Succeeding with open source software

Affordable and reliable enterprise open source solutions

Nowadays there is no need anymore to license an expensive, proprietary Content Management System (CMS) solution from one of the market-leading vendors, such as Microsoft, Vignette, or Interwoven. Today, many companies are opting for Open Source software, for its cost-effectiveness, flexibility and freedom. Myths about Open Source software, regarding its lack of professional support, its erratic updates or its instability when used in demanding production environments, definitely belong to the past.

At Contactivity we offer web solutions based on Enterprise Open Source software, combining the best of both worlds: the freedom and zero-price of Open Source licensing with a business model that focuses on product responsibility. We select only open source solutions that closely fit your needs, and offer you enterprise-quality code with high levels of professional support and services.

Open, Share and Innovate

We consider Open Standards and Open Source to be key tenets of our corporate philosophy. In the spirit of the motto ‘Open, Share and Innovate’, we offer you the opportunity to be involved in our projects through in-house training and development. Our development team also keeps you up to date with the latest technological advances, and offers you tools and strategies to share your own product as open source. This enables the open source community to contribute to your code, dramatically shortening development time and quickly improving your product’s quality and functionality.

Maximizing your outreach by providing multi-channel content

Today’s publishers and media companies increasingly aim at building conversational relationships with their audiences through attractive, dynamic and interactive media presences. Building relationships with your customers online is about leveraging user-generated content to establish product loyalty and user engagement. Your audience reads your articles, watches movies and listen to music, but also expects personalized content and interaction with other visitors and your editorial team. If your content is accessible in only one format from one place, you may not be meeting their expectations.
Contactivity works with you to develop solutions that will meet the communication and information needs of your audience, by personalizing, reusing, repackaging and redistributing your content for printed publications, web, email, and multimedia.

Building vibrant and sustainable online communities

Many companies organizations still see their websites as a way to ‘push’ information to their visitors and potential supporters, providing ‘web 2.0 applications with a web 1.0 strategy’. Our team helps you to implement solutions that provide a different way for you to connect with their target groups, customers, clients and the public at large. Rather than content consumers or content publishers, we see visitors of websites as potential ‘advocates’, and social media services as a toolbox to facilitate vibrant and inspiring inter-communal online ‘conversations’. We believe social media tools should not only empower and mobilize existing constituencies, customers, supporters and staff, but should extend into the existing online communities to target new audiences.
Contactivity develops open source community tools, such as (group) blogs, user profiles, member directory, personal messaging, social networks and personalized content. In addition, our team also integrates social media applications, such as FaceBook, YouTube, Twitter, Google Maps & Open Social, Hyves and many more.