January 03, 2007
The scope of the mission was to re-design the existing relational schema of a legacy Address Book application to an LDAP schema.
Dixite's approach was based on its Identity Management solution that is in turn based on OpenLDAP, an Open Source implepentation of the LDAP.
November 02, 2006
SUEZ is a leading French-based multinational corporation, with operations primarily in water, electricity and natural gas supply, and waste management. This AfterCare contract covers the Suez Services Portal. Among other things, the portal includes an administration module that is built on top of the Open Source LAMP stack and eZ Publish CMS solution. Under this aftercare contract, Dixite consultants will partially re-engineer and extend the portal to provide the communication team of Suez Services with an array of enhanced services.
July 12, 2005
ETNRecy.net is a thematic network setup under the fourth Framework Program with the financial support of DG Research of the European Commission.
After a few months of operating their web site, ETN Recy committee decided to include a number of additional technical features on their web site.
Dixite proposed to use its AfterCare services in order to:
July 12, 2005
CoBoNet is the multimedia service provider for the construction sector.
Through its InfoPoint, CoBoNet wanted to create a central point of technical information for the construction sector. The targeted public are specialists needing high level technical information on construction materials.
Dixite performed a number of interviews and analysed the BENOR/ATG documentation repository in order to identify the user and technical requirements and describe them in a URD. After the requirements were set, we propose to develop a web portal solution and realise a proof-of-concept in order to ensure that an Oracle*Intermedia based solution would match the indexation/retrieval requirements.
After the proof-of-concept was validated by CoBoNet team, the full-scale solution was developed, tested and deployed on CoBoNet technical infrastructure.
July 12, 2005
Emakina is one of the leading e-business agency in Belgium.
Emakina was developping a set of marketing related activities from bannering campaigns, web building, etc. for Proximus.
In order to manage the flow of business demands from their customer, Emakina requested Dixite to adapt an Open Source groupware application.
In order to ensure a professional development and nevertheless the strict time constraints, Dixite developed the solution using eXtreme programming techniques. A few releases of the package were released until the final acceptance by the customer.
July 12, 2005
ING is one of the world's largest financial service companies, offering banking, insurance and asset management in over 50 countries.
The business objectives of ING was to comfort its capability to lead the implementation of a mission critical Java/J2EE application by recruiting top consultancy profiles out of the belgian IT market.
Dixite engineers provided architectural consultancy services to the ING bank. The coverage of these services do vary from software design based upon RUP to Java/2EE development.
July 12, 2005
ING is one of the world's largest financial service companies, offering banking, insurance and asset management in over 50 countries.
The business objectives of ING was to recruit top IT consultants from the belgian IT market in order to assist ING project manager to the successfull completion of its multi-platform back-office Java/J2EE systems.
Dixite engineers provided architectural consultancy services to the ING bank. The coverage of these services vary from software design based upon RUP to Java/2EE development.
July 12, 2005
Effectenbank Stroeve, member of RaboBank, is a leading capital merchant bank active on the Dutch stock exchange market.
The Stroeve bank business objectives were to provide a set of financial on-line services to their lead customers. In order to ensure that the software and hardware architecture would provide the highest possible security level, they requested the project leader company, IconMedialab to contract the services of an independant company.
Dixite consultants provided Security services in association with Icon Medialab and TIBCO engineers in order to validate the security of the designed architecture and provide detailed security recommendation to the client which covered all the hardware components as well as software tools and utilities.
July 12, 2005
CURIA is the name of the European Court of Justice website. OPOCE is the Office for the Official Publications of the European Union.
The Court of Jutice requested OPOCE that its paper collection of case-law should be:
Using the Open Source skill of its team, Dixite proposed a state-of-the-art solution based on GPL middleware.
Dixite identified the system requirements and submitted a URD to the customer. After validation, a search engine has been developped using Java and lead OSS indexation engine.
July 12, 2005
CURIA is the name of the European Court of Justice website. OPOCE is the Office for the Official Publications of the European Union.
For the Court of Jutice/OPOCE, Dixite developped an Open Source based indexation and search engine for the publication of incremental monthly case laws publications on CD-ROM. The Court of Justice requested the addition of a number of user-centric functionalities in order to:
Dixite performed AfterCare services for the CURIA change requests.
Within a revised version of the URD, Dixite collected the new technical system requirements and defined a complete search syntax using EBNF. All the development cycle was performed using RUP.
July 12, 2005
SamyeDzong Brussels is the first center in Belgium helping to maintain and propagate the Tibetan culture.
Dixite proposed to develop its web portal solution while performing:
July 12, 2005
SWIFT is the financial industry-owned cooperative supplying secure, standardised messaging services and interface software to 7,800 financial institutions in more than 200 countries.
