Open Source and Drupal
OpenBand Labs is a very active supporter of Open Source technologies. We support and sponsor numerous projects including: RDF, File Framework, Bitcache, XMPP, Webmail and many others.
Drupal is one of our platforms of choice. Our team is a strong group of developers with extensive Drupal experience. We actively contribute our code to the community and share out research and knowledge. We have developed some of the most advanced modules and solutions for using Drupal in distributed enterprises because the functionality either didn’t exist or was simply not designed well enough for our clients’ needs.
Community Building and Collaboration
The Collaborative Web is a key to enterprise success because it allows a work environment to not only support materials created within its own confines, but sources content from outside its own walls and enriches the work environment. Email, text messages, documents, presentations, Instant Messaging, videos, geo-location and context-specific actions are all discovered and interacted with in real time by multiple users.
Through an online collaborative environment, team members can be cubicles or countries apart and be more productive than the traditional office environment. In fact, the Collaborative Community model creates an environment of even more intense innovation and productivity as it increases the interaction between business units.
Openband specializes in the Collaborative Web, and in particular with collaborative environments distributed over many business units (offices, locations, etc.) and expansive distances. Our solutions are designed to cross physical and societal borders. Features like identity federation (a.k.a. OpenID, or the ability to use a site as your virtual "passport" and store your personal information rather than keeping many different usernames/passwords) and real-time translation (instant message in one language, the receiver reads it in their preferred language and vice versa) allows us to provide scalable, powerful solutions to varying business needs.