Open Source

Open Source has come a long way and is carving a position for itself in the enterprise IT portfolio. Today, clients face many challenges such as complex portal solutions, integrating with a larger ecosystem, working within limited budgets, optimizing ROI on new initiatives, and increasing time-to-market for new functionality.

MphasiS' mature and strategic Open Source platform, MframE OPEN, provides end-to-end Open Source solutions to meet your enterprise needs. In the last few years, MphasiS has successfully delivered Open Source solutions for many Fortune 500 clients.

 

MframE OPEN

MframE OPEN is a Java based framework integrating various open source components in a cohesive manner, helping firms build well-integrated, feature-rich, cost-effective web portal solutions. It is a pre-architected and pre-integrated solution that can be customized to provide a robust, scalable platform for industry specific web portal implementations. It leverages a decade of web/portal application development experience in building mission-critical web portals, using accepted commercial as well as Open Source products.

Features

• Simplified implementation and integration of Web technologies
• Continuous benchmarking for best of breed products
• Integrates with your ecosystem
• Highly scalable, cohesive, and modular architecture without product lock-in
• Enables customized web stacks
• Continuously evolving with marketplace and industry changes
• Leverages industry best practices and standards
• Tested, iterative development methodologies and tools
• Best Practices, Templates, Cook books

Frameworks

MframE Framework comprises four major frameworks which can be used either independently or in combination. This includes:

• MframE Web: This is a web application development framework with a comprehensive reusable code library, portal like UI components and is a loosely coupled application integration solution. MframE Web is predominantly transaction-oriented, facilitating light weight web applications that largely provide single business functionality and integrates with back-end systems. e.g.: Transactional Web Apps, Business Logic Focus Web Application
• MframE Portal: This incorporates portal features such as personalization, customization, SSO, content integration, integration with multiple applications, search, AJAX, SF, security, etc. e.g.: Content oriented portals, customer self service portals, intranet / B2E portals, customer support portals
• MframE Web 2.0: This is an interaction oriented framework that includes Web 2.0 capabilities such as blogs, wikis, RSS, AJAX, social networking, folksonomy, etc. e.g.: Enterprise 2.0, Facebook or YouTube for the enterprise and social customer facing communities
• MframE eCommerce: This sell-focused and transaction oriented framework provides capabilities such as cataloging, inventory, shopping cart, social shopping, etc. e.g.: Consumer oriented retail websites - Store front

MframE OPEN Benefits

MframE OPEN framework assures lower operational costs and time to market, reduced business risks, interoperability, enterprise scalability and flexibility.

 

Business Benefits

• Lower investment in building applications: Based on open source technologies; Extremely low framework cost; Reduced training cost; Global Delivery Model
• Lower time to decision/market
• Reduced business risk: Improve quality by doing it once, correctly; Capture and reuse of best practices; Consolidate and leverage alliances / relationships
• Enterprise scalability and flexibility: Enterprise Grade - Secure, Flexible and Manageable; Tested for high scalability, volumes

Technology Benefits

• Pre-architected, Pre-integrated solution:Define "approved" products - "Fix the Mix"; Established open source usage policy; Reference implementation
• Industry best practices, standards
• Feature-rich platform: Evolves with industry standards; Open Architecture
• Enhanced resources utilization: Increased mobility of resources; Leverage of functionality across business unit
• Simplified operating environment: Improved management of quality of service parameters

For more details on MphasiS Open Source offerings, write to Open-source@mphasis.com.