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25 February 2010

Poised for growth in 2010

Optimation is seeing increasing demand from customers for managed testing services, application development and expertise in web enabled business.

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24 February 2010

SilverStripe selects Optimation as first NZ partner

SilverStripe NZ has joined forces with Optimation to deliver outstanding web and intranet sites.

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23 February 2010

Verdon Kelliher discusses the NZ IT scene

Verdon Kelliher talks to Reseller News about his varied career in the technology sector, the ever-changing face of the local IT scene, and, of course, rugby.

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Build a healthy web strategy

How healthy is your information flow? Are you crippled by expensive software license fees? Is your online strategy too feeble to deliver cost efficiencies and competitive advantage? This special offer from Optimation and SilverStripe will take your web strategy from a limp to a run.

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Blog

25 February 2010

Keeping what matters most

The recent theft of a family’s home computers with all of their photographs and videos has highlighted the fact that secure backups are not just something that corporates need to think about. With over 10 years of video and photos, adding up to almost a Terabyte of data, I’ve been asking myself recently, “How do I back that all up securely?”

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16 February 2010

Are we really in recovery?

After all the battening down of collective hatches over the last year or so, we’re now being told that the ICT sector is creeping back into recovery mode. But can we trust the pundits? And what will be your key strategies for surviving 2010?

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9 February 2010

Agile projects using MS Team Foundation Server 2010

I've added a new article to the Resources section on our website, which takes a high level look at the value and functionality of key Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 features from a Project Manager's point of view.

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Resources

9 February 2010

Agile projects with MS Team Foundation Server 2010

This article takes a high level look at the value and functionality of key Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 features from a Project Manager's point of view.

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is Microsoft’s software Application Lifecycle Management tool. It encompasses a range of ALM functionality through work item tracking, planning tools and reports, as well as providing other functionality in the areas of Configuration Management and team collaboration. The next version of TFS will be released early in 2010, and this article considers from a Project Manager's view some of the key features involved in planning and tracking progress on an agile project.

Download the article Planning an Agile Project with Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 (PDF, 318Kb)

18 January 2010

End-to-end services for web enabled business

Optimation and SilverStripe offer a seamless set of services to provide you with a complete integrated online framework that will take your online strategy from a limp to a run. Using the award-winning SilverStripe open source content management system (CMS) as the foundation, we'll help you to deploy a modern architecture that allows flexible site design and can connect your website, intranet and core business applications.

Optimation and SilverStripe offer a seamless set of services to provide you with a complete integrated online framework that will take your online strategy from a limp to a run. Using the award-winning SilverStripe open source content management system (CMS) as the foundation, we'll help you to deploy a modern architecture that allows flexible site design and can connect your website, intranet and core business applications.

No matter what stage you're at on your online business journey, we'll work with you to determine your priorities and develop a roadmap for success.

Download an overview of our web enabled business services (PDF, 150Kb).

Or feel free to contact us for a no-obligation discussion of your requirements.

3 November 2009

Comparing open source ESBs

In this paper, we explore how vendors define the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and compare some popular open source ESBs.

Most enterprise integration vendors and open-source communities claim to implement the Enterprise Service Bus concept in their own products, and they provide several services and features that they associate with typical ESB functionality. ESBs provide overlapping features that are prevalent in concepts such as Business Process Management (BPM) and Business Activity Monitoring. This makes the task of evaluating and comparing different ESBs tricky, with a huge subset of features to consider.

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