osCommerce is an Open Source based online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved.

osCommerce has attracted the largest community for an e-commerce solution that consists of over 150,400 store owners and developers worldwide with add-ons being contributed on a daily basis. To date there are over 4,200 add-ons available that have been created by the community to extend the features of an osCommerce online store.

osCommerce combines Open Source solutions to provide a free and open e-commerce platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language and the fast MySQL database server. With no special requirements, osCommerce is able to run on any PHP 4.1+ enabled web server running on Linux, Solaris, BSD, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows environments.

With over 6 years of operation, osCommerce has built a showcase of over 12,600 online shops that have been voluntarily added to the live shops section, and powers many thousands of more online shops worldwide.

E-Commerce sites today

It is a matter of fact that E-Commerce sites lose almost half of their potential sales because their visitors cannot use the site. In many cases websites are either designed to look nice and full of impressive features, or are too generic and lacking professionalism. What these websites have in common is that they fail to meet the customer’s needs. In addition, the majority of sites lack clear site navigation, structure, and content that leads to the site visitors’ distrust towards the on-line business. Lack of trust means lower sales.

How 1Tech make successful e-commerce solutions

1Tech claims that having a well built website is only a part of a successful e-commerce operation. A greater part should be taken by businesses processes including:

• Efficient fulfillment and reliable shipping
• Consistent and quick customer service
• Secure and reliable hosting
• Appropriate online marketing campaigns

Our Approach

1Tech takes each project from a business perspective. We consider every business to be unique, and only by thorough analysis of the business we can find the most appropriate solutions. Combining our experience in building e-commerce sites with an authoritative e-business research, 1Tech provides the following e-commerce solutions:

• The knowledge to build, implement and run an e-commerce operation that meets the needs of our customers.
• The know-how to design e-commerce websites that focus on meeting the needs of our clients’ customers.
• An e-commerce website that will perform better than most guidelines based on recognized usability.
• The use of leading e-commerce platforms – such as Microsoft Commerce Server and OfBiz – that are reliable and secure

Opentaps is a web based ERP and CRM for small to medium sized businesses. Its functions include eCommerce, Point-of-Sales, inventory, warehouse, order, customer management and general ledger. It is built on top of the OFBiz framework.

Open For Business (OfBiz) is an open source enterprise applications project. It consists of a suite of business applications and a framework for developing such applications. OFBiz can be deployed “as is” for a strong set of out-of-box functionality. Alternatively, it can be used to develop sophisticated custom or commercial applications.

The OFBiz Framework is a pre-integrated Java infrastructure stack built with open source projects such as Apache Tomcat, Freemarker, Derby, and beanshell. Goals of the OFBiz Framework include:

• Implement design patterns such as Model-View-Controller, Service Oriented Architecture, and database-independent persistence layer.
• Allow existing or custom-developed applications to be added by dropping into a components-based architecture.
• Reduce the amount of code required through the use of scripting, generics, meta-programming, and mutually-aware infrastructure tiers.

What is a Customer Relationship Manager (CRM)?

The generally accepted purpose of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is to enable organizations to better manage their customers through the introduction of reliable systems, processes and procedures for interacting with those customers.

CRM systems are included with every shared website hosting plan we offer. They are a part of Website Source Hosting “Easy Apps” group of free applications.

SugarCRM is the world’s leading provider of commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes. SugarCRM’s mission is to provide the most innovative, highest quality, easily customized and most appreciated business tools created by the open source development and business models.

How does SugarCRM work?

SugarCRM develops solutions by actively engaging the CRM community, consisting of users, customers, developers and experts, and incorporates their needs, opinions and experiences into the solution. SugarCRM conveys Website Source Hosting strengths, weaknesses, vision and function in a forthright manner to all community members so that the solution expectations are not misguided. SugarCRM believes that open source development methodology and open source business models maintain healthy business relationships, highest quality solutions, and also the highest level of trust.

SugarCRM’s Sugar Suite easily adapts to any business environment by offering a more flexible, cost-effective alternative than proprietary applications. The Sugar Suite’s open source architecture allows companies to more easily customize and integrate customer-facing business processes in order to build and maintain more profitable relationships. 

Does my enterprise need CRM software?

