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InfoAxon Technologies
Limited
Building a Successful Career
With Open Source
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INDIA’s First Open Source Integration Company
Talking Points
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Key Open Source
OpportunitiesYou & Open Source Winning Career
with Open Source
QuestionsWhere to
start?
General Belief
Free and Available Source code
• Downloadable software for free (or not)
• Play with it easily
Open Source Applications & Products
• 1000’s of applications ; Source Forge downloads
Pro-Linux and Anti-Microsoft
• Ahh !! Open Source – Do you mean Linux?
• Hey !! Open Source has squashed Microsoft
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Open Source Offers
Ability to Experiment & Learn concepts in a practical manner
Build things in your own labs and project work and distribute them as show cases
Implement innovative ideas and get them funded from organizations
Get visibility as Pioneers and Innovators in the eye of Business Stakeholders
Become Open Source Entrepreneurs
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Key Opportunities in Open
Source
What industry is saying where the Key Opportunities in Open
Source are
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Some TipsContent & Knowledge
Management
Drupal
Liferay Portal
Alfresco ECM
Alfresco Share
Apache Jackrabbit
Plone
Wordpress (start with it !!!)
Business Intelligence
Pentaho BI Suite
Talend
Jasper Reports
Jfree Report
Search
Apache Lucene
Apache Solr Engine
NUTCH
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Winning Career with Open
Source
What career options are with dedicated Open source focus
starting today
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Career Path with Open Source
Focus
Open Source Development & Research
Open Source Architects and Design Consultant
Product Managers and Architects
Research and Development Heads
Chief Technology Officers
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Domains to Focus
Open Source
Domains
Specialist Open
Source Companies
Government
Education Sector
Banking
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Jumpstarting Your Career
•Key Open Source Frameworks
•Experiment and Share Code
•The 2 Community Rule
Adopt
•Communities Actively
•Tell about Your work
•Attend Open Source Business Conferences
Join •Find Mentors
•Showcase Your work
•Get Involved in Pilot Projects from Industry
Network
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Structure & History
• InfoAxon Group
• InfoAxon Technologies INDIA Limited
• InfoAxon Technologies UK
• Successful Track record of 8 years implementing Open Source
• Origins as Offshore Software Development Company
• Changed Focus to Open Source Niche since 2002
• INDIA’s FIRST Open Source Integration Company
• Pioneers in Open Source based business model in INDIA
Business
• Services
• Innovative Open Source “Platforming”
• Open Source Integration Services
• Open Source Consulting & Strategy
• Solutions
• Knowledge Management Solutions
• Business Intelligence
• Content Management
Domains & Geography
• Government
• International Human Development Sectors
• Telecom & Media
• Financial Services
• Start Ups
• Geography
• 30+ customers worldwide
• United Kingdom
• INDIA
• South Africa
• United States
People & Infrastructure
• 8000 sq. ft. Innovation Center – NOIDA Electronic City
• 80 Passionate Open Source:
• Architects
• Developers
• Artisans
• Project Managers
• Offices
• Electronic City, NOIDA, INDIA
• Bracknell, United Kingdom
Who we areINDIA’s leading & innovative Open Source Solutions Provider of Knowledge Management & Business Intelligence Solutions
We provide “enterprise ready” solutions and services to bridge the gap between Open Source and business needs.
• Specific Industry Domain Solutions
• Government & International Development sector
• Telecom & Media
• BFSI (Financial Services)
• White Label Open Source powered SaaS / PaaS platforms (Microsoft/Open Source)
• Open Source Integration & Customization
• Open Source Development, R&D & Consulting
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INDIA’s First Open Source Integration Company
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The spade work !!
Six Large platforms developed ; More than 50 custom applications
in or around open source
Thousands of Lines of original OSS Code
More than 4000 man months of Development using Open Source
More than 100 separate Open Source Technology Integrations
Adopted and Developed in almost all leading Open Source
Development Technologies
What it led to !!
250,000 Housing aspirants in London use services running
through our Platforms
85,000 sales quotes; Annual Revenue GBP 300 million passes
through our Pricing Platform
Largest Open Source ECM uses InfoAxon Calendar Component
12,000 UN Solution Exchange Members use our Platform to
capture Knowledge
30,000 AIDS community members use our knowledge management
solution
Who was it for !!
Leading London Social Housing Service
UK’s Second Largest Telecom Provider
Worlds Largest Human Development Organization
Leading Indian Banks
AIDS Development Organizations
World 3rd largest Air Force
Open Source Integration
Our ability to integrate open source technologies as “whole
product” solutions is through our innovative open source
integration expertise and development model within our business
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Open Source Integration – The Big
Picture
Open Source Integration
Solutions
•Core Open Source Integration Expertise
•Research and Development
•Integration
•Technology Platforms
Platforms powered by Open Source
•White Label SaaS Platforms for:
•Startups
•SaaS Service Providers
•Cloud Computing
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ServicesOur Ability to “Innovate” and “Integrate” using Open Source and Mixed Source components drives everything we do leading to “Whole Product” solutions for Businesses
•Solution and Services
•Domain Specific Solutions
•Enterprise Solutions for Knowledge Management and Business Intelligence
•Custom Solutions