The business objectives of SWIFT were to recruit top Java consultants to strengthen the capacity of its IT development team.
Dixite challenge, was over six months to ensure professional Java/J2EE development of GUI components for the "Next Generation" program.
Dixite engineers provided architectural consultancy services to the SWIFT. The coverage of these services vary from software design based upon RUP to Java/2EE development.
July 12, 2005
Foxguide.be, the web version of the famous paper guide of Telinvest, is intended to provide essential information to expatriate people working mainly for the european institutions.
The business objectives of the project was to provide:
Dixite realises AfterCare services in order to integrate an Open Source calendar system within the existing platform.
July 12, 2005
The UNIBRA group activities have three principal axes: African beer market, financial assets management and real estate portfolio management.
The objectives of the project were to:
Dixite proposed to develop its Web portal solution while performing:
July 12, 2005
Atos Origin is an international information technology services company employing over 46,000 people in 40 countries.
For its customer, Commission's Taxation and Customs Union Directorate-General, Atos was required to met the following objectives:
Dixite had to ensure the technical objectives:
Dixite proposed its services in order to realise the following tasks:
July 12, 2005
With the explosion of .com businesses, companies are striving to take most of their on-line market shares. CybelImmo, the real estate media of Blitz Media, a company of the SPIR holding, decided to develop a powerfull on-line system to provide to its customers a set of professional on-line services.
Dixite has been asked to realise each step of the project (analysis, design, implementation, test, deployment and aftercare).
The technical goals were:
With our customer, Dixite defined the business logic to be implemented in a URD. We then developped the functionalities on top of our Web Portal solution
July 12, 2005
Business Solutions is a back-office system integrator and reseller mainly active in the Belgiam market.
For its project, Business Solutions wanted to ensure that its team of junir java developpers could take on board the design and development of a Java application.
For this mission, Dixite assumed the challenges of training and reviewing the work achieved by Business Solutions development team.
Dixite proposed aftercare service in order to help and train our customer staff to design and implement an online car sales application.
July 12, 2005
CoBoNet is the multimedia service provider for the construction sector. It is an offshoot of the Centre Scientifique et Technique de la Construction
and the Confédération Nationale de la Construction
.
BUtgb/UBatc is an association created to evaluate and certify the quality of material for the construction sector. After using their web site for a while, they needed support in realising corrective and evolutive maintenance.
July 12, 2005
The Réseau Archange is an institutional business angel
targeting companies of Hainaut, Belgium and Aisne, France regions. They sponsor projects aiming at developping e-commerce within regional enterprises. Within this context and with the support of the European InterRef IIIa program, they issued a call for tenders in order to realise a web portal system to support the on-line marketing activites of 200 companies.
Dixite formally collected the user requirements with UML and describing them with use cases. With all the user and technical objectives outlined above, we needed our CMS solution in order to ensure a plain customer satisfaction.
July 12, 2005
While working on the three portal sites project, the management of CeRDT described to Dixite a number of misfunctioning of their network services used on their three sites(Charleroi, Mons and Tournai).
Dixite proposed to realise a consultancy mission in order to audit the various aspects of these services performance.
For this mission, Dixite had to ensure to:
Dixite proposed to CeRDT a consultancy mission were we would:
July 12, 2005
CeRDT is THE actor of innovation in the Hainaut. They help companies by informing and accompanying them through the process of developing their technological innovation.
In order ensure a professional development nevertheless the strict time constraints, Dixite developed the Web Portal solution using eXtreme programming techniques based on a URD. A few releases of the system were issued until the final acceptance by the customer.
July 12, 2005
CoBoNet is the multimedia service provider for the construction sector. It is an offshoot of the Centre Scientifique et Technique de la Construction
and the Confédération Nationale de la Construction
.
In order to fulfill its duties towards the construction sector, CoBoNet wished to set-up an IT platform allowing to develop regularly on-line services to its members. While creating new services, CoBoNet would gain loyalty from sector members and ensure an additional revenue by offering paid added value services.
The CoBoNet on-line platform would allow to:
After the user and technical requirements were collected using UML, Dixite developed and deployed a web portal solution based on the CoBoNet technical infrastructure.
July 12, 2005
The aim of ECCREDI is to contribute to the competitiveness, quality, safety and environmental performance of the construction sector and to the overall sustainability of the built environment, by increasing the extent and effectiveness of construction research, technical and process development as well as innovation.
The business objectives of the project were to allow the members of ECCREDI benefits from:
Dixite proposed to use its AfterCare services in order to:
July 12, 2005
The mission of the CEC-Directorate General for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs is to ensure the delivery of the Commission's political priorities in the areas of fisheries, the Law of the Sea and Maritime Affairs.
