Open Source Development Solutions

Open source solutions for your website, mobile, intranet, integration, e-commerce, big data and business intelligence needs are one of the few investments that your business or organization can easily defend in this economic climate. Choosing the right solution for your next design and development project means keeping costs low, greater security, being well supported and limitless customization possibilities. What most companies can’t afford is to spend a bunch of money on is a proprietary content management system (CMS) or a business intelligence solution that is expensive to build and maintain. Choosing open source development will allow you to focus on your budget and your customers at the same time. Our open source development services are able to provide customer-facing solutions including mobile web apps and websites as well as internal solutions such as a corporate intranet for documents and records management and big data processing for business intelligence. Building our solutions on the open source stack gives clients full access to the source code and any enhancements that are released thus ensuring their ability to modify the solution at any time. With open source development customers can say goodbye to license fees and the costs of proprietary support. With open source solutions or services you are not tied to a proprietary developer or firm in order to make changes, upgrades or enhancements to your web or mobile asset. In essence there is no vendor lock-in to any one firm or consultant. Businesses and organizations of every size and complexity across all industries are experiencing success with open source technologies for web, mobile, intranet, e-commerce, big data, business intelligence and integration design and development. Our development services and custom-built solutions are being used by businesses and their customers around the world.

Open Source Design & Development Solutions

Appnovation’s development services for CMS, ecommerce, mobile apps, design and development provide businesses and organizations many benefits, allowing for flexibility and scalability to meets your changing needs (needs of your users and needs of the business). Web and mobile solutions that utilize open source technologies are some of the most popular choices for today’s companies.

• Open Source CMS Development: Using an open source CMS, like Drupal, gives you a platform that is: easy to use and update; free of licensing costs; reliable and secure; search engine friendly; and, modular and extendable.
• Open Source E-Commerce Solutions: Need to create a shop online? Consider using an open source e-commerce platform to build it. Make sure your e-commerce site has such features as: configurable product catalog; flexible product creation and attributes system; single page check out; automatic account generation (anonymous checkout); simple order creation, editing and processing; an integrated payment system; activity logging; and, XML import/export.
• Open Source Mobile App Development: With open source mobile app development, you can: build a single mobile application for multiple devices; leverage web standards, such as HTML5, to universal mobile apps; gain access to native APIs or use the open source framework; deploy across multiple platforms; and, use the power of HTML5, CSS3 combined with use of JavaScript to write code. Open source mobile app development also allows developers to take advantage of such device features as: camera, compass, contacts, files, geolocation, media, network, notifications (alert, sound, vibration), storage and accelerometer.
• Open Source Web Design: Looking for a custom look for your website? With open source web design you gain access to a skeleton framework and built in features that can speed up the design process while at the same time allow you to create a completely unique experience for those who visit your site.
• Open Source Web Development: All the advantages of open source such as reduced cost, ease of use, reliability and security, community support and combine that with all the features, functionality and limitless design possibilities and you get open source web development.
• Open Source Big Data Solutions: Open source big data and analytics software products and solutions are no longer the risky bets they once were. These types of products and solutions are now integral to business and organizations looking for a real and viable alternative to proprietary big data software solutions. Open source big data solutions have a strong foundation of underlying tools and technologies not to mention that open source has emerged as a compelling building block for robust, cost-effective enterprise applications, architecture and infrastructure.
• Open Source Business Intelligence: Before committing big dollars to the big names in BI a better choice may be to take a look at a good open source BI solution first. Even with an open source BI solution you can still customize it to meet your business and technology needs.
• Open Source Middleware Solutions: Open source middleware makes integrating your systems and applications much more cost-effective solution. Able to solve integration challenges rather than conventional proprietary solutions, open source middleware has become increasingly, superior and agile choice for forward-looking organizations.

Advantages of Open Source Development & Consulting

Effective open source development and consulting services are geared to evolve as technologies, trends and business needs change. Appnovation’s consulting and development solutions are able to help clients realize all the business and technical benefits of having an open source CMS, e-commerce, mobile app, big data, business intelligence, intranet, and/or middleware solution as well as take advantage of features and functionality provided to achieve a better user experience. The advantages of using an open source solution include:

• Reduced costs from not having to pay license fees to get your solution started means you have more money to spend on making your open source solution look and function the way you want it to with custom open source services for design and development.
• Deciding to use an open source technology to create your open source solution gives companies and organizations the flexibility and ease of customization to adapt the design to changing business requirements.
• Open source means community support and that means access to a whole host of resources from designers, developers and programmers who can also offer advice, answer questions and/or solve problems.
• Using an open source gives companies ownership of the code for their website or mobile application. It also does not keep enterprises dependent (no vendor lock-in) on any one designer/developer or firm, making it much easier to find help when needed or change service providers as needed.
• Security and reliability are a major advantage to using open source services and open source solutions because everyone has access to the source code meaning that there are plenty of people looking at it all the time ensuring stability and that bugs are fixed.
• The visibility of the code base ensures quality and auditability. Companies don’t have to rely on vendor claims that the solution is secure and adhering to all standards. Conventional thinking is that with such a large design and development base, security is constantly being improved and innovation and enhancements of features are always taking place.

These above reasons AND the robust variety of capabilities, designs and features that can be developed make using open source for CMS, mobile apps, e-commerce, intranet, big data, business intelligence, middleware and web design and development the right choice for any company, organization or government entity. Appnovation’s open source development services and custom built solutions are delivered by experienced consultants to help companies and organizations achieve their goals and take their online and internal properties to the next level.