For further details please contact David Linday at david.lindsay@onepointld.com.

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.

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:

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

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!

• 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)

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

Here’s a brief summary of what’s new:

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

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.