Open Source & 3rd-party Software Integration
Let us help you with these common integration scenarios:
- Building a website from multiple open-source and/or 3rd-party software packages
- Creating a custom "front-end" for a software package to improve your site's visitor experience.
- Add missing "back-end" administration or reporting features to allow you to better manage your site and your business.
- Adding an e-commerce, content management system, blog, or forum package to an existing website.
Two major issues confront any integration project; providing a consistent "visitor experience" and integrating functionality.
- Visitor Experience - The visitors to your site shouldn't be aware of any significant difference in the "look and feel" of the site just because you're using software from more than one vendor. This seamless experience can require creating or modifying software skins and themes, changing page code and format styles, or some combination of both.
- Functional Integration - While the simple linking of different software together is not necessarily difficult, challenges often arise when you need to implement data sharing between the software packages. Data such as customer information is sometimes duplicated (do you maintain both in parallel, or make one the 'master' set?), security is implemented in differing manners (is it better to implement a single sign-on to multiple security systems, or consolidate?), administration can become burdensome (can administrative tasks be simplified, consolidated, or eliminated?)
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