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Optaros' latest Assembled Web Solution awarded Best of Swiss Web
Veröffentlicht 03 Apr 2009 von Optaros Tags: Assembled Web, Clients, Community, Europe, Java, Marketing, media, Media Advertising, Media and Publishing, Mobile, Open, Open Source, RIA, Rich Internet Application, Solutions, Switzerland, telco, telecom, User Experience, Web 2.0

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 awarded twice with this accolade which honours Switzerland’s top websites. me2me was awarded the Best of Swiss Web Technology Innovation Silver Award and the Business Efficiency Bronze Award 2009. The project was also a nominee for the 2009 Master of Swiss Web.   + Read more

Open Source Consulting – Doing What is Right for the Customer!
Veröffentlicht 10 Feb 2009 von Philippe GrosjeanTags: OForge, Open, Open Source, Switzerland, telecom

At Optaros, the customer is king! Our clients' success is our success. This is built-in into the DNA of our consultants. Listening to and understanding our customers' vision, objectives, needs and challenges is key. It allows us to then propose an approach, shape a solution, provide a roadmap, bring best practices into play, define an open, flexible, scalable and evolutionary architecture and implement a solution hitting agreed-upon scopes, milestones and budgets. + Read more

Open Source Year 2008 in Review: More Adoption, Success, Innovation, and Alternatives
Veröffentlicht 21 Dec 2008 von Optaros Tags: Acquia, Acquisition, Ajax, Alfresco, CIO, Community, Content Management, CRM, Customer Relationship Management, DiSo, Django, Drupal, ECM, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, Europe, iPhone, IT Strategy, Java, JBoss, Liferay, Magento, MySQL, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog, OpenID, Portal, RIA, Spring, SpringSource, Sugar CRM, Yahoo!

2008 was an important year for Open Source and a successful one in addition. We have seen more adoption, more commercial success, more innovation, more collaboration and more options for the IT buyer. And it’s not the end, more success is still to come. The following paragraphs are summarizing what we have seen in the last 12 months.Accelerated Adoption of Open Source + Read more

Open Source ist reif für den Unternehmenseinsatz, der Optaros Open Source Katalog 2009 erleichtert den Einstieg
Veröffentlicht 27 Nov 2008 von Bruno von RotzTags: Application Stategy, Assembly Methodology, CIO, Content Management, Customer Relationship Management, E-Government, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Enterprise applications, Enterprise Open Source Directory, EOS, IT Strategy, Open, Open Source, Open Source Katalog

Noch nie waren Open Source-Technologien so einfach verfügbar, reif und relevant wie heute. Für viele Unternehmen ist Open Source heute ein nicht wegzudenkender Teil der Informatikwelt, da vergisst man schnell, dass der Begriff „Open Source“ vor 10 Jahren gerade erst erfunden wurde. + Read more

Enterprise 2.0 Open Source Panel
Veröffentlicht 23 Jun 2008 von John EckmanTags: 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

Content Management in the Age of User Participation - Presentation
Veröffentlicht 20 Jun 2008 von John EckmanTags: Alfresco, Amateur, Collective Intelligence, Community, Conference, Content Management, content syndication, Culture, Direct Consumer Engagement, Drupal, Ecommerce, Enterprise 2.0, Facebook, Knowledge Management, Media and Publishing, Next Generation CRM, Open, Open Source, Social Networking, Syndication, User Experience, User Generated Content, Web 2.0, WordPress

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to present at Web Content 2008 on user generated content and the impact it has on content management.The presentation is called "Tag, Upload, Share, Discuss: Content Management in the Age of User Participaiton" - you can view it below, or download the PDF at slideshare.   + Read more

Mobile Web 2.0 - Open Marketplaces are the foundation for the future of Telecom Operators
Veröffentlicht 16 Apr 2008 von Optaros Tags: Business Model, customer care, iPhone, long-tail, Mobile, Open, Open Source, telco, telecom, Web 2.0

A next step in opening the telecom operator’s world is to allow partners to leverage the existing telecoms infrastructure. Enabling third parties to leverage native telco assets and resources for new services or for pure reselling will help drastically increasing volume (long tail) and thus impact profitability. + Read more

Open Source CMS - How Telcos can benefit
Veröffentlicht 14 Apr 2008 von Optaros Tags: Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, iPhone, long-tail, Mobile, multi-channel, Open, Open Innovation, Open Source, telco, telecom, Web 2.0

The larger telecom operators have been reinventing themselves over the last couple of years again and again. They constantly look to replace voice revenue and profit lost due to competition, they fight price declines, migration and substitution effects. It’s a fine line of introducing new products as needed and demanded and at the same time not to cannibalize the own existing offering. + Read more

Alfresco opens up
Veröffentlicht 13 Mar 2008 von Jeff PottsTags: Alfresco, Content Management, Open, Open Source

At the Alfresco Community Conference in San Jose Wednesday, Kevin Cochrane and John Newton promised to have a process in place to let non-Alfresco employees become committers to the Alfresco Community code line. The pledge, which many in the community may find surprising because up until this point, Alfresco has operated as a “closed community”, came in response to my question during the “Ask an Expert” session about the possibility of opening up. + Read more

Turning the Web 2.0 Tide to Your Advantage
Veröffentlicht 19 Feb 2008 von John EckmanTags: Analysis, Collaboration, Collective Intelligence, Community, Crowdsource, Direct Consumer Engagement, Marketing, Open, Open Hardware, Open Innovation, Product Management, Social Networking, User Generated Content, Web 2.0

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. + Read more

Yahoo! Introduces Mobile Widget Platform
Veröffentlicht 10 Jan 2008 von John EckmanTags: Mobile, Open, Widget, Yahoo!

Not to be left behind in the era of the iPhone and Google Android, Yahoo! recently launched the Yahoo! Mobile Developer Program, which lets developers create widgets that users can install within Yahoo! Go 3.0. Instead of negotiating all the multiple device models (and carrier restrictions), this enables developers to create widgets using a simple XML based API and enable end users to install those widgets within the framework provided by Yahoo! Go. + Read more