TechnologiesWe think about technologies as means to an end. As such we do not start from a particular technology and build out a project out of it, but we do select a set of proven technologies that enable us to cover a wide spectrum of solutions, with economies of scale, standard processes and procedures and operational efficiency.
This translates into proven, solid solutions, delivered at competitive costs and supported consistently over time.
After thousands of hours working with different technologies, we focus on the following core set:
Web Content Management
Joomla
Joomla is a powerful Content Management System (CMS), that is open source, actively developed so it keeps up with current trends, with thousands of extensions that enable websites to deliver almost any function without the need for major developments.
Joomla’s maturity and our skill-set with it allows us to develop outstanding websites at a fraction of the time and cost of equivalent platforms. We have thousands of hours of experience developing and extending highly customized websites using Joomla, that you could see in our Showcase.
We leverage from this experience, by reutilizing processes and components so our customers benefit from our continuous investment in this technology.
Kentico
Kentico is an Windows based Content Management System, targeted at medium to big corporations that require Windows standards as well as corporate-level processes and workflows, like content managament roles and responsibilities, advanced roles segregation and powerful visual tools to update content.
Kentiko is in constant development and its current version provide a solid and compelling platform for windows based web developments.
Wordpress
Wordpress is the current state-of-the-art platform for blogging solutions, being used by almost every Fortune 500 company as well as high traffic blogs that are a business in itself.
Its current level of maturity also allows it as a platform microsites and basic, brochure like websites as well as magazine like projects.
eCommerce
Prestashop
Prestashop is modern, open source technology for e-Commerce that is gaining tremendous momentum thanks to its high-quality both technically and visually and the high-performance it delivers. With Prestashop it is possible to enabled a custom look, full-featured, self-managed online shopping solutions in a very short time frames -could be even days- at a fraction of the cost of other equivalent solutions.
Currently Prestashop serves more than 50,000 online commerce websites and it is supported by a community of more than 100,000 members, ensuring vitality and state of the art development.
Prestashop is ideal for small to medium sized online businesses, that require an easy to manage, easy to mantain software solution that does not require highly advanced features as well as medium level traffic (up to 5,000 orders per day).
Virtuemart
Virtuemart is Joomla’s de facto standard for eCommerce. Being a native component for Joomla, it integrates seamlessly with this powerful CMS and becomes the ideal choice for websites that require advanced content management functionality and eCommerce at the same time.
Virtuemart is a very solid and proven technology, that could also be used for small-to-medium sized businesses for eCommerce alone.
As part of our strong skillset in Joomla, we have deep Virtuemart experience and developed a huge set of reusable assets, allowing us to deliver full-featured eCommerce projects based on this technology at very competitive prices and time frames.
Magento
Magento is the world-class, open source solution for e-Commerce. Targeted for advanced eCommerce soulution, this technology has significantly higher requirements in terms of hardware, learning curve and development and support costs. However if your eCommerce project is projected to be large-scale, spannig several countries, featuring advanced functionalities like multi-shop, multi-currency, advanced promotions, cross-selling and the like, Magento is the way to go.
As part of our network we work with certified Magento professionals that could deploy such a solution seamlessly.
Social networks
Jomsocial
Jomsocial is Joomla’s top component for online communities and social networking. It features advanced functionality like Social Networks integration (Facebook), all the traditional functions like groups, sharing pictures and videos, wall posts, debates, etc.
Jomsocial’s architecture is open, allowing the development of custom apps much like Facebook does. With Jomsocial you have the freedom to run your very own online community, without imposing your users the need to learn a new tool or manage a new set of login credentials.
Jomsocial is the perfect tool for expanding marketing relationship efforts into the Web 2.0 world.
Elgg
Elgg is an open source social networking engine that provides a robust framework on which to build all kinds of social environments, from a brand-building communications tool for your company and its clients to a campus wide social network for a university, school or college, and also for an internal collaborative platform within an organization.
If your main project consists itself of a large social community, then Elgg might be the technology of choice.
Drupal
Drupal is a powerful, flexible and actively developed Content Management System, with a focus on news publications and online communities, although almost any type of website could be developed on Drupal.
It features a very flexible architecture, named CCK, that allows the content structure to be extended to map your organization’s processes and worfklows.
Drupal is constantly being improved by hundreds of thousands of developers from over the world. It is used by some of the biggest sites on the Web, like The Economist, Examiner.com and The White House. As such, Drupal excels on large-scale projects, that span several communities and sub-sites.
Other technologies
We also work with other technologies for custom development projects, mainly LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php), Java and .Net. Contact us if you would like more information.
