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[05/09/2012] Open digital strategies: vision and roll-out

“Open digital strategies: vision and roll-out” is the core theme of Open World Forum 2012. This 5th session, presented by the Systematic competitiveness cluster as lead organiser with assistance from the Forum Committee, isresolutely user-focused, featuring for the first time a track dedicated to IT services in France’s regions and local authorities, tacklingopen-source issues in the public-sector environment.

Paris, 11, 12 and 13 October 2012

[06/03/2012] Smile and RBS Software sign a partnership agreement

Smile, the leading French and European integrator of open source solutions, partners with RBS Software, publisher of the e-commerce CMS solution, RBS Change.

[02/02/2012] Very strong growth for Smile in 2011, at 47%

Smile closed out 2011 with exceptional results: organic growth of 36% and total growth of 47% pro forma.

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[15/08/11]

Nuxeo has integrated reporting functionalities into its solution with BIRT.
BIRT (Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools) enables the creation of reports for web applications via a graphic design interface. This is an open source project with a particularly active community. BIRT integrates well into customised applications to meet report generation needs and it can also be integrated with open source decision making tools like Pentaho and SpagoBI. [...]

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[15/08/11]

The small world of e-commerce has been in turmoil since last week’s announcement of the 100% acquisition of Magento by the giant eBay. For the past week, the wildest suppositions have abounded on the net as to the future of what has in record time become the benchmark for open source e-commerce platforms. Some have even predicted the imminent demise of the solution. Well then? Is it time to bury Magento? We’ve provided some food for thought on this subject below... [...]

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[15/08/11]

On 16 and 17 June, the traditional eZ Publish conference was held, an edition which the general consensus held to be one of its best. It must be said that the programme was terrific, with speeches by renowned figures and an appealing schedule of activities. The technical and entrepreneurial community came out in force with no fewer than 230 participants in attendance! [...]

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[10/08/11]

Although we might have thought that all resources would be focused on the next major version (officially announced during Developers Paradise 2011), in fact Magento’s developers have continued to announce major new functionalities for Community 1.6 and Enterprise 1.11. Judge for yourselves... [...]

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[10/08/11]

In our white paper on Open Source e-commerce solutions, we explained how RBS Change can be a real asset combining CMS and e-commerce. On 15 July, the Strasbourg based vendor released version 3.5 of its solution, which merits our close attention. [...]

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[09/08/11]

On Wednesday, 29 June, PrestaShop invited its partners to an evening of presentations on the e-commerce solution and its future. A report on the event. [...]

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[21/07/11]

BPM projects are more difficult than other IT projects and represent an additional risk because of their direct impact on the company's organization. Here are all the key points of a BPM project.
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[09/05/11]

Last week, Smile showcased 3 Open Source frameworks to create cross-platform mobile applications: PhoneGap, Rhodes, and Titanium. In the review, we listed the main advantages of the 3 competitors and for Titanium in particular, we highlighted the sad lack of an IDE and a step-by-step debugger. [...]

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[27/03/11]

Status.net is a micro blogging open source solution (created by Evan Prodromou under AGPL license), similar to Twitter. These last few days, the 0.9.7 version of Status.net was released with many new functionalities and it was important to us to present this product to you in detail before the next major version is released. [...]

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[13/03/11]

The TYPO3 community's bet is still on: releasing a new version every 6 months! After a successful 4.4 version, TYPO3 is still surprising us with its latest release of the 4.5 LTS. [...]

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