If you have a very small clientele, you can probably easily remember your customers and their individual preferences, so it isn’t hard to anticipate their needs. CRM comes rather naturally to most business people in that situation. In larger companies, though, CRM software can be a critical component in an enterprise, helping them track individual customer orders and requests to provide excellent customer service. CRM also offers your enterprise the ability to offer upgrades or to cross-sell products to customers in an intelligent manner based on their previous purchase history. If your company is large enough that you lack personalized customer service and you suspect you are missing out on opportunities to create a loyal customer base then you would want to consider implementing a CRM system.

Why choose Liferay as an open source portal platform?

Liferay is leading innovation, performance and value in the portal market with Version 4.0 of Liferay Portal. An enterprise service oriented architecture (SOA), liberal open source license, full suite of support and services, and integration with today’s proven technologies add up to the best combination of performance and value in the portal industry today. Liferay portal increases your organization’s competitive advantage and business agility by integrating applications and information, enabling re-usable services, and standardizing processes maximizing productivity, increasing return on your IT investment, and accelerating
the flow of business.

1Tech’s Open Source Portal Consulting Services

1Tech Open Source Portal Consulting Services consistently provide innovative and cost-effective solutions. This has garnered us the attention of the industry as being a company that enterprises can depend on.

1Tech Open Source Portal Consulting Services help optimize your usage of Liferay Portal and maximize your investment. Our consulting services are handled by the most knowledgeable developers of Liferay Portal in the industry. In addition to expert knowledge of Liferay’s products, our developers have extensive experience with different technologies used to build enterprise architectures. 1Tech’s Liferay developers can assess your company’s needs and provide an implementation plan so that you will have a firm understanding of where you are now and the solutions that will take you to where you want to be.

Our Open Source Portal Consulting Services is ready to help you at every stage of the application lifecycle. We provide you with the security in knowing that you will be up and running faster and safer.

Magnolia is a leading open-source content-management-system (CMS), built from scratch to support JSR-170, the upcoming standard API for java content repositories (JCR).

Magnolia’s primary goal is ease of use for all parties involved in running a CMS.Magnolia includes everything to get started with a standalone installation in less than 10 minutes.

Magnolia runs on all common operating-systems (JDK 1.4.1 or later required). No additional software or databases are needed.

Magnolia Content Management features a very flexible structure, platform-independence through the use of Java and XML, a simple to use API, easy templating through the use of JSP, JSTL and a custom tag library, automatic administrative UI generation, transparent and uniform data access to multiple data repositories, easy configuration through XML, easy application integration and easy deployment with professional staging on any J2EE Server.

Magnolia has originally been developed by obinary and is now maintained by Magnolia International, whose mission is to develop Magnolia to its full potential.

Joomla! is a free, open source content management system for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets. Joomla! includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization. Joomla! is licensed under the GPL, and is the result of a fork of Mambo.

It is written with the PHP programming language and uses the MySQL database.

What are open source solutions?

Open source solutions allow companies to acquire software at a fraction of the cost of commercial counterparts.

Issues around open source

However, lack of professional support for the implementation of open source solutions can become an issue, and at 1Tech we are committed to addressing that concern. 1Tech provides open source technology consulting that offers a wide range of services including implementation and support for high quality, open source CRM, CMS, eCommerce, EMR and other software solutions.

Open source consulting

1Tech provide programming and support for Open Source technologies such as Linux, Apache, MySQL, Java, JEE, Perl, PHP, PostgreSQL, OpenCMS, MagnoliaCMS, Liferay, Compiere, Nagios, OpenLDAP, Ruby, Subversion, Sendmail and Tomcat. We apply valuable expertise and experience to transform the use of Open Source software.

• We specialize in Open Source and it’s use in the enterprise; 
• We are a highly talented group of senior professionals who offer a unique blend of core experience in our areas of expertise;
• We provide proven industry solutions within specialized vertical markets; 
• We apply our resources appropriately and with close client interaction; 
• We offer flexible and scalable solutions at a competitive price.  

Reducing Cost

1Tech is not just another IT consulting firm. We operate at the forefront of change — helping large complex companies reduce IT budgets and the overall cost of commercial software through the use of Open Source. We offer high quality, cost effective staffing and project-based solutions using industry experts, people who’ve been there and done that.

Years of Experience

On average, our consultants have 10 years of practical experience with Open Source Software. We have the talent for rapidly assessing the big picture, delivering projects on time and under budget.

Our Value

From contract staffing to project based work of any size, 1Tech will help you find significant cost savings and greater reliability than what you may be experiencing. We appreciate the chance to earn your business, give us a call today.