Technologies

Alfresco is one of the leading open source Enterprise Content Management systems. It is a very cost-effective alternative to closed source solutions like Documentum and Sharepoint. One of the goals of the UK based development team is to surpass these products in terms of features, functionality and benefits to the user community. UFirst employees worked on the development of Alfresco Share together with Alfresco and contributed to Jeff Potts' book "Alfresco Developer Guide".

• Alfresco Homepage
• Alfresco Developers Guide

Silverstripe is the new kid on the open source CMS block. Having attained world-wide recognition as the CMS for the Obama campaign, the New Zealand developed product stands up to any comparison with Drupal or Typo3. It combines the simplicity of Drupal with the sophistication of Typo3, is based on a modern framework and has a bright future ahead of itself.

• Silverstripe Homepage

Magento Commerce is currently the fastest growing eCommerce platform. Backed by the US based company Varien, Magento has become the leading open source eCommerce platform. The product provides numerous extension modules that allow covering a wide range of business cases out of the box. In addition, Magento has recently taken an important step by offering advanced CMS features. Varien has launched a very convincing eCommerce platform at an amazing speed!

UFirst consultants have developed numerous modules and extensions for Magento over the last two years. They have experience in user guidance, design and eCommerce strategies from some of the largest European Magento projects in Europe.

• Magento Homepage

Content Management Systems used to be an infrastructure technology to be exchanged with every website replacement. These days, CMSes have become important components of an Enterprise architecture and are used to support Internet, Intranet and Extranet applications simultaneously. Yanel - developed by our partners Wyona - provides a solid foundation to address these challenges.

Yanel is always fully forward and backward compatible and allows its users to constantly work with the latest version of the software. Yanel provides a number of extensions for online business development, social media and product promotions.

• Wyona Homepage

Drupal is a free, open source content management system that allows users to easily create, update and manage a website without requiring a lot of technical know-how.

Drupal is a great fit for community-oriented websites focused on member interaction. The Drupal community has produced hundreds of modules (add-ons) over the last few years, allowing users to easily adapt their system. UFirst has several years of Drupal experience and has developed and published a number of modules back to the community.

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• Drupal Homepage
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Typo3 strenghts are its fine-grained permission handling and sophisticated multilanguage features. Typo3 is best used for sites with a large number of editors. It provides an elagant solution for komplex Intranets and company communication platforms.

Typo3 has been a valuable asset on past projects. We have implemented all sorts of sites form small and simple to large and complex and are highly experienced with Typo3's strenghts and weaknesses, framework and scripting language.

• Typo3 Homepage

Liferay is an open source portal server and collaboration platform providing a large amount of out of the box features including document management, team calendars and instant messaging. Integration into a Windows and MS Office environment is simple and its drag'n'drop functionality makes layouting easy.

UFirst has certified Liferay consultants who can help you plan, roll-out, integrate, customize and extend Liferay.

• Liferay Homepage