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[07/12/2011]

Smile will be attending the Open Source Conference 2011 as Silver Partner. >>

[15/08/2011] Smile at the heart of the Open World Forum 2011

Smile is Platinum sponsor of the Open World Forum, world summit of open technologies, which will take place in Paris on 22nd, 23rd and 24th September 2011. >>

[09/08/2011] Smile has extended its Gold partnership with Alfresco

Smile, number one integrator of open source solutions in Europe, has just announced the extension of its Gold partnership with Alfresco. >>

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For several years, Smile built technological and commercial partnerships to offer customers the best service and best products and realise developing synergies.

For many years now, Smile has been building technical and commercial partnerships so that it can offer its clients the best services and products by developing winning collaborations. For Smile, these partnerships are only logical if maximum effort is put in to build and improve on expertise demonstrated by successful projects.

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eZ Publish

eZ Publish  is a premium open source content management solution, surely one of the most comprehensive currently available, particularly on the core functionality of content management, such as structuring of content, workflow management, versions or categorization. Smile implement eZ Publish since 2003, and was able to appreciate the ruggedness, and flawless finish. "Smile is one of our historic partners in France. With a mastery of content management, Smile takes full advantage of the capabilities of eZ Publish and has developed some of the largest French Internet sites. " Bertrand Maugain, Global Partner Manager eZ Systems.

Smile is now Platinum Partner for France, Enterprise Partner for BeNeLux, and therefore the first worldwide partner of eZ Publish. To learn more, try a selection of our reference with eZ Publish. More information: http://ez.no/

Magento

Magento

Smile and Magento  have signed a strategic partnership to offer and deploy a powerful e-commerce and complete their joint customers. Indeed, in the open source world, Magento is the most complete e-Commerce solution, with a wide functional coverage. Moreover, thanks to technology PHP5 and Zend Framework, Magento has a high scalability.Smile is Enterprise Partner in France and all BeNeLux countries. To learn more, try a selection of our reference with Magento. More information: www.magentocommerce.com

Bacula

Bacula

Bacula Systems offers companies, based on a subscription model, professional support, training and services for Bacula,the open source back-up tool . Bacula increases reliability and enables you to significantly decrease back up costs. The open source data back up and recovery solution Bacula Enterprise Edition, is the only 100% Open Source solution that enables you to save on the network, recover data and check IT data. This software is ten times cheaper than proprietary systems offers better reliability and proven performance in environments that are vital to companies.

Talend

Talend

Talend is a leading editor on the market for data integration in open source software. Talend's solutions are used for ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) Business Intelligence, and for integration between operational systems. With this partnership, Smile ensures thorough expetise and monitoring quality to its customers. "Smile is a key partner of the integration of open source solutions, and we are proud to see them join the Talend Alliance Program. By offering our partners technical support and support on sales and marketing, we help them to optimise their projects, streamline their technology choices and to achieve greater customer satisfaction." Francois Mero, Director EuropeTalend. More information: http://uk.talend.com

Alfresco

Alfresco

Alfresco is a leading open source enterprise content management system. Alfresco combines open source innovations with the stability and performance required for an enterprise platform. "Alfresco is an open source solution that is continually being improved thanks to feedback from our community. Smile is therefore able to offer its clients a better quality product, in a quicker time for a lower cost," Denis Dorval, Vice-President of Alfresco responsible for the southern EMEA region. To find out more, take a look at some of our work with Alfresco  .

Hippo

Hippo

Hippo sets the standard for how organizations can empower their audience to engage with content. Hippo CMS powers some of the largest and most visited Web properties in the world and is the first Web Content Management solution to deliver context-aware content for its customers. Whether it’s a Web site, a mobile app, intranet portal, e-commerce, social media or even print, Hippo’s software is a powerful tool for organizations to create, deliver and optimize content to create business value.
Learn more about Hippo : http://www.onehippo.com/

Drupal

Drupal

Drupal is an open source content management tool (CMS), which can publish, manage and organize a set of content on a website. Drupal offers a variety of applications: it allows the development of community portals, corporate sites, corporate intranets or e-commerce sites. One of the great strengths of Drupal is its extensibility, the tool easily integrates many add-ons.
Drupal offers very good results in terms of performance. Many large companies have therefore chosen in collaboration with Smile Drupal to deploy ambitious projects.
More information: http://drupalfr.org/

JasperSoft

Jaspersoft

Jaspersoft's open source business intelligence solution is the most widely used business intelligence solution in the world , with more than 8 million downloads and more than 10 000 business clients in 96 countries. Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite offers a modular and open approach, based on the web, to meet the needs of companies in terms of business intelligence solutions. Jaspersoft's software is quickly updated by a community of over 90 000 registered ussers working on more than 350 projects which represents the largest community in the world for business intelligence solutions. Additional information is available on the websites www.jaspersoft.com  and www.jasperforge.org  .

Liferay

Liferay

Liferay Enterprise Portal is an American J2EE open source portal offering a large amount of customisation to the end user. Pages can be build using building blocks by simply moving and dropping elements onto the page. Liferay is an excellent enterprise portal solution, allowing standard integration of all existing applications, offering features for animating the portal and setting up pages and modules, with a well thought out working environment, as seductive for its users as for Intranet managers. Finally, Liferay has also developed interesting technical partnerships in order to offer packaged portal+GED or Portal+Business Intelligence solutions; and commercial partnerships like its partnership with Smile in order to increase its presence on the European market.

