SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 11, 2005--In response to increased customer demand, Cignex announced today that it has re-launched as an open source consulting and business software solutions provider. With more than 50 open source deployments, Cignex has a track record of success helping companies reduce costs, increase flexibility and speed deployment through open source.
Cignex provides consulting, solutions development, deployment, training and support services in five key areas: content management (CM) and portals for websites, migration from commercial application servers to JBoss, customer relationship management (CRM), business intelligence (BI) solutions, and integration adapters.
"Over the past year, customer demand for our open source services has skyrocketed," said Navin Nagiah, CEO of Cignex. "Many organizations are interested in adopting open source, but unsure of how to do so. Because of our open source heritage and proven experience, they trust Cignex to help them bridge that gap. We have helped companies to design and implement business solutions that, in some cases, have saved millions of dollars over proprietary, commercial alternatives."
Cignex works closely with its customers to build solutions using open source applications, tools and technologies that map to business needs and budgets. Recent successes include defining and delivering a flexible, Web-based curriculum-management system for the University of North Carolina (UNC) School of Medicine. In addition to being low cost and easy to maintain, the new UNC system has streamlined the content-development process, made it easier to track and issue notifications about curriculum changes, and enabled UNC to deliver improved quality course content.
"The demands of students and faculty, combined with new technological capabilities, required that the university to update the way it presented materials to students," said Eve Juliano, director, Educational Technology Group, UNC School of Medicine. "Open source Zope/Plone solutions offered the scalability and flexibility we needed at a low cost, and Cignex provided the business experience and open source expertise to turn our ideas into reality."
Cignex's customer base includes other leaders in government, healthcare, high tech and education, including Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, Priority Health, Epson Electronics America, and University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
Committed to Open Source
Cignex is committed to the open source community. The company's mission is to increase the enterprise market size for open source by supporting the success of open source implementations within the enterprises. In order to facilitate this, the company actively sponsors, participates in and contributes to several leading open source projects.
Cignex co-founded the Bay Area's first JBoss Users Group with JBoss earlier this year; and will kick off the first Plone Users Group, with community members in Q4 2005. To encourage co-creation and innovation among open source technologies, Cignex hosts open source coding sprints at its headquarters, and actively participates in the sprints of other companies.
In fact, as part of the Cignex founded and funded Goldegg, (www.goldeggstack.org, also announced today), a community effort to make the open source Plone CMS a viable alternative for enterprise CM, Cignex will host one of the largest sprints in the open source industry. The sprint, scheduled for November 7-11, 2005, at Cignex's Santa Clara headquarters, will bring together more than 20 developers from 12 companies across 4 countries in one place at one time.
In addition, Cignex launched an Open Source Executive Education Series designed to educate executives on open source issues and opportunities. The series, a combination of blogs, podcasts, whitepapers and presentations, address issues such as "Why Open Source for the Enterprise?" and "JBoss Suite for the Enterprise."
About Cignex
With more than 50 successful open source deployments, Cignex (www.cignex.com) leads the industry in providing open source consulting services and software solutions for business. Cignex customers include companies in education, healthcare, government and high tech, such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, Epson Electronics America, University of North Carolina Healthcare, University of North Carolina School of Medicine and OKI Semiconductor. Cignex is privately held and based in Santa Clara, Calif. The company was founded in 2000 and has been profitable since inception.
Contacts:
Breakaway Communications for Cignex
Emily Swanson, 415-738-4085
Mobile: 415-377-9766
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