Open Sistemas

Another of the projects that Open Sistemas developed for Orange was focused in content management. Access to information had to be improved, and at the same time take advantage of its generation capacity.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Regular user content generation and publication
  • Smartphones and tablets facilitate connectivity and turn process more agile
  • Extend service offering including content management

• Description

  • Android is chosen as reference platform
  • Contents are generated by the user
  • Synchronization environment Facebook / Twitter

• How the problem was solved

  • Documental management service
  • Access through Android devices
  • Business and individual oriented
  • Selective synchronization of multimedia content
  • Publication in social networks

• Business outcome

  • Technical team receives updates periodically
  • Better use of content contribution

Within the specific field of action of the Tax Agency Open Sistemas develops a project of analysis, comparison and selection of OLAP engines based on a study of this institution casuistry, which is the low time of response in a data query from the users and a massive quantity of information looked up.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Identify an optimum solution of OLAP motor
  • High requirements on capacity and space and limitation on database design
  • Final response time under 1 second

• Description

  • High sizes for standard databases
  • Lack of specific tools

• How the problem was solved

  • Consultory and analysis of problem at a business and technical level
  • Identification and selection of tool
  • Analysis of optimum data model and valuation Mondrian / SyBaseIQ

• Business outcome

  • Optimum tool selection
  • Implantation process

This project with Telefónica was very interesting for Open Sistemas, not because of its complexity, but because the credibility of the Aplicateca platform depended on the correct operation of these applications. And they goal was achieved.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Need to deploy two open source applications in the SaaS platform
  • Reliability and scalability to thousands of users

• Description

  • Defined launch date for Aplicateca
  • Provisioning and Single Sign On required software modification

• How the problem was solved

  • An expert team of Linux programmers
  • Provisioning y Single Sign On module developments in both applications
  • A Call centre 24x7 to provide support

• Business outcome

  • Aplicateca was successfully launched in September 2009

One of the projects developed by Open Sistemas for the UNED had as an axis their aLF Platform. The University wanted to improve their online platform, optimizing the availability, the frequency of the communication with the customer and their campaigns.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Provide support to the platform and new features development
  • Focus on online formative content quality
  • Content errors, navigation and accessibility problems

• Description

  • Databases not updated and information segmentation
  • Lack of specific tools

• How the problem was solved

  • Technical support team for aLF/openACS platform with dotLRN
  • Software development and adaptation to aLF platform
  • Development of Quality Project in online training

• Business outcome

  • Improvement of content quality
  • Decrease of content issues

ICEA (Investigación Cooperativa entre Entidades Aseguradoras y Fondos de Pensiones), the first association of insurance entities that was created in Spain, turned to Open Sistemas to optimize their online platform. They needed to develop extensions and system improvements, and that was what these professionals made possible.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Give support to platform and development of new features
  • Data saving and availability problems
  • Support service to production environment

• Description

  • LAMP environment in high availability
  • Environment containing the most important insurance companies in Spain

• How the problem was solved

  • DOKEOS platform deployment and clustered LAMP systems
  • Custom-made content development
  • Dokeos customized extensions development
  • Complete hw and systems support service

• Business outcome

  • Around 30.000 students
  • Significant decrease of content issues

The innovation area of France Telecom required the incorporation of a documental management system, Nuxeo, based on a solid business platform, Jboss. Many features where developed regarding connectivity, mobility and security, and related to a corporate document management environment.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Demand of a documental system for several uses
  • Connectivity with different devices and internet / network
  • Business/Individual oriented

• Description

  • Nuxeo working environment over Jboss platform and J2EEenvironment
  • Developments based on Nuxeo API and social network APIs

• How the problem was solved

  • Basic document management system deployment
  • Custom development on document management system
  • Social network interaction development

• Business outcome

  • Centralized system of document distribution
  • Multiple customers integrated with the system

The Tax Administration National Agency, in the environment of advanced technologies for investigation and information against fraud, has deployed a system based on huge hardware resources for the correct exploitation of the information. The operative system in charge of the management of these resources is Suse Linux and Open Sistemas was hired to provide administration and management tasks for these environments through open source and Linux products.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Control services management (Zabbix), web and application servers (Apache/Tomcat/Axis).
  • Database servers management (MySQL y Sybase IQ) and of services developed by  the Tax Administration National Agency.