Pentaho

Pentaho

Smile and Pentaho have signed a strategic partnership enabling them to offer and deploy comprehensive open source business intelligence platforms  to their clients. Pentaho is a comprehensive business intelligence suite. It consists of all business intelligence components, from ETL to reporting , not forgetting multi-dimensional OLAP analysis , a customised portal and datamining . Pentaho also offers a dashboard designer so that business users can easily access the database without any IT knowledge.

"We are certain that Smile, the no 1 for the integration of open source solutions, can fully contribute to the development of Pentaho and together we hope to turn many prospects into satisfied clients," explains Davy Nys, EMEA commercial manager.

Nuxeo

Nuxeo's suite of ECM solutions consists of modular, flexible open source solutions at a great price for managing information. A pioneer in the ECM open source market , Nuxeo is used by hundreds of clients across the world such as The Press Association, L'Agence France-Presse, EllisDon and Cengage. Companies of all sizes working across all sectors use Nuxeo's Enterprise Content Management solutions to meet their specific content management needs. Support, training and consulting services are available all over the world for our clients and partners. Based in Paris, Nuxeo also has offices in North America, (Boston), Eastern Europe (Moscow), Western Europe (Paris, Madrid, Rome) and the Middle East (Dubaï). "To meet the growing demand for enterprise open source solutions, it is vital that we expand our partner network of recognised specialists," adds Arnaud Lefèvre, Assistant General Manager in charge of Nuxeo's sales.

OpenERP

OpenERP

OpenERP (formerlyTinyERP) is a highly comprehensive tool with a formidable technical edge enabling it to continually offer more features at a very fast pace in terms of development. It offers a wealth of functionalities, without a doubt the most functionalities of any open ERP solution, it is over 5 years ahead of its competitors in technical terms. The modular nature of the solution has resulted in the emergence of a large community of developers who contribute ever more powerful modules. To find out more about open source ERP

SugarCRM

SugarCRM

SugarCRM is the global leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management solutions (CRM).
Open Source SugarCRM allows companies to evolve and integrate their processes more easily, the objective is to maintain and develop customer relationships more profitable. Sugar CRM is flexible to use and is made to obtain a comprehensive view of interactions between customers and sales teams, marketing and customer support. More information: www.sugarcrm.com

Zarafa

Zarafa

The main features are offered by Zarafa: email, calendar, contacts and task management.
The solution combines the usability of Outlook with the stability and flexibility of a Linux server.
"The partnership with Smile is a great asset to Zarafa because it is the leader in bringing open source solutions in France and one of the main players in this global industry," said Brian Joseph, co-founder and Zarafa's CEO.

Zimbra

Zimbra

Zimbra Collaborative Suite is an open source collaborative or groupware tool. Since its start in 2003, by three former employees of SUN, the solution is supported by an active community of more than 22,000 members. Zimbra was acquired by U.S. giant Yahoo Web in 2007 and in 2010, VMware has signed a definitive agreement with Yahoo! to acquire Zimbra.
Today, this solution is used in over 80,000 organizations is about 44 million mailboxes in over 80 countries.
More information: http://www.zimbra.com/

Jahia

Jahia

A long standing partner of  Jahias, Smile was in 2003, one of the first to integrate the product in France. Since then, Smile has remained at the forefront  of Jahia deployments, in number, scale and above all in technical expertise . It is one of the reasons why many large companies have chosen to work with Jahia in collaboration with Smile: Bouygues Immobilier, Valorissimo, Arjowiggins, Eutelsat, Beauté Prestige International, Groupe COLAS, Académie de Rennes, Conseil Régional d'Ile de France... To find out more, take a look at some of our work with Jahia.

Typo3

Typo3

Typo3 is one of the best and most active open source CMS. It's success is largely down to its add ins and the wide array of its add ins , that include some major contributions from Smile. Typo3.Association is a non profit association that finances and coordinates developments of Typo3, organises events that bring together the community and offers certifications. In 2003, Smile was one of the first to integrate Typo3 in France and since then more than 130 websites and portals have been produced using this superb tool. By becoming a member of the Typo3 Association, Smile confirms its commitment to the community created by Kasper Skårhøj, and its involvement in the development of the product. To find out more, take a look at some of our work with Typo3.

Info Bright

Infobright

Infobright is a pioneer in the development of datawarehouse solutions. Business intelligence requirements and increased amounts of company data exceed computing resources and budgets for many companies. Infobright solves this problem by offering a datawarehouse solution with excellent scalability that reduces the need for human intervention by up to 90% all at a cost that is much lower than other solutions. Infobright is built on MySQL and supports a wide range of ETL and business intelligence tools. It provides users with a datawarehouse solution offering excellent scalability. When you need to work on volumes of data as large as terabytes, only a few databases are up to the task. With this partnership, Smile offers an open source solution to this problem, a solution that is high performing and economical, allowing you to build a 100% open source business intelligence architecture even for the most complex problems.

SpagoBI

SpagoBI

Smile is a partner for the integration of the open source business intelligence solution SpagoBI  , the solution that allows maximum interoperability with both open source and proprietary business intelligence solutions. SpagoBI; independent web platform or integrated with the portal eXo, allows you to run reports for BIRT, JasperReport, Business Objects and Microsoft SqlServer Reporting Service, and to run cubes for OLAP Mondrian and Palo, ... and also offers a simplified query functionality for business users, requiring no technical knowledge and based on the open source solution Hibernate. To find our more, take a look at some of our work with SpagoBI