Open Source software has changed IT in a fundamental way, by facilitating the development of software by developer practitioners. This has resulted in some of the most stable and widely used software in IT history. We have responded to the requests of our clients, and developed our own Open Source capabilities, which are highly tailored to the digital media industry.

VJIL’s Initiative

Nowadays, we are finding more and more customers wanting to build, update, develop and check their web sites using Open Source technologies.  This is because Open Source technologies offer widely-used general-purpose scripting technology that is especially suited for Web development.  When it comes to rapid web application development, working with open source software often enables projects to be done cheaper, faster and better.  

VJIL has embraced Open Source Technologies, and today offers you robust open source services. VJIL’s open source development team has proven that this new development paradigm can produce output of considerable quality and quantity, on time and to budget, leading to massive business benefit for our clients.

Our Technical Capabilities

• Languages – PHP & Perl, Ruby on Rails, Java
• Operating Systems – Linux , Windows
• Web Servers – Apache
• Servlet Engine – Tomcat
• Database – PostgreSQL and MySQL
• Application Servers – JBoss
• Data Access – iBATIS and Hibernate
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE) – NetBeans and Eclipse
• Enterprise Content Management – Joomla, Drupal, Wordpress and  Alfresco
• Enterprise Portal Servers – Liferay
• Ajax – ZK
• Frameworks – Spring and Shale
• Testing – JUnit and Selenium
• Misc – Quartz, CVS, ANT, and RedMine

Our Expertise includes:

• Open source adoption consulting
• Software Development using Open source technologies e.g PHP 5.x / PHP 6.0, Ruby on Rails.
• Simple to Complex Web application development.
• eCommerce Portals (B2B & B2C) development, Shopping Cart development, Liferay portal development & Social Community Portal development.
• Open Source CMS development and customization using Joomla, Word Press, Drupal etc.,
• Migration from proprietary to open source platform.
• Porting of legacy application to LAMP, Integration of API’s / Web Services
• Re-engineering, maintenance and support of all applications on the Open Source Technologies.

Our Experience

• Development of a Community Portal in the USA for a legal services auction company which brings clients and lawyers together on a unique platform, where lawyers can bid for business.  Lawyers benefit by expansion of their business and clients benefit by getting a solution to the ever increasing costs and complexities related to finding a suitable lawyer. The entire solution has been developed on the LAMP platform with Joomla as the Content Management System.
• Providing maintenance and support for ClearMarket - a Geo-mapping product and service that was customized and built on Liferay Portal (Community Version) for bringing together buyers and sellers. The value of participating with ClearMarket for sellers is locating more qualified customers, and for customers, reducing procurement costs and finding products or services much faster.  Our team did due diligence of the application and realized that the solution was not thoroughly tested; documentation was either limited or out-dated. We had to introduce best practices for testing by proper planning, updated the test cases and conducted validation and verification.  During the process of validation many issues which were identified were resolved by our Liferay portal development team mostly by utilizing the inbuilt features and tweaking the configuration rather than writing fresh code.  This resulted in considerable reduction of cost and time for the client to go live.
• Building an I-phone app for the consumer market, translating photographs into comic characters.
• Building a word game for a major media group.
• Providing testing facilities for a highly complex hotel website.  As the project progressed, more and more of the quality management itself was taken offshore, reducing the pressure on the client considerably.
• Development of Service Information BLOG using WordPress for a leading Medical Instruments Supply and services organization in Sweden.
• Development for Global Skillmap application using PHP technologies for a leading Management Consulting Firm in the USA, UK & India.
• Development of Community Portal using LAMP technologies.

Benefits

• Availability of skilled resources at short notice and affordable cost. Availability of resources also ensures application knowledge retention and knowledge gained around specific projects and assignments.
• Flexibility and availability of the project teams both onshore and offshore for effective collaboration ensuring quick response times, resulting in reduction in the project life cycle duration.
• Reducing the work load of the client’s Project Managers by bringing more and more responsibilities to offshore, resulting in seamless extension of the local Project Management Office.
• VJIL retained and maintained constant project teams, ensuring retention of knowledge for the future.  The knowledge gained on specific projects and client’s domain allowed the offshore team to get better understanding of the customer’s perspective and contribute more effectively on future projects.  This is particularly noticeable in the areas of UAT. 
• Continuous reviews and evaluation of the process along with the clients and improvements brought in added quality to the deliverables and provided additional confidence to all parties.
• Timely status reporting to escalate the issues as needed so that the project management could address and resolve the issues as required.
• VJIL’s experienced team members could build good working relationship with all the important members of the client.  This excellent working relationship with all the stake holders of the project could help in better interaction and positive contributions to the project.
• The resource planning at the offshore has ensured that there are proper backups for each and every member of team so that the project was not affected by any contingencies and absence of any one member of the team.