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April 23, 2010

TransferSummit/UK community sponsorship

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Sourcesense is happy to be a community sponsor for the upcoming TransferSummit/UK, Oxford 24-25 June 2010.

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TransferSummit provides a forum for business executives and members of the academic and research community to discuss requirements, challenges, and opportunities in the use, development, licensing, and future of Open Source technology.

Two days, three tracks, a Gala Dinner and a BarCamp… Endless Possibilities!

TransferSummit is organised by OSS Watch in partnership with key individuals and organisations from the Open Source community, including the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and University of Oxford.

April 8, 2010

Sourcesense proud sponsor of Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010

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Sourcesense is proud to be a sponsor of the upcoming Apache Lucene EuroCon 2010, the first dedicated Lucene and Solr User Confer

ence in Europe. This conference provides professional training on Lucene and Solr as well as a unique opportunity to learn from the search experts in two educ

ational tracks.Apache Lucene EuroCon is a not-for-profit conference. Net proceeds will be donated to The Apache Software Foundation.

Visit our Lucene EuroCon page to know more about our sponsorship and our experience in Open Source Enterprise Search

April 1, 2010

Sourcesense and Pentaho: Open Source BI: The Smart and Safe Alternative to Proprietary BI

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Pentaho and Sourcesense invite you to join us in London for a live seminar focused on how your company can benefit from commercial Open Source Business Intelligence (BI) and data integration/ETL and network with others who are already enjoying BI success with Pentaho.

Join us at this live seminar to see:

  • Customer BI Success Cases
  • Methodologies that enable you to increase the ROI of your BI Solution
  • How to quickly deliver information with reports and dashboards
  • Demos of the most powerful open source BI technology in action: Kettle, Mondrian. Weka, Pentaho Dashboards and Pentaho Reporting

With leading analysts predicting a 500% increase in open source BI adoption by 2012[1], now is the time to find out how your peers are benefiting from Pentaho’s end-to-end BI solution. Further, a recent survey by Mark Madsen for the BeyeNETWORK entitled, “Open Solutions: Managing, Analysing and Delivering Business Information”, clearly indicates both a rapid adoption of open source BI, and that Pentaho is the clear leader in every major category.

Registration is free, but seats are limited, so please register now and receive a free copy of the BeyeNETWORK report. For the agenda and direction check the seminar page.

[1] Gartner Report Oct 2009 “Open-Source Business Intelligence Tools Production Deployments Will Grow Five-Fold through 2012″

November 30, 2009

Meet Sourcesense trainers at XP Day London

Filed under: English, Events EN, Italian — matteo @ 4:10 pm

Matteo Vaccari will organize a hands-on session on object-oriented design and refactoring at the upcoming XP Day London, on December 7-8.  The Birthday Greetings Kata session was well received at the XP Days Benelux in late November.  The objective of the session is to learn how to write code that is easier to change, easier to test, and easier to understand.  The actual tools that will be used are refactoring, and the hexagonal architecture pattern.

November 16, 2009

Sourcesense and Sonatype Form Strategic Partnership

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Sourcesense and Sonatype Form Strategic Partnership to Advance Mission-Critical Enterprise Software Build and Release Management.

Companies Collaborate to Increase Reach of Efficient, Open Source-based Infrastructure Tools and Training for Software Development Build/Release and Repository Management

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, and AMSTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS — Nov. 16, 2009 — Sourcesense, the leading European provider of Open Source services and solutions, and Sonatype, the Maven company, today announced a new strategic partnership to promote and  market Sonatype’s leading software solutions. The distribution agreement also allows Sourcesence to facilitate integration by providing training, support, and customization services across its network of enterprise and SMB customers around the world.
Based on the Apache Maven project, Sonatype’s development infrastructure platform allows organizations to easily build and release software, as well as access and manage Open Source software artifacts in their development projects. Apache Maven was recently highlighted by eWeek as one of the “Ten Apache Technologies That will Change Computing in the Next Ten Years”.

