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Appnovation
Appnovation is a global, full service digital consultancy firm with headquarters in Canada, specializing in web, intranet and mobile application development using open technologies including Drupal and Alfresco, HTML5 frameworks like SproutCore and PhoneGap, as well as middleware, Big Data and business intelligence services using Mulesoft, Hadoop and MongoDB. Appnovation is one of five companies in Canada to achieve Platinum Partner status with Alfresco Software, Inc. and Enterprise Select Partner status with Acquia. History Founded in 2007 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada by CEO Arnold Leung. During its first year in business, Appnovation Technologies helped the current Tatango launch the older version of the mobile texting platform called NetworkText. By 2009, the company had grown to become the 15th biggest web development company in Vancouver. In 2010, Appnovation was ranked #16 in ''PROFITs Profit Hot 50 List and Leung was included on Business in Vancouver's Top Fort ...
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SproutCore
SproutCore is an open-source JavaScript web framework. Its goal is to allow developers to create web applications with advanced capabilities and a user experience comparable to that of desktop applications. When developing a SproutCore application, all code is written in JavaScript. A notable fork of SproutCore is Ember.js. Both projects are maintained separately and have taken different directions. Development SproutCore, initially created in 2007 by Sproutit as the basis for their Mailroom application, is available under the MIT License. Apple announced MobileMe at WWDC in 2008, noting that much of it was built using SproutCore. Apple has contributed greatly to the project as part of a Web 2.0 initiative. SproutCore was also used at iWork.com, the online extension of the iWork productivity software by Apple. The latest major stable SproutCore release is 1.8, released on March 7, 2012, with many bug fixes, several new features, and documentation updates. Release 1.6 was la ...
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Private Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ...
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Open-source Software
Open-source software (OSS) is Software, computer software that is released under a Open-source license, license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and Software distribution, distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative, public manner. Open-source software is a prominent example of open collaboration, meaning any capable user is able to online collaboration, participate online in development, making the number of possible contributors indefinite. The ability to examine the code facilitates public trust in the software. Open-source software development can bring in diverse perspectives beyond those of a single company. A 2024 estimate of the value of open-source software to firms is $8.8 trillion, as firms would need to spend 3.5 times the amount they currently do without the use of open source software. Open-source code can be used for studying and a ...
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Profit (magazine)
''Profit'', launched in 1982, was a bimonthly Canadian business magazine aimed at entrepreneurs. The headquarters of the magazine was in Toronto, Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its Provinces and territories of Canada, ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, making it the world's List of coun .... History and profile ''Profit'' was launched in 1982. The magazine was published bi-monthly until January 1999 when its frequency was switched to eight times a year. It then published six times per year and, according to its website, it focused on "how to find opportunity and seize it", management practices, case studies and "access to peer groups". The headquarters of the magazine was in Toronto. Its sister magazines were '' Canadian Business'' and '' MoneySense''. In December 2013 ''Profit'' merged with ''Canadian Business'', appearing initially as a special section of that mag ...
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Tatango
Tatango is a U.S. based company offering text message marketing (SMS/MMS) services. Tatango is a privately held corporation based in Seattle, Washington with investments from the Seattle Alliance of Angels. History Derek Johnson developed the service, originally named NetworkText, during his time at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. Initially, it was started as a way for his fraternity ( Delta Upsilon) to communicate. Initially operating as NetworkText, Tatango allowed groups and organizations to send text messages to their members, with 30-40 character advertisements included at the bottom of each message. The service was free for groups and organizations in collaboration with 4INFO. This was later changed on July 26, 2008, and the company started charging a monthly fee to use the service. Johnson left college and moved to Bellingham, WA, where he founded NetworkText with Matt Pelo. Pelo left the company later that year. In 2008, the company was renamed Ta ...
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MongoDB
MongoDB is a source-available, cross-platform, document-oriented database program. Classified as a NoSQL database product, MongoDB uses JSON-like documents with optional database schema, schemas. Released in February 2009 by 10gen (now MongoDB Inc.), it supports features like sharding, Replication (computing), replication, and ACID transactions (from version 4.0). MongoDB Atlas, its managed cloud service, operates on AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure. Current versions are licensed under the Server Side Public License (SSPL). MongoDB is a member of the MACH Alliance. History The American software company 10gen began developing MongoDB in 2007 as a component of a planned platform as a service, platform-as-a-service product. In 2009, the company shifted to an open-source development model and began offering commercial support and other services. In 2013, 10gen changed its name to MongoDB Inc. On October 20, 2017, MongoDB became a publicly traded company, listed on N ...