• Description

  • Intel Xeon architectures, Itanium and IBM pSeries
  • SANx with storage boxes IBM FasT and fiber networks

• How the problem was solved

  • Setup, reactive and proactive support of SMP machines with up to 128 processors and 512 GB of RAM with Suse Linux 9 and 10
  • Installation and setup of SANs with storage boxes IBM FasT and fiber networks

• Business outcome

  • Optimization, performance improvement
  • Better system approach and service control

The distribution working environments are characterized by a high number of sales points. This involves huge necessities of client and server equipments. Many of these systems execute general activities and the impact of migration to an open environment with lower license cost provides real cost reduction advantages. The goal of this project consisted precisely in the analysis of these advantages for several environment and the design of a prototype solution.

• Identified Demand / Problem

  • Cost saving in software licenses by hypermarket
  • Solution to integration and control problems
  • Solutions equivalent to Lotus Domino, SAP, DHCP, DNS and network services

• Description

  • Integration and coexistence with current systems
  • Migration roadmap towards new environments and user training
  • More than 200 servers and 2000 work stations. Need of backup
  • LDAP, AD, Samba integrations
  • High cost of software licenses
  • Excessive dependence on providers

• How the problem was solved

  • Desktop solution with Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) and Red Hat 5 servers
  • The prototype was composed of a server and a group of work stations, all with Linux
  • Impact analysis, training and migration roadmap
  • Selection of the demonstration centre as case of use

• Business outcome

  • Cost saving of software licences
  • New scalable and connectable model 

WordPress is content management system focused on blog creation

WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and publishing platform powered by PHP and MySQL. It is often customized into a content management system (CMS). It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system.  WordPress is currently the most popular CMS in use on the Internet.

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day.

Themes

• WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or installation without altering the informational content. Themes may be installed by using the Wordpress "Dashboard" administration tool, cPanel or uploading theme folders via FTP. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations.

Plugins

• One very popular feature of WordPress is its rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install; WordPress has a database of over 17,000 plugins [11] with purposes ranging from SEO to adding widgets.

Widgets

• Widgets offer users drag-and-drop sidebar content placement and implementation of many plugins' extended capabilities. Users can re-arrange widgets without editing PHP or HTML code.

Mobile

• Native applications exist for Android, iPhone/iPod Touch, iPad, Windows Phone 7, and BlackBerry which provide access to some of the features in the WordPress Admin panel and work with WordPress.com and many WordPress.org blogs.

Other features

• WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters are also included, providing standardized formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes). WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article.

Open Sistemas, Wordpress in high performance environments

Open Sistemas provides its highest value as Wordpress integrator in environments characterized by high performance needs - especially multisite, custom plugins development and system integration. 

Open Sistemas excels in these cases as an integrator that through a complete offering, where advanced development capabilities go hand in hand with high experience in big systems, is able to design and deploy big corporate Wordpress environments.

Contact with us if you wish to obtain more information about our experience in Wordpress in corporate environments.

The Open Architecture Community System (OpenACS) is an open-source web application framework licensed under the terms of the GNU GPL. The Open Architecture Community System provides:

• A set of applications, that can be used to deploy web sites that are strong on collaboration. Some of the applications are Workflow, CMS, Messaging, Bug/Issue tracker, e-commerce, blogger, chat and forums.
• A sophisticated application development toolkit, that provides an extensive set of APIs and services to enable quick development of new applications. Features include sophisticated permissioning, full internationalization, Ajax, form builder, object model, automated testing, subsites and a powerful package manager.
• OpenACS runs on AOLserver with either Oracle or PostgreSQL as its database.

Projects that are based on OpenACS include dotLrn, dotFolio, dotCommunity, dotConsult, and Project-Open. OpenACS was originally developed side-by-side with the ArsDigita Community System (ACS), a product of ArsDigita Corporation. ACS remains one of the more famous products to be based completely on AOLserver. In 2002, after the ACS code tree forked, the Tcl code base came to be maintained by the OpenACS project.