InfoAxon Technologies

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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?

Understanding Open SourceLets really understand open source beyond the technology

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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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The Real Open Source

Open Source

Choices

Flexibility

Distribution

Innovation

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You and Open Source

What open source really means for Young India?

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Open Source for Young Workforce

You

Jobs

Business

Insights

Industry Contacts

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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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Future of Open Source Model

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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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Where to Start

How to start building a career with Open Source

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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