Sourcesense focuses on an array of Open Source products and Agile computing methodologies that significantly lower costs and improve levels of developer productivity within their organizations.

“Sonatype and Sourcesense share a common vision for accelerating developer success with best-in-breed Open Source solutions,” said Gianugo Rabellino, co-founder and CEO of Sourcesense. “We’re pleased to represent Sonatype as their first European partner and a dedicated member of their international network.”

“Sourcesense plays a key role in strengthening our presence in Europe,” said Jason van Zyl, founder and CTO of Sonatype. “We are quickly expanding our reach into multi-national, open and agility-driven enterprise organizations, and Sourcesense is an important partner in that process.”

About Sonatype

Sonatype is the Maven Company. Founded in 2008 by Jason van Zyl, the creator of Apache Maven, Sonatype delivers value-added products and services for organizations that use Maven to improve their software build and release infrastructure. Headquartered in Mountain View, CA, Sonatype is privately held with investments from Hummer Winblad Venture Partners and Morgenthaler Ventures. For more information, please visit www.sonatype.com.

About Sourcesense

Sourcesense is a European consultancy that provides various support services around key Open Source technologies and Agile computing methodologies. With a strong background in providing enterprise-class solutions and proven track record participating in the most prominent and influential Open Source communities, Sourcesense boasts hundreds of combined years of experience, providing an immediate, measurable advantage to clients. 
The only European company with the knowledge and experience to offer a real balance between Open Source and traditional proprietary solutions, Sourcesense takes the concept of Open Source to a new level of pragmatic and quantifiable advantages for the enterprise. For more information please visit http://www.sourcesense.com.

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June 17, 2009

Webinar: Alfresco Case Study - Dutch eGovernment implemented by Sourcesense

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When: June 26 2009
Where: Online Webinar - 14:00 GMT

In this webinar Sourcesense, an Alfresco Gold Partner, will describe how an innovative alliance of 75 municipal authorities in the Netherlands implemented Alfresco as part of their eGovernment electronic services.

REGISTER FOR WEBINAR

Municipal authorities in the Netherlands play an important role in eGovernment and this alliance started an initiative between 9 large municipalities, all willing to act as pioneers. The result has been a broad-based construct that is unique for the Netherlands, a large-scale roll-out of a standardised digital service desk and concrete collaborative projects.

Sourcesense was brought in by a multinational Systems Integrator, to help them with the development of the alliance case management system where Alfresco is used for its advanced Document Management System capabilities.

Agenda

  • Alfresco & Sourcesense Introductions
  • Quick Overview of Alfresco: Products, Business Model, History etc
  • eGovernment Implementation Story
  • Q&A

May 26, 2009

Maven training with Jason Van Zyl in London

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Sourcesense is pleased to announce a new training offering: Maven and Nexus - acquire, integrate and track open source software artifacts.

The first class will be held in London, on June 15-16, 2009 and the trainer will be Jason Van Zyl himself. Jason is one of the founders of the Apache Maven project, currently serves as Chair of the Apache Maven Project Management Committee and is the Founder and CTO of Sonatype.

Course agenda, fees and registration form are available in the training section. Please email training@sourcesense.com for further information.

May 15, 2009

Alfresco Tech Talk Live: Ugo Cei presents CMIS on JBoss Portal

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Today Ugo Cei will be the speaker of the next Alfresco Tech Talk Live, the bi-weekly technical Webinar hosted and promoted by Alfresco.

He will present how and why Sourcesense has implemented a CMIS based integration between Alfresco and JBoss Portal. The presentation will describe some technical facets, concentrating on the CMIS functionalities exploited in such an integration.

Ugo will also describe some typical business cases where the CMIS Portlets can be effectively used and why such a solution could be the best within the bunch of different interfaces exposed by Alfresco.

Don’t miss the Webinar, today at 6pm CEST.

