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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:

• History of Open Source Software (OSS)
• Myths and benefits of OSS
• OSS Activity throughout the world
• OSS Adoption Case studies
• The EDU scenario in India
• Why should the students and educators adopt Open Source?

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:

• Improving the institutions’ capability to manage change by improving internal collaboration
• Enhancing the institutions’ brand and visibility, globally
• Reducing IT and other expenditures and encouraging innovation

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.

Attachments:

• Open EDU One flier
• Clipping of the Press Coverage by Deccan Herald, Belgaum, 29th April 2009

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:

1. Read the Alfresco user name and password from the command line.
2. Send the user name and password to the Alfresco Authentication Webservice.
3. Where the login is successful, get the ticket and store it somewhere.
4. 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!