A recent report published by the Public Sector Forum reveals interesting insight into the adoption and barriers of Open Source in local government. Full report can be downloaded at http://ukgovoss.org/open-or-closed/.
For further details please contact David Linday at david.lindsay@onepointld.com.
One Point is working with a specialist management consultancy OCP, Organisational Consulting Partnership Ltd, to develop solutions and industry-specific propositions for biometric ID management. With OCP supplying in-depth experience of business consulting and process (re)engineering, One Point is assisting with shaping the technology component of biometric, specifically match on card, solutions.
The immediate focus is on the biometric-enablement of single sign-on.
David Lindsay, the One Point Practice Director for biometrics, is leading the programme from the One Point team.
Contact him david.lindsay@onepointbiometrics.com or +44 7876 371 769 for more information.
OCP can be found at http://www.ocp.co.uk/Content/NewsPage.asp?id=275.
One Point has set up a new practice to focus on the expanding area of biometrics and ID management. The new unit will be One Point Biometrics and will be led by David Lindsay as Practice Director and will begin working on client propositions immediately, with One Point’s clients and with partner organisations.
Dr Lindsay joins One Point from EDS where he was the Applications SME and lead at the EMEA sales centre of excellence. Before that, he was at Unisys, Andersen and Logica. He has had considerable exposure to the recent UK ID management procurements. He is also a ISO 271001 auditor and was the Information Security Manager for the public sector practice of a multi-national technology and services company and will bring this experience to ID management.
He can be contacted at:
M: +44 7876 371 769 | E: david.lindsay@onepointbiometrics.com
David Lindsay at Linked-in:
K. L. E. Society’s College of BCA had organised a seminar on Open Source and Embedded Systems at the Digital Vision Laboratory of the Lingaraj College Campus in Belgaum, Karnataka on 28th April 2009.
K. L. E. Society (http://www.klesociety.org) is one of the largest educational societies in Asia with over 205 educational institutions spread throughout and outside India.
On this occasion, Chintan Zaveri, Open Source Consultant at One Point spoke about the need of adopting Open Source within the Indian EDU sector. The topics covered included:
We also took this opportunity to launch Open EDU One, a wide range of Open Source Software services for the educational institutions in India. Our services mainly focus on:
If you are an EDU in India, please call us on +91 98 603 23774 or email contact@onepointltd.com to find out how One Point can help you achieve any or all of the above mentioned goals.
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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:
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” 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.
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:
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:
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
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:
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.
