Below are a few of the projects completed by OSC members. The depth and breadth illustrated below demonstrate the years of experience that we can exercise to help you achieve your aims.

Large Scale Multi National Rollout
Customer:  JMC Tour Operators (Thomas Cook Group)
Completed: Summer 2001
Size: 250 Users, 50 Locations, 12 Countries
OSC Member: Lucid IT Ltd  www.lucidit.co.uk

The staff of Lucid designed the Information Technology systems used in JMC's overseas offices in a previous project. In Phase 5 further additions were made to JMC's overseas IT estate. Servers, desktops, printers, communication and other equipment was installed in 50 offices throughout the world. 30 offices were visited; equipment was installed remotely in the remainder.
158 major items of hardware were installed or just under 500 hardware items in total. In excess of 1100 software packages were installed.
Lucid were responsible for the entire project from technical specification to the logistics, installations and handover training and continue into the future with remote support of their work.
Further details at http://www.infrastructors.co.uk/CaseStudies/JMC-1.htm

Email with Webmail
Customer:  Nottingham City Council
Completed: July 2002
Size: 9,000 Users
OSC Member:  Parliament Hill Computers www.phcomp.co.uk

Design and installation of  an email system with address book for 9,000 council staff. A webmail interface is the preferred access with IMAP and POP3 where desired. User defails were inported into an LDAP directory that was part of the project and a user administration front end provided. All email from the existing system was imported. Staff are delighted with the stability of the system that has grown and now handles some 50,000 mails per day. A similar system for 20,000 students was installed at Oaklands College, St Albans, in early 2004.
Further details at www.phcomp.co.uk/Projects.php#NCC

Enterprise Java Portal
Customer:  British Educational Communication and Technology Agency
Completed: September 2005
Size: NGFL had 120,000 users
OSC Member:  Interition Ltd www.interition.net

BECTA wanted to be able to demonstrate how advanced search engines could improve access to educational content as part of their "Improving User Access Initiative". They needed an environment that allowed users to really understand how different, more efficient and effective, finding and understanding educational content could be. Having already made a significant investment in an Autonomy licence they chose to use leading open source products that complied with Enterprise Java and other industry standards.

They chose Liferay Professional, a portal that complied with the JSR168 Portal Specification, to provide the users environment and supporting software from the Apache Software Foundation. This included Apache HTTP for web services, Apache Tomcat as an application server, Apache AXIS for provisioning Web Services from the many data sources, Hibernate and MySQL for data storage.

The result was a self subscribe portal that enabled users to customise their environment and immediately receive basic functionality such as email, scheduling, blogs and wiki portlets. Combined with a number of portlets that demonstrated aspects of advanced search engines. This included search agents that would learn about the users interests as they navigated content and collaboration agents that learned from other users with similar interests.

The use of a JSR168 compliant portal, and Apache AXIS to provide the actual content from Web Services, meant that all of the development was capable of being deployed on any of the many JSR168 portals available.

The project demonstrated how Java open source software can provide solutions without any loss of quality or capability. It enables investments in existing systems to be taken advantage of without incurring unnecessary additional license obligations.

Further details at: www.interition.net/magnoliaPublic/features.html