May 4, 2009

Sourcesense is EMEA JBoss Partner of the Year 2009

Filed under: English, News EN — Tags: , , , — paolo @ 3:26 pm

Sourcesense has been elected as the JBoss Partner of the Year within the EMEA area. This achievement has been motivated with the great commitment that Sourcesense is putting in such a technological context; Sourcesense’s commitment includes participation in community activities, expertise in consultancies, focusing in driving Open Source technologies and methodologies into the Enterprise.

Middleware technologies are gaining interest within the Enterprise spectrum of services and solutions, that are becoming every day more focused on standardization, fast time to market and cost optimization.
Open Source software is climbing up the stack.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux is already a solid situation, while the coming phase is seeing the Middleware level of the stack as the fastest growing player.
Middleware technologies include components such as application servers, portal servers, ESB, SOA platforms and data services paltforms. In such a context, JBoss, a division of Red Hat, is playing a key role as a leader within the Open Source Enterprise Middleware industry.

Sourcesense has been successfully commiting for several years to JBoss technologies.
Its focus on middleware technology puts Sourcesense at the forefront both of community development and of consultancy activities. On the community side, some Sourcesense committers are contributing with code, documentation and advising to JBoss.org projects, such as the Portal project; a Sourcesense team has been also working for several months on a new, Open Source project related to the Italian Governement sector, based on JBoss SOA technologies.
Sourcesense JBoss Services currently provide solidity to enterprise, business critical projects within primary Telco and Media organizations.

In addition, Sourcesense is actively organizing, together with Red Hat, some technical and business events allowing customers to get up to date with the technology status.

Recognizing all this, Red Hat elected Sourcesense as the JBoss Partner of the year in EMEA. It happened during the last EMEA Partner Summit (Malta, April 19-23).
This achievement drives Sourcesense to the forefront of the European Middleware integration industry and brings an even bigger commitment for Sourcesense towards the JBoss activities.

March 16, 2009

Sourcesense UK Announces New Managing Director

Filed under: English, Italian, News EN, News IT — gianugo @ 3:45 pm

Sourcesense UK Announces New Managing Director

Marco Abis to lead Sourcesense UK

LONDON and AMSTERDAM – 16 March, 2009 – Sourcesense, the leading European provider of Open Source and Agile services, today announced the appointment of Marco Abis as UK Managing Director. Abis brings more than 13 years of technology experience to Sourcesense, most recently serving as Global Programme Management Officer of global IT consultancy ThoughtWorks.

“I’m thrilled to see Marco joining the Sourcesense team,” said Gianugo Rabellino, co-founder and CEO of Sourcesense. “Marco is the perfect candidate for Sourcesense, with his unique mix of pragmatic entrepreneurship and experience in multi-national, agility-driven organizations. Sourcesense plays extremely well to Marco’s strengths, with our offering geared towards lighter, agile, effective and open solution for an enterprise market in desperate need for efficiency to survive the downturn and be prepared for a fresh start.”

Abis has a notable track record ranging from successful entrepreneurship to directorship of multinational companies. As Managing Director, he will take on the challenge of bringing the UK branch of Sourcesense to a new level, further accelerating the impressive growth the company has been experiencing in the past year and contributing to the overall success of the pan-European organization.

“Sourcesense has established itself as a clear leader in the Open Source consulting, integration and Agile categories,” said Abis. “I am impressed by the company’s winning combination of world-class technology, razor sharp focus on Open solutions and customer success. I’m eager to work with the strong Sourcesense team to capitalize on those assets and to lead the company in its next phase of rapid growth.”

Abis initially served ThoughtWorks as Senior Project Manager in the delivery of multi-million pounds, high business valued, high quality object oriented projects and the integration of disparate systems with a particular focus on Object Orientation, Team Building, Agile Tailoring and development methods. Prior to that he successfully built 2 IT companies in Italy.

 Abis is also heavily involved in the Agile Community, speaking and organising workshops and conferences like the Italian Agile Day as well as having served on the Programme Committee of events like XP2004, XP2005, XP2006, XP2007. He also served the Agile Alliance Board of Directors for two years.

Please download the full press release here

Media Contact:
Sally Khudairi
HALO Worldwide
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