The business objectives of the FIDES project were to:
Dixite developped and maintained FIDES. Based on a system prototype developped previously, Dixite specified the User and Technical requirements in URD. Related to data, conceptual and physical data models were designed and as well as an independant pivot data format.
In order to ensure proper authentication, an centralised Identity Management System was specified and deployed using LDAP technologies. In order to ensure the thight technical objectives, Dixite designed the system using an object oriented approach using Java as the programming language for the Fides II server.
Over three years, our AfterCare service has been realised in order to complement the system with features including an administration and statistical reporting system.
July 12, 2005
The scope of europeaninvestor.com(Now euroland.com) as company is to provide a set of financial services assisting home and professional users with their share investments in Europe and North America.
Dixite consultants deployed their expertise in association with TIBCO engineers in order to define the Web portal platform technical requirements. After requirements acceptance by the company board, a range of SUN 450 and 250 platforms were setup, configured and secured to support the demanding business services.
July 12, 2005
Guide des Ministeres
is the company owning the rights upon and distributing the famous begian directory of federal, community and regional public services.
GDM developped an in-house legacy solution in order to create and maintain its information repository. Its business objectives were:
The project technical goals were to:
Dixite has collected all technical requirements of the future application in a URD. A tailor-made solution has been developped in Java to support the data maintenance on top of Oracle technologies and the search engine functionalities on CD-ROM.
July 12, 2005
Guide des Ministeres
is the company owning the rights upon and distributing the famous begian directory of federal, community and regional public services.
After Dixite developped the CD-ROM version of their guide, GDM planned to gain some an extra market share by deploying its services using the Internet media.
Through various meetings with GDM team, Dixite realised a consultancy mission and issued a proposal for an e-business model to sell GDM services on-line.
Then GDM requested us to cost and realise the implementation of these services. Dixite has realised a full-scale Web Portal solution for GDM.
July 12, 2005
UPC is a worldwide leader in television, telephony and broadband internet provision.
July 12, 2005
Joh. Enschedé/Van Muysewinkel is a leading european security printing company.
For the OPOCE, Enschedé had to met business goals including:
The technical challenge was demanding including:
Dixite evaluated enschedé's existing information system, workflow and associated elements and all major characteristics, strengths, and weaknesses of the current data collection/management.
Once our analysis was finalised within a URD, our engineers designed, developed and deployed our solution on a robust platforms enabling the company to meet the mandated requirements for their document collection & processing.
In order to allow a user friendly processing chain management, our solution included a remote administration of the processing queues using browser-based technology. Enschedé was therefore capable of assessing its processing situation and implementing well-informed corrective actions.
July 12, 2005
Euro Argus monitors and analyses the national and international press for major institutional and corporate actors.
During the explosion of the .com era, EuroArgus wanted to deliver a series of content services to important on-line customers. The business objectives were:
For Dixite, the technical challenge was to deliver a ready-made solution from scratch including:
During a consultancy mission, Dixite interviewed the principal conceptors of the business project. We collected their requirements in a URD document and proposed a budgetary line in order to realise their demands.
After Dixite was awarded the contract, we refined the technicalities of the project within an ADD and DDD. The CMS solution proposed was based on IBM Lotus technologies for implementing the workflow and Java/Struts for the document formatting and publishing. Also In creating this workflow system the client was also able to track and audit each writer's work, and maintain and re-use an accessible archive of all submitted articles.
July 12, 2005
Since 1992, RDC-Environment has become the belgian specialist in realising complex studies requiring a new approach to resolve environmental problems and set up sustainable development strategies.
The new web site of RDC Environment must integrate the following aspects:
Dixite has been trusted to realise RDC's aspirations.
Dixite proposed to use AfterCare service in order to perform:
September 22, 2005
Skynet is the leading provider of hosting and communications services in Belgium. In the context of Miss Belgium contest for the year 2005, Skynet decided to hire Dixite to build a unique portal to publish the contest online and provide people with the up-to-date information about the contest and its participants. Skynet awards Dixite the contract.
To address the look and feel demands as well as intutive navigation, ESTIME methodology was followed in order to deliver a recognizably branded look and feel. Our Art Directors made sure that the imagery of the site was unique and pleasurable to view. Once out designers finished the imagery phase, our developers executed the implementation based on Dixite Portal solution. To be able to provide an easy to publish and up-to-date content, we utilized our CMS solution that enabled us to fulfill the content management requirements including a blogging feature.
October 17, 2005
Groupe ONE is a non-profit organization of 15 people performing research and actions for sustainable development and local economical development.
The business objectives of Groupe ONE are to prototype a business analysis supporting tool.
Dixite engineers provided consultancy services to the Groupe ONE. The coverage of these services vary from software design based upon RUP to Java/2EE development.