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Hadoop
Apache Hadoop () is a collection of Open-source software, open-source software utilities for reliable, scalable, distributed computing. It provides a software framework for Clustered file system, distributed storage and processing of big data using the MapReduce programming model. Hadoop was originally designed for computer clusters built from commodity hardware, which is still the common use. It has since also found use on clusters of higher-end hardware. All the modules in Hadoop are designed with a fundamental assumption that hardware failures are common occurrences and should be automatically handled by the framework. Overview The core of Apache Hadoop consists of a storage part, known as Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), and a processing part which is a MapReduce programming model. Hadoop splits files into large blocks and distributes them across nodes in a cluster. It then transfers JAR (file format), packaged code into nodes to process the data in parallel. This appro ...
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Mule (software)
Mule is a lightweight enterprise service bus (ESB) and integration framework provided by MuleSoft. It has a Java-based platform and can also act as broker for interactions between other platforms such as .NET using web services or sockets. It has a scalable and distributable object broker architecture that can manage interactions across legacy systems, in-house applications, and modern transports and protocols. Supporting tools Design and development tools #Anypoint Studio: An Eclipse-based graphical development environment for designing, testing, and running Mule flows. It consists of two types of editors for development: a visual editor and an XML editor. #Anypoint Enterprise Security: A suite of security-related features for secure access and transactions to Mule applications. #Mule Healthcare Toolkit: Provided to process HL7 standard messages used in healthcare organizations. #Mule IDE (now deprecated): A set of Eclipse plug-ins for developing, deploying, and managing Mule ...
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Business Intelligence
Business intelligence (BI) consists of strategies, methodologies, and technologies used by enterprises for data analysis and management of business information. Common functions of BI technologies include Financial reporting, reporting, online analytical processing, analytics, Dashboard (business), dashboard development, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, Predictive Analysis, predictive analytics, and prescriptive analytics. BI tools can handle large amounts of structured and sometimes unstructured data to help organizations identify, develop, and otherwise create new strategic business opportunities. They aim to allow for the easy interpretation of these big data. Identifying new opportunities and implementing an effective strategy based on insights is assumed to potentially provide businesses with a competitive market advantage and long-term stability, and help them take strategic decisions. Busine ...
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Big Data
Big data primarily refers to data sets that are too large or complex to be dealt with by traditional data processing, data-processing application software, software. Data with many entries (rows) offer greater statistical power, while data with higher complexity (more attributes or columns) may lead to a higher false discovery rate. Big data analysis challenges include Automatic identification and data capture, capturing data, Computer data storage, data storage, data analysis, search, Data sharing, sharing, Data transmission, transfer, Data visualization, visualization, Query language, querying, updating, information privacy, and data source. Big data was originally associated with three key concepts: ''volume'', ''variety'', and ''velocity''. The analysis of big data presents challenges in sampling, and thus previously allowing for only observations and sampling. Thus a fourth concept, ''veracity,'' refers to the quality or insightfulness of the data. Without sufficient investm ...
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Middleware
Middleware is a type of computer software program that provides services to software applications beyond those available from the operating system. It can be described as "software glue". Middleware makes it easier for software developers to implement communication and input/output, so they can focus on the specific purpose of their application. It gained popularity in the 1980s as a solution to the problem of how to link newer applications to older legacy systems, although the term had been in use since 1968. In distributed applications The term is most commonly used for software that enables communication and management of data in distributed applications. An IETF workshop in 2000 defined middleware as "those services found above the transport (i.e. over TCP/IP) layer set of services but below the application environment" (i.e. below application-level APIs). In this more specific sense ''middleware'' can be described as the hyphen ("-") in '' client-server'', or the ''-to-'' ...
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PhoneGap
Apache Cordova (formerly PhoneGap) is a mobile application development framework created by Nitobi. Adobe Systems purchased Nitobi in 2011, rebranded it as PhoneGap, and later released an open-source version of the software called Apache Cordova. Apache Cordova enables software programmers to build hybrid web applications for mobile devices using CSS3, HTML5, and JavaScript, instead of relying on platform-specific APIs like those in Android, iOS, or Windows Phone. It enables the wrapping up of CSS, HTML, and JavaScript code depending on the platform of the device. It extends the features of HTML and JavaScript to work with the device. The resulting applications are hybrid, meaning that they are neither truly native mobile application nor purely Web-based. They are not native because all layout rendering is done via Web views instead of the platform's native UI framework. They are not Web apps because they are packaged as apps for distribution and have access to native device APIs ...
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