Wire in 12 weeks
Posted 11 Dec 2007 by Bobby Beckmann | Tags: Content Management, PHP, Video, Web 2.0

At the beginning, we had a whiteboard with the general idea of Unity's vision and what pieces they thought were critical for the beta release. Since the site was going to be launched in 12 weeks, we had a hard date that had to be met. This site had to have some key functionality including: Read more ...

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