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Mule - Alfresco Integration

May 1st, 2009 by Administrator

The One Point Consulting team has extensive experience of Enterprise Architecture and Integration going back 20 years. Our team built the Architecture & Integration practice at Andersen putting in place an integration methodology and implementing real-time and batch based integrations using IBM’s MQ Series, MQ Integrator, webMethods, CrossWorlds and Informatica for key blue chip clients. At Carphone Warehouse we led the architecture definition for a strategic platform for CRM/Billing/Order Management and Online channels using a SOA architecture based on the Tibco middleware products BusinessWorks, iProcess and Business Events.

One Point is actively involved in the research and evaluation of Open Source software which we believe can be applied to solve business problems for small and large enterprises. , One Point has recently been taking a closer look at real-time integration and based on our assessment and maturity models decided to integrate Mule ESB and Alfresco ECM, both of which are the leaders in their respective areas.

The goal of our exercise was to create a Mule service to log into Alfresco using its Web Services and call one of the securely protected Web Services.

For the exercise, we used Alfresco 3 Stable (Community Edition) and Mule standalone 2.2.1. The development was done in Eclipse.

The step-by-step scenario:

Read the Alfresco user name and password from the command line.
Send the user name and password to the Alfresco Authentication Webservice.
Where the login is successful, get the ticket and store it somewhere.
Call another Alfresco webservice and inject the ticket into the SOAP security header.

Whereas, the above scenario looks simple, we documented a number of challenges and the specific configurations that helped us accomplish these. For the benefit of the community, we have posted a detailed version of our successful endeavour at the Alfresco Wiki (http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Mule_Alfresco_Integration). Have fun!

One Point Consulting launches Alfresco for Local Government

April 4th, 2009 by Administrator

One Point Consulting launches “Alfresco for Local Government” at the Public Sector Forum “Harnessing Free and Open Source in Local Government (PSF 033/09)” that took place on 1st April at the Manchester United Football Club.

Shashin Shah, Director of One Point Consulting discusses “IT as an enabler during the economic downturn”

February 25th, 2009 by Administrator

The event was organised by the IET/BCS on 24th Feb (http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/london/enabler.cfm).
The lecture discussed how established and emerging trends in ICT can be used to reduce costs, reduce risks, increase innovation and prepare for the post-downturn period. ICT trends covered included:

Application Portfolio Rationalisation
Virtualisation (Server & Desktop)
Cloud Computing
SaaS
Outsourcing - BPO
Enterprise Content Management
Open Source
Semantic Web
Mobile Platforms
Enterprise 2.0(including collaboration and Web 2.0)

UK Government published new policy on Open Source

February 25th, 2009 by Shashin Shah

UK Government has published on 24th Feb a new policy on open source software that will ensure maximum value for money for taxpayers. Policy covers:

Open source software: the policy includes 10 actions that will actively help make sure the best possible, best value for money software solutions are put forward for government requirements, be they open source or propriety products.
Open standards: the policy contains an explicit reference to open standards, ensuring systems are interoperable and avoiding getting locked in to a particular product where possible.
Re-use: the Government will look to re-use what it has already bought, with successful solutions being made available across government.

The new policy reflects changes to both the open source market and the Government’s approach to IT. In setting out the ten actions Government will make sure of a level playing field for Open Source Software, and encourage the use of Open Standards and re-use of software the Government has already paid for. The new policy can be found at http://www.cio.gov.uk/transformational_government/open_source/index.asp.

One Point welcomes this and will actively provide our feedback and suggestions to help the effective implementation of this policy. #ukgovOSS

New website launched

December 11th, 2008 by Chintan Zaveri

One Point’s website has a fresh new look now. We have worked very hard on building this new site.

Here’s a brief summary of what’s new:

Fresh new look with cooler and cheerful colors
Dynamically fetched newsfeeds on the homepage
A weblog ready to present our thoughts
Full range of our service offerings
Case Studies of some of our key customers

One Point is now in India

June 13th, 2008 by Administrator

One Point expands operations in Pune, India to strengthen its advisory, implementation and support services for its clients.

The team in India has been known to the core team for many years. The team in India brings with itself a set of skills that will complement the current team’s expertise and thus, will allow One Point to offer a more complete set of service offerings.

One Point becomes a Zimbra Partner

December 18th, 2007 by Administrator

One Point signs up as a Zimbra Partner for UK and India. This partnership will allow One Point to include and promote the leading Open Source messaging system, Zimbra Collaboration Suite Network Edition, as a part of it’s larger offerings.

Search and Newsletter added to the website

July 30th, 2006 by Administrator

We are pleased to introduce the website search and newsletter features on our website. Resources next! We are also working on an application called “Which one’s your source?” - that’s a surprise feature. We request your patience until then. Thank-you!

One Point’s website goes live

July 27th, 2006 by Administrator

One Point’s website goes live! Certain parts of the website are still under construction and might not be available to you immediately. These at least include the Resources section and Password-protected area. However, we have completed the About us and Solutions sections. This should provide complete information on who we are and what we offer. Please send your feedback to us for the website so that we can learn and improve. We are trying to make the complete contents of this website to be available by 10/Aug/2006. Thank-you for your patience!

One Point signed up as Alfresco Gold Partner

July 11th, 2006 by Administrator

On 11/Jul/2006, One Point has signed up as Alfresco’s Gold Partner enabling us to supply Alfresco Enterprise Edition - world’s most powerful Enterprise Content Management System.

Alfresco offers true Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.

Alfresco uses best-of-breed Open Source technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, Lucene, modern standards such as JSR-168, JSR-170, Web Services and Java Server Faces and is built by a team with 15 years experience in this space, including the co-founder of Documentum.

Alfresco dramatically lowers total cost of ownership through open source distribution, working in the user’s native environment, minimizing training and using low cost, loosely coupled hardware.

One Point aims to exploit Open Source - particularly the Commercial Open Source Software in order to provide enterprise-grade software at a low cost. This allows us to follow our mission, which is to sell high-quality products and services at a sensible price.

Partnership with Alfresco will allow us to introduce the many benefits of Commercial Open Source amongst our clients by enabling us to supply Alfresco Enterprise - the first Open Source ECM with the host of features found only in the most elite Proprietary counterparts. And we can make this available at only a fractional cost than what would be required in case of Proprietary Software.

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